Historia de Alejandro Magno

Del escritor e historiador romano Quinto Curcio Rufo, que vivió en el siglo I d.C., sólo nos ha llegado la Historia de Alejandro Magno, biografía del general macedonio en diez libros, de los que se han perdido los dos primeros. El texto conservado empieza ...

Abrégés des livres de l'Histoire romaine de Tite-Live Tome XXXIV- , 1re partie : "Periochae" transmises par les manuscrits (Periochae 1-69)

Orations, Volume IV: Orations 27-40: Private Cases

(Loeb Classical Library; 318)

Demosthenes (384–322 BCE), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to the rise of Philip of Macedon to supremacy. We possess by ...

Roman Antiquities, Volume VII: Books 11-20

(Loeb Classical Library; 388)

Dionysius of Halicarnassus was born before 53 BCE and went to Italy before 29 BCE. He taught rhetoric in Rome while studying the Latin language, collecting material for a history of Rome, and writing. His Roman Antiquities began to appear in 7 BCE. Dionysius states ...

Ennead, Volume V

(Loeb Classical Library; 444)

Plotinus (204/5–270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master’s death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads). Plotinus regarded Plato as his ...

Ennead, Volume IV

(Loeb Classical Library; 443)

Plotinus (204/5–270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master’s death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads). Plotinus regarded Plato as his ...

Obras menores

La República de los Atenienses

Hierón: Da la impresión al comienzo de que va a plantear una cuestión meramente individual, como es la del mayor o menor placer que pueden disfrutar el tirano o el ciudadano. Mas, a medida que se avanza en la lectura, se constata que los diversos ...

Historia de los animales

Libros I-VIII

Claudio Eliano vivió en un tiempo (siglos II-III d.C.) que en literatura valoraba el entretenimiento y la distracción, lo curioso y lo sorprendente, más que lo solemne y lo esencial. Por eso las obras misceláneas y anecdóticas de este profesor de retórica griego instalado ...

Historia de los animales

Libros IX-XVI

Aquejado de una credulidad excesiva o bien deseoso de hallar lo asombroso y lo bizarro, Claudio Eliano (siglos II-III d.C.) relata extravagancias como las de animales que se enamoran de humanos –una grajilla, un elefante, un áspid, una foca, ánsares...–, e incluso incurre en ...

Lateinisches Hexameter-Lexikon

Dichterisches formelgut von Ennius bis zum Archipoeta. Zusammengestellt von Otto Schumann

Geography: Books 15-16

(Loeb Classical Library; 241)

Strabo (ca. 64 BCE to ca. 25 CE), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BCE at Rome. He became a keen traveller who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, various ...

Ennead VI

Historias

Libro I - Volumen I/2: (caps. 32-88)

La lexicografía

de la lingüística teórica a la lexicografía práctica

Discursos. Contra los Galileos. Cartas. Leyes. Fragmentos. Testimonios

El emperador romano Flavio Claudio Juliano (360-363 d.C.) fue apodado "el Apóstata" por haber abjurado de la fe cristiana. Educado en ella, se apasionó sin embargo por el clasicismo y los dioses paganos: completó su formación en Éfeso y Atenas, donde ahondó en el ...

Bohvslai Hassensteinii a Lobkowicz Epistulae

Tomus II: Epistulae ad Familiares

Notas a la "Ortología y métrica" de Don Andrés Bello

Lysias

(Loeb Classical Library; 244)

Lysias (ca. 458 ca. 380 BCE), born at Athens, son of a wealthy Syracusan settled in Attica, lived in Peiraeus, where with his brother he inherited his father's shield factory. Being a loyal supporter of democracy, Lysias took the side of the democrats at ...

Comédies

Tome III : Hécyre - Adelphes

Universals of human language. Vol. 3:

Word structure

Language consists of words, such is the verdict of folk linguistics everywhere. Languages generally have an expression that mean something like the english term "word". The range of meaning of the expression varies from language to language, often extending to quite large stretches of speech ...