Orationes

(Orationes 27-40) Tomi II Pars II

Iliad

Volume II, Books XIII-XXIV

Physica

Fragmenta Selecta

Cicero Rhetorica

Volume 1: (De Oratore)

Odyssey

Volume III, Books I-XII

By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of Odysseus ...

Odyssey

Volume IV, Books XIII-XXIV

By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of Odysseus ...

Roman Antiquities, Volume VI: Books 9.25-10

(Loeb Classical Library; 378)

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 ...

City of God. Volume II: Books IV-VII

(Loeb Classical Library; 412)

Augustinus (354–430 CE), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in Africa to become a rhetorician, plunged into a turmoil of philosophical and psychological doubts in search of truth, joining for a time the ...

Poesías

Este libro nos da perfectamente la imagen de uno de los mayores poetas líricos de Roma. La obra de Catulo abarca dos aspectos que es necesario distinguir: por un lado, los poemas yámbicos o mélicos y los epigramas, la mayor parte de los cuales están ...

El dialecto leonés

Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium. Vol 219

Des heiligen ephraem des syrers Carmina Nisibena

Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium. Vol 218

Des heiligen ephraem des syrers Carmina Nisibena

Isthmiques - Fragments

Tome IV

Dédiés à Poséidon, les jeux isthmiques avaient pour origine, comme les autres grands jeux, une commémoration funéraire. Ils célébraient Mélicertès, le fils d'Inô qui, poursuivie par Athamas, s’était précipité dans la mer non loin de l’isthme de Corinthe. Ils avaient lieu tous ...

Volume VII: Dialogues of the Dead. Dialogues of the Sea-Gods. Dialogues of the Gods. Dialogues of the Courtesans

(Loeb Classical Library; 431)

Lucian (ca. 120190 CE), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful travelling lecturer, before settling in Athens and developing his original brand of satire. Late in life he fell ...

Memorias de la guerra civil

Volumen II

La guerra contra Pompeyo representa el acontecimiento crucial en la biografía de César, el instaurador por antonomasia del régimen personal en Roma. En Memorias de la guerra civil, César presenta por orden cronológico los diferentes acontecimientos de la guerra mantenida frente a Pompeyo. Comienza con ...

Les Éthiopiques: Théagène et Chariclée

Tome II : Livres IV-VII

Les amours de romans grecs sont traditionnellement contrariées, et Les Ethiopiques n’échappent pas à cette règle. L’histoire, aussi haletante que rocambolesque, relate en mille et un détour les séparations et les retrouvailles de la belle Chariclée, fille du roi d’Ethiopie et prêtresse ...

Discours

Tome III : Seconde action contre Verrès, Livre II : La Préture de Sicile

The history of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides wrote the story of the first democracy in history, and of the fortunes and fall of its empire, but his pages contain the modern world-scene in miniature. The tale is told by a great political thinker, whose penetrating insight and dramatic power caused Macaulay ...

Volume VI: How to Write History. The Dipsads. Saturnalia. Herodotus or Aetion. Zeuxis or Antiochus. A Slip of the Tongue in Greeting. Apology for the "Salaried Posts in Great Houses." Harmonides. A Conversation with Hesiod. The Scythian or The Consul

(Loeb Classical Library; 430)

Lucian (ca. 120190 CE), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful travelling lecturer, before settling in Athens and developing his original brand of satire. Late in life he fell ...