Against Symmachus 2. Crowns of Martyrdom. Scenes From History. Epilogue

(Loeb Classical Library; 398)

Prudentius (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens) was born in 348 CE, probably at Caesaraugusta (Saragossa), and lived mostly in northeastern Spain, but visited Rome between 400 and 405. His parents, presumably Christian, had him educated in literature and rhetoric. He became a barrister and at least once ...

Nature of Man. Regimen in Health. Humours. Aphorisms. Regimen 1-3. Dreams. Heracleitus: On the Universe (Volume IV)

(Loeb Classical Library; 150)

Hippocrates, said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BCE, learned medicine and philosophy; travelled widely as a medical doctor and teacher; was consulted by King Perdiccas of Macedon and Artaxerxes of Persia; and died perhaps at Larissa. Apparently he rejected superstition ...

Daphnis and Chloe/ Longus; Love Romances/ Parthenius

(Loeb Classical Library; 69)

Longus seems to have been a pagan sophist who lived about 200 CE; he is known to us only by his novel Daphnis and Chloe. This is the bucolic story of two foundlings, brought up by goatkeepers and shepherds on the island of Lesbos, who ...

Letters, Volume IV: Letters 249-368. On Greek Literature

(Loeb Classical Library; 270)

Basil the Great was born ca. 330 CE at Caesarea in Cappadocia into a family noted for piety. He was at Constantinople and Athens for several years as a student with Gregory of Nazianzus and was much influenced by Origen. For a short time he ...

Roman History, Volume II: Books 8.2-12

(Loeb Classical Library; 3)

Appian (Appianus) was a Greek official of Alexandria. He saw the Jewish rebellion of 116 CE, and later became a Roman citizen and advocate and received the rank of eques (knight). In his older years he held a procuratorship. He died during the reign of ...

On the Confusion of Tongues. On the Migration of Abraham. Who Is the Heir of Divine Things? On Mating with the Preliminary Studies

(Loeb Classical Library; 261)

The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BCE to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish learning. In attempting to reconcile ...

Charmides. Alcibiades I and II. Hipparchus. The Lovers. Theages. Minos. Epinomis

(Loeb Classical Library; 201)

Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time ...

Lives, Volume I:Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola

(Loeb Classical Library; 46)

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He ...

Moralia, Volume VI Can Virtue Be Taught? On Moral Virtue. On the Control of Anger. On Tranquility of Mind. On Brotherly Love. On Affection for Offspring. Whether Vice Be Sufficient to Cause Unhappiness. Whether the Affections of the Soul are Worse Th

(Loeb Classical Library; 337)

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He ...

Los de Fato et Libero Arbitrio Libri Tres de Juan Ginés de Sepulveda

estudio de una obra histórico-filosófico-teológica

Los De fato el libero arbitrio libri tres de Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda constituyen una obra cuyo mismo título recoge las dos caras de un tema de naturaleza fundamentalmente filosófica, la ausencia o presencia de libertad, la ausencia o presencia de determinismo, si bien la ...

Testimonios y fragmentos/Alcidamante de Elea. Retórica a Alejandro/Anaxímenes de Lámpsaco

En una sociedad abierta, compleja y en constante transformación como era la Grecia del siglo IV a.C., la retórica adquirió una importancia capital por su incidencia en la vida y en las disputas públicas y alcanzó, de la mano de los sofistas, su edad ...

Algunas afinidades fonéticas entre el aragonés y el bearnés

Publicada en la histórica Librairie Droz de París en 1938, De quelques affinités phonétiques entre l'aragonais et le béarnais es una obra de referencia fundamental para el conocimiento y la divulgación científica del aragonés en el contexto preciso de las relaciones pirenaicas de este ...

Lenguas en contacto

el testimonio escrito

Diccionario de análisis de discurso

Persuasión

fundamentos de retórica

Retórica: Arte de bien decir, de dar al lenguaje escrito o hablado eficacia suficiente para deleitar, persuadir o conmover.

Contactos y contextos lingüísticos

el español en los Estados Unidos y en contacto con otras lenguas

Praestans labore Victor

homenaje al profesor Víctor García de la Concha

Sociolingüística del español

desarrollos y perspectivas en el estudio de la lengua española en contexto social

Lenguaje y nuevas tecnologías

nuevas perspectivas, métodos y herramientas para el lingüista del siglo XXI

Este libro examina qué son las tecnologías del lenguaje humano y cuál es su papel en la sociedad, cómo pueden los ordenadores contribuir a romper barreras en una sociedad plurilingüe, cómo pueden los ordenadores entender y hablar en diferentes lenguas y si pueden traducir diferentes ...

Las lenguas y sus escrituras

tipología, evolución e ideología

Este libro explica e ilustra los principales sistemas de escritura desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad. Además hace una crítica de los numerosos prejuicios existentes sobre su naturaleza, historia y evolución, que llevan a la idea equivocada de que unos están más avanzados o son ...