Comentarios al sueño de Escipión

Gracias a Macrobio (c. 400 a.C.), el occidente europeo conoció el relato con el que Cicerón concluía la República. El Sueño de Escipión de Cicerón (según Ellémire Zolla, la Bhagavad Ghita de occidente) es un breve tratado de impronta pitagórica en el que se ...

Thebaid: Books VIII-XII; Achilleid

(The Loeb Classical Library; 498)

Fraternal strife, and the young Achilles. Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the kingship of Thebes is his masterpiece, a stirring exploration of the passions of civil ...

Thebaid: Books 1-7

(The Loeb Classical Library; 207)

Fraternal strife. Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the kingship of Thebes is his masterpiece, a stirring exploration of the passions of civil war. The extant portion ...

Art of Love. Cosmetics. Remedies for Love. Ibis. Walnut-tree. Sea Fishing. Consolation

(Loeb Classical Library; 232)

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria ...

Natural History. Volume V: Books 17-19

(Loeb Classical Library; 371)

An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge.Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany, partly administrative in Gaul and ...

Anabasis of Alexander, Volume I: Books 1-4

(Loeb Classical Library; 236)

Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander in seven books is the best account we have of Alexander’s adult life. Indica, a description of India and of Nearchus’s voyage therefrom, was to be a supplement. A student of Epictetus, Arrian took notes at his lectures ...

Pensamientos; Cartas; Testimonios

Meditaciones

Las sabias Meditaciones del emperador filósofo Marco Aurelio, fruto de su serena filosofía estoica, han tenido un gran impacto en el pensamiento occidental e influyeron hondamente en la configuración de la moral cristiana y en el humanismo. Sus reflexiones proporcionan aún hoy en día una ...

The letters of Gregory the Great

Apuleius

a latin sophist

De causis linguae latinae

Poèmes

Tome III: Livres IX-XI; Appendice - In laudem sanctae Mariae

Fragmentos de Poesía Latina épica y lírica 2

Vol.2

El número de obras latinas que ha llegado hasta nuestros días es relativamente pequeño, pues la mayor parte de los textos se ha ido perdiendo a lo largo de los siglos, y de muchos autores hoy apenas conocemos el nombre. En tales circunstancias, los fragmentos ...

Epístola a Mehmet II

Catullus

a poet in the Rome of Julius Caesar

Anabasi di Alessandro

.Vol.II: (Libri IV-VII)

Institutions of Divine and secular learning

and On the soul

Tacite et les sources des "Annales"

enquêtes sur la méthode historique

Cette monographie propose une réflexion sur l'attitude que, dans les Annales, Tacite a adoptée face à ses sources. Au-delà d'une présentation de ces dernières, elle met en évidence la part d'initiative et d'indépendance dans le travail de collecte, d'interprétation et ...

Cayo Valerio Catulo

poesías completas: traducción y estudio preliminar

De l'Architecture

Livre IV