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Loeb classical library ; 189198252324462
Publisher
W. Heinemann
Pub. Date
[1969-1979 >]
Language
English
Author
Series
Loeb classical library ; no. 60-61, 163, 260, 328
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1979-84.
Language
English
70) Greek lyric
Series
Loeb classical library ; 142, 143, 144, 461, 476
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1982-1993.
Language
English
Description
The four volumes of Greek Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo song and choral song. This poetry was not preserved in medieval manuscripts and few complete poems remain. Later writers quoted from the poets, but only so much as suited their needs; these book-quotations are supplemented by papyrus texts found in Egypt, most of them badly damaged. The high quality of what remains makes us realize the enormity of our loss. Volume One contains...
Author
Series
Loeb classical library ; 55, 59
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1989-97.
Language
English
Author
Series
Loeb classical library ; 44, 453
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
APULEIUS, Lucius, religious philosopher and rhetorician, was born c. A.D. 125 at Madaura in N. Africa. Educated at Carthage and Athens, he travelled in Greece and Asia Minor, became an advocate in Rome, and later returned to Africa. When he married Pudentilla he vindicated himself against her parents' accusation that he practiced magic. The rest of his life he spent at Carthage writing and lecturing and performing priestly duties. Of his extant genuine...
Series
Loeb classical library ; 476
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Author
Series
Loeb classical library ; 194
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
Latin
Description
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 BC) was born at Venusia, son of a freedman clerk who had him well-educated at Rome and Athens. Horace supported the ill-fated killers of Caesar, lost his property, became a secretary in the Treasury, and began to write poetry. Maecenas, lover of literature, to whom Virgil and Varius introduced Horace in 39, became his friend and made him largely independent by giving him a farm. After 30 Horace knew and aided...
78) Fasti
Author
Series
Loeb classical library ; 253
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
"The Fasti" was believed to have been left incomplete when Ovid was exiled to Tomis by the emperor Augustus in 8 AD. The work, which is structured based on the Roman calendar, is a series of elegiac couplets which present the first-hand accounts of vates, or "poet-prophets" with Roman deities regarding the origin of various Roman holidays and associated customs. The first six months of the year are all that is included in the work and it is unclear...
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