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1) The speeches
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Loeb classical library ; 309
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Language
English
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[1912]
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English
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Apollonius 'of Rhodes' was a Greek grammarian and epic poet of Alexandria in Egypt and lived late in the 3rd century and early in the 2nd century B.C. While still young he composed his extant epic poem of four books on the story of the Argonauts. When this work failed to win acceptance he went to Rhodes where he not only did well as a rhetorician but also made a success of his epic in a revised form, for which the Rhodians gave him the 'freedom' if...
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English
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Augustine's Confessions might be one of the most profound Christian testimonies ever recorded. Not necessarily because Augustine led an unusual life or faced intriguing circumstances which had to be overcome; because, in reality, the actual events of his life were relatively less than extraordinary. Augustine's Confessions serve as such a spectacular testimony because, besides the fact that it was one of the first of its kind in the literary world,...
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Loeb classical library ; no. 35, 249, 312, 322
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1914-1937.
Language
English
18) Hippocrates
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Series
Loeb classical library ; 472-473
Publisher
Heinemann
Pub. Date
1923-1988.
Language
English
19) The Iliad
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English
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"When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability" (Edith Hall, The Sunday Telegraph)-critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, The New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory...
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