Κλασσικής Γραμματείας ξενόγλωσσα βιβλία σε τιμές σχεδόν κόστους

(H/B) DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS: CRITICAL ESSAYS (VOLUME II)
Dionysius of Halicarnassus had migrated to Rome by 30 BCE, where he lived until his death some time after 8 BCE, writing his Roman Antiquities and teaching the art of rhetoric and literary composition. Dionysius’s purpose, both in his own work and in his teaching, was to re-establish the classical Attic standards of purity, invention and taste in order to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary language of the Mediterranean world. He advocated the minute study of the styles of the finest prose authors of the fifth and fourth century ...
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(H/B) FRONTO: CORRESPONDENCE (VOLUME II)
The literary remains of the rhetorician MARCUS CORNELIUS PRONTO (c. A.D. 100-176) first carne to light in 1815, when Cardinal Mai, then prefect of the Ambrosian Library in Milan, discovered that beneath an account of the Acts of the first Council of Chalcedon in 451 had originally been written a copy of the correspondence between Pronto and members of the imperial family, including no less than three who were to wear the purple. The letters possess an extraordinary fascination as giving an authentic record of the relationship between the f...
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(H/B) PLAUTUS (VOLUME II)
PLAUTUS (Titus Maccius), born about 2 54 EC at Sarsina in Umbria, came to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies. Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete). The basis of all is a free translation from comedies by such writers as Menander, Diphilus, and Philemon. So we have Greek manners of Athens about 300-250 BC transferred to the Roman stage of about 225-185, with Greek places, people, and customs, for popular amusement in a Latin city whose own cult...
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(H/B) PLAUTUS (VOLUME V)
PLAUTUS (Titus Maccius), born about 2 54 EC at Sarsina in Umbria, came to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies. Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete). The basis of all is a free translation from comedies by such writers as Menander, Diphilus, and Philemon. So we have Greek manners of Athens about 300-250 BC transferred to the Roman stage of about 225-185, with Greek places, people, and customs, for popular amusement in a Latin city whose own cult...
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(H/B) SELECT PAPYRI (VOLUME III)
Of the papyri found in Egypt which have yielded fragments large and small of ancient literary authors, we offer in this volume Greek poetry. From tragedy, 5th-4th centuries BC, are included fragments of 2 plays (one a satyr play) by Aeschylus; of £ by Sophocles (two of them satyric including more than 300 lines of the 'Ichneutae', 'Searchers'); of 10 by Euripides (including nearly 350 lines of 'Hypsipyle'); of 1 by Ion. From Old Comedy, 5th century, we have fragments of i play each of Epicharmus, Cratinus, Pherecrates, Eupolis, and Plato, ...
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(H/B) SENECA THE ELDER: DECLAMATIONS (VOLUME II). CONTROVERSIAE (BOOKS 7-10 SUASORIAE. FRAGMENTS)
Roman secondary education aimed principally at training future lawyers and politicians. Under the late Republic and the Empire, the main instrument was an import from Greece: declamation, the making of practice speeches on imaginary subjects. There were two types of such speeches: controversiae on law-court themes, suasoriae on deliberative topics. On both types a prime source of our knowledge is the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a Spaniard from Cordoba, father of the distinguished philosopher. Towards the end of his long life (?55ΒC-?AD ...
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(H/B) SIDONIUS (VOLUME II)
Sidonius Apollinaris, a Gallo-Roman, was born at Lugdunum (Lyon) about 430 CE. He married Papianilla, daughter of the Emperor Avitus in whose honour he recited at Rome on 1 January 456 a panegyric in verse. Sidonius later joined a rebellion, it seems, but was finally reconciled to the emperor Majorian and delivered at Lyon in 458 a panegyric on him. After some years in his native land, in 467 he led a Gallo-Roman deputation to the Emperor Anthemius, and on 1 January 468 recited at Rome his third panegyric. He returned to Gaul in 469 and be...
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(H/B) SILIUS ITALICUS: PUNICA (VOLUME I)
Silius (T. Catius Silius Italicus), 25 CE-101, was consul in 68 and governor of the province of Asia in 69; he sought no further office but lived thereafter on his estates as a literary man and collector. He revered the work of Cicero, whose Tusculan villa he owned, and that of Virgil, whose tomb at Naples he likewise owned and near which he lived. His epic Punica, in 17 books, on the second War with Carthage (218-202 BCE), is based for facts largely on Livy’s account. Conceived as a contrast between two great nations (and their supporting...
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(H/B) SILIUS ITALICUS: PUNICA (VOLUME II)
SILIUS (T. Catius Sihus Italicus), AD 25-101, was consul in 6 8 and governor of the province of Asia in 69; he sought no further office but lived thereafter on his estates as a literary man and collector. He revered the work of Cicero, whose Tusculan villa he owned, and that of Virgil, whose tomb at Naples he likewise owned and near which he lived. His epic Punica, in 17 books, on the second War with Carthage (218-202 BC), is based for facts largely on Livy's account. Conceived as a contrast between two great nations (and their supporting ...
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(H/B) EUSEBIUS: ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY (VOLUME II)
EUSEBIUS of Caesarea, ca. AD 260-340, born in Palestine, was a student of the presbyter Pamphilus whom he loyally supported during Diocletian's persecution. He was himself imprisoned in Egypt, but became Bishop of Caesarea about 314. At the Council of Nicaea in 325 he sat by the emperor, led a party of moderates, and made the first draft of the famous creed. (. . .) (from the publisher)...
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(H/B) JOSEPHUS (VOLUME VI)
JOSEPHUS, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 3 7. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in Rome the cause of some Jewish priests he returned to Jerusalem and in 66 tried to prevent revolt against Rome, managing for the Jews the affairs of Galilee. In the troubles which followed he made his peace with Vespasian. Present at the siege of Jerusalem by Titus, he received favours from these two as emperors and from Domitian and assumed...
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(H/B) JOSEPHUS (VOLUME XII)
JOSEPHUS, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 3 7. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in Rome the cause of some Jewish priests he returned to Jerusalem and in 66 tried to prevent revolt against Rome, managing for the Jews the affairs of Galilee. In the troubles which followed he made his peace with Vespasian. Present at the siege of Jerusalem by Titus, he received favours from these two as emperors and from Domitian and assumed...
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(H/B) CELSUS (VOLUME III)
CORNELIUS CELSUS was author, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius (AD 14-37), of a general encyclopaedia of agriculture, medicine, military arts, rhetoric, philosophy, and jurisprudence, in that order of subjects. Of all this great work there survives only the 8 hooks on medicine (De Medicine). Book I: after an excellent survey of Greek schools (Dogmatic, Methodic, Empiric) of medicine come sensible dietetics or health preservation which will always be applicable. Book II: deals with prognosis, diagnosis of symptoms (whi...
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(H/B) SENECA THE ELDER: DECLAMATIONS (VOLUME I). CONTROVERSIAE (BOOKS 1-6)
Roman secondary education aimed principally at training future lawyers and politicians. Under the late Republic and the Empire, the main instrument was an import from Greece: declamation, the making of practice speeches on imaginary subjects. There were two types of such speeches: controversiae on law-court themes, suasoriae on deliberative topics. On both types a prime source of our knowledge is the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a Spaniard from Cordoba, father of the distinguished philosopher. Towards the end of his long life (?55 BCE-?4...
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(H/B) AELIAN (VOLUME II)
AELIAN (Claudius Aelianus), a Roman bom c. A.D. 170 at Praeneste (where he held a religious office), was a pupil of the rhetorician Pausanias of Caesarea, and taught and practised rhetoric. Expert in good Attic Greek, he became a serious scholar and studied history under the patronage of the Roman Empress Julia Domna. He apparently spent all his life in Italy where he died after A.D. 230. In three volumes we present his On the Characteristics of Animals, in 17 books, which is a mixed collection of facts and beliefs concerning the habits of...
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(H/B) AELIAN (VOLUME III)
Aelian (Claudius Aelianus), a Roman born ca. AD 170 at Praeneste, was a pupil of the rhetorician Pausanias of Caesarea, and taught and practised rhetoric. Expert in Attic Greek, he became a serious scholar and studied history under the patronage of the Roman empress Julia Domna. He apparently spent all his life in Italy where he died after AD 230. Aelian's On the Characteristics of Animals, in 17 books, is a collection of facts and beliefs concerning the habits of animals drawn from Greek authors and some personal observation. Fact, fancy,...
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(H/B) CURTIUS QUINTUS (VOLUME II)
Quintus Curtius was apparently a rhetorician who lived in the first century of the Roman empire and, early in the reign of Claudius (41-54 CE), wrote a history of Alexander the Great in 10 books in clear and picturesque style for Latin readers. The first two books have not survived - our narrative begins with events in 333 BCE - and there is material missing from books V, VI, and X. One of his main sources is Cleitarchus who, about 300 BCE, had made Alexander's career a matter of marvellous adventure. Curtius is not a critical historian; ...
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(H/B) PLUTARCH: LIVES (VOLUME VIII)
PLUTARCH (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, 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 was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of kindly character and independent thought, studious and learned. (. . .) (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)...
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(H/B) CLAUDIAN (VOLUME I)
Claudius Claudianus, Latin poet of great affairs, flourished during the joint reigns (394-5 CE onwards) of the brothers Honorius (Emperor in the West) and Arcadius (in the East). Apparently a native of Greek Alexandria in Egypt, he was, to judge by his name, of Roman descent, though his first writings were in Greek, and his pure Latin may have been learned by him as a foreign language. About 395 CE he moved to Italy (Milan and Rome) and though really a pagan, became a professional court-poet composing for Christian rulers works which give ...
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(H/B) COLUMELLA (VOLUME I)
COLUMELLA (Lucius lunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about AD 70. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did militarv service in Syria and Cilicia and that he died at Tarentum. (. . .) (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)...
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