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Theogony. Works and Days. Testimonia
Antiquity’s original didactic poet.Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call upon him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but he has …
Timaeus. Critias. Cleitophon. Menexenus. Epistles
On the creation of the world, and the destruction of Atlantis.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later …
Antigone. Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus
Ancient Athens’ most successful tragedian.Sophocles (497/6–406 BC), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the …
Greek Lyric, Volume I: Sappho and Alcaeus
Precious snippets of ancient song.This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of …
The Jewish War, Volume III
Greco-Roman antiquity’s premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned …
Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo
The fundamental tetralogy on Socrates’ final days.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest …
On the Nature of the Gods. Academics
The philosopher-statesman on theology and epistemology.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any …
The Apostolic Fathers, Volume I
Enduring and influential early Christian texts.The writings of the Apostolic Fathers give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and thought in the period immediately after …
The Histories, Volume I
Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200–118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and …
Nicomachean Ethics
Antiquity’s most influential account of life’s Supreme Good.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a …