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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Jewish War, Volume II
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 …
The Jewish War, Volume I
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 …
Marcus Aurelius
Stoic musings of a philosopher-emperor at war.Marcus Aurelius (AD 121–180), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, born at Rome, received training under his guardian and uncle …
On the Orator: Books 1–2
On the Orator, Books 1-2 A. Rhetorical Treatises Cicero Translator E. W. Sutton and H. Rackham Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and …
Lives of the Caesars, Volume I
Antiquity’s imperial biographer par excellence.Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, …