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The Histories, Volume V
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 …
The Elephant in the Spring
Ennead VI.1–5
Plato’s most influential disciple and proponent.Plotinus (AD 204/5–270), possibly of Roman descent, but certainly a Greek in education and environment, was the first and greatest …
Philo, Volume II
Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of …
Porphyry on Plotinus. Ennead I
Plato’s most influential disciple and proponent.Plotinus (AD 204/5–270), possibly of Roman descent, but certainly a Greek in education and environment, was the first and greatest …
How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?
Though astrophysicists have developed a theoretical framework for understanding how the first stars and galaxies formed, only now are we able to begin testing those theories with …
The Lesser Declamations, Volume II
Mock trial—Roman style.The Lesser Declamations, dating perhaps from the second century AD and attributed to Quintilian, might more accurately be described as emanating from “the …
In the Hands of Women
In the Hands of Women is a suspenseful historical novel centered on the life of Hannah Isaacson, an obstetrician in training who was determined to improve medical safety for women …
La Controverse Sur Le Talmud Sous Saint Louis
La controverse sur le Talmud sous saint Louis / par Isidore LoebDate de l'edition originale: 1881Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie …
Geography, Volume II
The ecumene in prose.Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveler who saw a large …
On Animals, Volume II
Occasionally zany zoological lore.Aelian (Claudius Aelianus), a Roman born ca. AD 170 at Praeneste, was a pupil of the rhetorician Pausanias of Caesarea, and taught and practiced …