The Bellum Jugurthinum is the second historical monograph (the other is the Catilina) written by C. Sallustius Crispus (probably 86-35 B.C.), a senator, Caesarian general and historian whose...

A scholarly work on translating and dating Greek inscriptions.

Welche Rolle spielten das kollektive Gedächtnis und die Geschichte einer Gemeinschaft bei der Identitätsfindung, politischen Propaganda, im religiösen Glauben und bei religiösen Praktiken von Juden,...

Facing each of the 72 pages of John Burnets Greek edition of Platos Symposium (originally published by Oxford University Press in 1905) is a single page of corresponding vocabulary and intermediate...

"Die "Consolatio philosophiae" von Boethius war im Mittelalter ausserordentlich verbreitet. Als eines der wichtigsten Werke der mittelalterlichen Ethik und zugleich Schullektüre wurde sie häufig...

Xenophon is generally thought to have done his best theorizing on leadership through his portrayal of Cyrus the Great, the first king of the Persian Empire. In this book, Norman Sandridge argues that...

No detailed description available for "Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus".

This is the first systematic attempt to compare Herodotus and Thucydides as contemporaries, that is, as pre- Socratic thinkers who employed rather similar concepts and intellectual tools and who...

The image of Moses has been influenced primarily by Jewish and Christian writings. For a more comprehensive picture, however, Dr. Gager has chosen to explore the old world religious records of the...

The essays in this volume treat a wide variety of fundamental topics and problems in ancient Greek philosophy. The scope of the section on pre-Socratic thought ranges over the views which these...

This book is a commentary on the surviving testimonia and fragments of Posidonius' work collected in Volume I of this edition (Edelstein/Kidd, CUP, 1972). Posidonius was one of the most important...

'a work of permanent value from the exact scholarship, the very wide reading, the scrupulous and objective judgement, and the temperamental sympathy brought to bear upon it'--John MurrayNotes on the...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Nero's tutor and advisor, wrote philosophical essays, some of them in the form of letters, and dramas on Greek mythological topics, which since the early Renaissance have...

No detailed description available for "Alexander of Aphrodisias on Stoic Physics".

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Good. Clean text, sound binding. Paper lightly yellowed. Boards are sun-faded at spine and top edges.