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Satires and Epistles
Horace
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The "Satires and Epistles" span Horace's career as a satirist, critic, and master of lyric poetry-as man of the world, friend of the great, and relentless enemy of the mediocre. "Horace," writes translator Smith Palmer Bovie, "is the best antidote in ...
Sophron's Mimes : Text, Translation, and Commentary
J. H. Hordern
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Sophron of Syracuse, who lived in Sicily in the late fifth/early fourth century BC, represents our only surviving example of classical Greek mime. The mimes (short playlets) are also an important example of the classical literary tradition outside At ...
Describing Greece : Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias
William Hutton
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Isocrates, I, to Demonicus. to Nicocles. Nicocles or the Cyprians. Panegyricus. to Philip. Archidamus
Isocrates
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The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilisation of the fourth century BC is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts, and then became a teacher of composition for would-be orators. After setting up a sch ...
Isocrates, II, on the Peace. Areopagiticus. Against the Sophists. Antidosis. Panathenaicus
Isocrates
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The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilisation of the fourth century BC is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts, and then became a teacher of composition for would-be orators. After setting up a sch ...
Sappho
Marguerite Johnson
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In the newly created tradition of the Ancients in Action series, Marguerite Johnson has written a fascinating and accessible account of what remains of the life and works of the Greek poet, Sappho. Sappho's ancient biography is covered in addition to ...
Julian, III, Letters. Epigrams. Against the Galilaeans. Fragments
Julian
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Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate," Roman Emperor, lived AD 331 or 332 to 363. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian, after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to literature and philosophy and became a pagan, studyin ...
Piers Plowman
William Langland
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Cesseth!' seide the Kyng, I suffre yow no lenger. Ye shul saughtne, forsothe, and serve me bothe. Kis hire, ' quod the Kyng, "Conscience, I hote!' "Nay, by Crist!' quod Conscience," congeye me rather! But Reson rede me therto, rather wol I deye.