Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush
- Casey Due
- Mary Ebbott
- This edition, commentary, and accompanying essays focus on the tenth book of the Iliad, which has been doubted, ignored, and even scorned. Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott use approaches based on oral traditional poetics to illuminate many of the interpretive questions that strictly literary approaches find unsolvable. The commentary demonstrates how the unconventional Iliad 10 shares in the oral traditional nature of the whole epic, even though its poetics are specific to its nocturnal ambush plot.
- Paperback 2009
- Barlaam and Ioasaph
- John Damascene
- Translated by G. R. Woodward
- Translated by Harold Mattingly
- Introduction by David M. Lang
- One of the best known examples of the hagiographic novel, this is the tale of an Indian prince who becomes aware of the world's miseries, is converted to Christianity by the monk Barlaam, founds a Christian kingdom, and spends his later years as a hermit in the desert. Not until the mid-nineteenth century was it fully recognized that this Greek romance is actually the legend of the Buddha in a Christianized version. D. M. Lang's Introduction traces the parallels between the two stories, notes the influences of the Manichaean creed, and discusses the importance of Arabic versions of the legend.
- Hardcover 1914
- Cicero, XVa, Orations
- Cicero
- Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey
- Revised by John T. Ramsey
- Revised by Gesine Manuwald
- Hardcover 2009
- Cicero, XVb, Orations
- Cicero
- Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey
- Revised by John T. Ramsey
- Revised by Gesine Manuwald
- Hardcover 2009
- Cicero, XXII, Letters to Atticus
- Cicero
- Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey
- In letters to his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except, perhaps, his brother. These letters, in this four-volume series, also provide a vivid picture of a momentous period in Roman history--years marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Republic. D. R. Shackleton Bailey's authoritative edition and translation of the Letters to Atticus is now added to the Loeb Classical Library (replacing an outdated edition); it is a revised version of his Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries edition, and includes many explanatory notes.
- Hardcover 1999
- Cicero, XXIII, Letters to Atticus
- Cicero
- Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey
- Hardcover 1999
- Cicero, XXIV, Letters to Atticus
- Cicero
- Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey
- Hardcover 1999
- Cicero, XXIX, Letters to Atticus
- Cicero
- Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey
- Hardcover 1999
- Cicero, XXVIII, Letters to Quintus and Brutus. Letter Fragments. Letter to Octavian. Invectives. Handbook of Electioneering
- Cicero
- Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey
- Cicero's letters to his brother, Quintus, allow us an intimate glimpse of their world. Vividly informative too is Cicero's correspondence with Brutus dating from the spring of 43 BCE, which conveys the drama of the period following the assassination of Julius Caesar. These are now made available in a new Loeb Classical Library edition. Shackleton Bailey also provides in this volume a new text and translation of two invective speeches purportedly delivered in the Senate; these are probably anonymous ancient schoolbook exercises but have long been linked with the works of Sallust and Cicero. The Letter to Octavian, ostensibly by Cicero but probably dating from the third or fourth century CE, is included as well. Here too is the "Handbook of Electioneering," a guide said to be written by Quintus to his brother, an interesting treatise on Roman elections.
- Hardcover 2002
- The Civil War (Pharsalia)
- Lucan
- Translated by J. D. Duff
- Julius Caesar looms as a sinister hero in this stormy chronicle in verse of the war between Caesar and the Republic's forces under Pompey, and later under Cato in Africa--a chronicle of dramatic events carrying us from Caesar's fateful crossing of the Rubicon, through the Battle of Pharsalus and death of Pompey, to Caesar victorious in Egypt. Quintilian called Lucan a poet "full of fire and energy and a master of brilliant phrases." His epic stood next after Virgil's in the estimation of antiquity.
- Hardcover 1928
- The Classical Tradition
- Edited by Anthony Grafton
- Edited by Glenn W. Most
- Edited by Salvatore Settis
- The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science. Arranged alphabetically from Academy to Zoology, the essays—designed and written to serve scholars, students, and the general reader alike—show how the Classical tradition has shaped human endeavors from art to government, mathematics to medicine, drama to urban planning, legal theory to popular culture.
- Hardcover 2010
- Greek Anthology, I, Book 1: Christian Epigrams. Book 2: Christodorus of Thebes in Egypt. Book 3: The Cyzicene Epigrams. Book 4: The Proems of the Different Anthologies. Book 5: The Amatory Epigrams. Book 6: The Dedicatory Epigrams
- Translated by W. R. Paton
- The Greek Anthology ('Gathering of Flowers') is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. The fifteen books of the Palatine Anthology are: I, Christian Epigrams; II, Descriptions of Statues; III, Inscriptions in a temple at Cyzicus; IV, Prefaces of Meleager, Philippus, and Agathias; V, Amatory Epigrams; VI, Dedicatory; VII, Sepulchral; VIII, Epigrams of St. Gregory; IX, Declamatory; X, Hortatory and Admonitory; XI, Convivial and Satirical; XII, Strato's 'Musa Puerilis'; XIII, Metrical curiosities; XIV, Problems, Riddles, and Oracles; XV, Miscellanies. Book XVI is the Planudean Appendix: Epigrams on works of art. Outstanding among the poets are Meleager, Antipater of Sidon, Crinagoras, Palladas, Agathias, Paulus Silentiarius.
- Hardcover 1916
- Greek Anthology, II, Book 7: Sepulchral Epigrams. Book 8: The Epigrams of St. Gregory the Theologian
- Translated by W. R. Paton
- This volume contains Book VII, Sepulchral; and VIII, Epigrams of St. Gregory.
- Hardcover 1917
- Greek Anthology, III, Book 9: The Declamatory Epigrams
- Translated by W. R. Paton
- In this volume is Book IX, Declamatory Epigrams.
- Hardcover 1917
- Greek Anthology, IV, Book 10: The Hortatory and Admonitory Epigrams. Book 11: The Convivial and Satirical Epigrams. Book 12: Strato's Musa Puerilis
- Translated by W. R. Paton
- Books X, Hortatory and Admonitory; XI, Convivial and Satirical; and XII, Strato's 'Musa Puerilis' are in this volume.
- Hardcover 1918
- Greek Anthology, V, Book 13: Epigrams in Various Metres. Book 14: Arithmetical Problems, Riddles, Oracles. Book 15: Miscellanea. Book 16: Epigrams of the Planudean Anthology Not in the Palatine Manuscript
- Translated by W. R. Paton
- Book XIII discusses metrical curiosities; Book XIV, Problems, Riddles, and Oracles; Book XV, Miscellanies. Book XVI is the Planudean Appendix: Epigrams on works of art.
- Hardcover 1918
- Hellenistic Collection
- Edited and translated by J. L. Lightfoot
- Hardcover 2009
- Leucippe and Clitophon
- Achilles Tatius
- Translated by S. Gaselee
- Leucippe and Clitophon, written in the 2nd century CE, is exceptional among the ancient romances in being a first-person narrative: the adventures of the young couple are recounted by the hero himself. The colorful story Clitophon tells us includes shipwrecks, apparent deaths, attacks by pirates and brigands, abductions, and other frights and obstacles. Love triumphs in the end. Achilles Tatius' style is notable for descriptive detail and for his engaging digressions.
- Hardcover
- Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass), I
- Apuleius
- Edited and translated by J. Arthur Hanson
- The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, also known as The Golden Ass, is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic. The hero, Lucius, eager to experience the sensations of a bird, resorts to witchcraft, but an unfortunate pharmaceutical error turns him into an ass. The bulk of the novel recounts his adventures as an animal. Lucius also retails many stories he overhears, the most charming being that of Cupid and Psyche; some are as ribald as they are witty.
- Hardcover
- Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass), II
- Apuleius
- Edited and translated by J. Arthur Hanson
- Hardcover
- Satyricon. Apocolocyntosis
- Petronius
- Seneca
- Translated by Michael Heseltine
- Translated by W. H. D. Rouse
- Revised by E. H. Warmington
- Petronius's picaresque novel (probably written during Nero's reign) presents in lurid detail the disreputable travels and adventures of Encolpius, a swashbuckling young coward lacking both morals and income. It has been called a kaleidoscope picture of literature, lust, and life. Perhaps best known are the chapters describing Trimalchio's wildly extravagant dinner party with rambunctious entertainment. For the revised edition, Warmington debowdlerized Heseltine's translation and expanded the explanatory notes. This volume also contains Apocolocyntosis, the satire on the death and apotheosis ("pumpkinification") of the emperor Claudius which is attributed to Seneca.
- Hardcover 1913