The Loeb Classical Library: Memorable Doings and Sayings, Volume II : Books 6–9

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The Loeb Classical Library: Memorable Doings and Sayings, Volume II : Books 6–9Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings during the reign of Tiberius (AD 1437). The collection was admired in antiquity and has recently been attracting renewed scholarly attention. Yet to date there has been no modern English translation of Memorable Doings and Sayings. This work is now added to the Loeb Classical Library, in two volumes, a freshly edited Latin text facing D. R. Shackleton Baileys pleasing and

Dialogues of the Dead (on the vanity of human wishes)

encountering countless divine and earthly challenges

The collection of thirty-eight poems is therefore a dazzling feat of poetic appropriation and innovation

Menander remains a paradox: artificial plots based on unlikely but conventional coincidences

though most famous for his comedies

ή είναι αθώος σαν ανεύθυνος

Both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller

She can look at nothing without destroying it

Athens refused to surrender him to Alexander and honored him until his death

After decades of political uncertainty

Coincidence

ένας ισχυρός χρηματιστής στη Νέα Υόρκη