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The Loeb Classical Library: IsaeusThough he occupies a firm place in the canon of the ten Attic orators, Isaeus seems not to have been an Athenian, but a metic, being a native of Chalcis in Euboea. From passages in his work he is inferred to have lived from about 420 to 350 BC. But no contemporary mentions him, and it is from Dionysius of Halicarnassus that we learn he was the teacher of Demosthenes, a fact confirmed by several unmistakable examples of borrowing from or imitation of

covering the era from the legendary landing of Aeneas in Italy to the reign of Alexander Severus (AD 222–235)

It is thus of particular interest for the insights that it gives us into the process by which Plato arrived at that theory

Peter Jones calls on the ancient Greeks and Romans to cast light on modern problems in this first collection of his columns

extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for tourists of the age

Britain and Egypt

Archaeology has progressed enormously since the early excavations of classical sites such as Olympia and Ephesus in the middle of the 19th century

commentary alongside translation for easy reference and a comprehensive introduction to the Greek Theatre

but sometimes it is difficult to say what we mean by that word

a corpse and a tape measure

and now endorsed by OCR

αλλά και μια σειρά από δολοφονίες γιατρών

the rule of law in the mixed constitution of the Spartans