The Loeb Classical Library: Isocrates, Volume I : To Demonicus. To Nicocles. Nicocles or the Cyprians. Panegyricus. To Philip. Archidamus

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The Loeb Classical Library: Isocrates, Volume I : To Demonicus. To Nicocles. Nicocles or the Cyprians. Panegyricus. To Philip. ArchidamusThe importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilization 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 school of rhetoric in Chios he returned to Athens and established there a free school of philosophia involving a practical education of the whole mind, character, judgment, and mastery of language. This

speech and silence

Long—one of the world’s leading authorities on Stoicism and a pioneer in its remarkable contemporary revival—provides a superb new edition of Epictetus’s celebrated guide to the Stoic philosophy of life (the Encheiridion) along with a selection of related reflections in his Discourses

and seek to elucidate the personalities and careers of the three emperors as well as the events of which they were a part

Please not that text is all in Greek - there is no English text in this book

though most famous for his comedies

δε σε φοβούμαι

Richard Thomas--one of the most important voices in Latin literary studies today--shows little anxiety about objections to authorial intentionality

Book 8: 6–26

Αυτό το απατηλά ειδυλλιακό περιβάλλον

The five volumes in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo and choral song

after which there are substantial gaps in Dio’s text

αδυσώπητες συγκρούσεις

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