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John Wiley and Sons Ltd England in the 1690s
Book SynopsisPresenting an interpretation of England in the 1690s, this book reconstructs the reign of William III through the eyes and in the words of those who lived through it. The author employs a range of sources including popular ballads, correspondence, diaries, pamphlets, sermons, poems and memoirs.Trade Review"Rose seeks to provide 'a student-friendly general book on the period,' and succeeds admirably...The result is a wealth of illustration from pamphlets, poems, sermons and other contemporary publications." English Historical Review "In Craig Rose the reign of William and Mary has found an able interpreter, one who is equally at home exploring the financial complications of European warfare and the ecclesiastical complications of Protestant disagreement. Providing a balanced survey of ideas and events, Rose has written the most ambitious book about the decade since Henry Horwitz's study of its parliaments... this is a compelling and readable work ... students and teaches of British history and Literature will find it indispensable." H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsList pf Illustrations. Preface and Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Note to the Reader. 1. William the Conqueror. 2. King William and his Contemporaries. 3. Parties and Politics. 4. King William's War. 5. The Church of England. 6. Godly Reformation. 7. Scotland and Ireland. 8. A Remembrance of Times Past. Notes. Index.
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Harvard University Press Papers of John Adams: Volume 12
Book SynopsisThis volume chronicles Adams’s efforts, against great odds, to achieve formal recognition of the United States. Documents include his vigorous response to criticism of his seemingly unorthodox methods by those who would have preferred that he pursue a different course, including Congress’s new secretary for foreign affairs, Robert R. Livingston.Trade ReviewThe heart of the matter, quite simply, is John Adams—fussing, fuming, stretching his mind to its widest effort, using his eyes to detect everything visible and supposable about the human comedy and tragedy of which he is an event-making part. -- Adrienne Koch * New York Times Book Review *These volumes [11 and 12] are elegantly produced and contain many helpful features… No reference library of note should be without a complete set of the Papers of John Adams, and no historian of the American Revolution in general, or the diplomacy of this era in particular, should fail to use these volumes extensively. -- David B. Mattern * New England Quarterly *In the Papers of John Adams, the superb standard of editorial scholarship that has been the hallmark of the Adams papers remains evident. It is all there: scrupulous care in presenting the texts; thorough, judicious, and insightful annotation; and the detailed analytic system of indexing that makes it possible to consult the published Adams papers so efficiently… As a result, the new volumes interlock closely with the old so as to enhance the utility of each part of the entire group. -- Richard D. Brown * American Historical Review *The modern craft of documentary editing—which these superb volumes illustrate at its best—is facing a crisis of funding and of confidence… Volumes such as these and the cumulative insight that they give us as scholars and as a people into the origins of our national institutions are a powerful argument for continuing to invest in the scholarship that produces them. -- Constance B. Schulz * Journal of Southern History *The high quality of production that readers have come to expect from The Adams Papers has been maintained by the Belknap Press. The editors are to be congratulated for so capably continuing publication of this comprehensive and useful documentary edition. -- Richard Middleton * William & Mary Quarterly *[Former editor-in-chief of the Adams Papers] Mr. [L. H.] Butterfield brought to the immense project the high scholarly and literary standards that have distinguished it to this day, as publication of the Papers continues in one splendid volume after another. -- David McCullough, author of John AdamsTable of ContentsDescriptive List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Minister to the Netherlands 2. John Adams and His Letterbooks 3. Notes on Editorial Method Acknowledgments Guide to Editorial Apparatus 4. Textual Devices 5. Adams Family Code Names 6. Descriptive Symbols 7. Location Symbols 8. Other Abbreviations and Conventional Terms 9. Short Titles of Works Frequently Cited Papers of John Adams, October 1781 - April 1782 Appendix: List of Omitted Documents Index
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Harvard University Press Papers of John Adams: Volume 13
Book SynopsisIn 1782, Adams focused his energies on raising a loan from Dutch bankers and negotiating a Dutch-American commercial treaty. This volume chronicles his efforts to achieve these objectives, but also provides an unparalleled view of 18th-century American diplomacy on the eve of a peace settlement ending the eight-year war of the American Revolution.
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Harvard University Press Letters: Volume 1
Book SynopsisPoliziano was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance. This volume illuminates his close friendship with Pico della Mirandola and includes much of the correspondence about the composition and reception of his Miscellanies, a revolutionary work of philology. It also includes his famous letter on the death of Lorenzo de' Medici.Trade ReviewAny new edition of such an important work is a landmark, for which all students of literary and intellectual life in fifteenth century Florence will be grateful. They will also join me in expressing the hope that it will be completed as soon as reasonably possible. -- Nigel Wilson * Eikasmos *
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Harvard University Press Wellsprings
Book SynopsisWhen a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Mario Vargas LlosaPeruvian writer, presidential contender, and public intellectualanswers this most personal question with elegant concision in this collection of essays.Trade ReviewIn seven incisive essays, novelist and Peruvian political aspirant Vargas Llosa reflects on literature and history, the crucial role of fiction in human society and the link between totalitarianism and nationalism. Lucidly and elegantly, he explores the sources of inspiration for his literary oeuvre, analyzing the significance for Latin American writers of Borges, whose works served to "dispel a kind of inferiority complex...that kept us imprisoned in a provincial outlook." His social consciousness protests the suppression of the Catalans and the Basques in modern Spain, as well as the treatment of indigenous Indians in Latin America. He conjectures that it's the uneasy blend of two cultures, "one Western and modern, the other aboriginal and archaic," that accounts for the prevalence of surrealism in Latin American fiction. Among the greatest influences on his intellectual development he cites his mentor, Porras Barrenechea, a professor of history who illuminated the myths and legends that underlie Peruvian fiction, and the political theorist Ortega y Gasset...The relationship between history and fiction is convincingly explained: "the most fertile moments for fiction are those when collective certainties...break down," because then people "look to the order and coherence of the fictional world." * Publishers Weekly *Vargas Llosa ponders the thinkers, teachers and ideas that mean the most to him. It is a glimpse into the workings of a marvelous mind and an instructive adventure besides...In the end, it is the gaze of this graceful writer who, by shedding a light on what's inspired him, offers a gift to all who care about what fiction, philosophy and politics can do. And as much as readers will value what he has to say about how we humans cope with our turbulent world, it is what he knows about literature that, above all else, makes this little book sing. -- Carol Herman * Washington Times *[Vargas Llosa's] perceptions are detailed and astute. -- Nedra Crowe-Evers * Library Journal *As in his previous collection of essays, The Temptation of the Impossible, Mario Vargas Llosa proves himself to be a superb practitioner, critic and essayist. Too often when critics write about their favourite authors they simply dwell on them. But when Vargas Llosa discusses the works of pivotal Latin American short-fiction writer Jorge Luis Borges, he makes you want to go and re-read Borges...First-rate essays, by a class act. -- Steven Carroll * The Age *Seven stimulating essays by one of Latin America's greatest living writers...[Vargas Llosa] frequently--and tellingly--reminds us that fiction must have the power to enchant us. -- Adam Feinstein * Times Literary Supplement *
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Harvard University Press The Peculiar Life of Sundays
Book SynopsisFrom Augustine to Caesarius, through the Reformation and the Puritan flight from England, down through the ages to contemporary debates about Sunday worship, Miller explores the fascinating history of the Sabbath.Trade ReviewThis wide-ranging study of the most singular day of the week--as it has played out over the centuries from antiquity to the present--will delight and inform readers. I found it beguiling in every way. Miller writes beautifully, drawing on a wealth of material, shaping his ideas and arguments with nothing short of amazing grace. -- Jay Parini, Middlebury CollegeA fascinating cultural history of Sunday that draws on some of our best-known writers and public figures. Fluently written, vastly enjoyable, both instructive and diverting. -- David Mikics, University of Houston[A] lively history of a day that has exercised a peculiar hold on countless human beings for the past 2,000 years. -- Jay Tolson * Wall Street Journal *In his book The Peculiar Life of Sundays, Stephen Miller sweeps through countries, epochs and theological debates to give a sense of the dialogue between Christianity and the wider culture over the proper place of Sunday in people's lives. -- Brian Welter * Vancouver Sun *A revealing work of cultural history. -- Bryce Christensen * Booklist *Miller's cultural history of Sunday observance in the Christian West becomes relevant reading because this day is now being subsumed by commercialization and secularization...The Peculiar Life of Sundays is a stained-glass window of Sunday lives...The Peculiar Life of Sundays succeeds in designing a complex and fascinating stained-glass window with each Sunday life sensitively executed to avoid unfair judgments. -- Christopher Benson * Weekly Standard *Miller is a nimble and original cultural historian. -- Jeremy Lewis * Literary Review *[A] polished and, at times, wistful meditation on the transformation of Sunday from late antiquity to the present. -- Fiona Capp * The Age *A lively, absorbing history of Sunday observance in the Christian West. -- Susan Schwartz * Montreal Gazette *Here is a cultural history of Sunday observance in the Christian West, drawn from ancient and contemporary sources, explored through the psychological dialectic of gladness and gloom. Miller acquaints the reader with the Sunday lives of observant Christians (Augustine, George Herbert, Samuel Johnson, Jonathan Edwards), nonobservant Christians (John Ruskin, Robert Lowell), and lapsed Christians (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Wallace Stevens), narrating a transformation of Sunday that began when Constantine's decree eclipsed pagan veneration for the sun god with Christian veneration for the Son of God. His focus on the Sabbatarian debates in America and Britain attests to the human need for a day of rest and reflection. Post-secular anxiety can be heard in this story, as residual blue laws fade to black--giving way to idle amusements and banal commerce. Now that Sundays are free of burdensome forms, they seem burdened by formlessness, which may be why Pope Benedict XVI exhorts, "Give the soul its Sunday, give Sunday its soul." * The Atlantic *The Peculiar Life of Sundays is consistently informative and diverting--as suitable for the melancholy Sunday mornings of the Velvet Underground as the lazy afternoons of the Small Faces. -- Toby Lichtig * Times Literary Supplement *The idea behind this book is so interesting that I am surprised it has not been tackled before. In an erudite but humorous fashion Miller charts the history of Sunday worship: when it began and how it has been observed, in literature as well as life. -- Charlie Hegarty * Catholic Herald *This engaging book provides a sweeping overview of Sunday observance in the Christian West from antiquity to the present. -- G. T. Buggeln * Choice *Miller shows us the range of different approaches of literary minds to Sundays, from the beginning of Christianity to the present day, and his book clearly shows that Sundays have taken on a peculiar life of their own. -- Arthur C. Sippo * New Oxford Review *Sunday, precisely because it was set apart for something other than work, became the stage for the complex moral and cultural debates that Miller's book describes. -- Samuel Graber * Christianity and Literature *
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Harvard University Press Prefaces to Shakespeare
Book SynopsisIn the final ten years of his life, the author tackled the largest project any critic in English can take on - writing a preface to each of Shakespeare's plays. This title collects these prefaces. It introduces some of the most significant scholarship on Shakespeare to show the reader how certain critics frame large issues in a useful way.Trade ReviewTony Tanner's introductory essays take us deeply into the fierce, strange life of words, thought, and character in Shakespeare's plays. This is generous and authoritative criticism. The vividness of Tanner's own critical voice, often evoking Shakespeare's craft as writer, is remarkable. -- Kenneth Gross, author of Shakespeare's Noise and Shylock is Shakespeare.To read English at Cambridge in the late Fifties was to have the last opportunity to read the whole cannon of English literature. Tanner has a strong claim to be the best reader ever produced by this particular formation and this is the underlying force of all his work. His greatest triumphs were reserved for last. Venice Desired (Harvard 1992) looked at that fabled city through its literary representations...It might have seemed difficult to surpass this superb interweaving of literature and history but Tanner's next task was his magnum opus -- to provide prefaces to every one of Shakespeare's plays. All of Tanner's life and education had prepared him for this task and the results are magnificent – both accessible and learned. -- Colin McCabe, The IndependentTony Tanner was probably the most versatile and ingenious English critic of his time. His prose was exemplary, full of life and humor, and his literary range was extraordinary. The acknowledged leader of British Americanists, he was also admired for his books on Jane Austen, and he broke new ground in Adultery in the Novel and Venice Desired (Harvard 1992). But in his own opinion the Shakespeare Prefaces were his finest work, and it would be difficult to disagree. The essays cover the entire range of the plays, treating them with characteristic brio in that very personal style that accommodates new insights, based on expert close reading, with an easy command of historical and linguistic contexts. I would recommend this book above all others to an interested young person, provided he or she was both intelligent and capable of delight in the poetry of the plays as Tanner makes it manifest. -- Sir Frank KermodeI do hope every teacher and professor can love and illuminate the plays as well as Tanner does in these insightful, elegant, and witty essays. -- Arthur Phillips * Barnes and Noble Review *Prefaces to Shakespeare is a collection of the essays that the Cambridge professor Tony Tanner wrote to accompany the plays for the Everyman's Library series. Tanner, who died in 1998, maintains an easy, book-club tone, at once gentle and generous. Though some essays probe more deeply than others (he's sharpest on the comedies), he's always sensitive to how the themes of change and regeneration recur. And at almost every juncture, he resists the temptation to speculate out of hand. -- Jeremy McCarter * New York Times Book Review *To read this collection of introductions to Shakespeare's plays, more than ten years after Tanner's death, is to be reintroduced to his conversation. For in this, his final and finest critical work, Tanner's writing is at its most brilliant: he can summarize with the utmost economy; he can describe sources with the deftest of touches; he can, in sentences bristling with parentheses and boiling with quotations, develop the most complex of arguments, his own language engaging with Shakespeare's in a graceful dance...It is an impressive introduction not only to the plays, but also to the whole tradition of Shakespeare criticism from Dryden to Stanley Cavell, from Johnson to Kermode, with Coleridge an especial favourite. There is very little repetition and almost every page contains illumination, from the critical tradition, from the historical context, from contemporary debate...If you ever go to the theatre to see Shakespeare, or even just read the plays at home, Tanner's introductions are an indispensable guide. -- Colin MacCabe * New Statesman *It is tempting to devour this superb book in one long session, though at 3 lbs. and 800-plus pages there is a serious physical challenge. Our attention is constantly provoked by dazzling insights and informative zest, but the writing also promotes long thought and deep reflection...There have been few books on Shakespeare's art as good as this. -- Tom Deveson * Around the Globe *As an extended introduction, especially for students and other readers looking to become more familiar with the plays, it is a very good one indeed. -- William H. Pritchard * Hudson Review *Terrific. -- James Boyle * Sunday Herald *One is drawn in by Tanner's Kermode-like attention to language. There is something exhilarating about watching a mind--an open and attentive one--engage with vocabulary, etymology, repetition, syntax...At his best, Tanner thinks and writes like an Elizabethan. He loves copia. He relishes vocabulary...This love of words is at its most engaging when he admits interpretative defeat. The chapter on All's Well that Ends Well is a tour de force in this respect: time and again, Tanner's acute ear and eye lead him to point out phrases and sentences that simply don't make sense. -- Laurie Maguire * Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents* Foreword by Stephen Heath Comedies * The Comedy of Errors * The Taming of the Shrew * The Two Gentlemen of Verona * Love's Labor's Lost * Romeo and Juliet * A Midsummer Night's Dream * The Merchant of Venice * The Merry Wives of Windsor * Much Ado About Nothing * As You Like It * Twelfth Night * All's Well That Ends Well * Measure for Measure Histories * Henry VI, Part One * Henry VI, Part Two * Henry VI, Part Three * Richard III * King John * Richard II * Henry IV, Part One * Henry IV, Part Two * Henry V * Henry VIII Major Tragedies * Hamlet * Othello * King Lear * Macbeth Greek and Roman Plays * Titus Andronicus * Troilus and Cressida * Julius Caesar * Antony and Cleopatra * Timon of Athens * Coriolanus Romances * Pericles * Cymbeline * The Winter's Tale * The Tempest * About the Author
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Harvard University Press Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Volume 84
Book SynopsisThis volume of fifteen essays includes The Case of the Door's Marriage (Catullus 67.6), by E. Badian; The Date of Tacitus' Dialogus, by Charles E. Murgia; Poetae Novelli, by Alan Cameron; Three Pieces from the Latin Anthology,' by D. R. Shackleton Bailey; and Bar Kokhba Coins and Documents, by Leo Mildenberg.
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Harvard Department of the Classics Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Volume 85
Book SynopsisThis volume of 16 essays includes, among others, âœSequence and Simultaneity in Iliad N, Ξ, and O,â by Cedric H. Whitman and Ruth Scodel; âœTwo Inscriptions from Aphrodisias,â by Christopher Jones; and âœThe Authenticity of the Letter of Sappho to Phaon (Heroides XV),â by R. J. Tarrant.
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Harvard Department of the Classics Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Volume 86
Book SynopsisThis volume of sixteen essays includes The Earliest Stages in the History of Hesiod's Text, by Friedrich Solmsen; Notes on Plautus' Bacchides, by Otto Skutsch; Gadflies (Virg. Geo. 3.146148), by Richard F. Thomas; and Homoeoteleuton in Latin Dactylic Poetry, by Lennart Håkanson.
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Harvard Department of the Classics Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Volume 87
Book SynopsisThis volume of fifteen essays includes The Early Greek Poets: Some Interpretations, by Robert Renehan; The Sobriety' of Oedipus: Sophocles OC 100 Misunderstood, by Albert Henrichs; Virgil's Ecphrastic Centerpieces, by Richard F. Thomas; and Notes on Quintilian, by D. R. Shackleton Bailey.
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Harvard University Press Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Volume 88
Book SynopsisThis volume of thirteen essays includes Tantalus and Anaxagoras; Notes on Seneca Rhetor'; More on Pseudo-Quintilian's Longer Declamations; Lurius Varus, a Stray Consular Legate; and Loss of Self, Suffering, Violence: The Modern View of Dionysus from Nietzsche to Girard.
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Harvard Department of the Classics Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Volume 90
Book SynopsisThis volume of sixteen articles includes: T. D. Barnes, The Significance of Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus; Wendell Clausen, Cicero and the New Poetry; Gregory Crane, Three Notes on Herodas 8; Thomas K. Hubbard, Pegasus' Bridle and the Poetics of Pindar's Thirteenth Olympian; and C. P. Jones, Suetonius in the Probus of Giorgio Valla.
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Harvard University Press Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Volume 92
Book SynopsisThis volume of twenty-two articles includes: Charles F. Ahern, Jr., âœDaedalus and Icarus in the Ars Amatoriaâ; T. D. Barnes, âœStructure and Chronology in Ammianus, Book 14â; Daniel R. Blickman, âœLucretius, Epicurus, and Prehistoryâ; and John Bodel, âœMissing Links: Thymatulum or Tomaculum?â
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Harvard Department of the Classics Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Volume 95
Book SynopsisThis volume of eighteen articles offers: Andrew R. Dyck, The Fragments of Heliodorus Homericus; Hayden Pelliccia, Aeschylus, Eumenides 6488 and the Ex Cathedra Language of Apollo; G. Zuntz, Aeschyli Prometheus; and Georgia Ann Machemer, Medicine, Music, and Magic: The Healing Grace of Pindar's Fourth Nemean.
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Harvard Department of the Classics Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Volume 96
Book SynopsisThis volume of nineteen articles offers: Marianne Palmer Bonz, The Jewish Donor Inscriptions from Aphrodisias: Are They Both Third-Century, and Who Are the Theosebeis?; Timothy W. Boyd, Where Ion Stood, What Ion Sang; and C. O. Brink, Can Tacitus' Dialogus Be Dated? Evidence and Historical Conclusions.
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Harvard University Press The Key of Liberty
Book SynopsisThe Key of Liberty offers, better than any book yet published, a grassroots view of the rise of democratic opposition in the new nation. It sheds considerable light on the popular cultureliterary, religious, and profaneof the epoch.Trade ReviewThis publication of William Manning’s writings—with their populist formulations of the powerful few and the laboring many, as well as their libertarian defenses of individual liberties—is a powerful blow for democracy and freedom. The meticulous scholarship of Michael Merrill and Sean Wilentz has unearthed a jewel in early American thought that still poses a challenge for us in these days of democratic decay. -- Cornel West, Princeton UniversityThe writings of William Manning constitute a major contribution to our understanding of the rise of American democracy, making clear the popular origins of democratic reforms, and the quality of thinking that emerged outside the political elite of the Revolutionary era. Michael Merrill and Sean Wilentz deserve our thanks for rescuing Manning from obscurity, and for brilliantly placing his work in the social and political context of his time. -- Eric Foner, Columbia UniversityThere is much in The Key of Liberty to satisfy students and historians alike, not the least of which is a more sophisticated and compelling version of Merrill’s argument about the moral basis of markets… The Key of Liberty is a fine accomplishment and makes a significant contribution to both historians and their students. * Journal of American History *Obsessed with the struggle between the few and the many, Manning, a common ‘laborer’ whose writings were collected posthumously, gives a summary of the fiscal and political conditions in Massachusetts and the colonies during the first three presidents’ terms. Manning examined the monetary system in detail along with the interrelationships of interest groups in the young country. Fascinating is the introduction by Merrill (Labor Education Center, Rutgers) and Wilentz (history, Princeton), in which they include an analysis of the religious roots of Manning’s beliefs and arguments. One of Manning’s most penetrating and revealing theories is that popular deference commonly occurs during times of economic prosperity, that in turn breeds a complacency that Manning deplored. The work has generous footnotes and the introduction cogently presents the salient points so the reader can look to the text for Manning’s actual expressions. -- Clay Williams * Library Journal *The Key of Liberty provides modern-day readers with fresh insight into the thoughts of the 18th-century citizen-soldier and his analysis of the contemporary political scene. * Choice *
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Harvard University Press Geography Volume II
Book SynopsisIn his seventeen-book Geography, Strabo (ca. 64 BC–ca. AD 25) discusses geographical method, stresses the value of geography, and draws attention to the physical, political, and historical details of separate regions. Geography is a vital source for ancient geography and informative about ancient geographers.
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Harvard University Press The Greek Anthology Volume IV
Book SynopsisThe Greek Anthology (Gathering of Flowers) is a collection over centuries of some 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but seldom epigrammatic) by about 300 composers.
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Harvard University Press History of the Peloponnesian War Volume I
Book SynopsisThe Peloponnesian War was really three conflicts (431–421, 415–413, and 413–404 BC) that Thucydides was still unifying into one account when he died some time before 396 BC. Although unfinished and as a whole unrevised, in brilliance of description and depth of insight this history has no superior.
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Harvard University Press Correspondence Volume I
Book SynopsisFronto (ca. AD 100–176), a much admired orator and rhetorician, was befriended by the emperor Antoninus Pius and teacher of his adopted sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. His correspondence offers an invaluable picture of aristocratic life and literary culture in the second century.
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Harvard University Press Ausonius Volume II Books 1820. Paulinus Pellaeus
Book SynopsisThe surviving works of Ausonius (ca. AD 310–c. 395) include much poetry, notably “The Daily Round” and “The Moselle.” In Volume II, there is also an address of thanks to Gratian for the consulship; the stated aim of Eucharisticus by Paulinus Pellaeus (AD 376–after 459) is to give thanks for the guidance of providence in its author’s life.
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Harvard University Press Menander Volume I
Book SynopsisMenander, the dominant figure in New Comedy, wrote over 100 plays, of which one complete play, substantial portions of six others, and smaller but interesting fragments have been recovered. The complete play, Dyskolos (The Peevish Fellow), won first prize in Athens in 317 BC.Trade ReviewThe new Loeb Menander…has received a warm welcome… It is a work of solid and meticulous scholarship, the mature production of an acknowledged authority on Greek Comedy. * Classical Review *
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Harvard University Press Nature of Man. Regimen in Health. Humours.
Book SynopsisOf the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates, but they are essential sources of information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body, and he was undeniably the Father of Medicine.
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Harvard University Press Geography Volume III
Book SynopsisIn his seventeen-book Geography, Strabo (ca. 64 BC–ca. AD 25) discusses geographical method, stresses the value of geography, and draws attention to the physical, political, and historical details of separate regions. Geography is a vital source for ancient geography and informative about ancient geographers.
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Harvard University Press Geography Volume IV
Book SynopsisIn his seventeen-book Geography, Strabo (ca. 64 BC–ca. AD 25) discusses geographical method, stresses the value of geography, and draws attention to the physical, political, and historical details of separate regions. Geography is a vital source for ancient geography and informative about ancient geographers.
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Harvard University Press Isaeus 202 Loeb Classical Library CONTINS TO
Book SynopsisIsaeus (ca. 420350 BC) composed speeches for others. Of at least fifty attributed orations, there survive eleven on legacy cases and a large fragment dealing with a claim of citizenship.
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Harvard University Press Geography Volume V
Book SynopsisIn his seventeen-book Geography, Strabo (ca. 64 BCca. AD 25) discusses geographical method, stresses the value of geography, and draws attention to the physical, political, and historical details of separate regions. Geography is a vital source for ancient geography and informative about ancient geographers.
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Harvard University Press Letters Volume II
Book SynopsisBasil the Great was born into a family noted for piety. About 360 he founded a convent in Pontus and in 370 succeeded Eusebius in the archbishopric of Caesarea. His reform of monastic life in the east is the basis of modern Greek and Slavonic monasteries.
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Harvard University Press The Verrine Orations Volume I
Book SynopsisWe know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work conveys the turmoil of his time, and the part he played in a period that saw the rise and fall of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic.
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Harvard University Press Geography Volume VI
Book SynopsisIn his seventeen-book Geography, Strabo (ca. 64 BC–ca. AD 25) discusses geographical method, stresses the value of geography, and draws attention to the physical, political, and historical details of separate regions. Geography is a vital source for ancient geography and informative about ancient geographers.
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Harvard University Press Epitome of Roman History
Book SynopsisFlorus wrote, in succinct rhetorical style, a two-book summary of Roman history (especially military) in order to show the greatness and decline of Roman morals.
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Harvard University Press Philostratus the Elder Imagines. Philostratus the
Book SynopsisSixty-five descriptions, ostensibly of paintings in a gallery at Naples, are credited to an Elder Philostratus (born ca. AD 190); to a Younger Philostratus, apparently his grandson, seventeen similar descriptions. Fourteen descriptions of statues in stone or bronze attributed to Callistratus were probably written in the fourth century AD.
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Harvard University Press Philo Volume IV
Book SynopsisThe philosopher Philo, born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, was trained in Greek as well as Jewish learning. In attempting to reconcile biblical teachings with Greek philosophy he developed ideas that had wide influence on Christian and Jewish religious thought.
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Harvard University Press Anabasis of Alexander Volume II
Book SynopsisThe Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian is the best extant account of Alexander the Great’s adult life. A description of India and of Nearchus’ voyage thence, was to be a supplement.
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Harvard University Press Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Book SynopsisThe three surviving works by Sextus Empiricus are Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Against the Dogmatists, and Against the Professors. Their value as a source for the history of thought is especially that they represent development and formulation of former sceptic doctrines.
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Harvard University Press Select Papyri Volume II Public Documents
Book SynopsisGreek papyri relating to private and public business in Egypt from before 300 BC to the eighth century AD inform us about administration; social and economic conditions in Egypt; Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine law. They also offer glimpses of ordinary life in antiquity.
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Harvard University Press Against Logicians
Book SynopsisThe three surviving works by Sextus Empiricus are Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Against the Dogmatists, and Against the Professors. Their value as a source for the history of thought is especially that they represent development and formulation of former sceptic doctrines.
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Harvard University Press Pro Sestio. In Vatinium
Book SynopsisWe know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work conveys the turmoil of his time, and the part he played in a period that saw the rise and fall of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic.
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Harvard University Press Moralia X
Book SynopsisPlutarch (ca. AD 45120) wrote on many subjects. His extant works other than the Parallel Lives are varied, about sixty in number, and known as the Moralia (Moral Essays). They reflect his philosophy about living a good life, and provide a treasury of information concerning Greco-Roman society, traditions, ideals, ethics, and religion.
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Harvard University Press Parts of Animals. Movement of Animals.
Book SynopsisNearly all the works Aristotle (384–322 BC) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as practical; logical; physical; metaphysical; on art; other; fragments.
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Harvard University Press Discourses 1230
Book SynopsisDio Chrysostom (AD ca. 40–ca. 120) was a rhetorician hostile to philosophers, whose Discourses reflect political or moral concerns. What survives of his works make him prominent in the revival of Greek literature in the late first and early second century AD.
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Harvard University Press Natural History Volume III Books 811
Book SynopsisPliny the Elder produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics and metrology of the universe; world geography and ethnography; human anthropology and physiology; zoology; botany, agriculture, and horticulture; medicine; minerals, fine arts, and gemstones.
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Harvard University Press Discourses 3136
Book SynopsisDio Chrysostom (AD ca. 40ca. 120) was a rhetorician hostile to philosophers, whose Discourses reflect political or moral concerns. What survives of his works make him prominent in the revival of Greek literature in the late first and early second century AD.
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Harvard University Press Remains of Old Latin Volume IV Archaic
Book SynopsisEarly Latin writings from the seventh or sixth to the first century BC.
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Harvard University Press Roman Antiquities Volume V
Book SynopsisThe main aim of Roman Antiquities, which began to appear in 7 BC, was to reconcile Greeks to Roman rule. Of the twenty books (from the earliest times to 264 BC) we have the first nine complete; most of 10 and 11; extracts; and an epitome of the whole.
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Harvard University Press Roman Antiquities Volume VI
Book SynopsisThe main aim of Roman Antiquities, which began to appear in 7 BC, was to reconcile Greeks to Roman rule. Of the twenty books (from the earliest times to 264 BC) we have the first nine complete; most of 10 and 11; extracts; and an epitome of the whole.
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Harvard University Press Questions on Exodus
Book SynopsisThe philosopher Philo, born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, was trained in Greek as well as Jewish learning. In attempting to reconcile biblical teachings with Greek philosophy he developed ideas that had wide influence on Christian and Jewish religious thought.
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