Homer, the legendary author of ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey’, was regarded by the ancient Greeks to be the first and gre
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One of history’s most monumental figures, the Roman politician and general Julius Caesar played a critical role in the e
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The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and
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A Greek Stoic philosopher of the first and second century, Epictetus settled permanently in Nicopolis in Epirus, where h
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Quintilian’s textbook on oratory offers a comprehensive training program in twelve books, drawing on the rhetorician’s o
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Description Juvenal’s ‘Satires’ are a vital source for the study of Latin literature, offering a lurid, comic and fascin
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An Asiatic Greek in the time of Augustus, Strabo was a keen voyager that explored the four corners of the ancient world
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Commonly regarded as the last major historian of the ancient Western world, Procopius of Caesarea accompanied the Roman
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The Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder’s encyclopaedic ‘Natural History’, composed in 37 books, remains an unrivalled comp
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Livy’s monumental history of Rome is widely regarded as one of the greatest achievements of the Golden Age Latin literat
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