The Loeb Classical Library: Autobiography and Selected Letters, Volume I : Autobiography. Letters 1–50

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The Loeb Classical Library: Autobiography and Selected Letters, Volume I : Autobiography. Letters 1–50Libanius (AD 314393) was one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism. His story, as presented in his Autobiography and the Life by Eunapius, is supplemented by information from a correspondence of over 1500 items and sixty four extant orations. A native of Antioch, he began his teaching career in Constantinople in 340, but soon had to retire to Nicomedeia, where he became acquainted with St. Basil and influential in the development

Her account begins with epic poets Homer and Hesiod and ends with reflections on modern physicists

in which he pitted advocates of different philosophical approaches to happiness against one another

astronomical and dynastic material of the Fasti

still including what was most useful in Postgate but now incorporating much additional material and information based on the latest scholarship

This extract contains unforgettable descriptions of Nero's love of performing on stage and the shifting personal alliances in Rome

The surviving speeches of Lysias (about thirty complete out of a very much larger number) are fluent

και γερμανικά

το ένα πιο αληθινό από το άλλο

Κανένας δεν μπορεί να βρει την αιτία

and always keeping in view two key questions: what was Juvenal's purpose in writing the Satire

Apology for the Jews

one the self-tormentor of the title