harvard university press jan 1921 (4 resultados)

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest of historians, was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague which he described so graphically. Later, as general in 423 he failed to save Amphipolis from the enemy and was disgraced. He tells about this, not in volumes of self-justification, but in one sentence of his history of the war- that it befell him to be an exile for twenty years. He then lived probably on his property in Thrace, but was able to observe both sides in certain campaigns of the war, and returned to Athens after her defeat in 404. He had been composing his famous history, with its hopes and horrors, triumphs and disasters, in full detail from first-hand knowledge of his own and others. The war was really three conflicts with one uncertain peace after the first; and Thucydides had not unified them into one account when death came sometime before 396. His history of the first conflict, 431- 421, was nearly complete; Thucydides was still at work on this when the war spread to Sicily and into a conflict (415- 413) likewise complete in his awful and brilliant record, though not fitted into the whole. His story of the final conflict of 413- 404 breaks off (in the middle of a sentence) when dealing with the year 411. So his work was left unfinished and as a whole unrevised. Yet in brilliance of description and depth of insight this history has no superior. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Thucydides is in four volumes.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The 'Library' provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the compendium faithfully follows the Greek literary sources. It is thus an important record of Greek accounts of the origin and early history of the world and their race. This work has been attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born 'c.' 180 BCE), a student of Aristarchus. But the text as we have it was written by an author probably living in the first or second century of our era.In his highly valued notes to the Loeb Classical Library edition (which is in two volumes) J. G. Frazer cites the principal passages of other ancient writers where each particular story is told and compares the various versions to those in the 'Library.'.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The surviving works of Ausonius (c. 310 c. 395 CE) include much poetry, notably 'The Daily Round' and 'The Moselle.' There is also an address of thanks to Gratian for the consulship. The stated aim of 'Eucharisticus' by Paulinus Pellaeus (376 after 459 CE) is to give thanks for the guidance of providence in its author s life.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Lucian (ca. 120- 190 AD), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful travelling lecturer, before settling in Athens and developing his original brand of satire. Late in life he fell on hard times and accepted an official post in Egypt. Although notable for the Attic purity and elegance of his Greek and his literary versatility, Lucian is chiefly famed for the lively, cynical wit of the humorous dialogues in which he satirises human folly, superstition and hypocrisy. His aim was to amuse rather than to instruct. Among his best works are 'A True Story' (the tallest of tall stories about a voyage to the moon), 'Dialogues of the Gods' (a 'reductio ad absurdum' of traditional mythology), 'Dialogues of the Dead' (on the vanity of human wishes), 'Philosophies for Sale' (great philosophers of the past are auctioned off as slaves), 'The Fisherman' (the degeneracy of modern philosophers), 'The Carousal' or 'Symposium' (philosophers misbehave at a party), 'Timon' (the problems of being rich), 'Twice Accused' (Lucian's defence of his literary career) and (if by Lucian) 'The Ass' (the amusing adventures of a man who is turned into an ass). The Loeb Classical Library edition of Lucian is in eight volumes.