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Marcus Aurelius
Meditations (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback)

Augustine of Hippo
City of God (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback) (Release Date: 2003-12-30)

Thucydides
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback)

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire.

Saint Augustine of Hippo
Confessions (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback)

When Saint Augustine wrote his Confessions he was facing, and responding to, a growing spread of asceticism in the Roman world.

Seneca
Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Mass Market Paperback)

A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties. These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC, but it was in Seneca (c. 4 BC - AD 65) that the Stoics found their most eloquent advocate. Stoicism, as expressed in the Letters, helped ease pagan Rome's transition to Christianity, for it upholds upright ethical ideals and extols virtuous living, as well as expressing disgust for the harsh treatment of slaves and the inhumane slaughters witnessed in the Roman arenas. Seneca's major contribution to a seemingly unsympathetic creed was to transform it into a powerfully moving and inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mind.

Ovid
Ovid: Metamorphoses Book XIII (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
by Cambridge University Press (Paperback)

This volume presents the Latin text, with an Introduction and full commentary, of Book XIII of the Roman poet Ovid's long work Metamorphoses. It discusses in detail Ovid's treatment of his sources and sets out the ways in which he adapted earlier literature as material for his novel enterprise. Guidance is offered on points of language and style, and the Introduction treats in general terms the themes of metamorphosis and the structure of the poem as a whole.

Euripides
Medea (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana) (Latin Edition)
by K.G. SAUR VERLAG (Hardcover)

Written primarily in Greek, 1992 edition.

Eusebius
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback)

Beginning with persecution at the beginning of the fourth century and ending with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine, the author demonstrates the purity and continuity of the doctrinal tradition of Christianity in its struggle against persecutors and heretics.

Sophocles
Antigone (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana) (Latin Edition)
by K.G. SAUR VERLAG (Paperback)

Written primarily in Greek, 1996 edition

Ancius Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback)

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. "The Consolation" was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' Philosophy. Her instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenment. "The Consolation" was extremely popular throughout medieval Europe and his ideas were influential on the thought of Chaucer and Dante.

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