The Loeb Classical Library: Natural History, Volume VII: Books 24–27

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The Loeb Classical Library: Natural History, Volume VII: Books 24–27Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 2379), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany, partly administrative in Gaul and Spain under the emperor Vespasian, and became prefect of the fleet at Misenum. He died in the eruption of Vesuvius when he went to get a closer view and to rescue friends. Tireless worker, reader, and writer, he was author of

με μόνο τους κοινό στόχο να σώσουν τη ζωή της Κοραλίας…

Ancient authorities regarded Corinna as an older contemporary and mentor of Pindar

by the freshest and liveliest of all classical Greek prose authors

Sharples’ text is intended to meet this need

user-friendly translations

and compulsively readable

to Earth with a box labelled DO NOT OPEN

τα φρύδια του

from the famous debate of Medea and Jason to the 'unmotivated' entrance of Aegeus and the controversial monologue of Medea

The lengthy

drawing strength from nature

εξαγνισμός