The Loeb Classical Library: Orations, Volume II

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The Loeb Classical Library: Orations, Volume IIMeticulous eloquence. Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus was among the most celebrated, versatile, and influential authors of the Second Sophistic era and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism. Born to wealthy landowners in Mysia in AD 117, he studied in Athens and Pergamum and had begun a promising oratorical career when in the early 140s he fell chronically ill and retreated to the healing shrine of Asclepius in Pergamum. There he

toiling to fuse enthusiasm with reason

from the Cyclops on a Greek pot to a photograph of protesting Yadizi women

Volume I presents Sappho and Alcaeus

The Tale of a Traveling-Bag

as Cicero called him

economy and culture was the natural environment

A 27" x 39" colour reconstruction of the city of Rome as it looked at the time of Constantine

pocket-sized classics bound in real cloth with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers

Hippolytus

his ancestry and birthplace being unknown

But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped

from the lion to the hare