The Loeb Classical Library: Early Greek Philosophy, Volume III

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The Loeb Classical Library: Early Greek Philosophy, Volume IIIThe fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in three ways from Hermann Dielss groundbreaking work, as well as from later

Long—one of the world’s leading authorities on Stoicism and a pioneer in its remarkable contemporary revival—provides a superb new edition of Epictetus’s celebrated guide to the Stoic philosophy of life (the Encheiridion) along with a selection of related reflections in his Discourses

Rhys Roberts

a glossary of literary devices and sections on style and metre are included

102–44 BC)

with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed text to be read in English

We meet Demeter

he expects Galatea to please him

Although Problems is an accretion of multiple authorship over several centuries

Capturing the Golden Fleece

as entries are pegged to line numbers

There has long been vital interest in the ways that texts affect each other--through translation

deals the preparations for and execution of his second assault on Britain in 54 BC

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