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Volume 6 of the Latin collection in the Loeb Classical Library, second edition 1988
Volume 6 of the Latin collection in the Loeb Classical Library, second edition 1988
Volume 170N of the Greek collection in the Loeb Classical Library, revised edition
Volume 170N of the Greek collection in the Loeb Classical Library, revised edition

The Loeb Classical Library is a series of books, today published by the Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek and Latin Literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience, by presenting the original Greek or Latin text on each left-hand leaf, and a fairly literal translation on the facing page. Harvard University Press ( HUP) is a Publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in Academic publishing. Greek literature refers to those writings autochthonic to the areas of Greek influence typically though not necessarily in one of the Greek dialects throughout the Latin literature, the body of written works in the Latin language remains an enduring legacy of the culture of Ancient Rome.

The series was conceived and initially funded by James Loeb. James Loeb ( August 6, 1867 – May 27, 1933) was a Jewish-German-American Banker and Philanthropist. The first volumes were edited by T. E. Page, W. H. D. Rouse, and Edward Capps, and published by William Heinemann and company in 1912, already in their distinctive green (for Greek text) and red (for Latin) hardcover bindings. William Henry Denham (W H D Rouse (1863-1950 was a pioneering British teacher who advocated the use of the Direct Method of teaching Latin and Greek. Heinemann is a UK publishing house founded by William Heinemann in Covent Garden, London in 1890 Since then scores of new titles have been added, and the earliest translations have been revised several times. In recent years, this has included the removal of earlier editions' bowdlerization, which habitually extended to reversal of gender to disguise homosexual references. Thomas Bowdler ( IPA /ˈbaʊdlə/ ( July 11, 1754 &ndash February 24, 1825) was an English Physician who published Profit from the editions continues to fund graduate student fellowships at Harvard University.

The Loebs are not intended for serious classicists, having only a minimal critical apparatus; nor are they intended for the general reader— the translator's ability to write beautifully and fluently can be hampered occasionally by the need to keep his or her translation as literal as possible. The critical apparatus (or Latin: la '''apparatus criticus''' is the critical and Primary source material that accompanies an edition of a text They are, however, so ubiquitous as to be instantly recognizable.

In 1917 Virginia Woolf wrote (in the Times Literary Supplement):

The Loeb Library, with its Greek or Latin on one side of the page and its English on the other, came as a gift of freedom. Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year (Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941 was an English Novelist and Essayist, regarded as one of the foremost The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969 is a weekly literary review published in London by News International . . The existence of the amateur was recognised by the publication of this Library, and to a great extent made respectable. . . The difficulty of Greek is not sufficiently dwelt upon, chiefly perhaps because the sirens who lure us to these perilous waters are generally scholars [who] have forgotten. . . what those difficulties are. But for the ordinary amateur they are very real and very great; and we shall do well to recognise the fact and to make up our minds that we shall never be independent of our Loeb.

Harvard University assumed complete responsibility for the series in 1989 and in recent years four or five new or re-edited volumes are published annually.

In 2001, Harvard University Press began issuing a third series of books with a similar format. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. The I Tatti Renaissance Library presents key Medieval and Renaissance works in their original language (usually Latin) with a facing English translation; it is bound similarly to the Loeb Classics, but with blue covers. The I Tatti Renaissance Library is a book series published by the Harvard University Press, which aims to present important works (The books' dimensions, however, are slightly larger. )

Contents

Volumes published

The listings of Loeb volumes at online bookstores and library catalogues vary considerably and are often best navigated via ISBN numbers.

Greek

Poetry

Epic Poetry

Homer

Other

Lyric and Choral Poetry, Iambic and Elegiac Poetry

Hellenistic Poetry

Greek Anthology

Drama

Aeschylus

Sophocles

Euripides

Aristophanes

Menander

Philosophers

Aristotle

Athenaeus

Epictetus

Marcus Aurelius

Philo

Plato

Plotinus

Plutarch

Ptolemy

Sextus Empiricus

Theophrastus

Greek Mathematics (extracts)

Historians

Appian

Arrian

Diodorus Siculus

Herodotus

Josephus

Manetho

Polybius

Thucydides

Xenophon

Attic orators

Aeschines

Demosthenes

Isaeus

Isocrates

Lysias

Minor Attic Orators

Greek Fathers

Basil

Clement of Alexandria

Eusebius

John Damascene

-- various, edited by Kirsopp Lake

Other Greek prose

Achilles Tatius

Aelian

Aeneas Tacticus

Babrius and Phaedrus

Alciphron

Apollodorus

Chariton

Dio Cassius

Dio Chrysostom

Diogenes Laertius

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Galen

Hippocrates

Julian

Libanius

Longus

Lucian

Nonnos

Oppian

Pausanias

Philostratus the Elder and Philostratus the Younger

Philostratus

Strabo

Latin

Ammianus Marcellinus

Apuleius

Augustine

Ausonius

Bede

Boethius

Julius Caesar

Cato and Varro

Catullus

Celsus

Cicero

Claudian

Columella

Cornelius Nepos

Curtius

Florus

Frontinus

Fronto

Gellius

Herodian

Horace

Jerome

Juvenal and Persius

Livy

Lucan

Lucretius

Manilius

Martial

Ovid

Petronius

Plautus

Pliny the Younger

Pliny

Procopius

Propertius

Prudentius

Quintilian

Sallust

Seneca the Elder

Seneca the Younger

Sidonius

Silius Italicus

Statius

Suetonius

Tacitus

Terence

Tertullian

Valerius Flaccus

Valerius Maximus

Varro

Velleius Paterculus

Virgil

Vitruvius

Minor Latin Poets edited by J. W. Duff

The Augustan History, edited by D. The Augustan History ( Lat Historia Augusta) is a late Roman collection of biographies in Latin of the Roman Emperors their junior Magie

Papyri

Old Latin, edited by Warmington, E.H.

References

Sources and external links


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