The Loeb Classical Library: Library of History, Volume II : Books 2.35–4.58

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The Loeb Classical Library: Library of History, Volume II : Books 2.35–4.58Remains of a universal chronicle. Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 8020 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexanders death (323 BC); history to 54 BC. Of this we have complete Books 15 (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books 1120 (Greek history 480302 BC); and fragments of the rest.

the beguiling Sirens

His Iberike

addressed to someone Ellie does not know

in which our first comic heroine organizes a conjugal strike of young wives until their husbands end the war between Athens and Sparta

kaleidoscopic and gripping

Book VIII of the Aeneid is remarkable for the diversity of its subject matter

gathers Cicero's most perceptive thoughts on topics such as leadership

and followed at the back of the book by a learning vocabulary

While Propertius's and Ovid's setting is the city and their poems show us such details of urbane Roman life as drinking parties and elaborate hair-dressing

notes on the text and vocabulary

where Achilles grieves for him and is awarded new armour before he returns to battle

V The Roman State (5 poems)

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