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LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY 2017–2018 Founded by JAMES LOEB 1911 Edited by JEFFREY HENDERSON NEW TITLES FRAGMENTARY GALEN REPUBLICAN LATIN Hygiene Ennius EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY IAN JOHNSTON • SANDER M. GOLDBERG Galen of Pergamum (129–?199/216), physician GESINE MANUWALD to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, Quintus Ennius (239–169 BC), widely was a philosopher, scientist, medical historian, regarded as the father of Roman literature, theoretician, and practitioner who wrote on an was instrumental in creating a new Roman astonishing range of subjects and whose literary identity and inspired major impact on later eras rivaled that of Aristotle. developments in Roman religion, His treatise Hygiene, also known social organization, and popular as “On the Preservation of Health” culture. This two-volume edition (De sanitate tuenda), was written of Ennius, which inaugurates during one of Galen’s most prolific the Loeb series Fragmentary periods (170–180) and ranks among Republican Latin, replaces that his most important and influential of Warmington in Remains of Old works, providing a comprehensive Latin, Volume I and offers fresh account of the practice of texts, translations, and annotation preventive medicine that still that are fully current with modern has relevance today. scholarship. L535 Vol. I: Books 1–4 2018 515 pp. L294 Vol. I: Ennius, Testimonia. L536 Vol. II: Books 5–6. Thrasybulus. Epic Fragments 2018 475 pp. On Exercise with a Small Ball L537 Vol. II: Ennius, Dramatic 2018 401 pp. Fragments. Minor Works 2018 450 pp. APULEIUS LIVY Apologia. Florida. De Deo Socratis History of Rome EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY CHRISTOPHER P. JONES J. C. YARDLEY Apuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin Introduction by Dexter Hoyos literature, was born ca. 125 AD in Madauros Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, to a politically prominent family and received was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, an elite education in the provincial capital where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or Carthage and at Athens, where he began a life- 17. Livy’s history, composed as the imperial long allegiance to Platonic philosophy. Although autocracy of Augustus was replacing the Apuleius is best known for his picaresque novel republican system that had stood for over 500 Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass (LCL 44, years, presents in splendid style a vivid narrative 453), he also wrote and declaimed on a wide of Rome’s rise from the traditional foundation of variety of subjects. This edition contains the the city in 753 or 751 BC to 9 BC and illustrates other surviving works of Apuleius that are the collective and individual virtues necessary considered genuine. This edition, new to the to achieve and maintain such greatness. This Loeb Classical Library, offers fresh translations edition replaces the original Loeb edition by and texts based on the best critical editions. Evan T. Sage. L534 2017 452 pp. L295 Vol. IX, Books 31–34 2017 710 pp. L301 Vol. X, Books 35-37 2018 400 pp. 2 WWW.HUP.HARVARD.EDU/LOEB • ALL VOLUMES $26.00 | £16.95 CLOTH also available in theNEW i tatti TITLES renaissance library PLATO EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo Volumes I–IX EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY CHRIS EMLYN-JONES • WILLIAM PREDDY ANDRÉ LAKS • GLENN W. MOST Plato of Athens laid the foundations of The fragments and testimonia of the early the Western philosophical tradition and in Greek philosophers (often labeled the range and depth ranks among its greatest Presocratics) have always been not only a practitioners. Traditionally ascribed to Plato fundamental source for understanding archaic are thirty-five dialogues developing Socrates’ Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also dialectic method and composed with great a perennially fresh resource that has stimu- stylistic virtuosity, together with lated Western thought until the the Apology and thirteen letters. present day. This new systematic The four works in this volume conception and presentation of the recount the circumstances of evidence differs in three ways from Socrates’ trial and execution Hermann Diels’s groundbreaking in 399 BC. This edition, which work, as well as from later editions: replaces the original Loeb edition it renders explicit the material’s by Harold North Fowler, offers thematic organization; it includes a text, translation, and annotation selection from such related bodies that are fully current with modern of evidence as archaic poetry, clas- scholarship. sical drama, and the Hippocratic corpus; and it presents an overview L036 2017 574 pp. of the reception of these thinkers AELIUS ARISTIDES until the end of antiquity. Orations, Volume I L524 Vol. I: Introductory and Reference Materials 2016 258 pp. EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL TRAPP L525 Vol. II: Beginnings and Early Ionian Thinkers, Part 1 2016 400 pp. Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus was among L526 Vol. III: Early Ionian Thinkers, Part 2 the most celebrated authors of the Second 2016 352 pp. Sophistic and an important figure in the L527 Vol. IV: Western Greek Thinkers, Part 1 transmission of Hellenism. Born to wealthy 2016 464 pp. landowners in Mysia in 117, he studied in L528 Vol. V: Western Greek Thinkers, Part 2 Athens and Pergamum before he fell chronically 2016 816 pp. ill in the early 140s and retreated to Pergamum’s L529 Vol. VI: Later Ionian and Athenian healing shrine of Asclepius. Based at his family Thinkers, Part 1 2016 448 pp. estate in Smyrna, he traveled between bouts L530 Vol. VII: Later Ionian and Athenian of illness and produced speeches and lectures, Thinkers, Part 2 2016 512 pp. declamations on historical themes, polemical L531 Vol. VIII: Sophists, Part 1 2016 576 pp. works, prose hymns, and various essays, all of L532 Vol. IX: Sophists, Part 2 2016 370 pp. it displaying deep and creative familiarity with the classical literary heritage. This edition of Aristides, new to the Loeb Classical Library, offers fresh translations and texts based on the critical editions of Lenz-Behr (Orations 1–16) and Keil (Orations 17–53). 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Animals: Books 4–6 II Clement. Ignatius. ___ L439 Vol. XI: History of AELIAN Polycarp. Didache Animals: Books 7–10 ___ L486 Historical Miscellany ___ L025 Vol. II: Epistle of ___ L323 Vol. XII: Parts of Animals. ___ L446 On Animals, Barnabas. Papias and Movement of Animals. Vol. I: Books 1–5 Quadratus. Epistle to Progression of Animals ___ L448 On Animals, Diognetus. Shepherd of Hermas ___ L366 Vol. XIII: Vol. II: Books 6–11 Generation of Animals APPIAN ___ L449 On Animals, ___ L307 Vol. XIV: Minor Works: Vol. III: Books 12–17 ___ L002 Vol. I: Roman History: On Colours. On Things Heard. Books 1–8.1 Physiognomics. On Plants. AELIUS ARISTIDES ___ L003 Vol. II: Roman History: On Marvellous Things Heard. Books 8.2–12 Mechanical Problems. On ___ L533 Orations, Vol. I ___ L004 Vol. III: Roman History: Indivisible Lines. Situations and The Civil Wars, Books 1–3.26 Names of Winds. On Melissus, AENEAS TACTICUS, ___ L005 Vol. IV: Roman History: Xenophanes, Gorgias ASCLEPIODOTUS, AND The Civil Wars, Books 3.27–5 ___ L316 Vol. XV: Problems: ONASANDER Books 1–19 ___ L156 APULEIUS ___ L317 Vol. XVI: Problems: ___ L044 Vol. I: Metamorphoses Books 20–38. Rhetoric to AESCHINES, SPEECHES (The Golden Ass): Books 1–6 Alexander ___ L106 ___ L453 Vol. II: Metamorphoses ___ L271 Vol. XVII: Metaphysics: (The Golden Ass): Books 7–11 Books 1–9 AESCHYLUS ___ L534 Apologia. Florida. ___ L287 Vol. XVIII: Metaphysics: ___ L145 Vol. I: Persians. Seven De Deo Socratis Books 10–14. Oeconomica. against Thebes. Suppliants. Magna Moralia Prometheus Bound ARISTOPHANES ___ L073 Vol. XIX: Nicomachean ___ L146 Vol. II: Orestia: Ethics ___ L178 Vol. I: Acharnians. Agamemnon. Libation- Knights ___ L285 Vol. XX: Athenian Bearers. Eumenides Constitution. Eudemian Ethics. ___ L488 Vol. II: Clouds. ___ L505 Vol. III: Fragments Virtues and Vices Wasps. 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