Top 87 Ancient works in the Loeb Classical Library

Of the some 450 volumes in the Loeb series, here are the most widely read!

Updated September 6, 2024
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The complete Aeschylus. Volume II, Persians and other plays
Aeschylus.
Ebook
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order...
El arte de la retórica
Aristotle.
Ebook
The politics of Aristotle
Aristotle.
Ebook
A touchstone in Western debates about society and government, the Politics is Aristotle's classic work on the nature of political community. Here, he argues that people band together into political communities to secure a good and self-sufficient life. He discusses the merits and defects...
El arte de la retórica
Aristotle.
Ebook
On the heavens
Aristotle.
Ebook
On moral ends
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Ebook
This 2001 translation makes one of the most important texts in ancient philosophy available to modern readers. Cicero is increasingly being appreciated as an intelligent and well-educated amateur philosopher, and in this work he presents the major ethical theories of his time in a way designed to...
The republic and, the laws
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Ebook
`However one defines Man, the same definition applies to us all. This is sufficient proof that there is no essential difference within mankind.' (Laws l.29-30) Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible governement written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in...
Epodes and odes
Horace.
Ebook
This fully annotated Latin edition, by Daniel H. Garrison, of Horace?s Epodes, Odes, and Carmen Saeculare is the first comprehensive English commentary on these works since 1903. The full text of the Epodes is included and placed before the Odes, as it was originally written and published....
Charmides
Plato
Ebook
"Moore and Raymond'sCharmidesis very impressive. The translation is excellent, and the Introduction and notes guide the reader into thorny problems in a way that renders them understandable: e.g., how to translate sôphrosunê, why we should care about self-knowledge, or how to seek...
Apología de Sócrates Critón. Fedón
Plato.
Ebook
Tacitus' Agricola, Germany, and Dialogue on orators
Tacitus, Cornelius.
Ebook
A modern version of Tacitus' (c55-117 A.D.) earliest historical works, translated from the Latin by Herbert Benario (classics emeritus, Emory U.). In this edition (first was 1967), Benario has expanded his notes and introductory essays, and has added chapter summaries. Annotation(c) 2003 Book...

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