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 November 17, 2023
University of Victoria Libraries  Michael Lines, Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian
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A treatise on government
Aristotle
Ebook
On The Heavens
Aristotle.
Paper Book
Iliad
Homer.
Paper Book
Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, "the best of the Achaeans," over a grave insult to his personal honor and relates its tragic result--a...
Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus
Sophocles
Paper Book
Sophocles (497/6-406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic figure, a character whose...

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