The Loeb Classical Library: Jewish Antiquities, Volume IX : Book 20. General Index

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The Loeb Classical Library: Jewish Antiquities, Volume IX : Book 20. General IndexJosephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in Rome the cause of some Jewish priests he returned to Jerusalem and in 66 tried to prevent revolt against Rome, managing for the Jews the affairs of Galilee. In the troubles that followed he made his peace with Vespasian. Present at the siege of

Complete with the original Greek on facing pages

and a loving father almost loses his only son

And watching over them all is the goddess Aphrodite

Volume 2: Fourth Century and Hellenistic Poet - Fragments from the Tragedies with Selected Testimonia

The Athenian tragic dramatist Sophocles wrote over 120 plays in his sixty-year career

with glorious artwork from Emma Chichester Clark

but in any case it does not cease to constitute hypocrisy

Οι "Μέρες εγκατάλειψης" διαθέτουν τις εξάρσεις και τις αποχρώσεις της αρχαίας τραγωδίας

is surprised to find that the list of suspects is getting longer and longer

Ninety years later

which gathers together the existing fragments of the other two plays in the supposed Prometheus trilogy

Alexander's skills had grown to match his fiery ambition