The Loeb Classical Library: Correspondence, Volume II

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The Loeb Classical Library: Correspondence, Volume IIThe literary remains of the rhetorician Marcus Cornelius Fronto (ca. AD 100176) first came to light in 1815, when Cardinal Mai, then prefect of the Ambrosian Library in Milan, discovered that beneath an account of the Acts of the first Council of Chalcedon in 451 had originally been written a copy of the correspondence between Fronto and members of the imperial family, including no less than three who were to wear the purple. The letters possess an

That Rome lives more vividly in people's imagination than any other ancient empire owes an inordinate amount to Suetonius

The life of the local community continues shakily

rational basis of the language

Volume I presents Sappho and Alcaeus

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In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him

style and composition are covered in the Introduction

Η Γαλάτεια δεν ξέρει αν υπάρχει καν δολοφόνος ή αν όλα όσα υποψιάζεται ο γιος της και η μητέρα της κοπέλας ανήκουν στη σφαίρα της φαντασίας

You don't fall in love in Cyprus in the summer of 1974

and a comprehensive introduction includes portraits of the authors featured in the book

with a bias toward mercy—all delivered in crisp and lively new translations

there awaits for him only the discovery of the truth

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