The story of Heloise and Abelard remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Peter Abelard was a 12th-century French philosopher and celebrated logician. He taught in Paris...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Betty Radice
ISBN:9780140510553
For those who would like to understand references to the ancient world, this text provides: concise life histories of the major dramatists, politicians...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
The Roman dramatist Terence (c. 186-159 BC) adapted many of his comedies from Greek sources, rendering them suitable for audiences of his own time by introducing subtler characterization and more complex plots. In his romantic play...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Betty Radice;Betty PlinyRadice
ISBN:9780140441277
A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such eminent figures as Tacitus...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Pietro Bembo;Betty Chatfield Mary PRadice
ISBN:9780674017122
Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), scholar and critic, was one of the most admired Latinists of his day. After some years at the court of Urbino, where he exchanged Platonic love letters with Lucrezia Borgia...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:304
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Titus Livius Livy;Aubrey Radice BettyDe Selincourt
ISBN:9780140441451
In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC-AD 17) chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, until the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. He vividly recreates the immense armies of Hannibal...more details Format:Paperback Pages:712