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Demosthenes and Cicero - Alexander and Caesar by Bernadotte Perrin; Plutarch
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45-120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daug ...Show more
Dio Cassius - Roman History by Herbert B. Foster; Earnest Cary; Dio Cassius
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Category: History | Series: The\Loeb Classical Library
Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150- 235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus was an advocate. He held high offices, becoming a close friend of several emperors. ...Show more
Roman History: v. 1 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), c. 150 235 CE, was born in Bithynia. Little of his Roman History survives, but missing portions are partly supplied from elsewhere and there are many excerpts. Dio s work is a vital source for the last years of the Roman republic and the first four Roman emperors.
Theseus and Romulus - Lycurgus and Numa - Solon and Publicola by Plutarch; Bernadotte Perrin (Translator)
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Plutarch (c. 45 120 CE) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs, one Greek figure and one similar Roman, though the last four lives are single. They not only record careers and illustrious deeds but also offer rounded portraits of stat ...Show more
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