The Loeb Classical Library: Ausonius, Volume I : Books 1–17

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The Loeb Classical Library: Ausonius, Volume I : Books 1–17A master of the jeweled style. Ausonius (Decimus Magnus), ca. AD 310ca. 395, a doctors son, was born at Burdigala (Bordeaux). After a good education in grammar and rhetoric and a short period during which he was an advocate, he took to teaching rhetoric in a school that he began in the University of Bordeaux in 334. Among his students was Paulinus, who was afterwards Bishop of Nola; and he seems to have become some sort of Christian himself. Thirty

The Aeneid of Virgil is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity

Unable to resist curiosity

Supported by a detailed contextualising introduction and companion website resources

µε τον γάµο της φίλης της ανακαλύπτει πως ασφυκτιά στη γειτονιά της

bringing out how much Shakespeare's conception of the character and destiny of his protagonists owes to Plutarch

metrical and structural questions

Έκτοτε χάνει τα ίχνη του κι ο έρωτάς της καταλήγει ασφυκτικά κλεισμένος σε ένα μπαούλο στα βάθη της καρδιάς της

the text is selected from the Pro Cluentio - the defence speech of one of the most intriguing and lurid ancient murder trials - set in the northern Italian provincial town of Larinum - for which evidence survives

It is aimed at the sixth-former or undergraduate who seeks a helpful introduction to the poem

He may have been a Hellenized Roman living in Asia Minor during the late first century of our era

His rapid rise from leader of an alliance of Greek cities to Pharaoh of Egypt and King of Persia became legendary

Works and Days tells the story of Pandora's jar and humanity's place in a fallen world

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