Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This title features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

This volume provides a detailed commentary on the first eight lives of Cornelius Nepos' De viris illustribus, shedding new light on Nepos' biographies of the Greek commanders of the fifth century BCE (Miltiades, Themistocles, Aristides, Pausanias, Cimon, Lysander, Alcibiades, and Thrasybulus).

What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?

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Presents an introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and others. This book traces the development of Latin literature from the early Republican works of Cicero and Catullus, to the writers of the Empire such as Lucan and Petronius, to the later writings of St Augustine.

Previously published in 2008 by Columbia University Press, USA.

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