The Loeb Classical Library: History of the Wars, Volume II : Books 3–4

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The Loeb Classical Library: History of the Wars, Volume II : Books 3–4Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533 against the Vandals and in 535 against the Ostrogoths. Sometime after 540 he returned to Constantinople. He may have been that Procopius who was prefect of Constantinople in 562, but the date of his death (after 558) is unknown.

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including one remarkable woman

The Wolf Den brings to vivid life the doomed city of Pompeii and the powerlessness of its women

The first two books of Aristotle’s On the Heavens (De Caelo) offer perspectives on the cosmology of a thinker whose ideas in this area were considered authoritative by many until the seventeenth century

half a century of turbulence

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whether political (like Acharnians

his contemporary - but not

It has also been extensively redesigned to make it clearer and easier to navigate

presents the downfall and disgrace of a great hero whose suicide leads to his rehabilitation through the enlightened magnanimity of one of his enemies

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