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This collection of the extant odes by the Greek poet Pindar presents a comprehensive look at the odes that define his poetic career. Along with Sappho, Pindar is one of the esteemed nine lyric poets of Ancient Greece. These extant odes are also representative of Greece's cultural and artistic trends at the beginning of the dynamic classical period, between the 5th and 4th century BC. Primarily in the mode of his famed victory odes, or "epikinia",...
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"The Geography of Strabo is the only surviving work of its type in Greek literature, and the major source for the history of Greek scholarship on geography and the formative processes of the earth. In addition, this lengthy and complex work contains a vast amount of information on other topics, including the journey of Alexander the Great, cultic history, the history of the eastern Mediterranean in the first century BC, and women's history. Modern...
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Great books of the Western World v. 39
Harvard classics volume X
Modern Library giants volume G32
Harvard classics volume 10
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Harvard classics volume X
Modern Library giants volume G32
Harvard classics volume 10
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"An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (generally referred to by the short title The Wealth of Nations) is the masterpiece of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. It was first published in 1776. It is an account of economics at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, as well as a rhetorical piece written for the generally educated individual of the 18th century - advocating a free market economy as more...
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Bohn's classical library volume 11-12
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Henry G. Bohn
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MDCCCLIII [i.e. 1853]
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English
16) The works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis: Literally tr. into English prose, with copious notes
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Henry G. Bohn
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1856
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English
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