Seneca the elder (23 Ergebnisse)

Bristol Classical Press, London, n.d. Reprint ed.2006. XLVII,160p. Paperback. There were ten books of Controversiae, five surviving, and at least two of Suasoriae, of which one remains. Edward's edition ot the latter, first publiced in 1928, remains the only annotated edition in English and the only one (since 1909) in any Europ…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mock trial-Roman style.Roman secondary education aimed principally at training future lawyers and politicians. Under the late Republic and the Empire, the main instrument was an import from Greece: declamation, the making of practice speeches on imaginary subjects. There were two types of such speec…

Zustand: Good. 3 uniform original gilt lettered red cloths, dust jackets, translated by Richard M. Gummere, XVII(1),466,(10)+(8),479,(9)+(10),462,(8) pages, text in Latin and English, 8vo. Loeb Classical Library 75 (Seneca the Elder IV), 76 (Seneca the Elder V) and 77 (Seneca the Elder VI). ISBN volume I: 9780674990845, ISBN vol…

First edition thus. 3 vols., pp. [lviii], 869, [iii]; [iv], 998, [lxxxiv]; [xxiv], 750, [ii], 316, [xxviii]. Vol I with extra engraved frontispiece and further illustrations in text. Woodcut printer's device to title-pages with motto 'Ne extra oleas', woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Marginal notes in several different o…