Name: Appian: The Civil Wars
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Appian: The Civil WarsPenguin Classics Taken from Appian's Roman History, the five books collected here form the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era between 133 35 BC a time of anarchy and instability for the Roman Empire. A masterly account of a turbulent epoch, they describe the Catiline conspiracy; the rise and fall of the First Triumvirate; the murder of Julius Caesar; the formation of the Second Triumvirate by Antonius, Octavian, and Lepidus; and

and a history of letter-writing and letter-reading in antiquity

if highly idiosyncratic

The Contemplative Life

Sextus advocated—and provided a set of techniques to achieve—a radical suspension of judgment about the way things really are

“Attic Nights

it is lucidlyexpounded by the leading British historian of the period

την ταπείνωση του Σιούλα του Ταμπάκου

a corpse and a tape measure

introduce students to classic tales

a narrator of the deeds of real men

the beautiful witch-princess Medea

was a longtime school text and a favorite of Augustus