Recent Loebs (December 2023)
December 12, 2023
| AETIUS | |
| Placita | |
| Edited and Translated by Jaap Mansfeld and David T. Runia | |
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Aëtius’ Placita (ca. AD 100) is a reconstructed compendium summarizing the principal doctrines and opinions of the Greek philosophers, which served as a multi-purpose manual both for study and for personal enlightenment and which remains a valuable source for our knowledge of Presocratic and Hellenistic philosophy. |
| HIPPOCRATES | |
| Volume II | |
| Edited and Translated by Paul Potter | |
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Volume II of the Loeb Hippocrates presents eight works by or attributed to the “Father of Medicine” that illustrate the value of medical theory and clinical methods, and propose a new model of medical education. Included are Prognostic, Regimen in Acute Diseases, The Sacred Disease, The Art, Breaths, Law, Decorum, and Dentition. |
| MAXIMUS OF TYRE | |
| Philosophical Orations, Volumes I–II | |
| Edited and Translated by William H. Race | |
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Maximus of Tyre’s forty-one Philosophical Orations offer a Platonic elucidation of the philosophical life of virtue, and a rich collection of the famous philosophical, literary, and historical figures, events, ideas, successes, and failures that constituted Greek paideia in the so-called Second Sophistic era. |