Aeschylus was the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms. This is the final volume containing fresh translations of Aeschylus' extant plays.

Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BCE survive in a complete form and are included in the first six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. This title discusses the evidence for the lost plays.

In 'The Learned Banqueters', Athanaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature.

This volume presents a selection of Hellenistic prose and poetry, ranging chronologically from Philitas of Nicaea, whose mythography 'Sufferings in Love' is the major work in the collection.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman advocate, orator, politician, & philosopher, about whom we know more than we do any other Roman, lived through the era that saw the rise, dictatorship, & death of Julius Caesar. In his speeches & correspondence we see the excitement, tension & intrigue of politics & the part he played in the turmoil of the time.

This text provides information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Paul Potter presents texts which illuminate Hippocratic medicine in such areas as anatomy, physiology, prognosis and clinical signs, obstetrics, and opthalmology.