A complete list of the works available in the Loeb Classical Library is available at www.hup.harvard.edu/loeb.
A winsome book, only 6 1/2 inches high, the Reader differs
from classical anthologies that one typically sees on bookstore
shelves: It provides not only a translation of the selections but
also the text in the original Greek or Latin. Its appearance
carries on the tradition of the Loeb Classical Library(R) and
celebrates the publication of the 500th title in a series that
began in 1912.-- (04/08/2006)
Here you will find old friends; Odysseus planning to dangle
underneath a ram as he escapes the Cyclops or Plato (this
translation from 1914) reporting Socrates' last words in an
Athenian jail hours before the 'corrupter of the youth' drinks
hemlock at the state's behest... Although the Reader--like
all anthologies (literally a gathering of flowers, but of course
only a scoopful of petals)--is frustrating (the excerpts stop just
as you are hooked, so we never hear Socrates delivering his
mnemonic line 'it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to
live; which of us takes the better course, god only knows') it does
carry cogent gobbets.--Bettany Hughes"The Times" (03/18/2006)
If medals were given for heroic achievements in the publishing
world, a big, bright, shiny gong would surely have been awarded
long ago to the Loeb Classical Library(R)... A Loeb Classical
Library Reader is a trim little paperback, consisting of short
extracts from 33 of Loeb's authors. It is an easily accessible,
genuinely pocket-sized anthology.--Anthony Lejeune "The Tablet
"
These texts give us our first glimpse into early post-New Testament
Christianity. They show continuity in form (letters), development
and change in form (Shepherd of Hermas) and theological
expression. This edition is a must for every academic library and
for all scholars interested in the New Testament and early
Christianity.--Edgar Krentz "Religious Studies Review "
This anthology provides a leisurely flat-rock skip across the wide,
roistering seas of ancient experience. Nevertheless, while the
current general editor, Jeffrey Henderson, claims that selecting
passages for the Reader 'occasioned no little debate' among
those charged with the choosing, the result satisfies... These
byway pieces most of us never read in school, and they remind us
that more always waits to be discovered. And raising the curtain on
the slightest portions of these treasures may be this anthology's
greatest virtue.-- (07/03/2006)
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