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The Loeb Classical Library ® is published and distributed by Harvard University Press. Īvailable to Individuals and Institutions: The Digital Loeb Classical Library ( ) extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Horsley, Professor of Classics at the University of New England in New South Wales, Australia, and a Loeb Classical Library translator, assessed the library’s achievements, innovations, and shifts in emphasis across its first hundred years. Read parts one, two, and three.Īnd, in the pages of Buried History, G. In honor of the 100 th anniversary of the Loeb Classical Library, celebrated in 2011, Adam Kirsch wrote a three-part essay in the Barnes & Noble Review. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies. Epic and lyric poetry tragedy and comedy history, travel, philosophy, and oratory the great medical writers and mathematicians those Church fathers who made particular use of pagan culture-in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes in which an up-to-date text and accurate and literate English translation face each other page by page. The Loeb Classical Library ® is the only existing series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature.

To capture all the fugitive texts of the ancient world, some of which survived the Dark Ages in just a single moldering copy in some monastic library, and turn them into affordable, clear, sturdy accurate books, is one of the greatest accomplishments of modern scholarship-and one of the most democratic.” -Adam Kirsch “Here is 1,400 years of human culture, all the texts that survive from one of the greatest civilizations human beings have ever built-and it can all fit in a bookcase or two.