The Loeb Classical Library: Against Physicists. Against Ethicists

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The Loeb Classical Library: Against Physicists. Against EthicistsSextus Empiricus (ca. AD 160210), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for years in Rome and possibly also in Alexandria and Athens. His three surviving works are Outlines of Pyrrhonism (three books on the practical and ethical scepticism of Pyrrho of Elis, ca. 360275 BC, as developed later,

The satires explored in this volume are some of the trickiest poems of ancient Rome's trickiest poet

and is then falsely accused to the woman’s husband (Theseus

Agamemnon is dead and his killers rule at Argos

and his view of Augustus

lavish building projects could lead to financial ruin and moral condemnation

and inviolable taboos

Pro Caelio is one of Cicero’s finest and funniest speeches

Excision of the Fetus

heralding the world's end

He also distinguishes different kinds of wisdom that are essential to flourishing and offers an unusual perspective on how to appreciate our place in the universe and our relation to the divine

king of Argos

no full scale edition having appeared in England since the end of the last century

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