Category: Serif Classics
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Zosimus, the Last of the Pagan Historians
One of the most valuable histories of late antiquity is finally available in an economical and useful English edition, with the standard chapter numbers, chronological headings, and helpful and entertaining supplements. What was it like to be a pagan after the final Christianization of the Empire? For Zosimus, it was clear that Rome had declined […]
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An Ancient Roman Bathroom Book
A collection of stories, legends, and snappy comebacks preserved for us by one of the most entertaining companions among ancient writers. It’s a long and rambling conversation with an ancient Roman whose mind is full of trivia, and who knows how to make those trivia as interesting to us as they are to him. I […]
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You’ll Want to Quote The Miscellaneous Chesterton
Chesterton was always Chesterton. No matter where he was writing or what the subject, his mind ranged over the whole universe of thought. These occasional pieces are as filled with his eccentric but provoking wisdom as any of his more famous writings, and they have this great advantage: you probably haven’t read them yet. A […]
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A Great Saint, a Great Translation
The Douay Bible was Bishop Challoner’s most famous work: he revised the stilted language of the 1600s original to produce the beautiful and memorable English version beloved by generations of Catholics. Challoner applied the same genius for straightforward dignity to his translation of the most famous work of Christian literature outside the Bible. In Challoner’s […]
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Oroonoko, by the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn
“This is a true Story, of a Man Gallant enough to merit your Protection; and, had be always been so Fortunate, he had not made so Inglorious an end: The Royal Slave I had the Honour to know in my Travels to the other World; and though I had none above me in that Country, […]