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Winged Words and the Digital Library

Over a century ago, James Loeb announced the founding of the Loeb Classical Library and his intention to bring the written treasures of the ancient Greek and Roman world “within the reach of all who care for the finer things of life.” Now it gives us great pleasure to welcome you – old friends and newcomers, scholars, students, and general readers alike – to the digital Loeb Classical Library, and to invite you to enjoy its Greek and Latin texts alongside English translations, in the familiar ways and in surprisingly new ones.

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Praise for the Digital Loeb Classical Library

“The Anglophone world’s most readily accessible collection of classical masterpieces.” —Wall Street Journal

PROSE Award for Best Humanities eProduct —Association of American Publishers

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March 31, 2026

Forthcoming Loebs (Summer 2026)

ORPHIC COLLECTION
Edited by Alberto Bernabé
Translated by Michael Chase
Orphic Collection Orpheus is familiar from mythology as a peerless bard with superhuman musical abilities, but he was also considered by some to be an authentic poet. This edition collects works representing the most ancient Orphic literature, excluding later mythological, scientific, and pseudo-scientific poems opportunistically attributed to him.
PLUTARCH
Moralia, Volume I
Edited and Translated by William H. Race
Plutarch, Volume I This edition, which replaces the original by Frank Cole Babbitt (1927), includes five essays: The Education of Children, How the Young Man Should Study Poetry, On Listening to Lectures, How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend, and How a Man May Become Aware of His Progress in Virtue.

December 3, 2025

Recent Loebs (February 2026)

FRAGMENTARY REPUBLICAN LATIN, VOLUME VII
Pacuvius. Minor Tragic Poets. Unidentified Dramatists
Edited and Translated by Robert Maltby
FRL VII This volume collects the fragments of Marcus Pacuvius (ca. 220–130), deemed by Cicero to be Rome’s greatest tragic poet, together with those of tragedians whose remnants are less substantial. Also included are fragments distinguished as dramatic by their meter, but whose genre (tragedy or comedy) can be uncertain.
LUCIAN
Volumes I–II
Edited and Translated by Peter Thonemann
Lucian, Volume I Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160–190) ranks among the most dazzlingly creative, virtuosic, and boldly original writers of antiquity. These volumes replace the original Loeb editions by A. M. Harmon (1913–15), offering text, translation, and annotation that are fully current with modern scholarship.
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