Description: Maximus of Tyre's forty-one Philosophical Orations offer a Platonic elucidation of the philosophical life of virtue, and a rich collection of the famous philosophical, literary, and historical figures, events, ideas, successes, and failures that constituted Greek paideia in the so-called Second Sophistic era.
Brief description: William H. Race is Paddison Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Review Quotes: Race's translation is generous and elegantly turned... With excellent but not overwhelming supporting material in the form of the introductions and notes and an absorbing translation (as well as, of course, the benefit of having the original text facing the English), the presentation of these Loeb volumes is exemplary, an impressive edition of interesting texts.--M. A. Orthofer "Complete Review" (1/20/2024 12:00:00 AM)