As both a naturalist and a classicist, news of the sale by Harvard University Press on all of the volumes of the Loeb Classical Library was received by me with noticeable rejoicing and exclamations of great joy. Continuing through the end of June 2025, all Loeb volumes are offered at a 30% discount off the cover price when purchased from Harvard University Press’ website.
One of the things I look forward to each December is the Harvard University Press book sale. I appreciate all sales from book publishers who publish high quality works, but the Harvard sale helps me to continue a completely barking mad project I began a few years ago…
Writing in the second book of his “Natural History” (Naturalis Historia), Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus), whilst recounting the many interesting facts he has learned and collected about the Moon, suddenly breaks from his explanations to wax critical upon a “disease of the human mind” he has observed.
While many have heard, and may often make reference to the Hippocratic Oath, few have actually ever read it, and even fewer know what it means or indeed know much of anything about the larger body of writings in which it is contained. This new edition of the Loeb Classical Library’s Hippocrates Volume 1 now makes a fresh translation of the Oath, as well as other important writings in the Hippocratic collection, available to all who would avail themselves of it.