Loeb Classical Library

Bilingual editions of Greek and Latin literature: each volume sets the ancient text on the left-hand page against a facing English translation, carrying only a light critical apparatus, so that a reader with imperfect Greek or Latin can still follow the original.¹ The library was conceived and endowed by James Loeb (1867-1933), an American banker and philanthropist, who gave it his name in 1911;² the first volumes appeared in 1912 from William Heinemann of London under the editorship of Thomas Ethelbert Page, W. H. D. Rouse, and Edward Capps, already in the green cloth for Greek and red for Latin that the series still uses.¹ Harvard University Press has published it since 1934 and assumed full responsibility in 1989, with the earnings endowing graduate fellowships at Harvard; a digital edition of the whole library followed in 2014.¹ Jeffrey Henderson and Gesine Manuwald are the current general editors.² For this catalogue the Loeb matters most for the volumes carrying the Christian and Jewish writers of antiquity in their original languages — the two volumes of the Apostolic Fathers, Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History, Augustine's Confessions, City of God, and Select Letters, the letters of Basil, Jerome's Select Letters, Tertullian's Apology with the Octavius of Minucius Felix, Clement of Alexandria, Prudentius, Sidonius, Boethius, and the complete Josephus and Philo — set beside the classical literature those writers were themselves reading. Each volume is sold by Harvard as a cloth edition and is readable in full on the Loeb site, and both links are recorded on every volume below.³

1. 1.Wikipedia — Loeb Classical Library
2. 2.Loeb Classical Library — masthead (founding year and general editors)
3. 3.Harvard University Press — Loeb Classical Library series