Lucian (ca.

Selections from Herodotus' History which follow the events of the great war between the Greeks and the Persians.

His main subjects were the branches of a military force; infantry; cavalry; chariots; elephants; arms ; manoeuvres; military evolutions; marching formation. The work ends with words of command. He wrote also a work on natural phenomena.

In Fishing, Oppian discusses fish and gives angling instructions. The Chase, on hunting, may be the work of a Syrian imitator.

Of the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates (said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BCE), but they are essential sources of information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and ...

Velleius Paterculus, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius (30 BC-AD 37), served as a military tribune in Thrace, Macedonia, Greece, and Asia Minor, and later, from AD 4 to 12 or 13, as a cavalry officer and legatus in Germany ...

Explains the principles of yoga and gives instructions for basic exercises.

The Greek version of the legend, from which European versions collectively descend, is attributed by some to Saint John of Damascus.

Though he was classed as bucolic, his extant poetry (mainly 'Runaway Love' and the story of 'Europa') is not really pastoral, the 'Lament for Bion' not being Moschus's work. 'Megara' may be Theocritus; but 'The Dead Adonis' is much later.

In The Fall of Troy, Quintus Smyrnaeus (Fourth century CE?) seeks to continue in Homerâe(tm)s style the tale of Troy from the point at which the Iliad closes.