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The Harvard Classics, originally marketed as Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, is a 50-volume series of classic works of world literature, important speeches, and historical documents compiled and edited by Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot. [1] [2] Eliot believed that a careful reading of the series and following the eleven ...
The Loeb Classical Library ( LCL; named after James Loeb; / loʊb /, German: [løːp]) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but is currently published by Harvard University Press. [1] The library contains important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature designed to make the text accessible to the broadest ...
Harvard University Press ( HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. [2] It is a member of the Association of University Presses. [3] After the retirement of William P. Sisler in 2017, the university appointed George Andreou as director.
Murty Classical Library of India. The Murty Classical Library of India began publishing classics of Indian literature in January 2015. The books, which are in dual-language format with the original language and English facing, are published by Harvard University Press.
Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies is a center for advanced research in the humanities located in Florence, Italy, and belongs to Harvard University. It houses a collection of Italian primitives, and of Chinese and Islamic art, as well as a research library of 140,000 volumes and a collection of 250,000 ...
Harvard Library is the network of Harvard University 's libraries and services. It is the oldest library system in the United States and both the largest academic library and largest private library in the world. [4] [5] Its collection holds over 20 million volumes, 400 million manuscripts, 10 million photographs, and one million maps.
John Harvard Library (series) The John Harvard Library is a series of books published since 1959 by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. The series consists of reprints of historically significant American writings, including historic documents, fiction, poetry, memoirs, and criticism.
Sophocles [a] ( c. 497/496 – winter 406/405 BC) [2] was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus; and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, [3] but only ...