How complete is the Loeb Classical Library? Surely with 550+ books they've covered everything written in antiquity?
>>25314267No Aethiopica of Heliodorus or Aesop’s Fables.
>>25314270Those were excluded due to being low quality
>>25314270Aesop’s Fables seems like a pretty significant omission. Any idea why they don’t have it?
>>25314285The question was whether they covered everything in antiquity and those are two instances where they don’t.>>25314287Likely because it’s children’s lit. Likewise any work by a merchant or layman (ie Periplus of Erithyrean sea) is likely excluded on the grounds that it’s basically not a serious work because it’s not from an actual formal writer.
>>25314267>Surely with 550+ books they've covered everything written in antiquity?Not even close! We're lucky that a staggering amount of literature from classical antiquity has survived for us, though not all of the surviving works have quite the status of Classics. I'd also like to take a moment to shill the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; it's essentially the LCL for Medieval texts, and it's also published by the Harvard University Press. Not enough people seem to know about it.
>>25314318> Not even close!Basically everything ‘academic’ like the Platonists, Aristotle, Homer are in it. The only stuff that Loeb’s really is missing is kids stuff like Aesop and merchant’s logs and other stuff from laymen without any formal schooling.
>>25314325>Basically everything ‘academic’ like the Platonists, Aristotle, Homer are in it.I wouldn't say that. There are many lexicographical, rhetorical, grammatical, encyclopedic, and other such composite works that still aren't included.
>>25314318>Dumbarton Oaks Medieval LibraryThere's also an Italian Renaissance library.From the Medieval one I want to get Beowulf and the Vulgate Bible, the rest really seem to be super theological in nature.
I have the complete set. I still feel empty. And my Greek and Latin got worse. Should have put the money towards the trivial Oxford classical library texts.
Just ordered the Loeb Secret History (Procopius)
They're still releasing new Loebs. This one hasn't come out yet.
>>25314353I wished I lived in a country with good second hand market for these. New they'd be 20k dollars.
>>25314396> The book collects the most ancient surviving texts from the Orphic literary tradition, providing the Greek texts with English translations on facing pages.Huh, that sounds pretty cool.
I think they’re neat
>>25314267>still nothing from Proclus or Iamblichus Sad! OCT and Budé are a bit too expensive for me.
>>25314267They don't. It was like finding out Santa doesn't exist
>>25314288Update: I looked it up and apparently Aesop wasn’t a real person. His fables were generally handed down by the writer Barbius who is included in the collection. Still Loeb’s doesn’t have Heliodorus’ Aethiopica though which is pretty bad.
>>25314325If you actually cared about anything "academic like the Platonists" you'd know that almost none of that has been released aside from maybe Plutarch and Plotinus.See >>25315613
>>25314423I’m pretty sure you can buy them all for like 1.5k at the loeb store
>>25314423I'm in America and I've never seen a Loeb ever aside from an online store. They're all so expensive too. >>25314318>>25314337And these are even worse for cost.There really should be someone outputting classics in a Loeb like way for near free. I feel like thats a marker of a healthy society
>>25315717What did he mean by this?
What do people do when their physical library grows so large but their housing situation isn't final? Should I actually buy a steamer trunk?
>>25315730You can find them secondhand at a pretty good price, I recently purchased an older copy of Manetho and Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos for like 8 bucks at a secondhand store. The HUP also does a sale every Christmas for all their books.
>>25315767I've had bad luck then. Never seen them in a second hand store. Maybe if I were in the north east or a college town.
>>25314267They look fucking disgusting.
>>25315850You're looking at your screen's reflection, bro.
>>25315730Don't buy Loebs new. If you're going to shell out that much money, you might as well spend a bit more and buy a proper critical edition instead.
>>25314353hnng
Does anyone own TEAMs books? Seem like the only option for ME. Are they good quality
>>25316076Critical editions are just the text with all major variants listed at the bottom, hardly useful for 99% of people studying these texts unless you want to larp as a textual scholar
>>25314287>>25314270Good Lord this board is dumber by the dayThere are no existing works by Aesop. Loeb has Babrius and Phaedrus in a single edition, its on my shelf right now. One Greek, one Roman, they both wrote versioms of Aesop's fables for audiences of their day(s).
>>25317318I'm aware what critical editions are; that's why I mentioned them. Wanting a full perspective of a work's textual state and manuscript tradition is not "larping as a textual scholar." Many laymen can take an interest in these things.
>>25314353Go for something like this and put that for sale
>>25315881Thats a waste
>>25317420Thats a chinese conspiracy theory
