In this prize-winning book, Bruce Kimball provides a cogent study of the historical evolution of the idea of liberal education. Clearly and forcefully argued, the book portrays this evolution as a struggle between two contending points of view - one oratorical and the other philosophical - that have interacted, often controversially, from antiquity to the present.

Mark Morford provides a lively, succinct and comprehensive survey of the philosophers of the Roman world, from Cato the Censor in 155 BCE to the death of Marcus Aurelius in 180 CE.

This volume, first published in 1999, presents a translated and wide-ranging selection of Melanchthon's influential academic orations.