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The Analects of Confucius - Confucius 孔子
The Analects of Confucius - Confucius 孔子
- Author: Confucius 孔子
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Analects, or Lunyu, also known as the Analects of Confucius, are considered a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinker and philosopher Confucius and his disciples, as well as the discussions they held. Written during the...
Heroides - Publius
Heroides - Publius
- Author: Publius
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Epistolary Fiction / Poetry
The Heroides, also known as the Heroines, the Letters of the Heroines or simply as Epistles are a very famous collection of poems by Ovid, not only for their interesting subject - letters by famous mythological characters addressed to their beloved...
Phaedo - Plato
Phaedo - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / History
Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's seventh and last dialogue to detail the philosopher's final days (the...
Treatises On Friendship And Old Age - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Treatises On Friendship And Old Age - Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Essays & Short Works
Friendship. Old Age. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher. He is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. One commentator has written, “The influence of Cicero upon the...
Alcestis - Euripides
Alcestis - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
Alcestis is the earliest surviving play by Euripides. Alcestis, the devoted wife of King Admetus, has agreed to die in his place, and at the beginning of the play she is close to death. In the first scene, Apollo argues with Thanatos (Death), asking...
The Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2) - Virgil
The Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2) - Virgil
- Author: Virgil
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Epics
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of...
De Anima - Aristotle
De Anima - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
On the Soul (Greek Περὶ Ψυχῆς (Perì Psūchês), Latin De Anima) is a major treatise by Aristotle on the nature of living things. His discussion centres on the kinds of souls possessed by different kinds of living things, distinguished by their...
Iphigenia in Aulis - Euripides
Iphigenia in Aulis - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Plays
Iphigenia in Aulis is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. The Greek fleet is waiting at Aulis, Boeotia, with its ships ready to sail for Troy, but it is unable to depart due to a strange lack of wind. After consulting the seer Calchas,...
The Frogs - Aristophanes
The Frogs - Aristophanes
- Author: Aristophanes
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
Athens is in a sorry state of affairs. The great tragedian, Euripides, is dead, and Dionysus, the god of the theater, has to listen to third-rate poetry. So, he determines to pack his belongings onto his trusty slave, Xanthias, and journey to the...
The Iliad (Pope Translation) - Homer
The Iliad (Pope Translation) - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Historical Fiction / Epics
Homer’s Iliad is the first great work of Western literature. Composed in twenty-four books of Greek hexameter poetry, it portrays the events of the last year of the Trojan War. Its translation into rhyming couplets by Alexander Pope is considered by...
The Odysseys of Homer - Homer
The Odysseys of Homer - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Epics
The Odysseys are a collection of stories about Ulysses' journey home from the war at Troy purportedly written in the 8th century BCE by Homer, a blind poet thought to have lived in the Greek colonies in Asia Minor, possibly at Smyrna. The events...
Sappho: A New Rendering - Sappho
Sappho: A New Rendering - Sappho
- Author: Sappho
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Poetry
Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although her work was very popular in ancient Greece and Rome, only small fragments survive today. This book includes...
Seven Against Thebes - Aeschylus
Seven Against Thebes - Aeschylus
- Author: Aeschylus
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Plays
In this, the only extant tragedy from Aeschylus' trilogy about the House of Oedipus, Thebes is under siege from Polynices, a former prince of Thebes. After King Oedipus left his city and cursed the princes, Polynices and his brother, Eteocles,...
Magna Moralia - Aristotle
Magna Moralia - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Philosophy
Magna Moralia (Ancient Greek: ΗΟΙΚΩΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΩΝ, English: Great Ethics) discusses topics including friendship, virtue, happiness and God. It is disputed whether Aristotle wrote Magna Moralia. This author concludes that it is absurd to suggest that God...
Apology (version 2) - Plato
Apology (version 2) - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Philosophy
The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC[2] against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" ....
Of Peace of Mind - Lucius Annaeus SENECA
Of Peace of Mind - Lucius Annaeus SENECA
- Author: Lucius Annaeus SENECA
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Self-Help
How to maintain a tranquil mind amongst social upheaval and turmoil, addressed to Serenus. (Introduction by Jonathan Hockey)...
Stories of Old Greece and Rome - Emilie Kip BAKER
Stories of Old Greece and Rome - Emilie Kip BAKER
- Author: Emilie Kip BAKER
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Stories of Old Greece and Rome is an easy to read summary of all of the famous and not so famous Greek and Roman mythological stories. All of the famous Heroes are here: Theseus, Jason, Hercules, and all of the well known Deities. These stories...
On Generation and Corruption - Aristotle
On Generation and Corruption - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Nature
On Generation and Corruption (Ancient Greek: Περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς, Latin: De Generatione et Corruptione, also known as On Coming to Be and Passing Away) is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is both scientific and philosophic...
Lucian's Dialogues Volume 1: The Dialogues of the Gods - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
Lucian's Dialogues Volume 1: The Dialogues of the Gods - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
- Author: LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Dramatic Readings / Satire
The Dialogues of the Gods are 26 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods written in Attic Greek by Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. Almost 1900 years old, these dialogues still retain a lot of their original humor and...
Letters of Pliny - PLINY THE YOUNGER
Letters of Pliny - PLINY THE YOUNGER
- Author: PLINY THE YOUNGER
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)
The largest surviving body of Pliny's work is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends, associates and the Emperor Trajan. These letters are a unique testimony of Roman administrative history and everyday life...
That Christ Is One - Cyril of Alexandria
That Christ Is One - Cyril of Alexandria
- Author: Cyril of Alexandria
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Religion
Cyril of Alexandria was the leading voice of Nicene orthodoxy in the Christological controversies between Constantinople (381) and Chalcedon (451). Assuming the mantle of the Cappadotian fathers, he answered the auguments of Nestorius who had...
Timaeus - Plato
Timaeus - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
"Our intention is, that Timaeus, who is the most of an astronomer amongst us, and has made the nature of the universe his special study, should speak first, beginning with the generation of the world and going down to the creation of man..."...
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables - Aesop
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Single Author Collections
Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. Many of...
The Argonautica - Apollonius RHODIUS
The Argonautica - Apollonius RHODIUS
- Author: Apollonius RHODIUS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Poetry
The story of how Jason and a group of famous heroes of Greece took to sea in the Argos has been told many times, before and after Apollonius of Rhodes, wrote his Argonautica, in the 3rd century b.C.. It is not only the oldest full version of the...
Metamorphosis or The Golden Ass - Lucius APULEIUS
Metamorphosis or The Golden Ass - Lucius APULEIUS
- Author: Lucius APULEIUS
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Fantastic Fiction
The Metamorphosis, also known as The Golden Ass, is one of the very few novels of the Ancient World that survived to our days; one of the two novels of Roman Literature that we can still read; and the only one preserved in its entirety (the other...
Laws (version 2) - Plato
Laws (version 2) - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Antiquity
Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant's rule, instead having been thrown in...
Protagoras - Plato
Protagoras - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / General Fiction / *Non-fiction
Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets with Protagoras and other sophists and pursues his inquiry into virtue. The dialectic brings the thinkers to a...
The Iliad of Homer - Homer
The Iliad of Homer - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium, by a coalition of Greek States, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King...
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 2 - Pliny the Elder
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 2 - Pliny the Elder
- Author: Pliny the Elder
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Science
The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of 37 books, covering more than 20.000 topics ranging from astronomy and mathematics to botany and precious...
The Symposium (version 2) (dramatic reading) - Plato
The Symposium (version 2) (dramatic reading) - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Dramatic Readings / Philosophy
In one of Plato's more accessible works, Apollodorus tells a friend about a drinking party (or symposium) attended by many of intellectuals of late 5th century Athens. The men are one their second night of celebration for Agathon's victory at the...
Satires - Decimus Iunius IUVENALIS
Satires - Decimus Iunius IUVENALIS
- Author: Decimus Iunius IUVENALIS
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Poetry / Satire
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late 1st and early 2nd...
The Clouds - Aristophanes
The Clouds - Aristophanes
- Author: Aristophanes
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Drama
Strepsiades is an Athenian burdened with debt from a bad marriage and a spendthrift son. He resolves to go to the Thinking Shop, where he can purchase lessons from the famous Socrates in ways to manipulate language in order to outwit his creditors...
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 1 - Pliny the Elder
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 1 - Pliny the Elder
- Author: Pliny the Elder
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Reference
The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of 37 books, covering more than 20.000 topics ranging from astronomy and mathematics to botany and precious...
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Spartans) - Xenophon
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Spartans) - Xenophon
- Author: Xenophon
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Political Science
The Polity of the Lacedaemonians talks about the laws and institutions created by Lycurgus, which train and develop Spartan citizens from birth to old age. It only because of Xenophon that we have most of our knowledge about the Spartans. Xenophon...
The Morals (Moralia), Book 2 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
The Morals (Moralia), Book 2 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Author: Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Self-Help
The Moralia (loosely translatable as "Matters relating to customs") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They give an insight into Roman and Greek life, but often are...
Metamorphoses - Publius
Metamorphoses - Publius
- Author: Publius
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists of a narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world through mythological...
The Aeneid, prose translation - Virgil
The Aeneid, prose translation - Virgil
- Author: Virgil
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Epics
The Aeneid is the most famous Latin epic poem, written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. The story revolves around the legendary hero Aeneas, a Trojan prince who left behind the ruins of his city and led his fellow citizens to Italy, where he became...
Lysistrata (version 3) - Aristophanes
Lysistrata (version 3) - Aristophanes
- Author: Aristophanes
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyone. They decide to deny the men sex until they agree to make peace, using the one thing that perhaps men enjoy...
Four Discourses Against The Arians - Athanasius of Alexandria
Four Discourses Against The Arians - Athanasius of Alexandria
- Author: Athanasius of Alexandria
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction
In spite of Nicea's condemnation of Arius in 325, Arianism was far from dead. For decades after Nicea, political intrigue and personality clashes continued to confuse the doctrinal issues. Additionally, the line separating othodoxy from Arianism was...
Stories from Virgil - Alfred John Church
Stories from Virgil - Alfred John Church
- Author: Alfred John Church
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Alfred J. Church created 26 stories from the original Greek version of Virgil's Aeneid. He included well-known ones, such as "The Horse of Wood" and "The Love and Death of Dido," as well as many others perhaps less well-known, such as "King Evander"...
