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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of...
The Fables of Phaedrus - PHAEDRUS
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The Fables of Phaedrus - PHAEDRUS
  • Author: PHAEDRUS
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Short Stories
The fable is a small narrative, in prose or verse, which has as its main characteristic the aim of conveying a moral lesson (the "moral"), implicitly or, more normally, explicitly expressed. Even though the modern concept of fable is that it should...
On the Laws - Marcus Tullius Cicero
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On the Laws - Marcus Tullius Cicero
On the Laws (Latin: De Legibus) was written shortly after Cicero's "On the Commonwealth" during the last years of the Roman Republic. The three surviving books (out of an original six), in order, expound on Cicero's beliefs in Natural Law, recast...
Hecyra: The Mother-In-Law - TERENCE
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Hecyra: The Mother-In-Law - TERENCE
  • Author: TERENCE
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Plays
Terence's six plays are comedies written while he was a slave to a Roman senator. NOTE: the main plot elements in Hecyra are quite unacceptable today: Pamphilus has just married a woman he does not recognize that he had earlier raped in a drunken...
Hippolytus - Euripides
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Hippolytus - Euripides
  • Author: Euripides
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
Eurpides' tragedy tells of Theseus' chaste son Hippolytus, who refuses to worship Aphrodite in favor of Artemis. Aphrodite gets revenge by causing Hippolytus' stepmother Phaedra to fall in love with him, unleashing a chain of tragic events. (Summary...
Alcibiades I - Plato
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Alcibiades I - Plato
  • Author: Plato
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The Alcibiades 1 appears to be a short work by Plato with only two characters: Socrates and Alcibiades. This...
The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Blank Verse - Homer
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The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Blank Verse - Homer
  • Author: Homer
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)
"It must equally be considered a splendid performance; and for the present we have no hesitation in saying that it is by far the best representation of Homer's Iliad in the English language." - London Times, 1865 "The merits of Lord Derby's...
On the Parts of Animals - Aristotle
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On the Parts of Animals - Aristotle
  • Author: Aristotle
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Ancient / Life Sciences
On the Parts of Animals (Greek: ΠΕΡΙ ΖΩΩΝ ΜΟΡΙΩΝ; Latin: De Partibus Animalium) by Aristotle (ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΗΣ). The first book asks whether animals were designed or came into existence by chance. The remaining three books focus on particular examples of...
The Odyssey (Version 3) - Homer
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The Odyssey (Version 3) - Homer
  • Author: Homer
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other Homeric epic. The Odyssey is fundamental to the modern Western canon; it is the second-oldest extant work of Western...
Of the Shortness of Life - Lucius Annaeus SENECA
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Of the Shortness of Life - Lucius Annaeus SENECA
Seneca the Younger wrote the moral essay "De Brevitate Vitae" — "On the Shortness of Life" — to his friend Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that men waste much of it in meaningless pursuits....
On Christian Doctrine - Saint Augustine of Hippo
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On Christian Doctrine - Saint Augustine of Hippo
De doctrina Christiana, On Christian Doctrine, is a famous treatise by Augustine of Hippo, consisting of four books that describe how to interpret and teach the Scriptures. The first three books, published in 397, set three tasks for Christian...
The Odyssey - Homer
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The Odyssey - Homer
  • Author: Homer
  • Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly dated to between 800 and 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, and concerns the events that...
Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice - Homer
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Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice - Homer
  • Author: Homer
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Homeric Hymns are thirty-three poems each paying homage to a certain Greek god. Only a few of the poems are more than 250 lines while the rest are about a dozen lines each. They are written in Homeric style and traditionally attributed to Homer but...
On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation) - Titus Lucretius Carus
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On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation) - Titus Lucretius Carus
On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philosophy and science to have survived from antiquity. Far from being a dry treatise on the many topics it covers,...
Critias - Plato
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Critias - Plato
  • Author: Plato
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous story of Atlantis, that Plato tells with such skill that many have believed the story to be true. Critias, a...
Gorgias - Plato
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Gorgias - Plato
  • Author: Plato
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Satire / *Non-fiction
This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time of "Republic" and illuminates many of the spiritual ideas of Plato. The spirituality, as Jowett points out in...
The Persians - Aeschylus
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The Persians - Aeschylus
  • Author: Aeschylus
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
This is one of the few Greek tragedies that deals with historical events rather than mythological ones. The elders of the Persian court await new of the outcome of the Battle of Salamis, and mourn when they find that their king, Xerxes, has lost to...
Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars - LUCAN
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Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars - LUCAN
  • Author: LUCAN
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Single author / Epics
Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili, more generally known as the Pharsalia, is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. The title given by posterity to the poem refers to the Battle of Pharsalus, which...
Physics - Aristotle
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Physics - Aristotle
  • Author: Aristotle
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Nature
Physics (Greek: Φυσικὴ ἀκρόασις; Latin: Physica, or Physicae Auscultationes) discusses concepts including: substance, accident, the infinite, causation, motion, time and the Prime Mover. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
Works and Days, The Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles - HESIOD
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Works and Days, The Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles - HESIOD
  • Author: HESIOD
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)
Works and Days provides advice on agrarian matters and personal conduct. The Theogony explains the ancestry of the gods. The Shield of Heracles is the adventure of Heracles accepting an enemy's challenge to fight. - Summary by Arthur Krolman...
The Satyricon - Gaius Petronius ARBITER
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The Satyricon - Gaius Petronius ARBITER
Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus Petronius. As with the...
Enneads - PLOTINUS
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Enneads - PLOTINUS
  • Author: PLOTINUS
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Ancient
The six Enneads (ΕΝΝΕΑΔΕΣ) are the collected writings of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (ΠΛΩΤΙΝΟΣ) arranged by his student Porphyry (ΠΟΡΦΥΡΙΟΣ) into fifty-four books with each Ennead containing nine. The translator Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie...
Phaedrus - Plato
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Phaedrus - Plato
  • Author: Plato
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / General Fiction / *Non-fiction
“For there is no light of justice or temperance, or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls, in the earthly copies of them: they are seen through a glass, dimly…” Socrates and his earnest friend Phaedrus, enjoying the Athenian equivalent...
The Odes and Carmen Saeculare - Quintus HORATIUS FLACCUS
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The Odes and Carmen Saeculare - Quintus HORATIUS FLACCUS
Flawlessly hammered out, as if from eternal bronze—"aere perennius"—The Odes of Horace are the consummate expression of the pride, the reserve, the tragic playfulness, the epicurean calm, the absolute distinction of the Imperial Roman spirit. A few...
Hecuba - Euripides
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Hecuba - Euripides
  • Author: Euripides
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
Like Euripides' Trojan Women, this play takes place after the sack of Troy. Hecuba, widow of King Priam, suffers the loss of her daughter Polyxena and her son Polydore, and is hungry for revenge on those who have wronged her. Summary by Elizabeth...
On the Nature of the Gods - Marcus Tullius Cicero
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On the Nature of the Gods - Marcus Tullius Cicero
De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) outlines Stoic, Epicurean and Academic (Skeptical) views on religious questions. Problems discussed include: evil, the origin of the world, divination, and characteristics of God(s). (Summary by Geoffrey...
The Fasti - Publius
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The Fasti - Publius
  • Author: Publius
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
The Fasti is a Latin poem in six books, written by Ovid and believed to have been published in 8 AD. The Fasti is organized according to the Roman calendar and explains the origins of Roman holidays and associated customs, often through the mouths...
The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Marcus Aurelius
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The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Marcus Aurelius
  • Author: Marcus Aurelius
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Biography & Autobiography
The Meditations is divided into 12 books that chronicle different periods of Marcus' life. Each book is not in chronological order and it was written for no one but himself. The style of writing that permeates the text is one that is simplified,...
On Interpretation - Aristotle
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On Interpretation - Aristotle
  • Author: Aristotle
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Education
Aristotle's On Interpretation (Greek Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας or Peri Hermeneias) or De Interpretatione (the Latin title) is the second of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon. On Interpretation is one of the earliest...
Lysistrata - Aristophanes
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Lysistrata - Aristophanes
  • Author: Aristophanes
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
Lysistrata read by a group of college students. First performed in classical Athens c. 411 B.C.E., Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata” is the original battle of the sexes. One woman, Lysistrata, brings together the women of all Greece, exhorting them to...
On the Heavens - Aristotle
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On the Heavens - Aristotle
  • Author: Aristotle
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Nature
On the Heavens (Greek: Περί ουρανού, Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise. In it Aristotle argues that the Earth is a sphere by pointing to the evidence of lunar eclipses. Aristotle also provides a...
The Fall of Troy - Quintus SMYRNAEUS
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The Fall of Troy - Quintus SMYRNAEUS
The Fall of Troy also called "Posthomeric" is an account of the Trojan war from the Arrival of Penthesleia to the sack of Troy.(summary by Titurel)PLing by Linny and DrPGould...
On the Sublime - Unknown
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On the Sublime - Unknown
  • Author: Unknown
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)
This is a classical text on aesthetics and proper style in writing and rhetoric, including commentary on various ancient Greek works such as those of Plato, Homer, and Demosthenes. Authorship of this treatise is disputed/unknown, but the text is...
The Natural History Volume 4 - Pliny the Elder
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The Natural History Volume 4 - Pliny the Elder
  • Author: Pliny the Elder
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman empire to the modern day and purports to cover the entire field of...
Laws - Plato
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Laws - Plato
  • Author: Plato
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / History
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...
The Legends of the Jews, Volume 4 - Louis GINZBERG
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The Legends of the Jews, Volume 4 - Louis GINZBERG
Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City. Ginzberg taught at the Jewish Theological seminary from 1903...
Electra - Sophocles
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Electra - Sophocles
  • Author: Sophocles
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
Sophocles' play dramatizes the aftermath of Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His daughter Electra is hungry for revenge and longs for the return of her brother Orestes to help her achieve her ends. (Summary by...
Parmenides - Plato
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Parmenides - Plato
  • Author: Plato
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Ancient
Parmenides (Ancient Greek: ΠΑΡΜΕΝΙΔΗΣ) recounts a meeting between Socrates, Zeno and Parmenides. Topics discussed include universals, plurality and the One. - Summary by Geoffrey Edwards...
Categories - Aristotle
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Categories - Aristotle
  • Author: Aristotle
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Categories (Lat. Categoriae, Greek Κατηγορίαι Katēgoriai) is the first of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon. In Categories Aristotle enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the...
The Trojan Women (Murray Translation) - Euripides
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The Trojan Women (Murray Translation) - Euripides
  • Author: Euripides
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
Euripides' play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining families are about to be taken away as slaves. However, it begins first with the gods Athena and Poseidon...