Classics (Antiquity)

On the Sublime

Read by Amelia Chesley


Unknowntranslated Byherbert Lord Havell and Translated Byherbert Lord Havell


This is a classical text on aesthetics and proper style in writing and rhetoric, including commentary on various ancient Greek works such as…

The Fall of Troy

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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.(su…

Las Vidas Paralelas Tomo IV

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


Vidas Paralelas de Plutarco narra la vida de diferentes personajes históricos y también compara unos con otros. Es un libro al…

Eclogae (dramatic reading)

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Virgil


This book of poems, written between 42 en 39 BC, was a bestseller in ancient Rome, and still holds a fascination today. Held to be divinely …

Iphigenia in Aulis (Way translation)

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Euripides


Iphigenia in Aulis (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι) is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after the …

The Tragedy of Mariam

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Elizabeth Cary


The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original drama written in English by a woman. Elizabeth Cary drew on Jewish histories by Josephus …

On Benefits (De Beneficiis)

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


De Beneficiis (English: On Benefits) is one of the moral essays composed by Seneca, Roman author of the 1st century CE. It deals with Stoic …

Vairagya Shatakam

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Bhartṛhari


Vairagya Shatakam is one of the best books that gives the true picture of Renunciation. The book talks on how a common man gets lured by the…

The Feast of Lights

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Emma Lazarus


LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Feast of Lights by Emma Lazarus. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 18, 2011.…

De Agricultura

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Marcus Porcius Cato


Noted for being the most extensive piece of early Latin prose, it abounds in archaic imperatives and shows an almost total lack of subordina…

Ιστορίαι (Histories) Βιβλίοv 2 (Book 2)

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Thucydides


Η Ιστορία του Θουκυδίδη εξιστορεί τα πρώτα 20 χρόνια του πολέμου μεταξύ της Αθήνας και της Σπάρτης, που κράτησε από το 431 μέχρι το 404 π.Χ.…

Briefe Teil 2 (Epistulae morales ad Lucilium)

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Epistulae morales ad Lucilium sind eine Sammlung von 124 Briefen. In den Briefen erteilt Seneca Ratschläge, wie Lucilius, von dem lange…

Von der Gnade - An den Kaiser Nero (De Clementia)

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Kein lebendes Wesen ist störrischer, keines will mit mehr Kunst behandelt seyn, als der Mensch; keines muß mehr geschont werden. …

The Stratagems and The Aqueducts of Rome

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Sextus Julius Frontinus


Frontinus' Stratagems is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, which the author comments based on h…

Aspects Of Love - An Anthology

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Various, Translated Byh. De Vere Stacpoole, John Donne, Sappho, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman and Plato


Aspects Of Love is an anthology of poetic explorations on the theme of erotic love - though one of the "poets" represented here is…

Duizend en één Nacht, Eerste deel

Read by Marcel Coenders


Anonymous


Koning Schahriar denkt door zijn vrouw bedrogen te zijn. Om herhaling te voorkomen besluit hij voortaan elke avond een nieuwe vrouw te trouw…

A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

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Walter Terence Stace


This book contains the substance, and for the most part the words, of a course of public lectures delivered during the first three months of…

Quatrain from the Rubaiyat

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Omar Khayyám


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Quatrain from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Translated by Henry George K…

On the Shortness of Life

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime a…

Lucian's Dialogues Volume 1: The Dialogues of the Gods

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Lucian Of Samosata


The Dialogues of the Gods are 26 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods written in Attic Greek by Syrian autho…

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