Classics (Antiquity)
The Persians (version 2)
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Aeschylus
The earliest of Aeschylus' plays to survive is "The Persians" (Persai), performed in 472 BC and based on experiences in Aeschylus'…
Hecuba
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Euripides
Like Euripides' Trojan Women, this play takes place after the sack of Troy. Hecuba, widow of King Priam, suffers the loss of her daughter Po…
Electra (Murray Translation)
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Euripides
Electra (the Unmated One) is eaten up with hatred of her mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for their murder of her father Agamemn…
Under the Witches' Moon
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Nathan Gallizier
The scene is Rome, 935 A.D. Thirty-year-old Tristan, dressed as a pilgrim, overhears a conversation between Basil, the Grand Chamberlain, an…
The Natural History Volume 4
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Pliny the Elder
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …
Dialogues (Διάλογοι )
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Plato
Στους διαλόγους του ο Πλάτωνας (427 π.Χ. – 347 π.Χ.) παρουσιάζει τις φιλοσοφικές του θεωρίες με τη μορφή συζήτησης, που με κάποια υπαρκτή ή …
Von der Gemüthsruhe
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Die Frage ist also: wie man es dahin bringe, daß das Gemüth immer seinen gleichmäßigen und ungestörten Gang gehe,…
Epistulae Morales Selectae
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca is an important repository of Stoic doctrine. His reputation, based on the ancient testimony, has remained ambiguous down to the pres…
Vertheidigung des Socrates
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Xenophon
Xenophon möchte zeigen, dass Sokrates ganz bewusst in den Tod gegangen sei. Das Unglück seines Todes war kein Zufall. Denn der Phi…
Lysistrata (version 3)
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Aristophanes
The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyo…
Confessionum Libri Tredecim
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Saint Augustine of Hippo
Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written betwee…
Prometheus Bound (Thoreau Translation)
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Aeschylus
Whether or not it was actually written by Aeschylus, as is much disputed, "Prometheus Bound" is a powerful statement on behalf of …
Von der Unerschütterlichkeit des Weisen (De Constantia Sapientis)
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Unverwundbar ist nicht Das, wogegen kein Schlag geschieht, sondern, Was nicht verletzt wird. Das ist das Kennzeichen, das ich dir für d…
The Trojan Women (Coleridge Translation)
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Euripides
Described by modern playwright Ellen McLaughlin as "perhaps the greatest antiwar play ever written," "The Trojan Women,"…
Georgica
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Virgil
Vergil's Georgica is the culmination of a long tradition in antiquity of poems about agriculture, beginning with Hesiod in the eighth c. BC.…
Chorus of Women
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Aristophanes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Chorus of Women by Aristophanes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 21, 2012.Aris…
Ιστορίαι (Histories) Βιβλίοv 1 (Book 1)
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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.…
Iphigenia in Aulis
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Euripides
Iphigenia in Aulis is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. The Greek fleet is waiting at Aulis, Boeotia, with its ships ready t…
Aeneidis Libri XII
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Virgil
Aeneas flees the destruction of Troy, abandons Dido, queen of the Carthaginians, and wends his way to Latium in Italy, where slaying Turnus,…
Ιστορίαι (Histories) Βιβλίοv 5 (Book 5)
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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.…