Classics (Antiquity)
The Ramayan, Book 4
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Valmiki
The Ramayan is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). …
Letters of Pliny
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Pliny The Younger
The largest surviving body of Pliny's work is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends, associates and…
Tusculan Disputations
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tusculan Disputations (Latin: TUSCULANARUM DISPUTATIONUM) is divided into five books which discuss death, pain, grief, perturbations and vir…
The Legends of the Jews, Volume 4
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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; …
The Morals (Moralia), Book 2
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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
The Moralia (loosely translatable as "Matters relating to customs") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an e…
Lysistrata (version 2)
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Aristophanes
Lysistrata has had enough. She is tired of the constant war that is ravaging Greece and has come up with a solution: Together with female fr…
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI
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Diogenes Laertius
There are 10 divisions in this title. This project is a recording of book 6. There is a number of interesting anecdotes on the lives of Anti…
Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 1
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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was of Spanish origin, being born about 35 A.D. at Calagurris. At Rome he met with great success as a teacher and…
The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War
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Gaius
The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War are the two separate surviving works of the historian commonly known as "Sallust". …
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne) - Version 2
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Omar Khayyám
One of the greatest works of poetry in history, this lyric poem presents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet on subjects such as life…
Antigone (Plumptre Translation)
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Sophocles
A powerful artistic protest against tyranny, "Antigone" has been translated and adapted dozens of times, applied over and over thr…
Trips to the Moon
Read by Ralph Snelson
Lucian Of Samosata
The endeavour of small Greek historians to add interest to their work by magnifying the exploits of their countrymen, and piling wonder upon…
Magna Moralia
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Aristotle
Magna Moralia (Ancient Greek: ΗΟΙΚΩΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΩΝ, English: Great Ethics) discusses topics including friendship, virtue, happiness and God. It is…
Discourses of Epictetus
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Epictetus
Philosophical discourses of Epictetus as recorded by his affectionate student, Arrian. One main precept expounded is that we do not fear eve…
Stories from Virgil
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Alfred John Church
Alfred J. Church created 26 stories from the original Greek version of Virgil's Aeneid. He included well-known ones, such as "The Horse…
Alcestis
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Euripides
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…
Ajax (Campbell Translation)
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Sophocles
Ajax is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BC. The date of Ajax's first performance is unknown and may never be found, but most scho…
Philoctetes
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Sophocles
Sophocles' play recounts an episode from the Trojan War, in which the wily Odysseus and Achilles' son Neoptolemus travel to a remote island …
The Eclogues
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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 …
The Consolation of Philosophy (Version 2)
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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy was written about 524 A.D. and has been called one of the most popular and influential books ever written. The…