Classics (Antiquity)
The Argonautica
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Apollonius Rhodius
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…
Vom glückseligen Leben
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Veröffentlicht 1867. Eine stoische Anleitung zum Leben. Knapp und gut geschrieben.(Summary by redaer)
孫子兵法 (The Art of War)
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Sun Tzu 孙武
《孙子兵法》是从战国时期成书以来，就一直风靡流传的军事著作。古今中外的军事家们都使用其中论述的军事理论来指导战争，而且，其中论述的基本理论和思想还被运用到了现代经营决策和社会管理方面。总结《孙子兵法》全书，我们可以看到其中有四个主要思想贯穿于始终，即整体思维的战争论、唯物主义的战…
Lysistrata
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Aristophanes
Lysistrata read by a group of college students.First performed in classical Athens c. 411 B.C.E., Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata” is the original…
The Lausiac History
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Palladius
The Lausiac History (Historia Lausiaca) is a seminal work archiving the Desert Fathers (early Christian monks who lived in the Egyptian dese…
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The scene of the Dialogus de Oratoribus, as this work is commonly known, is laid in the sixth year of Vespasian, 75 a.D. The commentators ar…
Enneads
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Plotinus and Porphyry
The six Enneads (ΕΝΝΕΑΔΕΣ) are the collected writings of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (ΠΛΩΤΙΝΟΣ) arranged by his student Porphyry (Π…
Mark Aurels Selbstgespräche
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Marcus Aurelius
Der Stoiker Marc Aurel regierte von 161 bis 180 das römische Reich. In seinen Selbstgesprächen (Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, wörtlich "…
Libro VI de la Historia de Heródoto
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Herodotus
Histieo continúa induciendo a los Jonios a batirse contra los Persas. Derrota de la armada jonia y toma de Mileto. La armada persa se…
The Persians
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Aeschylus
This is one of the few Greek tragedies that deals with historical events rather than mythological ones. The elders of the Persian court awa…
Laches
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Plato
Laches (Λάχης) discusses examples of courage including weapons masters, soldiers who stand firm in battle, ferocious animals and the wise pe…
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". …