Classics (Antiquity)
Menexenus
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Plato
Menexenus (ΜΕΝΕΞΕΝΟΣ) is thought to have been written by Plato (ΠΛΑΤΩΝ). The dialogue consists of Socrates (ΣΩΚΡΑΤΗΣ) recounting a funeral o…
Prometheus Bound
Read by Expatriate
Aeschylus
Whether or not it was actually written by Aeschylus, as is much disputed, "Prometheus Bound" is a powerful statement on behalf of …
The Persians
Read by Expatriate
Aeschylus
The earliest of Aeschylus' plays to survive is "The Persians" (Persai), performed in 472 BC and based on experiences in Aeschylus'…
Hecuba
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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
Read by Expatriate
Euripides
Electra (the Unmated One) is eaten up with hatred of her mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for their murder of her father Agamemn…
The Natural History
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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 …
Under the Witches' Moon
Read by Bill Boerst
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…
Dialogues
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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 …
Epistulae Morales Selectae
Read by Malone
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…
Von der Gemüthsruhe
Read by redaer
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Die Frage ist also: wie man es dahin bringe, daß das Gemüth immer seinen gleichmäßigen und ungestörten Gang gehe,…
Vertheidigung des Socrates
Read by redaer
Xenophon
Xenophon möchte zeigen, dass Sokrates ganz bewusst in den Tod gegangen sei. Das Unglück seines Todes war kein Zufall. Denn der Phi…
Lysistrata
Read by Phil Chenevert
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
Read by bedwere
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
Read by Expatriate
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
Read by redaer
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 Odyssey
Read by Peter Dann
Homer
Homer's "The Odyssey" forms the template of practically every adventure story that has been told in the West since it was composed…
The Trojan Women
Read by Expatriate
Euripides
Described by modern playwright Ellen McLaughlin as "perhaps the greatest antiwar play ever written," "The Trojan Women,"…
Georgica
Read by Malone
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.…
Ιστορίαι (Histories)
Read by olorou
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.…
Chorus of Women
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Aristophanes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Chorus of Women by Aristophanes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 21, 2012.Aris…