Classics (Antiquity)

Quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapur

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Omar Khayyám



In 1906, Eben Francis Thompson,scholar and poet, published a limited edition of his translation of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This editi…

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…

Electra (Storr Translation)

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Sophocles



Electra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) …

The Iliad (Version 2)

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Homer



This great and terrifying poem about the final weeks of a long war fought between the Greeks and the Trojans before the city of Troy (here r…

Iphigenia in Tauris (Murray Translation)

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Euripides



The apparent sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis by her own father Agamemnon was forestalled by the godness Artemis, who by an adroit sleight of…

Trachiniai (Campbell Translation)

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Sophocles



Women of Trachis (Ancient Greek: Τραχίνιαι, Trachiniai; also translated as The Trachiniae or The Trachinian Maidens) is an Athenian tragedy …

On the Sublime

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Unknowntranslated Byherbert Lord Havell, Translated Byherbert Lord Havell and Unknowntranslated By Herbert 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…

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 …

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 …

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…

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 …

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 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…

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.…

The Six Books of Proclus, the Platonic Successor, on the Theology of Plato

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Proclus and Thomas Taylor



The Six books of Proclus, the Platonic successor, on The Theology of Plato (Greek: ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΚΑΤΑ ΠΛΑΤΩΝΑ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ; Latin: Theologia Platoni…

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…

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…

The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 1

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Pliny the Elder and John S. White



The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …

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