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Lucian of Samosata - Lucian's Dialogues Volume 4: Zeus the Tragedian

Zeus, gloomy and in tragic distress, is implored by Hermes and Athena to divulge the cause of his melancholy condition; while Hera, true to her Homeric character, confidently attributes it to another earthly amour....

1 hour 18 minutes Dialogues of Lucian of Samosata

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Lucian's Dialogues Volume 1: The Dialogues of the Gods

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Lucian of Samosata - Lucian's Dialogues Volume 1: The Dialogues of the Gods

The Dialogues of the Gods are 26 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods written in Attic Greek by Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. Almost 1900 years old, these dialogues still retain a...

Foon 2 hours 39 minutes Dialogues of Lucian of Samosata

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Pliny the Elder - Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 2

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 37 books, covering more than 20.000 topics ranging from astronomy and...

Foon 2 hours 35 minutes

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Saint Augustine of Hippo - On Christian Doctrine

De doctrina Christiana, On Christian Doctrine, is a famous treatise by Augustine of Hippo, consisting of four books that describe how to interpret and teach the Scriptures. The first three books, published in 397, set...

Phil Chenevert and 8 more 7 hours 12 minutes

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Terence - Hecyra: The Mother-In-Law

Terence's six plays are comedies written while he was a slave to a Roman senator. NOTE: the main plot elements in Hecyra are quite unacceptable today: Pamphilus has just married a woman he does not recognize that he...

1 hour 31 minutes

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Pliny the Elder - Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 1

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 37 books, covering more than 20.000 topics ranging from astronomy and...

Foon 2 hours 6 minutes

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Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars

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Lucan - Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars

Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili , more generally known as the Pharsalia , is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. The title given by posterity to the poem refers...

Dave Gillespie and 7 more 9 hours 23 minutes

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Marcus Tullius Cicero - Treatises On Friendship And Old Age

Friendship. Old Age. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC — 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher. He is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. One commentator has written, “The...

David Wales 3 hours 11 minutes

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Aristophanes - Lysistrata (version 3)

The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyone. They decide to deny the men sex until they agree to make peace, using the...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 39 minutes

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Aristotle - On the Parts of Animals

On the Parts of Animals (Greek: ΠΕΡΙ ΖΩΩΝ ΜΟΡΙΩΝ; Latin: De Partibus Animalium) by Aristotle (ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΗΣ). The first book asks whether animals were designed or came into existence by chance. The remaining three books...

Geoffrey Edwards 9 hours 46 minutes

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Quintus Smyrnaeus - Fall of Troy

The Fall of Troy also called «Posthomeric» is an account of the Trojan war from the Arrival of Penthesleia to the sack of Troy.(summary by Titurel) PLing by Linny and DrPGould

Titurel 9 hours 16 minutes

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Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Spartans)

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Xenophon - Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Spartans)

The Polity of the Lacedaemonians talks about the laws and institutions created by Lycurgus, which train and develop Spartan citizens from birth to old age. It only because of Xenophon that we have most of our...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 41 minutes

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