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On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation)

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Titus Lucretius Carus - On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation)

On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philosophy and science to have survived from antiquity. Far from being a dry...

Daniel Vimont 10 hours 32 minutes

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Republic (version 2)

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work and has proven...

Bob Neufeld 12 hours 27 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alfred John Church - Stories from Virgil

Alfred J. Church created 26 stories from the original Greek version of Virgil's Aeneid. He included well-known ones, such as «The Horse of Wood» and «The Love and Death of Dido,» as well as many others perhaps less...

Bill Boerst 5 hours 13 minutes

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus - Morals (Moralia), Book 2

The Moralia (loosely translatable as «Matters relating to customs») of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They give an insight into...

Alan Brown and 14 more 18 hours 3 minutes

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Marcus Tullius Cicero - On the Nature of the Gods

De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) outlines Stoic, Epicurean and Academic (Skeptical) views on religious questions. Problems discussed include: evil, the origin of the world, divination, and characteristics...

Geoffrey Edwards 6 hours 39 minutes

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso - Fasti

The Fasti is a Latin poem in six books, written by Ovid and believed to have been published in 8 AD. The Fasti is organized according to the Roman calendar and explains the origins of Roman holidays and associated...

Arnie Horton and 4 more 5 hours 32 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Apollonius Rhodius - Argonautica

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 of Rhodes, wrote his Argonautica, in the 3rd century b.C… It is not only the...

Leni and 7 more 6 hours 52 minutes

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Gaius Petronius Arbiter - Satyricon

Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus...

Ann Boulais and 5 more 7 hours 56 minutes

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Phaedo

Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's seventh and last dialogue to detail the...

Bob Neufeld 3 hours 3 minutes

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Benjamin Jowett - Gorgias

This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time of «Republic» and illuminates many of the spiritual ideas of Plato. The...

Kevin Johnson 7 hours 6 minutes

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Euripides - Hippolytus

Eurpides' tragedy tells of Theseus' chaste son Hippolytus, who refuses to worship Aphrodite in favor of Artemis. Aphrodite gets revenge by causing Hippolytus' stepmother Phaedra to fall in love with him, unleashing a...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero - On the Laws

On the Laws (Latin: De Legibus) was written shortly after Cicero's «On the Commonwealth» during the last years of the Roman Republic. The three surviving books (out of an original six), in order, expound on Cicero's...

Geoffrey Edwards 4 hours 11 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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