Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

51 books

All Stories Novels

New TOP Discussed

474

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The Meditations is divided into 12 books that chronicle different periods of Marcus' life. Each book is not in chronological order and it was written for no one but himself. The style of writing that permeates the...

realisticspeakers and 8 more 4 hours 47 minutes

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

541

Virgil - Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2)

The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s...

George Allen 13 hours 5 minutes

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

441

Louis Ginzberg - Legends of the Jews, Volume 4

Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City. Ginzberg taught at the Jewish...

Jim Locke and 2 more 13 hours 16 minutes Legends of the Jews vol 1-4

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

471

Unknown - On the Sublime

This is a classical text on aesthetics and proper style in writing and rhetoric, including commentary on various ancient Greek works such as those of Plato, Homer, and Demosthenes. Authorship of this treatise is...

Amelia Chesley 2 hours 55 minutes

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

490

Plotinus - Enneads

The six Enneads (ΕΝΝΕΑΔΕΣ) are the collected writings of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (ΠΛΩΤΙΝΟΣ) arranged by his student Porphyry (ΠΟΡΦΥΡΙΟΣ) into fifty-four books with each Ennead containing nine. The...

Geoffrey Edwards 54 hours 15 minutes

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

482

Plato (Πλάτων) - Laws (version 2)

Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant's...

Jim Locke 25 hours 33 minutes

No comments

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

423

Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus - Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of...

John Burlinson 8 hours 32 minutes Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch

No comments

Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

474

Homer - Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice

Homeric Hymns are thirty-three poems each paying homage to a certain Greek god. Only a few of the poems are more than 250 lines while the rest are about a dozen lines each. They are written in Homeric style and...

Arthur Krolman 3 hours 7 minutes

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

479

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) - Odes and Carmen Saeculare

Flawlessly hammered out, as if from eternal bronze—«aere perennius»—The Odes of Horace are the consummate expression of the pride, the reserve, the tragic playfulness, the epicurean calm, the absolute distinction of...

KHand and 13 more 4 hours 28 minutes

No comments

Works and Days, The Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

455

Hesiod - Works and Days, The Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles

Works and Days provides advice on agrarian matters and personal conduct. The Theogony explains the ancestry of the gods. The Shield of Heracles is the adventure of Heracles accepting an enemy's challenge to fight....

Arthur Krolman 2 hours 29 minutes

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

576

Aristophanes - Clouds

Strepsiades is an Athenian burdened with debt from a bad marriage and a spendthrift son. He resolves to go to the Thinking Shop, where he can purchase lessons from the famous Socrates in ways to manipulate language in...

Expatriate 1 hour 38 minutes

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

574

Homer - Odysseys of Homer

The Odysseys are a collection of stories about Ulysses' journey home from the war at Troy purportedly written in the 8th century BCE by Homer, a blind poet thought to have lived in the Greek colonies in Asia Minor,...

Phil Schempf 14 hours 42 minutes

No comments

New

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

Show all