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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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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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Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Of the Shortness of Life

Seneca the Younger wrote the moral essay «De Brevitate Vitae» — «On the Shortness of Life» — to his friend Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that men waste much of...

Jonathan Hockey 1 hour 4 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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Sophocles - Electra

Sophocles' play dramatizes the aftermath of Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His daughter Electra is hungry for revenge and longs for the return of her brother Orestes to help her...

1 hour 24 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...

1 hour 38 minutes

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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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Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Blank Verse

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Homer - Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Blank Verse

«It must equally be considered a splendid performance; and for the present we have no hesitation in saying that it is by far the best representation of Homer's Iliad in the English language.» — London Times, 1865...

Michael Armenta 25 hours 11 minutes

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Confucius 孔子 - Analects of Confucius

The Analects, or Lunyu, also known as the Analects of Confucius, are considered a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinker and philosopher Confucius and his disciples, as well as the discussions...

Jing Li 3 hours 32 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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