Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

51 books

All Stories Novels

New TOP Discussed

472

Aesop - Three Hundred Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. The fables remain a popular choice for moral...

Michael Armenta 5 hours 54 minutes

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

501

Plato (Πλάτων) - Laws

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...

Geoffrey Edwards 17 hours 12 minutes

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

431

Aristotle - On Generation and Corruption

On Generation and Corruption (Ancient Greek: Περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς, Latin: De Generatione et Corruptione, also known as On Coming to Be and Passing Away) is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is...

Geoffrey Edwards 3 hours 30 minutes

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

467

Aristotle - On the Heavens

On the Heavens (Greek: Περί ουρανού, Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise. In it Aristotle argues that the Earth is a sphere by pointing to the evidence of lunar eclipses....

Geoffrey Edwards 5 hours

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

464

Aristotle - De Anima

On the Soul (Greek Περὶ Ψυχῆς (Perì Psūchês), Latin De Anima) is a major treatise by Aristotle on the nature of living things. His discussion centres on the kinds of souls possessed by different kinds of living...

Geoffrey Edwards 3 hours 33 minutes

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

590

Homer - Iliad (Pope Translation)

Homer’s Iliad is the first great work of Western literature. Composed in twenty-four books of Greek hexameter poetry, it portrays the events of the last year of the Trojan War. Its translation into rhyming couplets...

Steven R. Perkins and 1 more 19 hours 11 minutes

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

556

Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Of Peace of Mind

How to maintain a tranquil mind amongst social upheaval and turmoil, addressed to Serenus. (Introduction by Jonathan Hockey)

Jonathan Hockey and 2 more 1 hour 22 minutes

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

521

Aristophanes - Lysistrata

Lysistrata read by a group of college students. First performed in classical Athens c. 411 B.C.E., Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata” is the original battle of the sexes. One woman, Lysistrata, brings together the women of...

a volunteer 1 hour 17 minutes

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

546

Aristotle - On Interpretation

Aristotle's On Interpretation (Greek Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας or Peri Hermeneias) or De Interpretatione (the Latin title) is the second of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon. On...

Geoffrey Edwards 1 hour 10 minutes

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

567

Aristotle - Categories

Categories (Lat. Categoriae, Greek Κατηγορίαι Katēgoriai) is the first of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon. In Categories Aristotle enumerates all the possible kinds of things...

Geoffrey Edwards 1 hour 44 minutes

No comments

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

571

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known...

JuliaY and 9 more 5 hours 18 minutes

No comments

Action & Adventure Fiction

508

Homer - Iliad of Homer

«The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium, by a coalition of Greek States, it tells of the battles and events during the...

StephenC 15 hours 40 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