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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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Euripides - Hecuba

Like Euripides' Trojan Women, this play takes place after the sack of Troy. Hecuba, widow of King Priam, suffers the loss of her daughter Polyxena and her son Polydore, and is hungry for revenge on those who have...

1 hour 21 minutes

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Apology (version 2)

The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC[2] against the charges of «corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 16 minutes

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Aeschylus - Persians

This is one of the few Greek tragedies that deals with historical events rather than mythological ones. The elders of the Persian court await new of the outcome of the Battle of Salamis, and mourn when they find that...

1 hour 5 minutes

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso - Sappho: A New Rendering

Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although her work was very popular in ancient Greece and Rome, only small fragments...

Libby Gohn 35 minutes

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Critias

This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous story of Atlantis, that Plato tells with such skill that many have believed...

Kevin Johnson 1 hour 6 minutes

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Euripides - Alcestis

Alcestis is the earliest surviving play by Euripides. Alcestis, the devoted wife of King Admetus, has agreed to die in his place, and at the beginning of the play she is close to death. In the first scene, Apollo...

1 hour 16 minutes

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Aeschylus - Seven Against Thebes

In this, the only extant tragedy from Aeschylus' trilogy about the House of Oedipus, Thebes is under siege from Polynices, a former prince of Thebes. After King Oedipus left his city and cursed the princes, Polynices...

1 hour 10 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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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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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

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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

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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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