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Book XXIV, chapters 40 to 49
Read by Rita Boutros
Titus Livius
In The History of Rome, volume 3
The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) is a history of ancient Rome, written in Latin by Livy (Titus Livius) between 27 and 9 BC, covering th…
Part II
Read by Expatriate
Aristophanes
In The 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 c…
Forward
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Plotinus and Porphyry
In Enneads
The six Enneads (ΕΝΝΕΑΔΕΣ) are the collected writings of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (ΠΛΩΤΙΝΟΣ) arranged by his student Porphyry (Π…
Section 00 – Preface
Read by JoeD
Bernhard Pick
In The Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew and Thomas
The full title of this book, published in 1909, is The Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew and Thomas. As early as the second centu…
Introduction
Read by Andrew Coleman
Pliny the Younger and Pliny The Younger
In Letters of Pliny
The largest surviving body of Pliny's work is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends, associates and…
Book II Part 1 (Chapters 1-9)
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
In Rhetoric
The Rhetoric was developed by Aristotle during two periods when he was in Athens, the first between 367 to 347 BCE (when he was seconded to …
Music from Classical Period
Ranjith Daluwatta
500 - 1500 Music from the Middle Ages and The Renaissance 1500-1750 Music of Baroque Period 1730-1820 Music of Classicism 1820-1910 Mu…
Section 2
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Euripides
In Medea
Euripides' tragedy focuses on the disintegration of the relationship between Jason, the hero who captured the Golden Fleece, and Medea, the …
Book I - XVI - O Matre Pulchra
Read by shironantony
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
In The 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,…
Greece
Read by drandall
Benjamin Hathaway
In 1001 Questions and Answers on General History
A book for students of history to test their knowledge and to direct their studies. As the title tells us, this is a book of 1001 questions,…
Chapter 18 part 2
Read by ontheroad
John Bagnell Bury
In A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol II
J.B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it is such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third edition…
Book 1
Read by Leni
Phaedrus
In The Fables of Phaedrus
The fable is a small narrative, in prose or verse, which has as its main characteristic the aim of conveying a moral lesson (the "moral…
Second Book, Part II
Read by Phil Schempf
Homer
In The Iliads of Homer
The Iliad is an epic poem believed to have been composed by Homer, describing events of the final year of the 10 year siege of Troy by Greec…
Preface
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
No Yasumaro Ō, no Are Hieda and no Yasumaro Ō
In Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters
Of all the mass of Japanese literature, which lies before us as the result of nearly twelve centuries of book-making, the most important mon…