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Ancient History
University of Oxford Podcasts
Tales Of Antiquity
Tales of Antiquity is a captivating radio series that originally aired on Springbok Radio from January 1975 to February 1977. Written by Ken…
The Histories of Herodotus
The Histories of Herodotus (Audio Book) trans. by George Rawlinson
Tales from Greece and Rome
The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…
The Art of Music
Volume 1 in the "The Art of Music" series, published by the National Society of Music. This first volume covers the "Pre-Clas…
Lectures on Ancient Greece
Lectures on Ancient Greece
Section 00 – Preface
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…
Book 1
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…
The Romanes Lecture
University of Oxford Podcasts
The World’s Story
This is the fourth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…
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…
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
This is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of majo…
The History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages
This present work may be described as history of the medieval Popes, with the history of the city of Rome, and its civilization, as a backgr…
The Art of Music
Volume 2 in the "The Art of Music" series, published by the National Society of Music. This first volume covers the Classical and …
Persephone of Eleusis
A romance of Ancient Greece featuring the hero's journey and evil plotting. Will either succeed? - Summary by Christine Rottger
Lysistrata
The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyo…
Trinummus
Buried treasure, reckless son, exile, young love, betrayal, detection - all as relevant today as when this comedy was written 2200 years ago…
Electra
Sophocles' play dramatizes the aftermath of Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His daughter Electra is hu…
Georgic IV
In The Georgics: A Poem of the Land
A poem by the Latin poet Virgil, the second of his three known works. "Georgic" means "to work the land," and on such ma…
A Popular History of the Art of Music
Preface by W.S.B. Mathews: I have here endeavored to provide a readable account of the entire history of the art of music, within the compas…