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Ancient History
University of Oxford Podcasts
The Histories of Herodotus
The Histories of Herodotus (Audio Book) trans. by George Rawlinson
Preface by D. Laing Purves
In The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems
Generally considered to be the first book written in English (rather than Latin, French or Italian), Chaucer's magnum opus is a collection o…
Music as a Means of Culture, by John S. Dwight
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 13
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Ancient Egypt
University of Oxford Podcasts
Selected scenes by Euripides
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 14
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
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 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…
The Ancient Voice
In The Weird Fiction of Fantasy Fan Magazine
The Fantasy Fan was a fanzine edited by Charles D. Hornig that featured exclusive works by many seminal figures from the golden period of we…
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…
Persephone of Eleusis
A romance of Ancient Greece featuring the hero's journey and evil plotting. Will either succeed? - Summary by Christine Rottger
Herodotus, by Benjamin Ide Wheeler
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 18
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Beacon Lights of History
The first of 14 volumes, this book discusses ancient civilization looking primarily at religion and philosophy. Summary by KHand
The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt
The account he gives, in his novel, of the ancient city of Thebes, of the great necropolis in the valley of Biban el Molûk, of the sub…
Origins of the World: First Dynasty, Uranus and Gæa - Ancient Greek
In Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 17
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
Preface
In Wessex Tales
Wessex Tales is a collection of six short stories written by Hardy in the 1880’s. If you’ve never read Hardy they’ll serve as a good introdu…
Selected excerpts
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 04
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
I. Ancient History. A. Eastern peoples. Part 1. Egyptians
In The World’s Story Volume XIV: An Outline of Universal History
The fourteenth volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story has a different concept than the previous books edited by Eva March Tappan. …
Selected works
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Anthony and the Ancients
In Imaginotions - Truthless Tales
This is a collection of short stories by Tudor Jenks. Those stories are all written and composed in the way of a fairy tale, but they are no…