Antiquity
Generation of Animals
Generation of Animals (or On the Generation of Animals; Greek: Περὶ ζῴων γενέσεως (Peri Zoion Geneseos); Latin: De Generatione Animalium) Bo…
Philebus
Philebus is a philosophical dialogue by Plato that delves into the nature of pleasure and wisdom, exploring their roles in the good life. Se…
Menexenus
Menexenus is a thought-provoking dialogue by Plato that explores themes of memory, rhetoric, and the nature of civic duty. In this work, Soc…
Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure
At the Court of Liang at the period of Yang Chu, about 300 B.C., the philosophers were treated as guests of the reigning king, who reserved …
The Exodus and the Wanderings in the Wilderness
The period covered by the central books of the Pentateuch is, in many respects, the most important in Old Testament history, not only so far…
Sulla the Fortunate
George P. Baker explores the life of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, known more commonly as Sulla. Sulla was a Roman general and statesman of …
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion.
The fifth volume and the first of two in the fourth part of Frazer's seminal work on the evolution of belief deals with the semi mythologica…
Greek Athletics
The history of Greek athletics as it pertains to the Olympics. Describes various activities such as boxing, wrestling, etc. and accounts fro…
Jubilees
The Book of Jubilees retells the story of Genesis and the opening of Exodus as a sequence of periods measured in jubilees—cycles of years th…
Spies
The author retells some of the great wartime spy stories from history, beginning with Biblical references and ending with World War I and Ma…
Metamorphoses
The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists o…
Christianity in the Apostolic Age
The purpose of this volume, A history of Christianity in the Apostolic Age, is strictly historical. At the same time brief accounts of the N…
The Fasti
The Fasti is a Latin poem in six books, written by Ovid and believed to have been published in 8 AD. The Fasti is organized according to th…
The History and Literature of the Early Church
This little book in its original form was one of the volumes of the Christian Study Manuals series (1901), and as such was found helpful to …
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion.
The seventh volume in The Golden Bough series by Sir James George Frazer. The figure of the dying and reviving god in Oriental religions of …
The Lost Island of Atlantis
In this paper, read before the Literary and Historical Society, Quebec, Fletcher demonstrates methodically what he perceives as evidence for…
The Characters Of Theophrastus
Theophrastus ( c. 371 – c. 287 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic School. He wrote on many to…
Tusculan Disputations
Tusculan Disputations (Latin: TUSCULANARUM DISPUTATIONUM) is divided into five books which discuss death, pain, grief, perturbations and vir…
The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla
During the last half of the second century B.C. Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilized western world. As the British historian, Augus…
Euthydemus
Euthydemus is a thought-provoking dialogue by Plato that delves into the art of argumentation and the nature of wisdom. In this engaging exc…