Classics (Antiquity)

Laws

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Plato


Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having fail…

The Kama Sutra

Read by Mark F. Smith


Mallanaga Vatsyayana and Mallanaga Vatsyayanatranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


The Kama Sutra, or Aphorisms on Love, has survived at least 1400 years as a dominant text on sexual relations between men and women. Vatsyay…

Of Peace of Mind

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


How to maintain a tranquil mind amongst social upheaval and turmoil, addressed to Serenus. (Introduction by Jonathan Hockey)

The Origins of Christianity

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Thomas Whittaker


The full title of this book is The Origins of Christianity with an Outline of Van Manen’s Analysis of The Pauline Literature. Willem Christi…

La Eneida

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Virgil


Eneas, príncipe de Dardania, huye de Troya tras haber sido quemada ésta por el ejército aqueo, llevándose a su p…

Apologie de Socrate

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Plato


« Je ne sais, Athéniens, quelle impression mes accusateurs ont faite sur vous. Pour moi, en les entendant, peu s’en est fallu q…

Das Nibelungenlied

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Unknowntranslated Bykarl Joseph Simrock and Translated Bykarl Joseph Simrock


Das Nibelungenlied ist ein mittelalterliches Heldenepos und wurde oft als „Nationalepos der Deutschen“ bezeichnet. Es entstand zu Beginn des…

Rhetoric

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Aristotle


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 …

Phaedo

Read by Bob Neufeld


Plato


Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the …

The Symposium

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Plato


The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with t…

The Nicomachean Ethics

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Aristotle


The work consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes said to be from his lectures at the Lyce…

Three Hundred Aesop's Fables

Read by Michael Armenta


Aesop


Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Gree…

Around the World in Eighty Days (version 4)

Read by Ralph Snelson


Jules Verne


Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Ve…

Of the Shortness of Life

Read by Jonathan Hockey


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Seneca the Younger wrote the moral essay "De Brevitate Vitae" — "On the Shortness of Life" — to his friend Paulinus. The…

El Libro de Las Mil Noches y Una Noche Volumen 2

Read by Victor Villarraza


Anonymoustranslated Byvicente Blasco Ibáñez


Ningún libro tan conocido, y menos conocido que esta famosa colección de novelas, monumento literario del pueblo árabe.…

The Apology of Socrates (version 3)

Read by Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit


Plato


Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his trial for "corrupting the youth" is a classic summation of his teacher's life and miss…

Metamorphoses

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso


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…

The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Marcus Aurelius


The Meditations is divided into 12 books that chronicle different periods of Marcus' life. Each book is not in chronological order and it wa…

Commentaries on the Gallic War

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Gaius Julius Caesar


Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on the Gallic War) is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a…

Libro I de la Historia de Heródoto

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Herodotus


Las Historias (en griego antiguo ἱστορίαι historíai 'aproximaciones, investigaciones') de Heródoto de Halicarnaso (484–despu&e…

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