Classics (Antiquity)

The Satyricon

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Gaius Petronius Arbiter



Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius,…

The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Spartans)

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Xenophon



The Polity of the Lacedaemonians talks about the laws and institutions created by Lycurgus, which train and develop Spartan citizens from bi…

Hindoo Tales or the Adventures of Ten Princes

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Daṇḍin



This book describes the adventures of ten Kumaras, i.e., young men, (all of whom are either princes or sons of royal ministers), as narrated…

Laws (version 2)

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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…

Apocrypha

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Plato



It is not generally agreed whether Plato was the author of any of these books. I. Hippias Major (or Greater Hippias)II. Second Alcibiades (…

The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates

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Xenophon



Xenophon's best memorial of his old guide, philosopher, and friend is this work, in which Xenophon brought together in simple and direct for…

Family Happiness

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Leo Tolstoy



After a brief romance, the 17 year old Marya falls in love with the much older Sergyei Mikhailitch, an old family friend, and the two are ma…

The Metamorphoses (Miller Version)

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso



Ovid represents his work as a celebration of mutability in the form of a history of the world's notable transformations. It is a compendium …

The Bacchanals

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Euripides



Euripides' Bacchae is based on the Greek myth of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agave and their punishment by the god Dionysus who p…

Adelphi: or, The Brothers

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Terence



"Micio and Demea are two brothers of dissimilar tempers. Demea is married, and lives a country life, while his brother remains single, …

Menaechmi; or, The Twin Brothers

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Titus Maccius Plautus



Menaechimus was carried away as a child to Epidamnus. Years later his twin-brother arrives also in Epidamnus, where because of his resemblan…

Characters and Events of Roman History

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Guglielmo Ferrero



Guglielmo Ferrero was an Italian historian and journalist, and this book contains his Lowell Lectures, presented in 1908 at the Lowell Insti…

Bacchides: or, The Twin Sisters

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Titus Maccius Plautus



Twin sisters, separated at birth to different lands. Later, Mnesilochus falls in love with one of them, only to see his friend Pistoclerus a…

Stichus; or, The Parasite Rebuffed

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Titus Maccius Plautus



"Antipho, a wealthy and jovial old gentleman of Athens, has two daughters, Pilumena and Pamphila. They are married to two brothers, Epi…

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol 5

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus



This is Volume 5 in the series of Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans. It includes biographies of famous men and explores their co…

The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis



16 satires in verse of the celebrated classical poet of the 1st and 2nd Century translated into verse by John Dryden an English satirist of …

Ovid And His Influence

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Edward Kennard Rand



In this early entry into the Our Debt To Greece and Rome series, Rand provides a lively summary and commentary on all of Ovid's poetical wor…

Mythology

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Jane Ellen Harrison



Jane Ellen Harrison was an English classical scholar whose work had a particular focus on the earliest origins of Greek religion. Her Mythol…

Androcles and the Lion

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George Bernard Shaw



A dramatic version of the classic fable of a kind man who comes across a lion with a thorn in its paw, his compassion for the injured lion p…

Lays of Ancient Rome (Version 2)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay



The Lays of Ancient Rome are four narrative poems by the English historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay. Each poem tells a famou…

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