Classics (Antiquity)
Meno
Read by Chiquito Crasto
Plato
Meno (Ancient Greek: Μένων) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Written in the Socratic dialectic style, it attempts to determine the d…
Great Expectations (Version 3)
Read by Mil Nicholson
Charles Dickens
In one of Charles Dickens’ most beloved stories, Philip Pirrip, known as “Pip”, narrates his own journey, from the hindsight of 50 years.Pip…
The Aeneid
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Virgil
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy,…
Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation)
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Sophocles
Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was…
On Generation and Corruption
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
On Generation and Corruption (Ancient Greek: Περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς, Latin: De Generatione et Corruptione, also known as On Coming to Be a…
Völsungasaga
Read by Corpang
William Morris, Anonymoustranslated Bywilliam Morris, William James Mcglothlin and Anonymoustranslated By William Morris
The 13th century Icelandic Völsungasaga is usually read by people studying the Poetic Edda or Wagner's Ring - which obscures the fact i…
Germania
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The Germania (Latin: De Origine et situ Germanorum, literally The Origin and Situation of the Germans), written by Gaius Cornelius Tacitus a…
On the Heavens
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
On the Heavens (Greek: Περί ουρανού, Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise. In it Aristotle argue…
Phaedrus
Read by Martin Geeson
Plato
“For there is no light of justice or temperance, or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls, in the earthly copies of them: they…
Las Siete Tragedias de Sófocles
Read by Victor Villarraza
Sophocles
Traducidas al castellano por José Alemany Bolufer, en esta edición de 1921, se ofrecen "juntas en un tomo y vertidas del …
Euthyphro
Read by Andrew Miller
Plato
Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the …
On the Nature of Things (Watson translation)
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Written in the first century b.C., On the Nature of Things (in Latin, De Rerum Natura) is a poem in six books that aims at explaining the Ep…
Herodotus' Histories Vol 2
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Herodotus
The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…
Economics
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
Economics (Greek: ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΑ; Latin: Oeconomica) may not have been written by Aristotle. The author provides examples of methods used by the…
On the Nature of the Gods
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Marcus Tullius Cicero
De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) outlines Stoic, Epicurean and Academic (Skeptical) views on religious questions. Problems discu…
The Odyssey (Version 3)
Read by Mark Nelson
Homer
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other Homeric epic.…
Anabasis
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Xenophon
Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave hi…
On Interpretation
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
Aristotle's On Interpretation (Greek Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας or Peri Hermeneias) or De Interpretatione (the Latin title) is the second of Aristotle's…
Antigone
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Sophocles
This is the final installment in Sophocles' Theban Plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus's daughter Antigone deliber…
Gorgias
Read by Kevin Johnson
Plato
This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …