Classics (Antiquity)

The Six Books of Proclus, the Platonic Successor, on the Theology of Plato

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Proclus and Thomas Taylor



The Six books of Proclus, the Platonic successor, on The Theology of Plato (Greek: ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΚΑΤΑ ΠΛΑΤΩΝΑ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ; Latin: Theologia Platoni…

Quatrain from the Rubaiyat

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Omar Khayyám



LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Quatrain from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Translated by Henry George K…

Lucian's Dialogues Volume 1: The Dialogues of the Gods

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Lucian Of Samosata



The Dialogues of the Gods are 26 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods written in Attic Greek by Syrian autho…

The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 1

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Pliny the Elder and John S. White



The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …

The Natural History Volume 5

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Pliny the Elder



Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …

History of Animals

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Aristotle



(Greek: Τῶν περὶ τὰ ζῷα ἱστοριῶν, Ton peri ta zoia historion, "Inquiries on Animals"; Latin: Historia Animalium, "History of …

Metamorphoses (Howard Version)

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso



Translated from Latin into English blank verse, this classic Roman text gives an account of a series of fabulous episodes from creation thro…

Octavius

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Marcus Minucius Felix



This ancient Roman dialogue plays out as a religious debate between the Christian lawyer Octavius, and his close friend, a skeptical pagan n…

Iphigenia in Tauris (Dramatic Reading)

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Euripides



Orestes, coming into Tauri in Scythia, in company with Pylades, had been commanded to bear away the image of Diana, after which he was to me…

The Odes and Carmen Saeculare

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus



Flawlessly hammered out, as if from eternal bronze—"aere perennius"—The Odes of Horace are the consummate expression of the pride,…

Georgics

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Virgil



Virgil's Georgics are the second of the three major poetic works ascribed to the poet. It was published probably around 29 BC and, as the na…

Fairy Prince and Other Stories

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott



A charming family story told from the viewpoint of a nine-year-old girl. “You don't seem to understand," I whispered. "It's Christ…

Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars

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Lucan



Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili, more generally known as the Pharsalia, is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caes…

The Junior Classics Volume 3: Tales from Greece and Rome

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Varioustranslated Bywilliam Patten and Varioustranslated By William Patten



The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

Alcestis (Way Translation)

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Euripides



Alcestis, queen of Pherae, is one of the noblest heroines in all of Greek drama. Her husband Admetus is the supposedly virtuous king of Pher…

The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 2

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Pliny the Elder and John S. White



The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …

The Natural History Volume 6

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Pliny the Elder



Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …

The Public Orations of Demosthenes

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Demosthenes



This book, originally published in two volumes, collects the most important complete public orations by Demosthenes, arguably the most famou…

On the Ruin of Britain

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Gildas



Gildas was a well-informed and definitely opinionated 6th century commentator on the topic of the era of the Roman occupation of Britain beg…

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