Classics (Antiquity)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 …
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…
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…