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…
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 Kama Sutra
Read by Mark F. Smith
Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Mallanaga Vatsyayanatranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and Mallanaga Vatsyayanatranslated By Richard 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…
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…
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…
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…
The Apology of Socrates (version 3)
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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…
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…
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
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Epictetus
Aphorisms from the Stoic Greek.
Physics
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
Physics (Greek: Φυσικὴ ἀκρόασις; Latin: Physica, or Physicae Auscultationes) discusses concepts including: substance, accident, the infinite…
Timaeus
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Plato
"Our intention is, that Timaeus, who is the most of an astronomer amongst us, and has made the nature of the universe his special study…
The Analects of Confucius
Read by Jing Li
Confucius 孔子
The Analects, or Lunyu, also known as the Analects of Confucius, are considered a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinke…
Moral Letters, Vol. I
Read by Felipe Vogel
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Among the personalities of the early Roman Empire there are few who offer to the readers of to-day such dramatic interest as does Luci…