Classics (Antiquity)
Lucian's Dialogues Volume 2: The Dialogues of the Sea-Gods
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Lucian of Samosata and Lucian Of Samosata
The Dialogues of the Sea-Gods are 15 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods, originally written in Attic Greek…
Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 2
Read by Leni
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was of Spanish origin, being born about 35 A.D. at Calagurris. At Rome he met with great success as a teacher and…
Trinummus: The Three Pieces of Money
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Titus Maccius Plautus
Buried treasure, reckless son, exile, young love, betrayal, detection - all as relevant today as when this comedy was written 2200 years ago…
Bert's Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking
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Edmund Bert
An approved Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking. Divided into three Bookes. The first teacheth, How to make a short-winged Hawke good, with good …
The Georgics: A Poem of the Land
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Virgil
A poem by the Latin poet Virgil, the second of his three known works. "Georgic" means "to work the land," and on such ma…
Lucian's Dialogues Volume 3: The Dialogues of the Dead
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Lucian of Samosata and Lucian Of Samosata
Dialogues of the Dead are 30 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods, originally written in Attic Greek by Syri…
Eunuchus: The Eunuch
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Terence
Another of the plays by Terence translated from the Latin by Riley. "A certain citizen of Athens had a daughter named Pamphila, and a s…
Lucian's Dialogues Volume 4: Zeus the Tragedian
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Lucian Of Samosata
Zeus, gloomy and in tragic distress, is implored by Hermes and Athena to divulge the cause of his melancholy condition; while Hera, true to …
Pseudolus: or, The Cheat
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Titus Maccius Plautus
About two dozen comedies of the Roman playwright Plautus have survived the years, with many of them ending up rewritten and recast by other …
The History of Rome, volume 4
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Titus Livius
The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) is a history of ancient Rome, written in Latin by Livy (Titus Livius) between 27 and 9 BC, covering th…
The pastoral loves of Daphnis and Chloe
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Longustranslated Bygeorge Moore and Longustranslated By George Moore
Daphnis and Chloe is an Ancient Greek prose work, probably written during the second century CE, by Longus. It tells the story of two young …
Hecyra: The Mother-In-Law
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Terence
Terence's six plays are comedies written while he was a slave to a Roman senator. NOTE: the main plot elements in Hecyra are quite unaccepta…
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 18
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Various
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
Heautontimorumenos; the Self-Tormentor
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Terence
Terence's six plays are comedies written while he was a slave to a Roman senator. In this one, a severe father compels his son Clinia, in lo…
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 4
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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 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…
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 …
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…