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Troilus and Criseyde

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Geoffrey Chaucer



Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set …

Gorgias

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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 …

Alcibiades I

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Plato



As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The …

Critias

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Plato



This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

Lesser Hippias

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Plato



This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in th…

Protagoras

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Plato



Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…

The Vikings

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Allen Mawer



This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University o…