Classics (Antiquity)
On the Sublime
Read by Amelia Chesley
Unknowntranslated Byherbert Lord Havell, Translated Byherbert Lord Havell and Unknowntranslated By Herbert Lord Havell
This is a classical text on aesthetics and proper style in writing and rhetoric, including commentary on various ancient Greek works such as…
The Fall of Troy
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Quintus Smyrnaeus
The Fall of Troy also called "Posthomeric" is an account of the Trojan war from the Arrival of Penthesleia to the sack of Troy.(su…
On Benefits (De Beneficiis)
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
De Beneficiis (English: On Benefits) is one of the moral essays composed by Seneca, Roman author of the 1st century CE. It deals with Stoic …
A Critical History of Greek Philosophy
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Walter Terence Stace
This book contains the substance, and for the most part the words, of a course of public lectures delivered during the first three months of…
Iphigenia in Aulis (Way translation)
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Euripides
Iphigenia in Aulis (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι) is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after the …
The Tragedy of Mariam
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Elizabeth Cary
The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original drama written in English by a woman. Elizabeth Cary drew on Jewish histories by Josephus …
Vairagya Shatakam
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Bhartṛhari
Vairagya Shatakam is one of the best books that gives the true picture of Renunciation. The book talks on how a common man gets lured by the…
The Stratagems and The Aqueducts of Rome
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Sextus Julius Frontinus
Frontinus' Stratagems is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, which the author comments based on h…
The Feast of Lights
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Emma Lazarus
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Feast of Lights by Emma Lazarus. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 18, 2011.…
The Six Books of Proclus, the Platonic Successor, on the Theology of Plato
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
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…
The Iliads of Homer
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Homer
The Iliad is an epic poem believed to have been composed by Homer, describing events of the final year of the 10 year siege of Troy by Greec…
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…
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 …
Orpheus with His Lute: Stories of the World's Springtime
Read by Mark Harrington
W. M. L. Hutchinson
In retelling the mythological story of Orpheus the musician, Winifred Hutchinson covers the singer's education by the nine Muses in Part 1, …
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…
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…
Shakespeare's Ovid, Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
William Shakespeare
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 …
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