Classics (Antiquity)
Quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapur
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Omar Khayyám
In 1906, Eben Francis Thompson,scholar and poet, published a limited edition of his translation of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This editi…
On the Shortness of Life
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime a…
Electra (Storr Translation)
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Sophocles
Electra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) …
The Iliad (Version 2)
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Homer
This great and terrifying poem about the final weeks of a long war fought between the Greeks and the Trojans before the city of Troy (here r…
Iphigenia in Tauris (Murray Translation)
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Euripides
The apparent sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis by her own father Agamemnon was forestalled by the godness Artemis, who by an adroit sleight of…
Trachiniai (Campbell Translation)
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Sophocles
Women of Trachis (Ancient Greek: Τραχίνιαι, Trachiniai; also translated as The Trachiniae or The Trachinian Maidens) is an Athenian tragedy …
On the Sublime
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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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…