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Book XXIV, chapters 40 to 49

Read by Rita Boutros


Titus Livius


In The History of Rome, volume 3

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…

Preface

Read by Ann Boulais


W. Warde Fowler


In Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System

In this volume I have tried to meet the wishes of the publishers, by explaining to those who are comparatively unfamiliar with classical ant…

Part II

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Aristophanes


In The Clouds

Strepsiades is an Athenian burdened with debt from a bad marriage and a spendthrift son. He resolves to go to the Thinking Shop, where he c…

Chapter 14

Read by Sibella Denton


Herodotus


In Herodotus' Histories Vol 2

The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…

Forward

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Plotinus and Porphyry


In Enneads

The six Enneads (ΕΝΝΕΑΔΕΣ) are the collected writings of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (ΠΛΩΤΙΝΟΣ) arranged by his student Porphyry (Π…

Preface

Read by Mark Harrington


George Philip Baker


In Sulla the Fortunate: The Great Dictator

George P. Baker explores the life of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, known more commonly as Sulla. Sulla was a Roman general and statesman of …

Book II Part 1 (Chapters 1-9)

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Aristotle


In Rhetoric

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 …

Introduction and Prefaces

Read by Joshua B. Christensen


John Bagnell Bury


In A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol I

J. B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it was such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third editi…

Section 00 – Preface

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Bernhard Pick


In The Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew and Thomas

The full title of this book, published in 1909, is The Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew and Thomas. As early as the second centu…

Section 2

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Euripides


In Medea

Euripides' tragedy focuses on the disintegration of the relationship between Jason, the hero who captured the Golden Fleece, and Medea, the …

Introduction

Read by Andrew Coleman


Pliny the Younger and Pliny The Younger


In Letters of Pliny

The largest surviving body of Pliny's work is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends, associates and…

Saracen Empire

Read by Stefan Von Blon


Benjamin Hathaway


In 1001 Questions and Answers on General History

A book for students of history to test their knowledge and to direct their studies. As the title tells us, this is a book of 1001 questions,…

Preface

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


No Yasumaro Ō, no Are Hieda and no Yasumaro Ō


In Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters

Of all the mass of Japanese literature, which lies before us as the result of nearly twelve centuries of book-making, the most important mon…

Part 1

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Edward Taylor Fletcher


In The Lost Island of Atlantis

In this paper, read before the Literary and Historical Society, Quebec, Fletcher demonstrates methodically what he perceives as evidence for…

Book 1

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Phaedrus


In The Fables of Phaedrus

The fable is a small narrative, in prose or verse, which has as its main characteristic the aim of conveying a moral lesson (the "moral…

Twenty-third Book, Part II

Read by Phil Schempf


Homer


In The Iliads of 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…