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Tales Of Antiquity



South African Radio Show Collection No 20 Tales of Antiquity. The series started on Springbok Radio in January 1975 & ended in February …

Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Read by Paul E J King


W. W. Rouse Ball


This is a history of mathematics from antiquity to the turn of the 20th century. (Summary by Paul King)

The Commonitory of Saint Vincent Lerins

Read by Vinny Lerin


Vincent Lérins


This treatise of Peregrinus, a name assumed by St Vincent, supports the antiquity and universality of the Catholic Church against the profan…

The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 5. The Spirits Of The Cor…

Read by Leon Harvey


James Frazer


The seventh volume in The Golden Bough series by Sir James George Frazer. The figure of the dying and reviving god in Oriental religions of …

Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses (Version 2)

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Maurice Grenville Kains


Culinary Herbs may be regarded as the secret to preparing good food from antiquity to the the height of culinary art. Maurice Grenville Kain…

Supernatural Horror in Literature

Read by Piotr Nater


H. P. Lovecraft


In this essay Lovecraft traces the history of hair-raising fictional stories with a focus on things that go bump in the night, starting with…

Sappho: A New Rendering

Read by Libby Gohn


Sappho


Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although…

Georgics

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Virgil


Virgil's Georgics are the second of the three major poetic works ascribed to the poet. It was published probably around 29 BC and, as the na…

Predecessors of Cleopatra

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Leigh North


This book provides such information as was known at the onset of the 20th Century about Egyptian queens in antiquity. Much has been learned …

Georgica

Read by Malone


Virgil


Vergil's Georgica is the culmination of a long tradition in antiquity of poems about agriculture, beginning with Hesiod in the eighth c. BC.…

The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses

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William W. Davies


The discovery of the Hammurabi Code is one of the greatest achievements of archaeology, and is of paramount interest, not only to the studen…

The History of the Peloponnesian War

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Thucydides


The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led …

The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

Read by Chuck Williamson


Edward Carpenter


Written in 1908 by socialist critic and gay rights activist Edward Carpenter, The Intermediate Sex is a thoughtful, humanizing, and frequent…

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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Edgar James Banks


The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World is a list of masterpieces of architecture and art of classical antiquity. First compiled in the second ce…

The Castle of Otranto (Version 2)

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Horace Walpole


The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel, a genre appealing to a taste for terror and set in a remote past when prodigies…

The National Nursery Book

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Unknown


"The Publishers offer in this little volume of well known and long loved stories to their young readers. The tales which have delighted…

Plato's Definitions and Epigrams / Πλάτωνος Ὅροι καὶ Ἐπιγράμματα

Read by Maria Sozopoulou


Plato


Definitions is a dictionary of 184 terms, originated in Plato’s Academy. Until late antiquity Plato was named as the author of this work, bu…

The Story of Eclipses

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George F. Chambers


Solar eclipses have both frightened and fascinated humankind for thousands of years. At first believed to be caused by angry gods punishing …

Fathers of Biology

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Charles Mcrae


An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of int…

Beacon Lights of History, Vol 4: Imperial Antiquity

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John Lord


Volume 4 discusses some of the key leaders of the ancient world, including Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius and Constantine, as well as import…

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