Search Results

Characters and Events of Roman History

Read by Mark Harrington

Guglielmo Ferrero

Guglielmo Ferrero was an Italian historian and journalist, and this book contains his Lowell Lectures, presented in 1908 at the Lowell Insti…

Ovid And His Influence

Read by Mark Harrington

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…

Chapter 14A: Bringing Home the Bacon

In Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball

Read by Mark Harrington

William H. Edwards and William Hanford Edwards

A book reminiscent of the days when football was gaining popularity in America. (summary by Ian Hatley)

04 - Book 2, Part 1

In Metamorphoses

Read by Mark Harrington

Publius Ovidius Naso and Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso

The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists o…

Note on Sallust

In The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War

Read by Mark Harrington

Sallust and Gaius

The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War are the two separate surviving works of the historian commonly known as "Sallust". …

14 - Book 5, pt 2 - Cosmogony according to Epicurus. Causes of the motions of h…

In On the Nature of Things (Watson translation)

Read by Mark Harrington

Titus Lucretius Carus

Written in the first century b.C., On the Nature of Things (in Latin, De Rerum Natura) is a poem in six books that aims at explaining the Ep…

Book 01 pt 02

In From the Foundation of the City Vol. 01

Read by Mark Harrington

Titus Livius

Ab urbe condita, is a monumental history of ancient Rome written in the Latin language by Titus Livius(Livy), an ancient Roman historian. Th…