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The Philippics

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

A philippic is a fiery, damning speech delivered to condemn a particular political actor. The term originates with Demosthenes, who delivere…

Book 08

In The Odyssey

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Homer, transl. Samuel Butler and Homer

The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly…

Book XXIV: Priam ransoms Hector's body

In The Iliad

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Homer, trans. Butler and Homer

The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated t…

Episode 4: Return to Venice. Chapter 17

In The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 1

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Giacomo Casanova

This is the first of five volumes. - Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Vene…

Discourse III: Upon Caesar the Dictator

In The Works of Tacitus, Vol. I

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Tacitus, ed. Thomas Gordon and Publius Cornelius Tacitus

The historical works of Tacitus are a history of the period from A.D. 14 to 96 in thirty volumes. Although many of the works were lost (only…

Chapter XXXVI: Total Extinction Of The Western Empire Pt. I

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. III

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Edward Gibbon

The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…