Antiquity

The Boys' and Girls' Pliny

by Pliny the Elder Read by Foon 4.6
The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …

The Fasti

by Publius Ovidius Naso Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Fasti is a Latin poem in six books, written by Ovid and believed to have been published in 8 AD. The Fasti is organized according to th…

Kojiki

by No Yasumaro Ō, no Are Hieda and no Yasumaro Ō Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.1
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…

The Lost Island of Atlantis

by Edward Taylor Fletcher Read by Rapunzelina 4.1
In this paper, read before the Literary and Historical Society, Quebec, Fletcher demonstrates methodically what he perceives as evidence for…

Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law

by Frederic Seebohm Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Explores the evolution of law during the period of early medieval England and the influence of tribal practices on later Anglo-Saxon legal s…

Tusculan Disputations

by Marcus Tullius Cicero Read by Geoffrey Edwards 3.9
Tusculan Disputations (Latin: TUSCULANARUM DISPUTATIONUM) is divided into five books which discuss death, pain, grief, perturbations and vir…

Eudemian Ethics

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4
Eudemian Ethics is a profound exploration of moral philosophy by Aristotle, delving into the nature of virtue, the essence of friendship, an…

Beacon Lights of History

by John Lord Read by KHand 4.4
Volume 4 discusses some of the key leaders of the ancient world, including Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius and Constantine, as well as import…

Characters and Events of Roman History

by Guglielmo Ferrero Read by Mark Harrington 3.8
Guglielmo Ferrero was an Italian historian and journalist, and this book contains his Lowell Lectures, presented in 1908 at the Lowell Insti…

Aztec Ruins National Monument

by Julian Corbett and John M. Corbett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
This U.S. National Park Service historical handbook from 1962 introduces the reader to the history, geography, and archaeology of the Aztec …

A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aureli…

by John Bagnell Bury Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.3
A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius offers a comprehensive exploration of the Roman Empire's e…

On the Nature of the Gods

by Marcus Tullius Cicero Read by Geoffrey Edwards 3.4
De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) outlines Stoic, Epicurean and Academic (Skeptical) views on religious questions. Problems discu…

Speeches Against Catilina

by Marcus Tullius Cicero Read by LibriVox Volunteers 1.5
This volume contains the four speeches delivered by Cicero in 63 BC, when he was a consul, against the conspiracy headed by L. Sergius Catil…

Hannibal and the Crisis of the Struggle Between Carthage and Rome

by William O'Connor Morris Read by Ann Boulais 4
Hannibal, like Napoleon, towers over all the figures of an age of war in its grandest aspects, and of the shock of nations in conflict. We…

Divine Names

by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Pseudo-Dionysius The Areopagite Read by Geoffrey Edwards 1
CORPUS AREOPAGITICUM · CORPUS DIONYSIACUMSaint Dionysius the Areopagite · Διονύσιος ὁ ἈρεοπαγίτηςTranslated by Clarence Edwin …

Histories

by Polybius Read by ARodrigo
Of the forty books which made up the history of Polybius, the first five alone have come down to us in a complete form; of the rest we have …

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