Classics (Antiquity)

Fairy Prince and Other Stories

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


A charming family story told from the viewpoint of a nine-year-old girl. “You don't seem to understand," I whispered. "It's Christ…

The Junior Classics Volume 3: Tales from Greece and Rome

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Varioustranslated Bywilliam Patten


The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars

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Lucan


Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili, more generally known as the Pharsalia, is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caes…

Octavius

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Marcus Minucius Felix


This ancient Roman dialogue plays out as a religious debate between the Christian lawyer Octavius, and his close friend, a skeptical pagan n…

Trostschrift an Marcia

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 v. Chr.–65 n. Chr.) gibt stoische Grundsätze zum Tod und zur Trauer. Übersetzung durch Albert Forbiger (1…

Metamorphoses (Howard Version)

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso


Translated from Latin into English blank verse, this classic Roman text gives an account of a series of fabulous episodes from creation thro…

Alcestis (Way Translation)

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Euripides


Alcestis, queen of Pherae, is one of the noblest heroines in all of Greek drama. Her husband Admetus is the supposedly virtuous king of Pher…

The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 2

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Pliny the Elder and John S. White


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 Natural History Volume 6

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Pliny the Elder


Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …

Briefe (Epistolae)

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus


Veröffentlichung dieser Ausgabe 1893Horaz, eigentlich Quintus Horatius Flaccus, ist neben Vergil einer der bedeutendsten römischen…

The Public Orations of Demosthenes

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Demosthenes


This book, originally published in two volumes, collects the most important complete public orations by Demosthenes, arguably the most famou…

Plato's Definitions and Epigrams / Πλάτωνος Ὅροι καὶ Ἐπιγράμματα

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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…

Anabasis

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Xenophon


Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave hi…

Duizend en één Nacht, Tweede deel

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Anonymous


Koning Schahriar denkt door zijn vrouw bedrogen te zijn. Om herhaling te voorkomen besluit hij voortaan elke avond een nieuwe vrouw te trouw…

Duizend en één Nacht, Derde deel

Read by Marcel Coenders


Anonymous


Koning Schahriar denkt door zijn vrouw bedrogen te zijn. Om herhaling te voorkomen besluit hij voortaan elke avond een nieuwe vrouw te trouw…

The Iliad (Version 2)

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Homer


This great and terrifying poem about the final weeks of a long war fought between the Greeks and the Trojans before the city of Troy (here r…

Herakles

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Louis Couperus


Dat Couperus' nieuwste werk ‘Herakles’ een roman in twee deelen heet, zal wel een uitgevers-wensch zijn. Het is de omdichting der mythe tot …

Babel

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Louis Couperus


'Babel' is de stoutste fantasmagorie ooit aan zijn brein ontsproten. Het is alsof hij met zijn fantasie hetzelfde heeft willen doen als Cyru…

On the Ruin of Britain

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Gildas


Gildas was a well-informed and definitely opinionated 6th century commentator on the topic of the era of the Roman occupation of Britain beg…

Πολιτεια του Πλατωνα (τομος πρωτος)

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Plato (Πλάτων) and Plato


Η θεμελιώδης βάσις της Πολιτείας του Πλάτωνος είναι η τελείασυνταύτισις της ευτυχίας και της δικαιοσύνης· το περιεχόμενονδηλαδή του π…

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