Classics (Antiquity)

On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation)

Read by Daniel Vimont


Titus Lucretius Carus


On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philoso…

Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice

Read by Arthur Krolman


Homer


Homeric Hymns are thirty-three poems each paying homage to a certain Greek god. Only a few of the poems are more than 250 lines while the re…

Seven Against Thebes

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Aeschylus


In this, the only extant tragedy from Aeschylus' trilogy about the House of Oedipus, Thebes is under siege from Polynices, a former prince o…

Moral letters to Lucilius (Epistulae morales ad Lucilium)

Read by John Van Stan


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Seneca the Younger’s letters to his friend, Lucilius Junior, appear to have been written with a broad audience in mind. These letters introd…

Fábulas, volume 2

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Aesop


Esopo é um lendário autor grego, que teria vivido na Antigüidade, ao qual se atribui a paternidade da fábula como …

Kriton

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Plato


Kriton by Platon (428/427 v. Chr. – 348/347 v. Chr.). Übersetzung durch Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834) von 1818.Der …

Charmides

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Plato


Charmides (Χαρμίδης) discusses the virtue of temperance. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)

Oedipus at Colonus (Storr Translation)

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Sophocles


This is the second installment in Sophocles's Theban Plays that chronicles the tragic fates of Oedipus and his family. After fulfilling the…

The Tosa Diary

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No Tsurayuki Ki


Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period. In 905, he was one of the poets ordered to compile the "Kokinshu - Collec…

The Bacchae

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Euripides


The tragedy is based on the mythological story of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agavë, and their punishment by the god Dionysu…

Statesman

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Plato


Statesman (Ancient Greek: Πολιτικός) discusses God's role in maintaining the universe and describes the statesman as a good shepherd who pro…

Lesser Hippias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in th…

Lysis

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Plato


Lysis (Λύσις) discusses friendship and love between the good and bad. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)

Sophistical Elenchi

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Aristotle


The Sophistical Elenchi is the sixth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument").…

Apology of Socrates (version 2)

Read by Phil Chenevert


Plato


The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC[2] against the charges of "corrupting t…

De Bello Gallico Libri Septem

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Gaius Julius Caesar


In this book the famous Gaius Julius Caesar himself describes the seven years of his war in Gaul.When Caesar got proconsul of Gallia and Ill…

The Trojan Women (Murray Translation)

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Euripides


Euripides' play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining famil…

The Return of the Mucker

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


After being framed for a murder he didn’t commit, law enforcement arrests Billy Byrne…The Mucker… as he returns to the streets of Grand Aven…

Fábulas, volume 3

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Aesop


Esopo é um lendário autor grego, que teria vivido na Antigüidade, ao qual se atribui a paternidade da fábula como …

Vidas, opiniones y sentencias de los filósofos más ilustres. Libro VI, Los cíni…

Read by Epachuko


Diogenes Laertius


Diógenes Laercio dedicó el libro VI de su extensa obra a los 9 miembros de la escuela de pensamiento cínica, tambi&eacu…

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