Classics (Antiquity)
The Constitution of Athens
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
The Constitution of Athens (Greek: Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία) was written by Aristotle or his student. The text was lost until discovered in the lat…
Theaetetus
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Plato
Theaetetus (Ancient Greek: Θεαίτητος) discusses concepts including perception, true judgment and knowledge. Socrates compares the human mind…
On the Laws
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Marcus Tullius Cicero
On the Laws (Latin: De Legibus) was written shortly after Cicero's "On the Commonwealth" during the last years of the Roman Republ…
Torah (JPSA) 01: Genesis
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Jewish Publication Society Of America
The first book of the Pentateuch - Genesis. Presented according to weekly parshah.Praised are You, Adonai, Our G-d, ruler of the Universe, w…
On Duties
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Marcus Tullius Cicero
On Duties (Latin: DE OFFICIIS) discusses virtue, expediency and apparent conflicts between the two. St. Ambrose, St. Jerome and other Doctor…
Parmenides
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Plato
Parmenides (Ancient Greek: ΠΑΡΜΕΝΙΔΗΣ) recounts a meeting between Socrates, Zeno and Parmenides. Topics discussed include universals, plural…
Electra
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Sophocles
Sophocles' play dramatizes the aftermath of Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His daughter Electra is hu…
Theological Orations
Read by Jonathan Lange
Gregory Of Nazianzus
After the death of the Arian Emperor Valens, the synod of Antioch in 379 asked Gregory to help resurrect Constantinople to Nicene orthodoxy.…
Eudemian Ethics
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
Eudemian Ethics (Greek: ΗΘΙΚΩΝ ΕΥΔΗΜΙΩΝ Latin: ETHICA EUDEMIA) discusses topics including virtue, friendship, happiness and God. It is belie…
From the Foundation of the City Vol. 01
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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…
Prometheus Bound (Buckley Translation)
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Aeschylus
"Prometheus Bound" is the only complete tragedy of the Prometheia trilogy, traditionally assumed to be the work of Aeschylus. Jupi…
Alcibiades I
Read by Kevin Johnson
Plato
As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The …
The Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2)
Read by George Allen
Virgil
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy,…
Metamorphosis or The Golden Ass
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Lucius Apuleius
The Metamorphosis, also known as The Golden Ass, is one of the very few novels of the Ancient World that survived to our days; one of the tw…
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4
Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)
Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …
The Natural History Volume 2
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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 …
The Symposium (version 2) (dramatic reading)
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Plato
In one of Plato's more accessible works, Apollodorus tells a friend about a drinking party (or symposium) attended by many of intellectuals …
Topics
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
The Topics is is the fifth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). The Topic…
Cratylus
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Plato
Cratylus (ΚΡΑΤΥΛΟΣ) discusses whether things have names by mere convention or have true names which can only be correctly applied to the obj…
Works and Days, The Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles
Read by Arthur Krolman
Hesiod, Hesiodtranslated Byhugh Gerard Evelyn-White and Hesiodtranslated By Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White
Works and Days provides advice on agrarian matters and personal conduct. The Theogony explains the ancestry of the gods. The Shield of Herac…