Classics (Antiquity)
Laws
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Plato
Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having fail…
Of Peace of Mind
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
How to maintain a tranquil mind amongst social upheaval and turmoil, addressed to Serenus. (Introduction by Jonathan Hockey)
The Kama Sutra
Read by Mark F. Smith
Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Mallanaga Vatsyayanatranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and Mallanaga Vatsyayanatranslated By Richard Francis Burton
The Kama Sutra, or Aphorisms on Love, has survived at least 1400 years as a dominant text on sexual relations between men and women. Vatsyay…
The Origins of Christianity
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Thomas Whittaker
The full title of this book is The Origins of Christianity with an Outline of Van Manen’s Analysis of The Pauline Literature. Willem Christi…
La Eneida
Read by Tux
Virgil
Eneas, príncipe de Dardania, huye de Troya tras haber sido quemada ésta por el ejército aqueo, llevándose a su p…
Apologie de Socrate
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Plato
« Je ne sais, Athéniens, quelle impression mes accusateurs ont faite sur vous. Pour moi, en les entendant, peu s’en est fallu q…
Das Nibelungenlied
Read by Christian Al-Kadi
Unknowntranslated Bykarl Joseph Simrock, Translated Bykarl Joseph Simrock and Unknowntranslated By Karl Joseph Simrock
Das Nibelungenlied ist ein mittelalterliches Heldenepos und wurde oft als „Nationalepos der Deutschen“ bezeichnet. Es entstand zu Beginn des…
Rhetoric
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
The Rhetoric was developed by Aristotle during two periods when he was in Athens, the first between 367 to 347 BCE (when he was seconded to …
Phaedo
Read by Bob Neufeld
Plato
Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the …
The Symposium
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Plato
The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with t…
The Nicomachean Ethics
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
The work consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes said to be from his lectures at the Lyce…
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables
Read by Michael Armenta
Aesop
Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Gree…
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 4)
Read by Ralph Snelson
Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Ve…
Of the Shortness of Life
Read by Jonathan Hockey
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger wrote the moral essay "De Brevitate Vitae" — "On the Shortness of Life" — to his friend Paulinus. The…
El Libro de Las Mil Noches y Una Noche Volumen 2
Read by Victor Villarraza
William James Mcglothlin and Anonymoustranslated By Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Ningún libro tan conocido, y menos conocido que esta famosa colección de novelas, monumento literario del pueblo árabe.…
The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations is divided into 12 books that chronicle different periods of Marcus' life. Each book is not in chronological order and it wa…
The Apology of Socrates (version 3)
Read by Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit
Plato
Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his trial for "corrupting the youth" is a classic summation of his teacher's life and miss…
Metamorphoses
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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists o…
Commentaries on the Gallic War
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Gaius Julius Caesar
Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on the Gallic War) is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a…
Libro I de la Historia de Heródoto
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Herodotus
Las Historias (en griego antiguo ἱστορίαι historíai 'aproximaciones, investigaciones') de Heródoto de Halicarnaso (484–despu&e…