Classics (Antiquity)
Pseudolus: or, The Cheat
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Titus Maccius Plautus
About two dozen comedies of the Roman playwright Plautus have survived the years, with many of them ending up rewritten and recast by other …
The History of Rome, volume 4
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Titus Livius
The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) is a history of ancient Rome, written in Latin by Livy (Titus Livius) between 27 and 9 BC, covering th…
The pastoral loves of Daphnis and Chloe
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Longustranslated Bygeorge Moore and Longustranslated By George Moore
Daphnis and Chloe is an Ancient Greek prose work, probably written during the second century CE, by Longus. It tells the story of two young …
Hecyra: The Mother-In-Law
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Terence
Terence's six plays are comedies written while he was a slave to a Roman senator. NOTE: the main plot elements in Hecyra are quite unaccepta…
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 18
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Various
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
Heautontimorumenos; the Self-Tormentor
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Terence
Terence's six plays are comedies written while he was a slave to a Roman senator. In this one, a severe father compels his son Clinia, in lo…
The Metamorphoses (Miller Version)
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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
Ovid represents his work as a celebration of mutability in the form of a history of the world's notable transformations. It is a compendium …
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 4
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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 Bacchanals
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Euripides
Euripides' Bacchae is based on the Greek myth of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agave and their punishment by the god Dionysus who p…
Adelphi: or, The Brothers
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Terence
"Micio and Demea are two brothers of dissimilar tempers. Demea is married, and lives a country life, while his brother remains single, …
Menaechmi; or, The Twin Brothers
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Titus Maccius Plautus
Menaechimus was carried away as a child to Epidamnus. Years later his twin-brother arrives also in Epidamnus, where because of his resemblan…
Characters and Events of Roman History
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Guglielmo Ferrero
Guglielmo Ferrero was an Italian historian and journalist, and this book contains his Lowell Lectures, presented in 1908 at the Lowell Insti…
Bacchides: or, The Twin Sisters
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Titus Maccius Plautus
Twin sisters, separated at birth to different lands. Later, Mnesilochus falls in love with one of them, only to see his friend Pistoclerus a…
Stichus; or, The Parasite Rebuffed
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Titus Maccius Plautus
"Antipho, a wealthy and jovial old gentleman of Athens, has two daughters, Pilumena and Pamphila. They are married to two brothers, Epi…
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol 5
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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
This is Volume 5 in the series of Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans. It includes biographies of famous men and explores their co…
The Iliads of Homer
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Homer
The Iliad is an epic poem believed to have been composed by Homer, describing events of the final year of the 10 year siege of Troy by Greec…
The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
16 satires in verse of the celebrated classical poet of the 1st and 2nd Century translated into verse by John Dryden an English satirist of …
Mythology
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Jane Ellen Harrison
Jane Ellen Harrison was an English classical scholar whose work had a particular focus on the earliest origins of Greek religion. Her Mythol…
Ovid And His Influence
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Edward Kennard Rand
In this early entry into the Our Debt To Greece and Rome series, Rand provides a lively summary and commentary on all of Ovid's poetical wor…
Androcles and the Lion
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George Bernard Shaw
A dramatic version of the classic fable of a kind man who comes across a lion with a thorn in its paw, his compassion for the injured lion p…