Classics (Antiquity)
The Acharnians
Loaded with cryptic, nearly indecipherable inside jokes and double entendres, this early comedy of Aristophanes has a simple, anti-war premi…
The Meditations
Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. The…
Heroides
The Heroides, also known as the Heroines, the Letters of the Heroines or simply as Epistles are a very famous collection of poems by Ovid, …
Myths and Legends Around the World
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
Tales from Greece and Rome
The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…
The Trojan Women
Euripides' play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining famil…
Apocrypha
It is not generally agreed whether Plato was the author of any of these books. I. Hippias Major (or Greater Hippias)II. Second Alcibiades (…
Trips to the Moon
The endeavour of small Greek historians to add interest to their work by magnifying the exploits of their countrymen, and piling wonder upon…
The Stratagems and The Aqueducts of Rome
Frontinus' Stratagems is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, which the author comments based on h…
The Symposium
In one of Plato's more accessible works, Apollodorus tells a friend about a drinking party (or symposium) attended by many of intellectuals …
Metamorphoses
Translated from Latin into English blank verse, this classic Roman text gives an account of a series of fabulous episodes from creation thro…
Euthydemus
Euthydemus is a thought-provoking dialogue by Plato that delves into the art of argumentation and the nature of wisdom. In this engaging exc…
Seven Against Thebes
In this, the only extant tragedy from Aeschylus' trilogy about the House of Oedipus, Thebes is under siege from Polynices, a former prince o…
The Book of Good Counsels
The term ‘Hitopadesha’ is a combination of two Sanskrit terms, ‘Hita’ (welfare/ benefit) and ‘Upadesha’ (counsel). As the term suggests, The…
The Eclogues
This book of poems, written between 42 en 39 BC, was a bestseller in ancient Rome, and still holds a fascination today. Held to be divinely …
Electra
Electra (the Unmated One) is eaten up with hatred of her mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for their murder of her father Agamemn…
Lucian's Dialogues
Dialogues of the Dead are 30 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods, originally written in Attic Greek by Syri…
Hindoo Tales
This book describes the adventures of ten Kumaras, i.e., young men, (all of whom are either princes or sons of royal ministers), as narrated…
Fairy Prince and Other Stories
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…
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