Category Archives: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)
Works and Days, The Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles
Author(s): Hesiod Works and Days provides advice on agrarian matters and personal conduct. The Theogony...
The Legends of the Jews, Volume 4
Author(s): Louis Ginzberg Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth...
The Iliad (Version 2)
Author(s): Homer This great and terrifying poem about the final weeks of a long war...
The Odyssey (Version 3)
Author(s): Homer The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to...
The Iliads of Homer
Author(s): Homer The Iliad is an epic poem believed to have been composed by Homer,...
The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates
Author(s): Xenophon Xenophon’s best memorial of his old guide, philosopher, and friend is this work,...
The Odyssey (Version 4)
Author(s): Homer Homer’s “The Odyssey” forms the template of practically every adventure story that has...
The Fall of Troy
Author(s): Quintus Smyrnaeus The Fall of Troy also called “Posthomeric” is an account of the...
On the Shortness of Life
Author(s): Lucius Annaeus Seneca De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a...
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, Vol 5
Author(s): Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus This is Volume 5 in the series of Parallel Lives of...
On the Sublime
Author(s): Unknown This is a classical text on aesthetics and proper style in writing and...
Letters of Pliny
Author(s): Pliny the Younger The largest surviving body of Pliny’s work is his Epistulae (Letters),...
Four Discourses Against The Arians
Author(s): Athanasius of Alexandria In spite of Nicea’s condemnation of Arius in 325, Arianism was...