Classical Antiquity

The Confessions of St. Augustine

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint

The work is a first‑person spiritual autobiography by Augustine of Hippo, the fourth‑century bishop and…

The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original

Homer

The work presented here is a prose rendering of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, produced by the…

The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus

Cornelius Tacitus

The work is a scholarly treatise that sets out to describe the geography, peoples, and customs of the lands…

The Iliad

Homer

The Iliad is an epic poem attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer, presented here in an English…

The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle

Aristotle

The Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle’s systematic exploration of moral philosophy, presented as a companion to…

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

The volume opens with a stark tableau from “The Torture” by Hope, in which the venerable Grand Inquisitor…

Lysistrata

Aristophanes

Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, translated into English and illustrated by Norman…

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius

The Consolation of Philosophy is a medieval dialogue in which the imprisoned Boethius, once a celebrated…

The Iliad

Homer

The Iliad is an epic poem that launches with a bitter clash between the Greek commander Agamemnon and the…

The Aeneid

Virgil

Virgil’s *Aeneid* opens with the battered remnants of the Trojan fleet drifting toward a hostile coast after…

Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations, together with his treatises On the Nature of the Gods and On the…

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The volume presents the complete surviving correspondence of Marcus Tullius Cicero, arranged strictly in…

Aeneidos

Virgil

Aeneidos est poema epicum Latinum a Virgilio conscriptum, quod Aeneae, Troianorum heroï, fata et itinerum per…

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

Hesiod

This volume gathers the surviving fragments of early Greek epic that followed Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey,…

The Aeneid of Virgil

Virgil

Virgil’s Aeneid is an epic poem that recounts the wanderings of the Trojan hero Aeneas as he strives to found…

The Poetics of Aristotle

Aristotle

Aristotle’s Poetics is a systematic treatise on the nature and function of poetry, organized as a series of…

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece

The Argonautica

Rhodius Apollonius

Politics: A Treatise on Government

Aristotle

The Iliad

Homer

The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper

Homer

The Odyssey

Homer

"De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries

Julius Caesar