The Ancient World: History, Literature, Religion, and Philosophy

This CD (formerly known as "Greek and Roman Classics") contains the full text of 648 books -- works of history, literature, religion, and philosophy, including the classics of Greece and Rome, but also covering China, India, Persia, Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia (most in translation, some in Latin), up until the Fall of the Western Roman Empire.

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Table of contents:

Language

• Greek in a Nutshell by James Strong
• Handbook for Latin Language Clubs by Susan Paxson
• Latin for Beginners by Benjamin D'Ooge
• New Latin Grammar by Charles Bennett
• Ritche's Fabulae Faciles: a First Latin Reader by John Kirtland
• Roman Pronunciation of Latin: why we use it and how to use it by Frances Lord

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History

Collections and Multi-Culture Works

• The Ancient East by D.G. Hogarth
• Beacon Lights of History by John Lord
• Volume 1 The Old Pagan Civilizations
• Volume 3 Ancient Achievements
• Volume 4 Imperial Antiquity
• Buried Cities by Jennie Hall
• The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended by Sir Isaac Newton, 1728
• The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World from Marathon to Waterloo by Sir Edward Creasy
• The Great Events by Famous Historians edited by Rossiter Johnson, volume 2
• History of Ancient Civilization by Charles Steignobos
• A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Edward Tyson
• The Seven Great Monarchies of the Ancient World by George Rawlinson
• volume 1 Chaldaea
• volume 2 Assyra
• volume 3 Babylon
• volume 4 Media
• volume 5 Persia
• volume 6 Parthia
• volume 7 Sassanian
• The World's Greatest Books, volume 11, Ancient History, Medieval History

History of Babylon and Assyria

• Legends of Babylon and Egypt by Leonard King
• Assyrian Historiography by Albert Olmstead
• The Babylonian Story of the Deluge by E.A. Wallis Budge
• The Oldest Code of Laws in the World by Hammurabi, 2285-2242 BC, translated by C.H. W. Johns

History of Britain

• Early Britain -- Roman Britain by Edward Conybeare, 1903
• Raphael Holinshed, Historie of Britain
• book 1
• book 2
• book 3
• book 4
• book 5
• The History of Engalnd from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the End of the Reign of James II, volume 1, by David Hume, 1688
• Roman Britain in 1914 by F. Haverfield, 1915
• Stonehenge Today and Yesterday by Frank Stevens

History of Egypt

• Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson
• Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott
• L'Archeologie Egyptienne by G. Maspero
• L'Egyptologie by G. Maspero
• The Egyptian Conception of Immortality by George Reisner, 1911
• History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria , volume 1, by G. Maspero
• Lettres Ecrites d'Egypte et de Nubie en 1828 et 1829 by Champollion
• Manual of Egyptian Archaeology by G. Maspero

History of China

• Ancient China Simplified by Edward Harper Parker

History of France/Gaul

• Franco-Gallia or an Account of the Ancient Free State of France by Francis Hotoman, 1574
• Julius Caesar

The Gallic War/Commentaries (De Bello Gallico)

• in Latin
• Book 1
• Book 2
• Book 3
• Book 4
• Books 5-8
• Commentaries, translated by W.A. MacDevitt
• Rice Holmes' commentary on The Gallic War, in English
• Preface
• On Book 1
• On Book 2
• On Book 3
• Geographical Index
• Appendix

History of Greece

• Collections and modern books about ancient Greece
• Mosaics of Grecian History by Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpoint Willson
• Rev. James Baikie
• The Sea-Kings of Crete, 1913
• Demosthenes
• The Lynthiacs and the Philippics
• Public Orations, translated by Arthur Pickard
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Lowes Dickinson
• The Greek View of Life
• Herodotus, translated by by G. C. Macaulay
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Charles Kingsley
• Alexandria and Her Schools, lectures
• The Orations of Lysias (literally translated
• Edward Bulwer Lytton
• Athens: Its Rise and Fall
• William Smith
• A Smaller History of Greece from EArliest Tiems to the Roman Conquest
• Thucydides
• The History of the Peloponesian War (431 BC), translated by Richard Crawley
• Stories from Thucydides
• Xenophon,  translated by H. G. Dakyns
• Agesilaus
• Anabasis
• Apology (very short)
• Cavalry General
• Cyropaedia
• Economist
• Hellenica
• Hiero
• Horsemanship
• Memorabilia
• Polity
• Revenues
• Sportsman
• Symposium

History of India

• A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India by Robert Sewell

History of Ireland

• The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge, translated by Winnifred Faraday

History of Phoenicia

• History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson

History of Rome

Frank Frost Abbott

The Common People of Ancient Rome, 1911

Anne C.E. Allinson

Roads from Rome

A.H. Beesley

The Gracchi, Marius, and Sulla, 1921

Julius Caesar

The Gallic War/Commentaries (De Bello Gallico)

• in Latin
• Book 1
• Book 2
• Book 3
• Book 4
• Books 5-8
• Commentaries, translated by W.A. MacDevitt
• Rice Holmes' commentary on The Gallic War, in English
• Preface
• On Book 1
• On Book 2
• On Book 3
• Geographical Index
• Appendix
• Caesar: a Sketch by Jame Froude
• History of Julius Caesar by Jacob Abbott, 1904
• Cato and Varro
• Roman Farm Management: Treatises of Cato and Varro translated by a Virginia Farmer
• Cicero
• Cicero by W. Lucas Collins
• Cassiodorus
• Letters, translated and condensed by Thomas Hodgkin
• Cassius Dio
• Dio's Rome
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6
• Charles Davis
• Excavation of Roman Baths at Bath
• William Stearns Davis
• A Day in Old Athens
• Thomas de Quincey
• The Caesars
• Guglielmo Ferror
• Characters and Events of Roman History form Caesar to Nero, 1908
• The Women of the Caesars, 1911
• W. Warde Fowler
• Social Life at Rome int he Age of Cicero
• Edward Gibbon
• Fall of the Roman Empire
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6
• about Gibbon
• Gibbon by James Cotter Morison, 1878
• Arthur Gilman
• The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
• Oliver Goldsmith
• Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome
• A.H.J. Greenridge
• A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
• F. Haverfield
• The Romanizaton of Roman Britain
• Livy
• Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City),
• in Latin
• Editor's Preface
• Preface
• Book 1
• in English
• Books 1-3
• Books 9-26
• Books 27-36
• The first 8 books translated by D. Spillan
• Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolo Macchivelli, translated by Ninian Thomson, 1883
• John Lord
• The Old Roman World: the Grandeur and Failure of its Civilization
• Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
• Pharsalia
• Hugh Macmillan
• Roman Mosaics or Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
• Ralph Magoffir
• Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste, 1908
• Theodor Mommsen
• The History of Rome (in English), translated by William Dickson
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Roemische Geschichte (Roman History, in German)
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 8 (6-7 not yet available)
• Marc Monnier
• The Wonders of Pompeii, 1872
• Nepos
• Liber de Excellentibus Ducibus (The Book of Excellent Leaders), in Latin
• Preface
• Life of Agesilaus
• Life of Aristides
• Life of Cimon
• Life of Dion
• Life of Epaminondas
• Life of Hamilcar
• Life of Hannibal
• Life of Lysander
• Life of Miltiades
• Life of Pausanias
• Life of Themistocles
• Robert Pennell
• Ancient Rome: From the Earliest Times Down to 476 AD
• Sallust
• The Cataline Conspiracy, in Latin
• The Jugurthine War, in Latin
• The Conspiracy of Cataline and the Jugurthine War
• De Bello Catilinario et Jugurthino
• Andrew Stepehnson
• Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic
• Suetonius
• Lives of the 12 Caesars, plus Lives of the Grammarians, Rhetoricians, and Poets
• Tacitus
• Dialogue Concerning Oratory or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence
• The Germany and the Agricola
• The Histories, volumes 1 and 2, translated by W. Hamliton Fyfe
• The Reign of Tiberius (first six books of the Annals), translated by Thomas Gordon
• Tacitus and Bracciolini: the Annals Forged in the 15th Century by John Wilson Ross (1818-1887)
• Germania and Agricola edited by W.S. Tiler, in Latin
• Charlotte Yonge
• Young Folks' History of Rome

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History of both Greece and Rome

• Plutarch
• Essays and Miscellaneous Writings, in English, includes:
• Philosophical Essays
• That it is not possible to live pleasurably accoridng to the doctrine of Epicurus
• That a philosopher ought chiefly to converse with great men
• Sentiments concerning nature, with which philosophers were delighted
• Abstract of a disourse showing that the stoics speak greater improabilities than the poets
• Symposiacs
• Common conceptions against the stoics
• Contradictions of the stoics
• The eating of flesh
• Concerning fate
• Against Colotes, the disciple and favorite of Epicurus
• Platonic questions
• Literary Essays
• The life and poetry of Homer
• The banquet of the seven wise men
• How a young man ought to hear poems
• Abstract of a comparison between Aristophanes and Menander
• The malice of Herodotus
• Lives or Parallel Lives, translated by A.H. Clough, includes 50 biographies, 23 Greek, 23 Roman, 4 others:
• Theseus
• Romulus
• Lycurgus
• Numa Pompilius
• Solon
• Poplicola
• Themistocles
• Camillus
• Pericles
• Fabius
• Alcibiades
• Coriolanus
• Timoleon
• Aemilius Paulus
• Pelopidas
• Marcellus
• Aristides
• Marcus Cato
• Philopoemen
• Flamininus
• Pyrrhus
• Caius Marius
• Lysander
• Sylla
• Cimon
• Lucullus
• Nicias
• Crassus
• Sertorius
• Eumenes
• Agesilaus
• Pompey
• Alexander
• Caesar
• Phocion
• Cato the Younger
• Agis
• Cleomenes
• Tiberius Gracchus
• Caius Gracchus
• Demosthenes
• Cicero
• Demetrius
• Antony
• Dion
• Marcus Brutus
• Aratus
• Artaxerxes
• Galba
• Otho
• Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, second series by John Symonds
• The Crest-Wave of Evolution by Kenneth Morris

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History of the Byzantine Empire

• Procopius
• The Secret History of the Court of Justinian
• History of the Wars
• books 1 and 2
• books 3 and 4
• books 5 and 6

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Religion

Celts

• The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J.A. MacCulloch

Egyptian

• Egyptian Ideas of Future Life by E.A. Wallis Budge
• Legends of the Gods the Egyptian Texts, translated by E.A. Wallis Budge, 1912
• The Book of the Dead by E.A. Wallis Budge

Babylonian and Assyrian

• The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Theophilus Pinches
• The Religion of Babylonia and Assiria by Morris Jastrow

Greek

• Cerberus, the Dog of Hades: The History of an Idea by Maurice Bloomfield , 1905
• Religion and Art in Ancient Greece by Ernest Gardner

Roman

The Religion of Ancient Rome by Cyril Bailey, 1907

The Religion of Numa by Jesse Benedict Carter, 1906

Roman Antiquities and Antient Mythology for Classical Schools by Charles Dillaway

Hinduism

• Hymns of Atharva-Veda
• Upanishads, translated by F. Max Müller
• part 1
• part 2
• The Upanishads, Translated and Commentated by Swami Paramananda, From the Original Sanskrit Text
• Laws of Manu
• Dharma Sutras
• Bubbles of the Foam, translated from Sanskrit by F.W. Bain
• Hinduism and Buddhism , an Historical Sketch by Sir Charles Eliot
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Institutes of Vishnu
• Bhagavadgita, Sanatsugatiya and Anugita, translated by Kashinath Trimbak Telang
• The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold
• Kalidasa, translations of Shakuntala and Other Works (written in the fifth century AD), translated by Arthur Ryder
• Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
• Le Ramayana, translated to French by Hippolyte Fauche
• volume 1
• volume 2
• The Skiksha-Patri of the Swiami-Narayana Sect, translated by Monier Williams
• Tattava Muktavali by Purnananda Chakravartin
• Vedanta Sutras

Buddhism

• Buddhist Psalms, translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin by S. Yamabe and L. Adams Beck
• Dhammapada
• Sutta-Nipata
• Buddhist Sutras
• Hinduism and Buddhism , an Historical Sketch by Sir Charles Eliot
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Vinaya Texts part 1
• Saddharma-Pundarika
• A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline, Translated and annotated with a Corean recension of the Chinese text by James Legge

Israel -- Religion and History

• The Tanach or Jewish Bible, 1917 Jewish Publication Societies' English translation
• The Babylonian Talmud translated by Michale L. Rodkinson
• Volume 1 -- Tract Sabbath, volume 1
• Volume 2 -- Tract Sabbath volume 2
• Section Moed (Festivals)
• Volume 3 -- Tract Erubin
• Volume 4 -- Tracts Shekalim and Rosh Hashana
• Volume 5 -- Tract Pesachim
• Volume 6 -- Tracts Yomah and Hagiga
• Volume 7 -- Tracts Betzah, Succah, an Moed Katan
• Volume 8 -- Tracts Taanith, Megill, and Ebel Rabbathi
• Section Jurisprudence (Damages)
• Volume 9 -- Tracts Aboth, Derch-Eretz, and Zeta
• Volume 10 -- Tract Baba Kama, Part 1
• Volume 11 -- Tract Baba Kama Part 2 and Baba Metzia Part 1
• Volume 12 -- Tract Baba Metzia Part 2
• Volume 13 -- Tract Baba Bathra Part 1
• Volume 14 -- Tract Baba Bathra Part 2
• Volume 15 -- Tract Sanhedrin Part 1
• Volume 16 -- Tract Sanhedrin Part 2
• Volume 17 -- Tracts Maccoth, Shebuoth, and Eduyoth
• Volume 18 -- Tracts Abuda Zara and Horioth
• Volume 19 -- History of the Talmud volume 1
• Volume 20 -- History of the Talmud volume 2
• Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirqe Aboth) translated by Charles Taylor [an extract from the Talmud]
• Hebraic Literature: translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
• Hebrew Life and Times by Harold B. Hunting, 1921
• Tales and Maxims from the Midrashby Rev. Samuel Rapaport
• The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, translated from German by Henrietta Szold
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Judaism by Israel Abraham
• Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by Rev. A. H. Sayce
• Stories of the Prophets by Isaac Landman
• Beacon Lights of History
• Volume 2 -- Jewish Heroes and Prophets
• Jewish History by S.M. Dubnow
• Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, translated from German by Henrietta Szold (2 books)
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Patriarchal Palestine by the Rev. A.H. Sayce
• Prolegomena to the History of Israel by Julius Wellhausen, translated from German by J. Sutherland Black and Allan Menzies
• Josephus
• Against Apion
• Antiquities of the Jews
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Extract from the Greeks Concerning Hades (short)
• Life of Flavius Josephus
• Wars of the Jews
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7

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Early Christianity

• New Testament
• Matthew
• Mark
• Luke
• John
• Acts
• Romans
• 1 Corinthians
• 2 Corinthians
• Galatians
• Ephesians
• Phillippians
• Collossians
• 1 Thessalonians
• 2 Thessalonians
• 1 Timothy
• 2 Timothy
• Titus
• Philemon
• Hebrews
• James
• 1 Peter
• 2 Peter
• 1 John
• 2 John
• 3 John
• Jude
• Revelation

• Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus
• Andreas: the Legend of St. Andrew, translated from Old English by Robert Root
• St. Augustine
• Confessions
• St. Augustin by Louis Bertrand
• Traite de la Verite de la Religion Chretienne by Grotius, translated from Latin to French by P. Le Jeune, 1728
• Essays on the Work Entitled Supernatural Religion by J.B. Lightfoot, 1893

Zoroastrianism

• Zend-Avesta
• Part 1: Avesta: Vendidad  (Sacred Books of the East Volume 4)
• Part 2 (Sacred Books of the East Volume 23):
• Khorda Avesta: Book of Common Prayer pt. 1
• Khorda Avesta: Book of Common Prayer pt. 2
• Part 3 (Sacred Books of the East Volume 31):
• Avesta: Yasna
• Avesta: Visperad (short)
• Avesta Fragments (short)
• Pahlavi Texts
• Part 1: The Bundahis-Bahman Yast and Shayast La-Shayast (Sacred Books of the East Volume 5)
• Part 3 (Sacred Books of the East Volume 24)
• Dadestan-i Denig
• Menog-i Khrad
• Sad Dar

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Philosophy and Science

Overviews

• Ancient and Modern Physics by Thomas E. Willson
• On the Antiquity of the Chemical Art by James MacTear
• History of Science, volume 1, by Henry Smith Williams
• Old-Time Makers of Medicine by James J. Walsh
• Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by james Sands Elliott
• A Short History of Greek Philosophy by John Marshall

Greek Philosophy and Science

• Archimedes
• Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics
• Aristotle
• The Categories, translated by E. M. Edghill
• The Ethics
• The Mid-Wife's Vade-Mecum (from the works of Aristotle)
• The Poetics, translated by S.H. Butcher
• A Treatise on Government, translated by William Ellis
• Epictetus
• Golden Sayings of Epictetus
• A Selection from the Discourses of Epitetus with the Encheiridion
• Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich
• Plato, translated to English by Benjamin Jowett
• Alcibiades I
• Apology
• Charmides (and preface to the collection)
• Cratylus
• Critias
• Crito
• Euthyphro
• Euthydemus
• Gorgias
• Ion
• Laches
• Laws
• Lesser Hippias
• Lysis
• Menexus
• Meno
• Parmenides
• Phaedo
• Phaedrus
• Philebus
• Protagoras
• Republic
• Sophist
• Statesman
• Symposium
• Theaetetus
• Timaeus
• by unknown imitators of Plato
• Alcibiades II
• Eryxias
• about Plato
• Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater
• Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Thomas Taylor
• Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick, 1897
• Socrates
• Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Xenophon, translated by Edward Bysshe

Roman Philosophy

• Marcus Aurelius
• Meditations
• Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, Long's translation, edted by Edwin Ginn (same as above, different translation)
• Thoughts (another translation)
• Boethius
• The Consolation of Philosophpy translated by H.R. Janes
• The Consolation of Philosophy translated by I.T., revised by H.F. Stewart
• Titus Lucretius Carus
• Of the Nature of Things, translated to English by William Emery Leonard

Chinese Philosophy and Religion

• Religions of Ancient China by Herbert Giles

• Confucian classics (translated by James Legge)
• Shu King -- Book of Historical Records
• Shih King -- Book of Odes or Poetry
• Hsiao King -- Classic of Filial Piety
• Li Ki -- Book of Rites
• part 1
• part 2
• I Ching -- Book of Changes
• Analects of Confucius
• Chinese Literature, edited by Epiphanius Wilson, 1900
• Analects of Confucius
• Says of Mencius
• Shi-King
• Travels of Fa-Hien
• Sorrows of Han
• Filial Respect in Confucius and Socrates -- and the divergence of Western and Chinese Philosophic Traditions
• Taoist classics
• Tao te Ching and first part of Chuang-tzu
• Second part of Chuang-tzu
• The Tao Teh King or The Tao and Its Characteristics by Lao-Tse

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Literature

General Collections

• Classic Myths retold by Mary Catherine Judd

Assyrian and Babylonian Literature

• Babylonian and Assyrian Literature, comprising the Epic of Izdubar, Hymns, Tablets, and Cuneiform Inscriptions, edited by Epiphanius Wilson, 1901
• The Epic of Gilgamesh by Stephen Langdon
• An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic by Morris Jastrow and Albert Clay

Egyptian Literature

• The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians by E.A. Wallis Budge, 1914
• The Treasury of Ancient Egypt by Arthur Weigall
• Egyptian Tales edited by W.M. Flinders Petrie
• First Series
• Second Series

Greek Literature

• Collections and books about Greek literature
• Authors of Greece by T.W. Lumb
• Best of the World's Classics, volume 1 Greece, edited by Henry Cabot Lodge
• Old Greek Folk Stories told anew by Josephine Prester Peabody, 1897
• Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece by John Addington Symonds, 1914
• Specimens of Greek Tragedy, translated by Goldwin Smith, 1893, includes:
• Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
• The Persians by Aeschylus
• The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus
• Agamemnon by Aeschylus
• The Choephoroe [Libation Bearers] by Aeschylus
• The Eumenides [Furies] by Aeschylus
• Oedipus by Sophocles
• Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
• Antigone by Sophocles
• Ajax by Sophocles
• Electra by Sophocles
• Trachiniae by Sophocles
• Philoctetes by Sophocles
• Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred Church
• We Philologists by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Aeschylus (see also Specimens of Greek Tragedy, translated by Goldwin Smith)
• The House of Atreus translated by E.D.A. Morshead, including:
• Agamemnon
• The Libation Bearers
• The Furies
• Four Plays translated by E.D.A. Morshead, including:
• The Suppliant Women
• The Persians
• The Seven Against Thebes
• Prometheus Bound
• Aesop
• Fables, translated by anonymous
• Fable, translated by V.S. Vernon Jones
• Aesop for Children
• Aesop in Rhyme by Marmaduke Park
• Apollonius of Rhodes, third century BC
• Argonautica or the Voyage of the Argo, translated to English by R.C. Seaton
• A Fleece of Gold: Five Lessons form the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece by Charles Given

• Aristophanes
• Eleven Comedies
• volume 1, includes:
• Knights
• Acharnaians
• Peace
• Lysistrata
• The Clouds
• volume 2, includes:
• The Wasps
• The Birds
• The Frogs
• The Thesmophoriazusae
• The Ecclesiazusae
• Plutus
• The Acharnians, in English
• The Birds, in English
• The Clouds, translated to English by William James Hickie
• The Frogs, in English
• Lysistrata, in English
• Peace, in English
• about Aristophanes
• Etudes sur Aristophane by M. Emile Deschanel, 1867
• Democritus
• The Anatomy of Melancholy
• Euripides
• Tragedies, volume 1, translated by Theodor Buckley
• Hecuba
• Orestes
• Phoenissae
• Medea
• Hippolytus
• Alcestis
• Bacchae
• Heraclidae
• Iphigenia in Aulide
• Iphigenia in Tauris
• Hesiod
• Hesiod, Homeric Hymns and Homerica, in English, including:
• Works and Days
• Theogony
• Catalogues of Women
• Shield of Heracles
• Homeric Hymns
• Epigrams of Homer
• Hymn to Demeter
• The Battle of the Frogs and Mice
• Homer
• Iliad
• translated to English by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers
• translated to English by Samuel Butler
• translated by Alexander Pope
• translated by Edward Earl of Derby
• translated by William Cowper
• L'Iliade, translated to French by Charles-Rene-Marie Leconte de l"isle
• Odyssey
• translated to English by Alexander Pope
• translated to English by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang
• translated to English by Samuel Butler
• The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb
• Stories from the Odyssey, retold by H.L. Havell
• L'Odyssee, translated to French by Charles-Rene-Marie Leconte de l'Isle
• Hesiod, Homeric Hymns and Homerica, in English, including:
• Works and Days
• Theogony
• Catalogues of Women
• Shield of Heracles
• Homeric Hymns
• Epigrams of Homer
• Hymn to Demeter
• The Battle of the Frogs and Mice
• The Homeric Hymns translated by Andrew Lang
• about Homer
• Homer and Classical Philology by Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Humour of Homer and Other Essays by Samuel Butler
• Lucian of Samosata, Works
• volume 1 of 4
• volume 2 of 4
• volume 3 of 4
• Trips to the Moon, translated by Thomas Francklin
• Pindar
• Extant Odes of Pindar, translated by Ernest Myers
• Quintus of Smyrna
• The Fall of Troy, in English
• Sappho
• Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman, 1907
• Sophocles (see also Specimens of Greek Tragedy, translated by Goldwin Smith)
• The Oedipus Trilogy, includes:
• Oediups the King, in English
• Oedipus at Colonnus, translated to English by F. Storr
• Antigone, in English
• Seven Plays, translated by Lewis Campbell
• Antigone
• Aias
• King Oedipus
• Electra
• The Trachinian Maidens
• Philoctetes
• Oedipus at Colonus
• Theocritus
• Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus translated by Andrew Lang
• Theocritus
• Theophrastus
• A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings from his Tarnslation of the Moral Characters of Theophrastus by Henry Gally, 1725

Roman Literature and Art and Latin Language

• Collections and books about Roman literature
• Best of the World's Classics edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, volume 2, Rome
• The History of Roman Literature: form the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Cruttwell
• Latin Literature by J.W. Mackail
• Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece by John Addington Symonds, 1914
• Works of Christopher Marlowe volume 3, translations
• Lucius Apuleius
• The Golden Ass, translated to English by William Adlington
• Cupid and Psyche in Latin
• Ausonius
• Mosella, in Latin
• Catullus
• The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus, translated by Richard Burton
• Poems, in Latin
• Poems and Fragments, in English, translated by Robinson Ellis, 1871
• Songs to Youth (short), in Latin
• Cicero
• Academica, translated by James Reid
• Cato Maior de Senectute, in Latin
• De Amicita and Scipio's Dream, in English
• Four speeches against Cataline, in Latin
• Miscellaneous Speeches, in Latin
• In C. Verrem
• Pro A. Licinio Archia Poeta
• Pro Q. Ligario
• Pro M. Marcello
• Essays on Friendship and Old Age, translated to English by E. S. Shuckburgh
• Letters, translated to English by E.S. Shuckburgh
• Letters of Cicero, volume 1, 68-52 BC, translated by Evelyn Shuckburgh
• Life of Cicero by Anthony Trollope
• volume 1 of 2
• The Orations of Cicero, translated by C.D. Yonge, 1912
• Tusculan Disputations, translated by C.D. Yonge
• Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators, translated by E. Jones
• Roman Life in the Days of Cicero by Alfred Church
• Sextus Julius Frontinus
• Les Quatres Livres des Strategemes, translated from Latin to French by M. Ch. Bailly
• Horace
• The Art of Poetry, an Epistle to The Pisos, translated by George Colman, also the original Latin
• Epodes, in Latin
• Horace and His Influence by Grant Showerman
• Satires, Epistles, in English
• Songs, Book 1, in Latin
• Odes and Carmen Saeculare, in EnglishOdes and Epodes, edited by Paul Shorey, in Latin
• Works of Horace, translated by C. Smart
• Longinus
• On the Subline, translated by F. L. Havell
• Thomas Macaulay, translator to English
• Lays of Ancient Rome
• Ovid
• Fasti, edited by Thomas Keightley, in Latin
• Heroides, in Latin
• Metamorphoses, volume 1, books 1 to 7, translated by Henry Riley
• Petronius Arbiter
• Satyricon, translated by W.C. Firebaugh
• Plautus
• The Captiva and the Mostarelli
• Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi, in Latin, also includes English translation by Paul Nixon Amphitryon, (The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Baccises, and The Captives)ranslated by Paul Nixon, volume 1
• Pliny the Younger
• Letters, in English
• Letters of Pliny translated by William Melmoth
• A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger by E.A. Lowe
• Propertius
• Elegies (in Latin)
• Prudentius
• Poems, in Latin
• Poem 1
• Poem 2
• Poem 3
• Poem 4
• Poem 5
• Poem 6
• Poem 7
• Poem 8
• Poem 9
• Poem 10
• Poem 11
• Poem 12
• Poem 13
• Poem 14
• Hymns of Prudentius, in Latin and translated by R. Martin Pope
• Marcus Fabius Quintillianus
• Institutionis Oratoriae, book 10, in Latin
• L. Annaeus Seneca
• Apocolocyntosis, translated by W.H.M. Rouse, 1920
• On Benefits, translated to English by Aubrey Stewart
• Tibullus
• Elegies of Tibullus, translated by Theodore Williams, 1908
• Songs, in Latin
• Book 1
• Book 2
• M. Terentius Varro
• Libris Grammaticis
• Virgil
• Aeneid
• in English, translated by E. Fairfax Taylor, 1907
• in English, another anonymous translation
• in Latin
• The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad
• Eclogues
• in English
• in Latin
• Georgics
• in English
• in Latin
• about Virgil
• Vergil, a biography by Tenney Frank
• Quelques recherches sur le tombeau de Virgile au Mont Pausilipe by G. Peignot, in French, 1840
• Vitruvius
• Ten Books on Architecture, translated by Morris Hicky Morgan

Historical Novels and Plays about Ancient Times

• Irving Bacheller
• Vergilius: a tale of the coming of Christ
• R.M. Ballantyne
• The Hot Swamp
• John Kendrick Bangs
• House Boat on the Styx
• Pursuit of the House Boat
• Olympian Nights, 1902
• Theodore de Banville
• Socrate et sa Femme, in French
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• The Last Days of Pompeii
• Rienzi, The Last of the Roman Tribunes
• William Stearns Davis
• A Friend of Caesar
• Wilkie Collins
• Antonina or the Fall of Rome
• George Manville Fenn
• Marcus, the Young Centurion
• Gustave Flaubert
• Salammbo
• Charles Kingsley
• Hypatia
• Lord Lytton
• Pausanias the Spartan (an unfinished historical romance)
• Duffield Osborne
• The Lion's Brood
• Walter Pater
• Marius the Epicurean
• volume 1
• volume 2
• William Shakespeare
• Antony and Cleopatra
• The Comedy of Errors
• Coriolanus
• Cymbeline
• Julius Caesar
• King Lear
• Midsummer Nights Dream
• Pericles of Tyre
• Timon of Athens
• Titus Andronicus
• Troilus and Cressida
• Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Quo Vadis, a Narrative of the Time of Nero
• Lew Wallace
• Ben Hur
• Belle Wagner
• Within the Temple of Isis, 1899
• William Ware
• Aurelian or Rome in the Third Century
• Zenobia or the Fall of Palmyra

Essays about Ancient Greece and Rome

• Charles Kingsley
• Alexandria and Her Schools
• The Roman and The Teuton
• Walter Pater
• Greek Studies

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