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By: Anonymous | |
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Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology |
By: Aeschylus (c. 525/524-456/455 BC) | |
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Prometheus Bound (Buckley Translation)
"Prometheus Bound" is the only complete tragedy of the Prometheia trilogy, traditionally assumed to be the work of Aeschylus. Jupiter has turned against Prometheus for protecting mankind and has ordered him to be chained to a rock. But Prometheus is comforted by his knowledge of a way to bring about the downfall of Jupiter. |
By: Unknown (431 BC - 350? BC) | |
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The Memorabilia | |
On Horsemanship |
By: Aristophanes (446-389 BCE) | |
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Frogs
Athens is in a sorry state of affairs. The great tragedian, Euripides, is dead, and Dionysus, the god of the theater, has to listen to third-rate poetry. So, he determines to pack his belongings onto his trusty slave, Xanthias, and journey to the underworld to bring back Euripides! Hi-jinks ensue. |
By: Unknown (65 BC - 8 BC) | |
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The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry | |
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino | |
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War |
By: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC) | |
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Aeneid, prose translation
The Aeneid is the most famous Latin epic poem, written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. The story revolves around the legendary hero Aeneas, a Trojan prince who left behind the ruins of his city and led his fellow citizens to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, while the poem’s second half treats the Trojans’ victorious war upon the Latins. This is the recording of J.W.MacKail's prose translation. |
By: Unknown (427? BC - 347? BC) | |
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Statesman
Statesman (Ancient Greek: Πολιτικός) discusses God's role in maintaining the universe and describes the statesman as a good shepherd who promotes intermarriage between the orderly and courageous. | |
Sophist
Sophist (Ancient Greek: Σοφιστής) discusses being and not-being while drawing a distinction between the philosopher and the sophist. | |
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson |
By: Plato (Πλάτων) (c. 428 BC - c. 347 BC) | |
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Critias
This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous story of Atlantis, that Plato tells with such skill that many have believed the story to be true. Critias, a friend of Socrates, and uncle of Plato was infamous as one of the bloody thirty tyrants. |
By: Unknown (427? BC - 347? BC) | |
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Cratylus
Cratylus (ΚΡΑΤΥΛΟΣ) discusses whether things have names by mere convention or have true names which can only be correctly applied to the object named and may have originated from God. | |
The Works of Horace | |
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies | |
Charmides
Charmides (Χαρμίδης) discusses the virtue of temperance. | |
Book of illustrations : ancient tragedy | |
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II | |
Agesilaus | |
The Apology | |
Laches
Laches (Λάχης) discusses examples of courage including weapons masters, soldiers who stand firm in battle, ferocious animals and the wise person who endures evils. | |
The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse |
By: Plato (Πλάτων) (c. 428 BC - c. 347 BC) | |
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Alcibiades I
As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The Alcibiades 1 appears to be a short work by Plato with only two characters: Socrates and Alcibiades. This dialogue has little dramatic verisimilitude but centres on the question of what knowledge one needs for political life. Like the early dialogues, the question is on whether the virtues needed by a statesman can be taught, on the importance of self-knowledge as a starting point for any leader... |
By: Unknown (427? BC - 347? BC) | |
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Philebus
Philebus (ΦΙΛΗΒΟΣ) discusses pleasure, wisdom, soul and God. | |
Lysis
Lysis (Λύσις) discusses friendship and love between the good and bad. | |
Menexenus
Menexenus (ΜΕΝΕΞΕΝΟΣ) is thought to have been written by Plato (ΠΛΑΤΩΝ). The dialogue consists of Socrates (ΣΩΚΡΑΤΗΣ) recounting a funeral oration he claims to have learned from the female philosopher Aspasia (ΑΣΠΑΣΙΑ) who may have been wealthy, a courtesan or both. | |
Euthydemus
Euthydemus (Εὐθύδημος) and Dionysodorus the sophists discuss the meaning of words with Socrates. | |
Hiero | |
The Acharnians | |
The Hymns of Prudentius |
By: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC) | |
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Iphigenia in Tauris (Murray Translation)
The apparent sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis by her own father Agamemnon was forestalled by the godness Artemis, who by an adroit sleight of hand that fooled all participants, substituted a deer for the daughter. Wafted magically away to the “Friendless Shores” of savage Tauris and installed as chief priestess presiding over the human sacrifice of all luckless foreigners, Iphigenia broods over her “murder” by her parents and longs for some Greeks to be shipwrecked on her shores so she can wreak a vicarious vengeance on them... |