Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a t...

Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staat...

by Friedrich Engels

De bello judaico

by Flavius Josephus

THE war of the Jews against the Romans was the greatest of our time; greater too, perhaps, than any recorded struggle wh...

Πρωταγόρας

by Πλάτων

FRIEND. Hello, Socrates; what have you been doing?

Antigone

by Sophocles

Ismene, sister of my blood and heart, See’st thou how Zeus would in our lives fulfil The weird of Oedipus, a world of ...

Agamemnon

by Aeschylus

SCENE: Argos, Greece, in front of the palace of AGAMEMNON, the king, high on a hill overlooking the sea.

Εὐθύφρων

by Πλάτων

Euthyphro. Why have you left the Lyceum, Socrates?

Hippolytus

by Euripides, Euripides

Daphnis and Chloe

by Longus, Otto Schönberger

THERE is in Lesbos a large and beautiful city called Mytilene.

Παρμενίδης

by Πλάτων

The Parmenides is narrated by Cephalus of Clazomenae, who has heard it from Plato's half-brother, Antiphon, who heard it...

On the sublime

by Longinus

The Secret History

by Procopius, Richard Atwater

In what I have written on the Roman wars up to the present point, the story was arranged in chronological order and as c...

I segreti dell'Olimpo

by Elisabetta Dami

Cleopatra

by H. Rider Haggard

BY Osiris who sleeps at Abouthis, I write the truth.

Theogony

by Hesiod, Theognis

FROM the Muses of Helicon let us begin our singing, that haunt Helicon's great and holy mountain, and dance on their sof...

Hellenica

by Xenophon

Sappho

by Sappho

Geographia

by Ptolemy

Bibliotheca historica

by Diodorus Siculus

Ἴων

by Πλάτων

The Ion is the shortest, or nearly the shortest, of all the writings which bear the name of Plato, and is not authentica...