Found 48,435 results for "Ancient History"
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
The Jewel of Seven Stars
by Bram Stoker
IT all seemed so real that I could hardly imagine that it had ever occurred before; and yet each episode came, not as a ...
Συμπόσιον
by Πλάτων
Apollodorus. In my opinion, I am not unprepared for what you ask about; for just the other day-when I was on my way up t...
Εὐθύφρων / Κρίτων / Φαίδων / Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους
by Πλάτων
Euthyphro: What are you doing at the courthouse, Socrates?
Nicomachean Ethics
by Aristotle
THE question of the genuineness and of the literary character of each of the several works which have come down to us un...
La Poetica
by Aristotle
THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their p...
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...
Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους
by Πλάτων
Je ne sais trop, Atheniens, quel effet mes accusateurs ont pu produire sur vous.
Ὀδύσσεια
by Όμηρος
TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...
Medea
by Euripides
For Greeks of the fifth century BCE there is very little biographical information that can be relied upon.
Lives
by Plutarch
IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...
Πολιτικά (Politiká)
by Aristotle
EVERY STATE is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always...
The Age of Fable
by Thomas Bulfinch
ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.
The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
IN 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, ...
The guide of the perplexed of Maimonides
by Moses Maimonides
MOSES BEN MAIMON, commonly called Maimonides (1135-1204), is the leading Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages.
