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Poetics
Poetics

by Aristotle

In this work, we propose to discuss the nature of the poetic art in general, and to treat of its different species in pa...

1536 252 ed.
Συμπόσιον
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...

1559 351 ed.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

1200 6084 ed.
Medea
Medea

by Euripides

For Greeks of the fifth century BCE there is very little biographical information that can be relied upon.

1703 157 ed.
La Poetica
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...

1479 498 ed.
Ὀδύσσεια
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.

1488 1063 ed.
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

1730 213 ed.
Moby Dick
Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.

1851 1119 ed.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

1818 2185 ed.
Aeneis
Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shore...

1710 456 ed.
Sonnets
Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

1609 646 ed.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

1600 1505 ed.
Der Antichrist
Der Antichrist

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Let us looked each other in the face.

1895 384 ed.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.

1843 3198 ed.
Prometheus Bound
Prometheus Bound

by Aeschylus

Now have we journeyed to a spot of earth

1559 112 ed.
Sophocles
Sophocles

by Sophocles

At length, my noble friend, thou bravest son

1832 96 ed.
Troilus and Cressida
Troilus and Cressida

by William Shakespeare

Eternal reader, you have here a new play, never staled with the stage, never clapperclawed with the palms of the vulgar,...

1609 759 ed.
Bacchae
Bacchae

by Euripides

To one side, a road dips steeply into lower background, lined by the bodies of crucified slaves mostly in the skeletal s...

1821 127 ed.
Die Geburt der Tragödie
Die Geburt der Tragödie

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever may lie at the bottom of this questionable book: it must have been a question of the greatest interest and appe...

1872 61 ed.
Frogs
Frogs

by Aristophanes

The scene shows the house of HERACLES in the background.

1785 110 ed.