Found 365 results for "History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical"
History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
1. Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the m...
Roughing It
by Mark Twain
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...
πολιτεία
by Πλάτων
The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...
Братья Карамазовы
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner in our district who became a c...
Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους
by Πλάτων
Je ne sais trop, Atheniens, quel effet mes accusateurs ont pu produire sur vous.
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...
Εὐθύφρων / Κρίτων / Φαίδων / Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους
by Πλάτων
Euthyphro: What are you doing at the courthouse, Socrates?
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...
Φαίδων
by Πλάτων
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Phaedo, who is the narrator of the dialogue to Echecrates of Phlius.
Carmina
by Horace
Your flanks are scorched by Spanish ropes, your legs by iron chains, and though you strut about in pride of wealth, good...
The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies i...
by Bryan Edwards, Arthur Broughton
Beacon Lights of History
by John Lord
There is not much in ancient governments and laws to interest us, except such as were in harmony with natural justice, a...
