Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.

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...

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

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.

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 ...

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

Der Antichrist

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Let us looked each other in the face.

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...

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

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...

Picasso

by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Louis Andral

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling cons...

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

Milton's Poems

by John Milton

Paradise Lost. The Verse of "Paradise Lost." "The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime," as that of Homer in Gre...

Rubāʻīyāt

by Omar Khayyam

Agamemnon

by Aeschylus

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

Odes

by Horace

Mecene, issu d'aieux royaux, o toi mon appui, toi, ma douce gloire, il y a des hommes dont c'est le plaisir d'avoir, a l...

Georgica

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Critics since antiquity have seen the last six books of the Aeneid as Virgil's 'Iliad', the story of the war in Italy th...

Poems (Lover's Complaint / Passionate Pilgrim / Phoenix and ...

by William Shakespeare

Many editions of Shakespeare's poems, and of the Sonnets in particular, present themselves as having solved some or all ...