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The Age of Fable
by Thomas Bulfinch
ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences
Ulysses
by James Joyce
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...
The Story of Philosophy
by Will Durant
IF YOU look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out i...
Lives
by Plutarch
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes...
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...
The Lost Symbol
by Dan Brown
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garde...
Εὐθύφρων / Κρίτων / Φαίδων / Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους
by Πλάτων
WHY have you left the Lyceum, Socrates? and what are you doing in the Porch of the King Archon?
La Poetica
by Aristotle
We speak in many ways of what is, i.e. the ways distinguished earlier in our work on the several ways in which things ar...
Nicomachean Ethics
by Aristotle
1 Every craft and every line of inquiry, and likewise every action and decision, seems to seek some good; that is why so...
Συμπόσιον
by Πλάτων
Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any c...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
OF all the commentators on Shakespeare, perhaps the oddest is Ulrich Braker, a Swiss weaver, who in 1780 finished writin...
Poetics
by Aristotle
Aristotle was much admired in the ancient world for the elegance and clarity of his style.
