Category Archives: Classics

Audiobook: Odyssey

The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being

Audiobook: Eclogues

This book of poems, written between 42 en 39 BC, was a bestseller in ancient

Audiobook: Apology of Socrates (version 3)

Plato’s account of Socrates’ defense at his trial for “corrupting the youth” is a classic

Audiobook: Politics

The Politics, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most influential texts

Audiobook: Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that

Audiobook: Trips to the Moon

The endeavour of small Greek historians to add interest to their work by magnifying the

Audiobook: Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation)

Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy

Audiobook: Republic

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is

Audiobook: Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare

The Ars Poetica, by Horace, also known as Epistula ad Pisones, is a treatise on

Audiobook: Fables of Phaedrus

The fable is a small narrative, in prose or verse, which has as its main

Audiobook: Symposium

The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385

Audiobook: Iliad of Homer

“The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in

Audiobook: Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence

The scene of the Dialogus de Oratoribus, as this work is commonly known, is laid

Audiobook: Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 1

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was of Spanish origin, being born about 35 A.D. at Calagurris. At

Audiobook: Trojan Women (Murray Translation)

Euripides’ play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been

Audiobook: Oedipus at Colonus (Storr Translation)

This is the second installment in Sophocles’s Theban Plays that chronicles the tragic fates of

Audiobook: Bacchae

The tragedy is based on the mythological story of King Pentheus of Thebes and his

Audiobook: Satyricon

Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and

Audiobook: Iliad (Pope Translation)

Homer’s Iliad is the first great work of Western literature. Composed in twenty-four books of

Audiobook: Apology of Socrates

The Apology of Socrates is Plato’s version of the speech given by Socrates as he

Audiobook: Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables

Aesop’s Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave

Audiobook: On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation)

On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus,

Audiobook: Symposium (version 2) (dramatic reading)

In one of Plato’s more accessible works, Apollodorus tells a friend about a drinking party

Audiobook: Persians

This is one of the few Greek tragedies that deals with historical events rather than

Audiobook: Apology of Socrates (version 2)

The Apology is Plato’s version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself

Audiobook: Hecuba

Like Euripides’ Trojan Women, this play takes place after the sack of Troy. Hecuba, widow

Audiobook: Iphigenia in Tauris

Orestes, coming into Tauri in Scythia, in company with Pylades, had been commanded to bear

Audiobook: Prometheus Bound (Browning Translation)

Whether or not it was actually written by Aeschylus, as is much disputed, “Prometheus Bound”

Audiobook: Iphigenia in Tauris (Murray Translation)

The apparent sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis by her own father Agamemnon was forestalled by

Audiobook: Odes and Carmen Saeculare

Flawlessly hammered out, as if from eternal bronze—”aere perennius”—The Odes of Horace are the consummate