Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) Audiobooks

Cratylus (ΚΡΑΤΥΛΟΣ) discusses whether things have names by mere convention or have true names which can only be correctly applied to the object named and may have originated from God. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...

Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentary on the Gallic Wars) is Julius Caesar's direct account of the Gallic Wars, told in the third person. In it, Caesar describes the struggles and intrigues during his nine years in Gaul, fighting local armies rebelling against Roman rule. This work is a...

Categories (Latin Categoriae, Greek Кατηγορίαι Katēgoriai) are the first of six writings on logic by Aristotle, collectively called Organon. In classes, Aristotle lists all the things that could be the subject or predicate of a sentence. Aristotle assigned each object of human perception to one of...

Twin sisters separated at birth in different countries. Later, Mnesilochus fell in love with one of them, apparently only seeing his friend Pistoclerus with her. There are many serious complications. Finally everything was explained and everyone gathered for a drink....

This collection of essays is the first in a series of works by the former Ante-Nicene Fathers'. The first collection includes all the so-called childhood stories in the New Testament Apocrypha. - Summary by KevinS...

The Chronicle, the last work of Tacitus, covers the period after the death of Augustus Caesar in AD 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but books 7-10 and parts of books 5, 6, 11, and 16 are lost. Book 6 ends with the death of Tiberius, and Books 7-12 roughly cover the reigns of Caligula and Claudius....

As Jowett points out in his excellent introduction, 95% of Plato's writings are deterministic, and it is on this basis that he built his reputation. Alcibiades 1 is a short work by Plato, with only two characters: Socrates and Alcibiades. The conversation has little dramatic truth content and...

Alcestis is the earliest surviving play of Euripides. King Admetus' devoted wife, Alcestis, agrees to die in his stead, and as the drama begins, she is close to death. In the first act, Apollo argues with Thanatos (Death) and asks for the extension of Alcestis' life, but Thanatos refuses. Apollo...

Agricola (Latin: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, Lit. On the life and character of Julius Agricola) is a book written by the Roman historian Tacitus around 98 about the life of his father-in-law, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, who was important Roman general. It also provides a brief introduction to...

The play "Agamemnon" describes the Argos king Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War. Waiting at home for him is his wife Clytemnestra, who plans to murder him, partly in revenge for sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia, partly The reason is that during the ten years of Agamemnon's...