The Ancient World

The literature and thought of antiquity — Homer and Virgil, Plato and the Stoics, Ovid and the myths — the foundations everything Western was built on.

Greece, Rome, and the roots of the West

In this collection

• Nicomachean Ethics
• Fragments
• The Enchiridion
• The Odyssey
• The Iliad
• The Last Words of Marcus
• The Sayings of Macus Aurelius
• Speech to the Army on the News of the Revolt of Cassius
• The Meditations
• Speech Sent to the Senate
• Metamorphoses
• Ars Amatoria
• Menexenus
• Lesser Hippias
• Eryxias
• Critias
• Charmides
• Lysis
• Laches
• Protagoras
• Euthydemus
• Cratylus
• Phaedrus
• Ion
• Symposium
• Meno
• Euthyphro
• Apology
• Crito
• Phaedo
• Gorgias
• Republic
• Timaeus
• Parmenides
• Theaetetus
• Sophist
• The Retreat of the Ten Thousand

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