The Satires of Horace
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Medea
One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the…
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The Decameron
The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble …
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Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentari…
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Poetics
'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?'
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Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics a… -
The Symposium
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever.
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In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. F… -
Phaedo
The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the…
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Apology
The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399BCE against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the god…
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On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
"Com uma linguagem leve, lúcida e atraente, neste texto Sêneca ensina como examinar os temas práticos da vida, sobretudo um dos mais cruciais da atualidade: o tempo. Sua atenção concentra-se na veloci…
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Hippolytos
In most versions of the Hippolytos myth, Phaidra is depicted as an utterly debauched character, a woman reduced to shamelessness by the power of Aphrodite. In Euripides' Hippolytos , however--informed…
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Metamorphoses
Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem, in an accessible translation by David Raeburn
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In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformat… -
Crito
Plato's Socrates, in prison and being urged to flee execution, raises in acute form, and for the first time in European thought, a central question: is it right to disobey the state? Socrates' controv…
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an obliqu…
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The Complete Poems
De tous les poètes latins, Catulle est sans doute celui qui a rendu avec le plus de fougue, de sincérité et de violence les éternelles péripéties du désir et de l'amour. Né aux alentours de 84 avant J…
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La favola di Amore e Psiche
Comincia come ogni favola il racconto di Amore e Psiche, con un re e una regina e le loro tre figlie, tutte bellissime. Ma la grazia e lo splendore della più piccola, Psiche, sono talmente grandi da a…
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Three Tales
First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness, and religious experience; together they confirm Flaubert as a master of the short story. A Simple He…
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Sentimental Education
Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as “the moral history of the men of my generation.” It follows the amorous adventures of …
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