Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Josephus Josephus Flavius Josephus It was published about A.D. 78, when Josephus was about 40 years old. The next work to be published was The Jewish Antiquities, about sixteen years later. It consisted of the early writings of Josep… OL15202836W
Enquiry into plants and minor works on odours and weather signs Enquiry into plants and minor works on odours and weather signs Theophrastus Life at the children's amusement park becomes a nightmare for twelve-year-old Joan when she tries to discover who is sabotaging the park's operation. OL1563114W
Theophrasti Characteres Theophrasti Characteres Theophrastus "This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture.". "The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such … OL1563119W
History History Herodotus One of the earliest histories of the western world still extant, this gives a contemporary account of the Greco-Persian wars of the fifth century BCE with the rise of the Achaemenid Empire under Cyru… OL15678068W
Argonautika Argonautika Apollonius Rhodius "Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica, composed in the third century B.C.E., is the epic retelling of Jason's quest for the golden fleece. Along with his contemporaries Callimachus and Theocritus, Apollo… OL2382363W
A Greek-English Lexicon A Greek-English Lexicon Henry George Liddell,Robert Scott Still useful! [*][1] [1]: http://twitter.com/ProjectCARARE/status/22787197138 OL2947300W
Γοργίας Γοργίας Πλάτων There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is because his writings have set the schema that philosophy can be said to have followed ever since. Foll… OL51785W
Hippolytus Hippolytus Euripides,Euripides Euripides wrote two plays called Hippolytus. In this, the second, he dramatized the tragic failure of perfection. This translation comes in two forms; the first presents a simulacrum of the text as i… OL66497W
Medea Medea Euripides "Medea has been betrayed. Her husband, Jason, has left her for a younger woman. He has forgotten all the promises he made and is even prepared to abandon their two sons. But Medea is not a woman to a… OL66501W
Moralia Moralia Plutarch The Moralia of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Roman and Greek life, but often are also… OL723491W
Nicomachean Ethics Nicomachean Ethics Hye-Kyung Kim,Aristotle,J. A. Smith,Robert C. Bartlett,Joe Sachs,Susan D. Collins,L H. G. ed Greenwood An detailed examination of what the best life might be for human beings. In order to anwer this question, Aristotle finds he also has to examine what virtue itself is and all of the various virtues … OL8273964W