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Trojan Women Trojan Women Euripides "The Trojan Women" is a play by the 5th century B.C. Greek dramatist Euripides. The story takes place at the end of the Trojan war and is focused on the Greeks' division of the spoils, who happen to… OL10306670W
Essais Essais Michel de Montaigne The complete essays of Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592. OL1086528W
Knights Knights Aristophanes Aristófanes (444 - 385 a. C.) es, sin ningún género de duda, el gigante de la comedia griega antigua. Contemporáneo de figuras tan importantes como Sócrates, Sófocles y Eurípides, el comediógrafo ate… OL20238W
Don Quixote Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, in an expanded P.S. edition Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tr… OL503666W
On the origin of species by means of natural selection On the origin of species by means of natural selection Charles Darwin Charles Darwin's seminal work laying the foundations for the principles of evolutionary biology via natural selection, based on evidence that he collected during his expedition on *HMS Beagle* in the… OL515051W
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
The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales John E. Cunningham,Geoffrey Chaucer A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling conte… OL531767W
Ὀδύσσεια Ὀδύσσεια Όμηρος The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem i… OL61982W
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
The history of the Peloponnesian war, translated from the Greek of Thucydides. ... By William Smith… The history of the Peloponnesian war, translated from the Greek of Thucydides. ... By William Smith… Thucydides,John J. Owen,Thucidides A history of the war between Athens and Sparta, along with both of their allies and colonies. The author was an Athenian citizen who tried not to take sides in his recording of events and avoided sec… OL762888W
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