Category - Literary Collections

"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's deat...

In 63 b.c., Lucius Sergius Catilina, a Roman aristocrat, formed a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman Republic. Cicero, who was consul that year, e...

The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly.  The hymn—as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy—was...

'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.'For over two centuries after Boccaccio's groundb...

This classic text, which contains the complete Greek text of the Apology and of Crito with other selections, offers an introduction to Plato’s la...

Classical Mythology offers both newcomers and long-time enthusiasts new ways to navigate the world of Greek and Roman myths and legends, beginnin...

In Mazzaroth; or The constellations, originally published in 1862, 19th-century English linguist and scholar FRANCES ROLLESTON (1781-1864) presen...

Traditionally ascribed to the early third-century BCE tragedian Lykophron, the Alexandra is a powerful Greek poem by an unknown author, probably ...

Jane Eyre. Frankenstein. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. You’re familiar with these pillars of classic literature. You have seen plenty of Frankenstei...

Published in 1898 as part of the Cambridge Elementary Classics series, this edition of the fourth book of Xenophon's Anabasis was originally inte...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's classic poem Evangeline follows the odyssey of the Acadians, who were forcibly deported from Nova Scotia in 1755. Th...

Along with simply written recipes for roasting a pig and preparing corned beef, hasty pudding, carrot pie, buffalo tongue, and scores of other d...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 ‘Peter Fiennes’s road trip around Greece [is] engagin...

Why is a focus on gender so important for interpreting the world in which we live? Sixteen world-famous scholars have been brought together to ad...

Offers a full introduction to and survey of runes and runology: their history, how they were used, and their interpretation.Runes, often consider...

"Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens." The constellations we recognize to...

Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus ...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fictio...

The classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England.Complete and Unabridged. Product DetailsISBN-1...

As consul in 63 BC Cicero faced a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman state launched by the frustrated consular candidate Lucius Sergius Catilina. ...

This special edition of TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST includes updates 24 and 76 years after the initial voyage. Richard Dana writes so that the read...

In these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny the Younger, lawyer, author, and natural philosopher, provides a fascinating insight into Ro...

Theogony details Hesiod's interpretation of the origins of the world and of the gods, beginning with Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros, and shows a...