Greek Roman category: 1023 books

Cover of The Seven Against Thebes
by Aeschylus
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely...
Cover of The Libation-Bearers
by Aeschylus
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely...
Cover of The Trachiniae
by Sophocles
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

Sophocles was one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived.  Sophocles wrote over 100 plays but only 7 have survived including the famous Oedipus trilogy.  This edition of The Trachiniae includes a table of contents.
Cover of Socrates
by Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019

Socrates is a 1759 French play in three acts written by Voltaire. It is set in Ancient Greece during the events just before the trial and death of Greek philosopher Socrates. It is heavy with satire specifically at government authority and organized religion. The main characters besides the...
Cover of Two Tragedies of Seneca - Medea and The Daughters of Troy
by Seneca
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Senec; c. 4 BC AD 65) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. While he was forced to commit suicide for...
Cover of Germanicus
by Jo-Marie Claassen
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013

This is the first translation into English of the verse drama Germanicus by the Afrikaans poet N.P. Van Wyk Louw. The work was based on the first three chapters of the Annales of the Roman historiographer Tacitus. After the death of Emperor Augustus, his successor Tiberius’ adopted son Germanicus...
Cover of Sapho

Sapho

Opéra en quatre actes, cinq tableaux

by Émile Augier, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016

Extrait : "'CHŒUR PROCESSIONNEL. O Jupiter, si tu te plais aux jeux, / Aux jeux sacrés que célèbre Olympie, / Ne permets pas le triomphe à l'impie, / Ne permets pas la honte aux courageux !' Entre le cortège d'un Athlète vainqueur. LE CORTÈGE. Pétrissons le miel avec l'orge ! / Gloire au vainqueur...
Cover of La porte est close

La porte est close

Monologue à trois personnages

by Léon Supersac, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2015

Extrait : "MADAME : Mon cher joli roman, hélas ! si vous saviez Avec tout votre esprit comme vous m'ennuyez ! Une petite pause. Encor, je ne sais pas s'il m'ennuie, à vrai dire, – Petit livre, pardon, j'essayais de te lire, Et là, sincèrement, j'ai d'abord commencé L'esprit assez tranquille, et...
Cover of Selected Letters
by Seneca
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010

'You ask what is the proper measure of wealth? The best measure is to have what is necessary, and next best, to have enough. Keep well!' The letters written by the Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca to his friend Lucilius are in effect moral essays, whose purpose is to reinforce Lucilius' struggle...
Cover of Les Suppliantes
by Euripide, Traducteur : Leconte de Lisle
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2017

Extrait : Dèmètèr, Protectrice de cette terre d’Éleusis ! et vous, sacrificateurs, qui habitez le temple de la Déesse, faites que nous soyons heureux, moi, et Thèseus mon fils, et la Ville d’Athèna, et la terre de Pittheus, où m’ayant élevée dans ses riches demeures, étant...
Cover of Les Trôiades (Les Troyennes)
by Euripide, Traduction : Leconte de Lisle
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2017

Extrait : Je suis Neptune ; je sors des abîmes profonds de la mer Égée, où le chœur des Néréides déploie avec grâce ses danses brillantes. En effet, depuis le jour où, dans les champs de Troie, Apollon et moi élevâmes de hautes murailles construites avec un art savant, jamais...
Cover of HÉKABÈ (Hécube)
by Euripide, Traducteur : Leconte de Lisle
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2017

Extrait : Je viens, quittant la caverne des morts et les portes de l’obscurité où habite Aidès, loin des Dieux, moi, Polydôros, né de Hékabè la Kisséenne et de Priamos mon père. Et celui-ci, quand la Ville des Phryges fut en danger de tomber sous la lance hellènique, plein...
Cover of Mèdéia (Médée)
by Euripide, Traducteur : Leconte de Lisle
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2017

Extrait : Plût aux Dieux que la nef Argô n’eût point volé vers la terre de Kolkhôs, à travers les Symplégades bleues, que le pin coupé ne fût jamais tombé dans les bois du Pèlios et que la main des hommes très illustres qui partirent afin d’enlever la Toison d’or pour...
Cover of Iôn (Ion)
by Euripide, Traducteur : Leconte de Lisle
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2017

Extrait : Atlas, qui, de ses épaules d’airain, soutient l’Ouranos, demeure antique des Dieux, engendra, d’une Déesse, Maia, qui m’a enfanté, moi, Hermès, messager de Zeus, du plus grand des Daimones. Et je suis venu sur cette terre Delphienne, le nombril du monde, où Phoibos...
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