PDF Books in Ancient & Classical Literature
The Republic
by PlatoPublished in a dialogue form of narration, The Republic is the conversation between Socrates and Plato, one of the most acknowledged and ironically most criticized philosophers of the western civilization. Plato makes you not to accept what he says. Rather he makes you to disagree, argue and most importantly to think. "I am the wisest man i..
Apology
by PlatoIn 399 BC, Socrates defends himself to the jury against the charges on him for corrupting young minds against the popular belief of the city on gods.The word in the Greek is apologia, which means apology. This Socrates defense speech is narrated by Plato in a dialogue form in this book “Apology”, by Plato...
Don Juan
by Lord ByronDon Juan, a satirical poem and is known as the masterpiece of the English poet Lord Byron, his short lyric She Walks in Beauty and lengthy narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage made him to be the celebrated poet of the England. Don Juan portrays the fictional libertine, Don Giovanni as a character who can be easily seduced by women, against ..
Euthyphro
by PlatoEuthyphro is one among the most famous Plato’s dialogues which takes place outside the court of Athens. Socrates is charged on impiety by Meletus and Euthyphro has come to prosecute his own father. Both meet outside the Athens court and the dialogue begins there. The core of the dialogue is Socrates trying to learn from Euthyphro on what is holi..
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner is written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet and philosopher credited as the founder of Romantic Movement in England. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is written as poem narrates the long voyage experiences of a mariner who narrates his story to a man who is on his way to attend a wedding ceremony. Blesse..
The Consolation of Philosophy
by BoethiusThe Consolation of Philosophy is written by Boethius, a Roman philosopher of 6th century. He compiled this book during his trial for treason and this book is considered the great prison literature. Boethius was executed after one year imprisonment by King Theodoric the Great. This book is written in a conversational style between Boethius ..
The Poetics of Aristotle
by AristotleThe Poetics of Aristotle is an oldest surviving theory of Dramatization in literary works including drama (and its sub genres Comedy, Tragedy and Satire), Poetry (Lyric Poetry, Epic poetry and Dithyramb) written by Aristotle, who was a Greek Philosopher and a disciple of Socrates. This text explores genres of poetry in three ways such as M..
The Iliad
by HomerThe Iliad is an epic poem written by Homer, an ancient Greek Poet whose work influenced the shaping of Greek culture to great extent. Considered to be sequel to the author’s early work “The Odyssey”, The Iliad narrates final week incidents of the Trojan War, the early events like the cause of the war, gathering warriors for the siege has b..