Books on Topic: 'Classical literature'

Hyakunin isshu (百人一首) is a traditional style of compiling Japanese waka poetry where each contributor writes one poem for the anthology. (Summary...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 different recordings of To Lesbia by Caius Valerius Catullus (translation by Richard Burton.) This was the weekly poe...

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or...

This book delves into the realm of ghostly tales from ancient Greece and Rome, comparing and contrasting the narratives of these two powerful civiliza...

Os Lusíadas, considered the masterpiece of Portuguese poet Luís Vaz de Camões, is an epic poem in ten cantos. It chronicles the Portuguese voyages of...