Ancient & Medieval Classics Audio & Video

Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement.

The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer.

The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer.

If "The Iliad" is the world's greatest war story, then "The Odyssey" is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life.

With this series we will investigate the gods, heroes, and myths that formed bedrock of belief in the ancient Greek and Roman world.

This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English.

With an abreviated but keen sense of observation Aesop tells stories that never attempt to portray the real world; yet within this fantastic setting he gives us a vision of the human condition that still provides deep insight to this day.

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse).

In this lecture professor Peter Meineck introduces Ancient Greek drama and explains why he feels it is still so popular and powerful today.

Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written between AD 397 and AD 398.