Search Results

Versio Latina (Homeri Odyssea) Liber VI

Read by hefyd

Homer

The Versio Latina, or Latin translation of the works of Homer, has existed since the 14th century, but was first printed, under the name of …

Marius the Epicurean, Volume 1

Read by hefyd

Walter Pater

Marius the Epicurean is a philosophical novel written by Walter Pater, published in 1885. In it Pater displays, with fullness and elaboratio…

07 - Chapter IV - From Tabriz to Teheran - From “We have a horrour for uncouth……

In A Year Amongst the Persians

Read by hefyd

Edward Granville Browne

Edward Granville Browne, born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was a British orientalist who published numerous articles and …

Chapter 11, part 5-6

In A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol II

Read by hefyd

John Bagnell Bury

J.B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it is such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third edition…

The South-Sea Bubble, Part 1

In Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

Read by hefyd

Charles Mackay

The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philoso…

One Hundred and Forty-second Night

In The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 03

Read by hefyd

Translated by Richard Burton and Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythol…