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Julius Caesar by William ShakespeareA tale of honor and betrayal. Pompey is defeated in war by Caesar. A small devoted brotherhood, led by Marcus Brutus, plot the assassination of their new leader. At: Local Library Amazon $5.99 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
The Civil War by Julius CaesarThe Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.99 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | General |
Ben Hur by Lew WallaceA bestseller since 1880... The classic saga of the Roman Empire From a thrilling sea battle to its famous chariot race to the agony of the... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $7.95 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
The Aeneid by VirgilThe adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him to Italy and fulfills his destiny as founder of the Roman people. At: Local Library Amazon $10.40 Read Online | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
Confessions by St. AugustineSt Augustine's autobiographical reflections on philosophy, theology, history, and humanity. Near the top of EveryGoodBook's all time Top-10 list. At: Local Library Amazon $5.31 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Phil./Religion, Biography |
Rhetoric by AristotleFocusing on the use of language as both a vehicle and a tool to shape persuasive argument, Aristotle delineates with remarkable insight... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $3.50 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
Politics by AristotleIntellectually stimulating work describes the ideal state and ponders how it can bring about the most desirable life for its citizens. Both... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $5.00 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
City of God by St. AugustineAugustine's City of God, a monumental work of religious lore, philosophy, and history, was written as a kind of literary tombstone for... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $10.40 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
Church History in Plain Language by Bruce ShelleyIt's about time that someone wrote church history that tells about people, not just about "eras" and "ages." Church History in Plain... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.97 | ![]() | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | Phil./Religion, General |
Poetics by AristotleAfter reading Aristotle's "Poetics," I felt a severe sense of shame for not having read it much, much sooner. As a student of literature,... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $7.88 Read Online | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
Robe by Lloyd C. DouglasA Roman soldier, Marcellus, wins Christ's robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $5.97 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| History of the English by Winston Churchill To most people Churchill is known as one of Britain's greatest statesmen. That overshadows his literary achievements. He begins his account... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $15.98 | ![]() | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | General |
| Plays by Euripides The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.43 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $11.16 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | General |
| Oedipus Rex by Sophocles One of the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies and a masterpiece of dramatic construction. Catastrophe ensues when King Oedipus... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $1.50 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally re-edited for... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
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| Metaphysics by Aristotle A new translation of one of the cornerstones of Western philosophy. Always passionately interested in natural phenomena, Aristotle... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.60 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
| Plays by Aristophanes Comedy is notoriously difficult to translate--not only do some cultures have entirely different senses of humor, the word-play and deft... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.44 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| Orations by Cicero Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106—43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $15.56 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
| The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.97 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | General |
| The Last Days of Socrates by Plato I wondered that why there isn't any church putting Jacque Louis-David's painting the Death of Socrates on the wall. If you hear the story... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.93 Read Online | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
| Western Civilization by Jackson Spielvogel Best-selling text, WESTERN CIVILIZATION has helped over one million students learn about the present by exploring the past. Jack... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $10.79 | ![]() | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | General |
| Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede There is a definite thrill to reading the actual words set down by the infamously unassuming monk himself. This is why there are so many... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $10.20 | ![]() | Ancient to MiddleAges | Secondary & Adult | General |
| Agamemnon by Aeschylus With his recent translations of Aeschylus, Sophocles and especially Homer, Robert Fagles assumes the status of the finest Greek translator... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $5.02 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles The stirring tale of a legendary royal family's fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the crowning achievement of... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $3.50 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| The Apology by Plato Plato's 4th-century BC Dialogues rank among Western civilization's most important and influential philosophical works. With Socrates as the... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $5.00 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
| Oresteia by Aeschylus Classic trilogy by great tragedian deals with the bloody history of the House of Atreus. Grand in style, rich in diction and dramatic... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $3.50 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
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| Rule of St. Benedict by Benedict Modestly described by its author as "a little rule for beginners," this masterpiece of spiritual wisdom was written in the 6th century as a... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.95 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
| The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius Axel Boethius wrote this book under the most horrifying circumstances imaginable; while awaiting his own rather grisly execution. What... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.96 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
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| Metamorphoses by Ovid Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $9.41 Read Online | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
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| Pastoral Care by Gregory the Great St. Gregory deals with the great responsibility of the episcopal office and its onerous nature. Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $17.99 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
| From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya by Ruth Tucker A long-awaited revised edition of a highly acclaimed textbook on the history of Christian missions by one of the most respected... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $22.42 | ![]() | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | General |
| The Early History of Rome by Livy With stylistic brilliance and historical imagination, the first five books of Livy's monumental history of Rome record events from the... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $8.33 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | General |
| The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus The Annals is without a doubt the most important book ever written on Imperial Rome, and the most important one dealing with the... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.26 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | General |
| The Bacchae by Euripides Euripides' powerful investigation of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it is an argument for moderation, rejecting the lures of pure... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| Thales to Dewey by Gordon Clark Very readable, very concise. He could have easily rambled on and made it 1,000 pages, but he didn't. It's just 534 pages, and Thales to... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $28.94 | ![]() | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | Philosophy & Religion |
| Medea by Euripides One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, masterfully portraying the fierce motives driving Medea's pursuit of vengeance... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $2.00 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| The Frogs by Aristophanes Comedy is notoriously difficult to translate--not only do some cultures have entirely different senses of humor, the word-play and deft... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.44 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | Literature |
| Histories by Tacitus In The Histories Cornelius Tacitus, widely regarded as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.88 | ![]() | Classical 500BC-600AD | Secondary & Adult | General |
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| Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk What holds America together? In this classic work, Russell Kirk describes the beliefs and institutions that have nurtured the American soul... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $14.92 | ![]() | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | General |
| The Biblical Philosophy of History by R. J. Rushdoony At: Local Library Amazon $14.99 | ![]() | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | Phil./Religion, General |
| The Story of Painting by H.W. Janson At: Local Library Amazon $5.30 | ![]() | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | General |
| The Story of Christianity by Michael Collins Providing a truly global view of Christianity across all denominations, The Story of Christianity covers the Old Testament to the present... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $11.94 | ![]() | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | General |
| How to Read Church History by Comby Introduction to early Christianity sets it in teh broader context of the poltical, social, and economic development in the wider world. Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $8.48 | ![]() | Ancient to Modern | Secondary & Adult | General |













