Architecture (1)
General (1)
De Architectura (c.40 BCE) - Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Written by Vitruvius (c70 - 25 BCE), this is the only surviving major book on architecture from classical antiquity. The rediscovery of Vitruvius during the Renaissance greatly fueled the revival of classicism during that and subsequent periods. He held that the architect must also be versed in history, law, moral philosophy and physics. Vitruvius presents architecture as a thoroughly humanistic art.
De Architectura (c.40 BCE) - Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Written by Vitruvius (c70 - 25 BCE), this is the only surviving major book on architecture from classical antiquity. The rediscovery of Vitruvius during the Renaissance greatly fueled the revival of classicism during that and subsequent periods. He held that the architect must also be versed in history, law, moral philosophy and physics. Vitruvius presents architecture as a thoroughly humanistic art.
Art (1)
General (1)
The Death of Socrates - Jacques-Louis David
In 1787 David painted Socrates continuing to speak even while reaching for the cup. On the eve of the Revolution, this picture served as a trumpet call to duty, and resistance to unjust authority. Thomas Jefferson was present at its unveiling.
The Death of Socrates - Jacques-Louis David
In 1787 David painted Socrates continuing to speak even while reaching for the cup. On the eve of the Revolution, this picture served as a trumpet call to duty, and resistance to unjust authority. Thomas Jefferson was present at its unveiling.
Literature (8)
General (8)
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616) The work has come to mean more than Cervantes intended and carries a universal message. It has been translated into nearly all languages.
Eureka - E.A. Poe (1848) - Edgar Allen Poe
Originally published in 1848, Eureka is Poe's book on how the universe was formed, how it functions, and what its future might be. Poe provides a physical, scientific explanation for the interconnectedness of all things.
PROMETHEUS BOUND - ca. 430 B.C.E - Aeschylus
Prometheus stole fire and gave it to the human race. For this, Zeus had him bound to a mountain and punished for centuries.
The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400) - Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucer (1343-1400) began work about 1387, and intended for each of his thirty pilgrims to tell four tales. However, only twenty-three pilgrims received a story before his death in 1400.
THE DIVINE COMEDY (1321 C.E.) - DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265–1321)
Dante's literal journey is also an allegory of the progress of the individual soul toward God and the progress of political and social mankind toward peace on earth.
The Oresteian Trilogy - Aeschylus
AGAMEMNON (458 B.C.E.) THE CHOEPHORI (450 B.C.E.) EUMENIDES (458 B.C.E.)
The Praise of Folly (1509) - Desiderius Erasmus
The Praise of Folly is the best known work of the renaissance humanist, Erasmus of Rotterdam. It is a fantasy which starts off as a learned frivolity but turns into a new form of renaissance satire.
The Spy (1821-31) - James Fenimore Cooper
A tale of the War for Independence, based on the adventures of an agent during the British occupation of New York.
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616) The work has come to mean more than Cervantes intended and carries a universal message. It has been translated into nearly all languages.
Eureka - E.A. Poe (1848) - Edgar Allen Poe
Originally published in 1848, Eureka is Poe's book on how the universe was formed, how it functions, and what its future might be. Poe provides a physical, scientific explanation for the interconnectedness of all things.
PROMETHEUS BOUND - ca. 430 B.C.E - Aeschylus
Prometheus stole fire and gave it to the human race. For this, Zeus had him bound to a mountain and punished for centuries.
The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400) - Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucer (1343-1400) began work about 1387, and intended for each of his thirty pilgrims to tell four tales. However, only twenty-three pilgrims received a story before his death in 1400.
THE DIVINE COMEDY (1321 C.E.) - DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265–1321)
Dante's literal journey is also an allegory of the progress of the individual soul toward God and the progress of political and social mankind toward peace on earth.
The Oresteian Trilogy - Aeschylus
AGAMEMNON (458 B.C.E.) THE CHOEPHORI (450 B.C.E.) EUMENIDES (458 B.C.E.)
The Praise of Folly (1509) - Desiderius Erasmus
The Praise of Folly is the best known work of the renaissance humanist, Erasmus of Rotterdam. It is a fantasy which starts off as a learned frivolity but turns into a new form of renaissance satire.
The Spy (1821-31) - James Fenimore Cooper
A tale of the War for Independence, based on the adventures of an agent during the British occupation of New York.
Philosophy (26)
General (1)
ON LEARNED IGNORANCE (1440) - NICHOLAS OF CUSA (1401-1464)
'De Docta Ignorantia' influenced the development of Renaissance mathematics and science regarding the nature of the infinite, the motion of planets, and nature of the earth.
ON LEARNED IGNORANCE (1440) - NICHOLAS OF CUSA (1401-1464)
'De Docta Ignorantia' influenced the development of Renaissance mathematics and science regarding the nature of the infinite, the motion of planets, and nature of the earth.
Plato (25)
Apology - Plato
Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defends himself against the charges of being a man "who corrupted the young, did not believe in the gods, and created new deities".
Charmides - Plato
Discussing the nature and utility of temperance.
Cratylus - Plato
Socrates on whether names are "conventional" or "natural". Whether language is a system of arbitrary signs, or whether words have some intrinsic relation to the things they signify.
Critias - Plato
Critias follows the dialogue of Timaeus, and introduces the mighty empire of Atlantis.
Crito - Plato
Dialogue between Socrates and his follower the rich Athenian Crito, regarding the source and nature of political obligation. Crito tries to convince Socrates to escape his imprisonment and go into exile.
Euthydemus - Plato
The mirth is broader, the irony more sustained, the contrast between Socrates and the two Sophists,although veiled, penetrates deeper than in any other of Plato's writings.
Euthyphro - Plato
Socrates encounters a young man, Euthyphro, who has gained the reputation of being a religious expert.
Gorgias - Plato
Plato offers one of the most famous critiques of rhetoric and the Sophists.
Ion - Plato
Socrates and Ion discuss poetic inspiration, and whether or not poets create solely through skill or divine inspiration.
Laches - Plato
Socrates discusses with Laches and Nicias the nature of courage.
Laws - Plato
Not "What is Law", but rather "Who is given the credit for laying down your laws?"
Lysis - Plato
Socrates proposes several possible notions regarding the true nature of friendship.
Menexenus - Plato
Consists mainly of a lengthy funeral oration, satirizing the one given by Pericles in Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War.
Meno - Plato
Written in the Socratic dialectic style, it attempts to determine the definition of virtue.
Parmenides - Plato
Dialogue on the theory of Forms and Unity and Plurality.
Phaedo - Plato
The final days of Socrates, including the death scene. The theme is the idea that the soul is immortal.
Phaedrus - Plato
Series of speeches on love and on the nature and proper practice of love and rhetoric. Discussions of the soul, madness and divine inspiration, and the practice and mastery of an art.
Philebus - Plato
Socrates argues that neither pleasure alone nor wisdom alone is the good. Rather, the good is a mixture of pleasure and wisdom, but the excellence of this mixed life is due to wisdom.
Protagoras - Plato
On the teachability of virute. Opposition to the Sophists style of philosophical inquiry, which Plato believes favors disingenuous word games over substantive and earnest thought.
Sophist - Plato
The Sophist and Statesman take place sequentially on a single day and are linked to the Theaetetus, which occurred on the previous day, shortly before Socrates' trial. Investigates the nature of sophism
Statesman - Plato
Political power calls for a specialized knowledge, but those that have ruled merely give the appearance of such knowledge, but in the end are really sophists or imitators.
Symposium - Plato
Focusing on Eros (love) and its place in the philosophic path.
The Republic - Plato
The ideal city and how individuals should best live. Encompasses the areas of ontology, epistemology, political philosophy, feminism, ethics generally, medical ethics, communism, and economics.
Theaetetus - Plato
To define what knowledge is. This conversation occurs just prior to the Trial of Socrates in 399 BCE.
Timaeus - Plato
An account from the origin of the universe to that of man.
Apology - Plato
Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defends himself against the charges of being a man "who corrupted the young, did not believe in the gods, and created new deities".
Charmides - Plato
Discussing the nature and utility of temperance.
Cratylus - Plato
Socrates on whether names are "conventional" or "natural". Whether language is a system of arbitrary signs, or whether words have some intrinsic relation to the things they signify.
Critias - Plato
Critias follows the dialogue of Timaeus, and introduces the mighty empire of Atlantis.
Crito - Plato
Dialogue between Socrates and his follower the rich Athenian Crito, regarding the source and nature of political obligation. Crito tries to convince Socrates to escape his imprisonment and go into exile.
Euthydemus - Plato
The mirth is broader, the irony more sustained, the contrast between Socrates and the two Sophists,although veiled, penetrates deeper than in any other of Plato's writings.
Euthyphro - Plato
Socrates encounters a young man, Euthyphro, who has gained the reputation of being a religious expert.
Gorgias - Plato
Plato offers one of the most famous critiques of rhetoric and the Sophists.
Ion - Plato
Socrates and Ion discuss poetic inspiration, and whether or not poets create solely through skill or divine inspiration.
Laches - Plato
Socrates discusses with Laches and Nicias the nature of courage.
Laws - Plato
Not "What is Law", but rather "Who is given the credit for laying down your laws?"
Lysis - Plato
Socrates proposes several possible notions regarding the true nature of friendship.
Menexenus - Plato
Consists mainly of a lengthy funeral oration, satirizing the one given by Pericles in Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War.
Meno - Plato
Written in the Socratic dialectic style, it attempts to determine the definition of virtue.
Parmenides - Plato
Dialogue on the theory of Forms and Unity and Plurality.
Phaedo - Plato
The final days of Socrates, including the death scene. The theme is the idea that the soul is immortal.
Phaedrus - Plato
Series of speeches on love and on the nature and proper practice of love and rhetoric. Discussions of the soul, madness and divine inspiration, and the practice and mastery of an art.
Philebus - Plato
Socrates argues that neither pleasure alone nor wisdom alone is the good. Rather, the good is a mixture of pleasure and wisdom, but the excellence of this mixed life is due to wisdom.
Protagoras - Plato
On the teachability of virute. Opposition to the Sophists style of philosophical inquiry, which Plato believes favors disingenuous word games over substantive and earnest thought.
Sophist - Plato
The Sophist and Statesman take place sequentially on a single day and are linked to the Theaetetus, which occurred on the previous day, shortly before Socrates' trial. Investigates the nature of sophism
Statesman - Plato
Political power calls for a specialized knowledge, but those that have ruled merely give the appearance of such knowledge, but in the end are really sophists or imitators.
Symposium - Plato
Focusing on Eros (love) and its place in the philosophic path.
The Republic - Plato
The ideal city and how individuals should best live. Encompasses the areas of ontology, epistemology, political philosophy, feminism, ethics generally, medical ethics, communism, and economics.
Theaetetus - Plato
To define what knowledge is. This conversation occurs just prior to the Trial of Socrates in 399 BCE.
Timaeus - Plato
An account from the origin of the universe to that of man.
Political (5)
General (5)
F.D.R. - Commonwealth Club Address (1932) - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's address to the Commonwealth Club on September 23, 1932 in San Francisco, CA
F.D.R. - First Fireside Chat - "The Banking Crisis" (1933) - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first Fireside Chat on "The Banking Crisis" on March 12, 1933.
F.D.R. - First Fireside Chat - "The Banking Crisis" (1933) - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first Fireside Chat on "The Banking Crisis" on March 12, 1933.
I Have a Dream. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech delivered on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
On the Abolition of Slavery - Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin's Address to the Public on November 9, 1789 in Philadelphia.
F.D.R. - Commonwealth Club Address (1932) - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's address to the Commonwealth Club on September 23, 1932 in San Francisco, CA
F.D.R. - First Fireside Chat - "The Banking Crisis" (1933) - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first Fireside Chat on "The Banking Crisis" on March 12, 1933.
F.D.R. - First Fireside Chat - "The Banking Crisis" (1933) - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first Fireside Chat on "The Banking Crisis" on March 12, 1933.
I Have a Dream. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech delivered on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
On the Abolition of Slavery - Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin's Address to the Public on November 9, 1789 in Philadelphia.
Religion (10)
General (10)
Bible - New Testament - King James Version
The Bible New testament.
Bible - Old Testament - King James Version
The Bible Old Testament
De musica (On Music) - 387–389 C.E. - Saint Augustine
Augustine follows the Pythagorean and Platonic traditions in applying the theory of ratios to verses of Latin poetry to argue that numbers and ratios allow the mind to transcend the sensual reality of sound, and rise to a knowledge of rational truth.
The Analects of Confucius - Confusius (551 - 479 BcE)
Dialogues that Confucius had with his disciples on various topics during political and social disintegration in China. He believed that human beings contained the source of values needed to improve themselves, which in turn would improve society.
The City of God - 413-426 C.E. - Saint Augustine
Augustine describes the earthly city and the city of god. The earthly city contains the damned, whom God has not chosen to save. The city of God refers to the collection of good people on the earth, and the good society they can form amongst themselves.
The Confessions - 397 C.E. - Saint Augustine
Augustine addressed himself to the enduring spiritual questions that have stirred the minds and hearts of thoughtful men since time began. A history of the young man's fierce struggle to overcome his profligate ways and achieve a life of spiritual grace.
The Doctrine of the Mean (500 B.C.E.) - Confucius
Deals mainly with the principles and methods of self-cultivation, the education of one's family, the ruling of a state and the governance of a nation.
The Great Learning - Confucius
The Great Learning is the first of the Four books which were selected by Zhu Xi in the Song Dynasty as a foundational introduction to Confucianism.
The Quran - Yusuf Ali Translation
Full text of fundamental book of Islamic religion.
The Story of My Misfortunes - (The Historia Calamitatum) - Peter Abelard
Peter Abelard (1079-1142) was one of the great intellectuals of the 12th century. For a long period all his works were included in the Index of Forbidden Books.
Bible - New Testament - King James Version
The Bible New testament.
Bible - Old Testament - King James Version
The Bible Old Testament
De musica (On Music) - 387–389 C.E. - Saint Augustine
Augustine follows the Pythagorean and Platonic traditions in applying the theory of ratios to verses of Latin poetry to argue that numbers and ratios allow the mind to transcend the sensual reality of sound, and rise to a knowledge of rational truth.
The Analects of Confucius - Confusius (551 - 479 BcE)
Dialogues that Confucius had with his disciples on various topics during political and social disintegration in China. He believed that human beings contained the source of values needed to improve themselves, which in turn would improve society.
The City of God - 413-426 C.E. - Saint Augustine
Augustine describes the earthly city and the city of god. The earthly city contains the damned, whom God has not chosen to save. The city of God refers to the collection of good people on the earth, and the good society they can form amongst themselves.
The Confessions - 397 C.E. - Saint Augustine
Augustine addressed himself to the enduring spiritual questions that have stirred the minds and hearts of thoughtful men since time began. A history of the young man's fierce struggle to overcome his profligate ways and achieve a life of spiritual grace.
The Doctrine of the Mean (500 B.C.E.) - Confucius
Deals mainly with the principles and methods of self-cultivation, the education of one's family, the ruling of a state and the governance of a nation.
The Great Learning - Confucius
The Great Learning is the first of the Four books which were selected by Zhu Xi in the Song Dynasty as a foundational introduction to Confucianism.
The Quran - Yusuf Ali Translation
Full text of fundamental book of Islamic religion.
The Story of My Misfortunes - (The Historia Calamitatum) - Peter Abelard
Peter Abelard (1079-1142) was one of the great intellectuals of the 12th century. For a long period all his works were included in the Index of Forbidden Books.