PHAEDO   By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION. PHAEDO INTRODUCTION. After an interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians by Phaedo the ‘beloved disciple.’ The Dialogue necessarily takes the form of a […]

TREATISES ON FRIENDSHIP AND OLD AGE By Marcus Tullius Cicero Translated by E. S. Shuckburgh INTRODUCTORY NOTE MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, the greatest of Roman orators and the chief master of Latin prose style, was born at Arpinum, Jan. 3, 106 B.C. His father, who was a man of property and belonged to the class of […]

The Categories   By Aristotle   Translated by E. M. Edghill Section 1 Part 1 Things are said to be named ‘equivocally’ when, though they have a common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for each. Thus, a real man and a figure in a picture can both lay claim to the name […]

THE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE THE FAMOUS PHILOSOPHER   Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy   COMPLETE EDITION, WITH ENGRAVINGS PART I—BOOK I THE MASTERPIECE On marriage and at what age young men and virgins are capable of it: and why so much […]

Monetary History of the World 700-550BC By Martin A. Armstrong Only since about 700 B.C. do we find a consistent record of the monetary system of the world. The credit for the creation of an official coinage system belongs to the Ionians or Lydians within the Greek Empire of Asia Minor – modern day Turkey. […]