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Ancient Greek. A True Story (Lucian of Samosata), Aesop's Fables (Aesop), Alcibiades (Plato), Alexandra (Lycophron), An Ephesian Tale (Xenophon of Ephesus · Ἐφεσιακά), Anabasis, Book I (Xenophon), Critias (Plato · Κριτίας), Crito (Plato), De Materia Medica (Dioscorides), Deipnosophistae (The Learned Banqueters) (Athenaeus · Δειπνοσοφισταί), Dialogues of the Courtesans (Lucian), Elegies, Book 2 (Theognis of Megara), Enchiridion (Epictetus), Enquiry into Plants (Theophrastus), Euthyphro (Plato), Exhortation to the Greeks (Clement of Alexandria), Heraclitus: Fragments (Heraclitus of Ephesus), Hesiod: Theogony and Works and Days (Hesiod), History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides · Ἱστορίαι), Homeric Hymn to Demeter (the Homeric Hymns), Laws (Plato), Lysistrata (Aristophanes), Medea (Euripides), Meditations (Marcus Aurelius), Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle), Oedipus Rex (Sophocles), On Mixtures (Galen), On Nature (Parmenides), On the Mysteries (Iamblichus), On the Soul (Aristotle · De Anima), Papyri Graecae Magicae (The Greek Magical Papyri), Paraphrase of the Gospel of John (Nonnus of Panopolis), Phaedo (Plato), Phaedrus (Plato), Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus), Symposium (Plato · Συμπόσιον), Symposium (Xenophon), The Apology of Socrates (Plato), The Argonautica (Apollonius of Rhodes), The Bacchae (Euripides), The Clouds (Aristophanes), The Corpus Hermeticum (Hermes Trismegistus), The Frogs (Aristophanes), The Histories (Herodotus · Ἱστορίαι), The Iliad (Homer), The Library of Greek Myth (Apollodorus), The Library of History, Book IV (Diodorus of Sicily), The Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Philostratus), The Odyssey (Homer), The Orphic Gold Tablets (the Orphic tradition), The Orphic Hymns (the Orphic tradition), The Republic: the Cave (Plato), The Seventh Letter (Plato), The Sorceress (Theocritus), The Victory Odes (Pindar), Timaeus (Plato · Τίμαιος)
English. Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery), Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery), Dracula (Bram Stoker), Dracula (Bram Stoker), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), Grimms' Fairy Tales (Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm), Grimms' Fairy Tales (Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm), Heidi (Johanna Spyri), Heidi (Johanna Spyri), Meditations (Marcus Aurelius), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Call of the Wild (Jack London), The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas), The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas), The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling), Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson), Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Koine Greek. Revelation (John of Patmos), The Acts of Paul and Thecla (a heroine of the early church), The Book of the Watchers (attributed to Enoch), The Didache (the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles), The Gospel of John (John the Evangelist), The Gospel of Mark (Mark the Evangelist), The Gospel of Matthew (Matthew the Evangelist), The Gospel of Peter (the Akhmîm fragment), The Hymn of the Pearl (from the Acts of Thomas), The Letters (Ignatius of Antioch), The Protoevangelium of James (the Birth of Mary), The Psalms (Septuagint) (attributed to David), The Septuagint (the Seventy (Οἱ Ἑβδομήκοντα)), The Shepherd of Hermas (Hermas of Rome), The Testament of Solomon (attributed to Solomon), The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (the twelve sons of Jacob)
Classical Chinese. Journey to the West (Wu Cheng'en), Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Pu Songling), Tao Te Ching (Laozi), The Analects (Confucius), The Art of War (Sun Tzu), Zhuangzi (Zhuang Zhou)
German. Duino Elegies (Rainer Maria Rilke), Phenomenology of Spirit (G. W. F. Hegel), Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (Friedrich Nietzsche), The Birth of Tragedy (Friedrich Nietzsche), The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Latin. Aeneid, Book IV (Virgil), Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus), Metamorphoses (Ovid), On Architecture (Vitruvius · De architectura), The Golden Ass (Apuleius), The Six Elegies (Sulpicia)
Portuguese. A Escrava Isaura (Bernardo Guimarães), Amor de Perdição (Camilo Castelo Branco), Dom Casmurro (Machado de Assis), O Guarani (José de Alencar), Os Lusíadas (Luís de Camões)
French. Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne), Carmen (Prosper Mérimée), Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand), The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux)
Spanish. Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes), Leyendas (Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer), María (Jorge Isaacs), The Answer to Sor Filotea (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz)
Avestan. Hymn to Mithra (The Avesta · Yasht 10, the Mihr Yasht), The Gathas of Zarathustra (Zarathustra · the Avesta), Yima and the Great Winter (the Avesta · Vendidad, chapter 2)
Ge'ez. The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch · the Ethiopic Bible), The Book of Jubilees (the Little Genesis · the Ethiopic Bible), The Kebra Nagast (the Glory of the Kings · Ethiopia)
Italian. Inferno (Dante Alighieri), Pinocchio (Carlo Collodi), Poems to Tommaso de' Cavalieri (Michelangelo Buonarroti)
Middle English. Revelations of Divine Love (Julian of Norwich), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (the Gawain Poet), The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Akkadian. Enūma eliš (The Babylonian epic of creation), Gilgamesh (Sîn-lēqi-unninni · the Standard Babylonian version)
Biblical Hebrew. Genesis (the first book of Moses), The Song of Songs (attributed to Solomon)
Classical Persian. Layla & Majnun (Nizami Ganjavi), Rumi (Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī)
Coptic. Pistis Sophia (Anonymous · the Askew Codex), The Gospel of Thomas (Nag Hammadi Codex II)
Hebrew. Isaiah (the prophet Isaiah · the Hebrew Bible), Sefer Yetzirah (the Book of Formation · attributed to Abraham)
Sanskrit. Bhagavad Gita (from the Mahābhārata), Śakuntalā (Kālidāsa)
Sumerian. The Descent of Inanna (the poets of Sumer), The Exaltation of Inanna (Enheduanna)
Ugaritic. The Baal Cycle (Ugarit · the scribe Ilimilku), The Birth of the Gracious Gods (Ugarit)
Aeolic Greek. Sappho: Fragments (Sappho of Lesbos)
Classical Arabic. One Thousand and One Nights (the tale-tellers of the Nights)
Classical Japanese. The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
Early Modern English. Sonnets to the Young Man (William Shakespeare)
English · glossed to Portuguese. Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
K'iche' Maya. Popol Vuh (K'iche' Maya tradition)
Middle French. The Book of the City of Ladies (Christine de Pizan)
Middle High German. The Nibelungenlied (Anonymous)
Old English. Beowulf (Anonymous)
Old French. Tristan & Iseult (Béroul)
Old Norse. Völsunga Saga (Anonymous)
Russian. Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin)
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