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Homer's Odyssey: Odysseus battles Cyclops and Sirens on his journey home to Penelope. Ancient Greek epic - summary, characters, and where to buy.

Homer's Iliad tells of Achilles' wrath during the Trojan War. The foundational epic of Western literature - summary, analysis, and where to buy.

Sophocles' Oedipus the King: a ruler's relentless search for truth destroys him. The original tragedy and the foundation of Western drama.

Sophocles' Antigone: a young woman defies a king to bury her brother. The eternal drama of conscience against authority.

Kazantzakis's Zorba the Greek: a scholar and a wild-hearted worker on Crete clash over how to truly live.

Plato's Republic: Socrates, the Allegory of the Cave, and the foundational dialogue on justice, truth, and the ideal state.

Explore the Oresteia by Aeschylus, the ancient Greek trilogy tracing justice from blood vengeance to democratic law.

Euripides' tragic masterpiece about a betrayed sorceress whose devastating revenge remains shocking after 2,500 years.

Explore Plutarch's Parallel Lives, the classic biographical work pairing great Greeks and Romans to illuminate character and virtue.

Sophocles' final tragedy follows the blind, exiled Oedipus to a sacred grove where suffering transforms into divine grace and redemption.

Explore The Complete Works of Plato, the foundational texts of Western philosophy, from the Allegory of the Cave to the Symposium.

Aristotle's foundational masterwork on virtue, happiness, and the art of living a truly flourishing human life.