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94 works

Battles, conspiracies, and constitutions: the Peloponnesian War, Rome's civil wars, and Shakespeare's histories.

Key terms: πόλεμος (polemos), bellum, imperium, tyrannis, δημοκρατία (demokratia) — the Day 14 terms index will link each term to its occurrences across the corpus.

Aeschylus
• Agamemnon
  Aeschylus · Greek + English · 14.4k words
• Prometheus Bound
  Aeschylus · Greek + English · 9.7k words
• Seven Against Thebes
  Aeschylus · Greek + English · 9k words
• The Eumenides
  Aeschylus · Greek + English · 8.9k words
• The Libation Bearers
  Aeschylus · Greek + English · 9.8k words
• The Persians
  Aeschylus · Greek + English · 9.1k words
• The Suppliants
  Aeschylus · Greek + English · 8.7k words
Aristophanes
• Acharnians
  Aristophanes · Greek only · 7.7k words
• Birds
  Aristophanes · Greek + English · 16.4k words
• Clouds
  Aristophanes · Greek + English · 15.1k words
• Ecclesiazusae
  Aristophanes · Greek only · 8.4k words
• Frogs
  Aristophanes · Greek only · 10.0k words
• Knights
  Aristophanes · Greek only · 9.5k words
• Lysistrata
  Aristophanes · Greek only · 8.8k words
• Peace
  Aristophanes · Greek only · 8.7k words
• Thesmophoriazusae
  Aristophanes · Greek only · 7.9k words
• Wasps
  Aristophanes · Greek only · 10.4k words
• Wealth
  Aristophanes · Greek only · 8.8k words
Cicero
• Against Catiline (Catilinarians)
  Cicero · Latin + English · 22.3k words
Demosthenes
• Olynthiac 1
  Demosthenes · Greek + English · 2.4k words
• Olynthiac 2
  Demosthenes · Greek + English · 2.7k words
• Olynthiac 3
  Demosthenes · Greek + English · 3k words
• On the Crown
  Demosthenes · Greek + English · 30.5k words
• Philippic 1
  Demosthenes · Greek + English · 4.4k words
• Philippic 2
  Demosthenes · Greek + English · 2.8k words
• Philippic 3
  Demosthenes · Greek + English · 5.9k words
• Philippic 4
  Demosthenes · Greek + English · 6.4k words
Homer
• Iliad
  Homer · Greek + English · 173.5k words
• Odyssey
  Homer · Greek + English · 130.6k words
Josephus
• Against Apion, Book 1
  Josephus · Greek + English · 18.4k words
• Against Apion, Book 2
  Josephus · Greek + English · 18.3k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1
  Josephus · Greek + English · 21.9k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 10
  Josephus · Greek + English · 17.9k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 11
  Josephus · Greek + English · 20.1k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 12
  Josephus · Greek + English · 25.0k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 13
  Josephus · Greek + English · 25.5k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 14
  Josephus · Greek + English · 29k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 15
  Josephus · Greek + English · 26.9k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 16
  Josephus · Greek + English · 23.7k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 17
  Josephus · Greek + English · 23.5k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 18
  Josephus · Greek + English · 24.1k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 19
  Josephus · Greek + English · 21.5k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 2
  Josephus · Greek + English · 23.0k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 20
  Josephus · Greek + English · 14.4k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 3
  Josephus · Greek + English · 20.9k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 4
  Josephus · Greek + English · 22.8k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 5
  Josephus · Greek + English · 23.3k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 6
  Josephus · Greek + English · 28.3k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 7
  Josephus · Greek + English · 28.1k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 8
  Josephus · Greek + English · 29.8k words
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 9
  Josephus · Greek + English · 19.0k words
• Josephus in later writers — testimonia
  Josephus · English · 1.2k words
• The Jewish War, Book 1
  Josephus · Greek + English · 49.7k words
• The Jewish War, Book 2
  Josephus · Greek + English · 37.9k words
• The Jewish War, Book 3
  Josephus · Greek + English · 24.7k words
• The Jewish War, Book 4
  Josephus · Greek + English · 30.4k words
• The Jewish War, Book 5
  Josephus · Greek + English · 29.3k words
• The Jewish War, Book 6
  Josephus · Greek + English · 21.9k words
• The Jewish War, Book 7
  Josephus · Greek + English · 20.2k words
• The Life of Josephus
  Josephus · Greek + English · 25.2k words
Julius Caesar
• Civil War
  Julius Caesar · Latin + English · 53k words
• Gallic War
  Julius Caesar · Latin + English · 86.0k words
Livy
• History of Rome (Books 1–10)
  Livy · Latin + English · 281.4k words
Philo of Alexandria
• On Rewards and Punishments
  Philo of Alexandria · Greek + English · 16.6k words
Polybius
• Histories
  Polybius · Greek + English · 410.5k words
Sallust
• The Conspiracy of Catiline
  Sallust · Latin + English · 21.5k words
• The Jugurthine War
  Sallust · Latin + English · 36.5k words
Suetonius
• Life of Julius Caesar
  Suetonius · Latin + English · 19.5k words
Tacitus
• Agricola
  Tacitus · Latin + English · 5.8k words
• Annals
  Tacitus · Latin + English · 158.2k words
• Germania
  Tacitus · Latin + English · 9.5k words
• Histories
  Tacitus · Latin + English · 98.5k words
Thucydides
• History of the Peloponnesian War
  Thucydides · Greek + English · 225.6k words
William Shakespeare
• Antony and Cleopatra
  William Shakespeare · English · 25.3k words
• Coriolanus
  William Shakespeare · English · 28.3k words
• Henry IV, Part 1
  William Shakespeare · English · 24.9k words
• Henry IV, Part 2
  William Shakespeare · English · 26.7k words
• Henry V
  William Shakespeare · English · 26.7k words
• Henry VI, Part 1
  William Shakespeare · English · 22k words
• Henry VI, Part 2
  William Shakespeare · English · 26.1k words
• Henry VI, Part 3
  William Shakespeare · English · 25.5k words
• Henry VIII
  William Shakespeare · English · 24.7k words
• Julius Caesar
  William Shakespeare · English · 20.1k words
• King John
  William Shakespeare · English · 21.5k words
• Richard II
  William Shakespeare · English · 22.6k words
• Richard III
  William Shakespeare · English · 30.5k words
• Titus Andronicus
  William Shakespeare · English · 21k words
• Troilus and Cressida
  William Shakespeare · English · 26.2k words
Xenophon
• Anabasis
  Xenophon · Greek + English · 89.0k words
• Apology of Socrates
  Xenophon · Greek + English · 3.0k words
• Cyropaedia
  Xenophon · Greek + English · 117.7k words
• Hellenica
  Xenophon · Greek + English · 100.8k words
• Memorabilia
  Xenophon · Greek + English · 44.4k words
• Symposium
  Xenophon · Greek + English · 14.0k words

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