Classical Literature
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Confessions
Autobiographical / theological prose · Augustine of Hippo
Augustine wrote the Confessions in Latin between 397 and 400 CE, in his early forties, while he was Bishop of Hippo Regius in Roman North Africa. The work is thirteen books long, structured as a susta
Faust I: Opening Monologue
Drama (Stück) · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The monologue that opens Faust is one of the rare moments in Western drama where a play stakes its entire premise on a single character's exhaustion. Heinrich Faust has mastered philosophy, jurisprude
Inferno, Canto III: The Gate of Hell
Sacred text (Italian narrative poem) · Dante Alighieri
The inscription above the gate of Hell is the most quoted passage in the Inferno, and the third line in particular has had a longer afterlife than the rest of the poem. Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'
