Classical biography -- Early works to 1800
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The Tragedies, Gathered by Ihon Bochas, of All Such Princes as Fell From Theyr Estates Throughe the Mutability of Fortune Since the Creacion of Adam (this copy appears to have the title page of "A Memorial of Suche Princes", a related suppressed publication, rather than this work's intended title page; London: J. Wayland, ca. 1554), by Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. by John Lydgate, contrib. by William Baldwin (HTML at EEBO TCP)- Aemilius Probus, De Excellentibus Ducibus Exterarum Gentium; et, Cornelli Nepotis Quae Supersunt (in Latin; Basel: Bibliopolii Schweighauseriani, 1841), by Cornelius Nepos, ed. by Karl Ludwig Roth (page images at HathiTrust)
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Filed under: Greece -- Biography- Famous Men of Greece, by John H. Haaren and Addison B. Poland (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Plutarch's Lives (based on the "Dryden" translation), by Plutarch, ed. by Arthur Hugh Clough (Gutenberg text; 4.3 MB)
- Plutarch's Lives (in Greek and English), by Plutarch, trans. by Bernadotte Perrin (HTML at Perseus)
- Plutarch's Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North (Temple Plutarch edition, in 10 volumes; London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1898-1924), by Plutarch, ed. by W. H. D. Rouse, trans. by Thomas North
- Aemilius Probus, De Excellentibus Ducibus Exterarum Gentium; et, Cornelli Nepotis Quae Supersunt (in Latin; Basel: Bibliopolii Schweighauseriani, 1841), by Cornelius Nepos, ed. by Karl Ludwig Roth (page images at HathiTrust)
- On the Mysteries, by Andocides (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- Philostratus and Eunapius: The Lives of the Sophists, With an English Translation (revised edition; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: W. Heinemann, 1952), by Philostratus the Athenian and Eunapius, ed. by Wilmer Cave Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, by Philostratus the Athenian, trans. by F. C. Conybeare
- The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, the Epistles of Apollonius and the Treatise of Eusebius (2 volumes, 1912), by Philostratus the Athenian, trans. by F. C. Conybeare, contrib. by Apollonius, of Tyana and Eusebius of Caesarea (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Philostratus and Eunapius: The Lives of the Sophists, With an English Translation (London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922), by Philostratus the Athenian and Eunapius, ed. by Wilmer Cave Wright
- The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch, Being Parts of The "Lives" of Plutarch Edited for Boys and Girls, by Plutarch, ed. by John S. White (Gutenberg text)
- The Children's Plutarch: Tales of the Greeks, by Plutarch and Frederick James Gould, illust. by Walter Crane (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Our Young Folks' Plutarch (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1884), by Plutarch, ed. by Rosalie Kaufman (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Aus Einer Alten Advokatenrepublik (Demosthenes und Seine Zeit); Mit Einem Anhange, Der Krieg als Erwecker Literarischer Kunstformen (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums v8, no 3/4, in German; Paderborn: F. Schöningh, 1916), by Engelbert Drerup (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Socrates in the Agora (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1978), by Mabel L. Lang (page images at Google)
- Apollonius of Tyana (1901), by G. R. S. Mead
- The Miracle: A True Story (in English and Greek), by Leonidas Koumakes, trans. by Pat Tsekouras (HTML at greece.org)
- Greek Women (Woman in All Ages and in All Countries v1; Philadelphia: G. Barrie and Sons, ca. 1908), by Mitchell Carroll (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Prosopographia Imperii Romani Saec I. II. III. (first edition, 3 volumes, in Latin; Berlin: G. Reimer, 1897-1898), ed. by Elimar Klebs, Hermann Dessau, and Paul von Rohden
- Regesten der Kaiser und Päpste für die Jahre 311 bis 476 n. Chr. (in German; Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1919), by Otto Seeck
- Plutarch's Lives (based on the "Dryden" translation), by Plutarch, ed. by Arthur Hugh Clough (Gutenberg text; 4.3 MB)
- Plutarch's Lives (in Greek and English), by Plutarch, trans. by Bernadotte Perrin (HTML at Perseus)
- Plutarch's Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North (Temple Plutarch edition, in 10 volumes; London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1898-1924), by Plutarch, ed. by W. H. D. Rouse, trans. by Thomas North
- Shakespeare's Plutarch: Being a Selection From the Lives in North's Plutarch Which Illustrate Shakespeare's Plays (London : Macmillan and co., 1875), by Plutarch, ed. by Walter W. Skeat, trans. by Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shakespeare's Plutarch (2 volumes; New York: Duffield and Co.; London: Chatto and Windus, 1909), by Plutarch, ed. by Tucker Brooke, trans. by Thomas North
- The Lives of the Twelve Caesars; To Which Are Added, His Lives of the Grammarians, Rhetoricians, and Poets, by Suetonius, trans. by Alexander Thomson and Thomas Forester (Gutenberg text)
- The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine, by Eusebius of Caesarea (HTML at Fordham)
- De Die Natale; Life of the Emperor Hadrian (title of first book should be "De Die Natali"; New York: Cambridge Encyclopedia Co., 1900), trans. by William Maude, contrib. by Censorinus and Aelius Spartianus
- Aemilius Probus, De Excellentibus Ducibus Exterarum Gentium; et, Cornelli Nepotis Quae Supersunt (in Latin; Basel: Bibliopolii Schweighauseriani, 1841), by Cornelius Nepos, ed. by Karl Ludwig Roth (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Children's Plutarch: Tales of the Romans, by Plutarch and Frederick James Gould, illust. by Walter Crane (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Famous Men of Rome, by John H. Haaren and Addison B. Poland (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch, Being Parts of The "Lives" of Plutarch Edited for Boys and Girls, by Plutarch, ed. by John S. White (Gutenberg text)
- Our Young Folks' Plutarch (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1884), by Plutarch, ed. by Rosalie Kaufman (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- The Scriptores Historiae Augustae, With an English Translation (in Latin and English; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922-1932), trans. by David Magie (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Regesten der Kaiser und Päpste für die Jahre 311 bis 476 n. Chr. (in German; Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1919), by Otto Seeck
- Historical Discourse (1888), by James H. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Greater Than Emperor: Cola di Rienzo (ca. 1313-54) and the World of Fourteenth-Century Rome (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Amanda Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
- Caesar: A Sketch, by James Anthony Froude (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Caesar: A Sketch (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1895), by James Anthony Froude
- The Life of Cicero (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1881), by Anthony Trollope
- Vitae Selectorum Aliquot Virorum Qui Doctrinâ, Dignitate, Aut Pietate Inclaruere (in Latin; London: A. G. and J. P., 1681), by William Bates
- Opuscoli Morali di Leon Batista Alberti (in Italian; Venice: Appresso Francesco Franceschi, Sanese, 1568), by Leon Battista Alberti, ed. by Cosimo Bartoli (page images at HathiTrust)
- Three Discourses of Happiness, Virtue, and Liberty, Collected From the Works of the Learn'd Gassendi (London: Printed for Awnsham and J. Churchil, 1699), by Pierre Gassendi, ed. by François Bernier (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- A Treatise of Morall Phylosophie, Contayning the Sayings of the Wyse (London: E. Whitchurche, 1547)
- Gorgias (New York: Liberal Arts Press, c1952), by Plato, trans. by W. C. Helmbold (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Tragedies, Gathered by Ihon Bochas, of All Such Princes as Fell From Theyr Estates Throughe the Mutability of Fortune Since the Creacion of Adam (this copy appears to have the title page of "A Memorial of Suche Princes", a related suppressed publication, rather than this work's intended title page; London: J. Wayland, ca. 1554), by Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. by John Lydgate, contrib. by William Baldwin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Charmides, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
- Charmides, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)
- The Critique of Practical Reason, by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Gutenberg text)
- De Officiis, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, trans. by Walter Miller (HTML at stoics.com)
- The Distichs of Cato: A Famous Medieval Textbook, trans. by Wayland Johnson Chase (multieple formats at archive.org)
- Ethica: In Meetkundigen Trant Uiteengezet, Vertaald, Ingeleid en Toegelicht (in Dutch), by Benedictus de Spinoza, ed. by Nico van Suchtelen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Ethics, by Benedictus de Spinoza, trans. by R. H. M. Elwes (Gutenberg text)
- Eudemian Ethics, by Aristotle (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Gutenberg text)
- Gorgias, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
- Gorgias, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)
- Groundlaying: Kant's Search for the Highest Principle of Morality (German editions and English translations of Kants's Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, with commentary), by Immanuel Kant, ed. by Stephen Orr (multiple formats with commentary at appspot.com)
- L'Etica (in Italian; Milan: Istituto Editoriale Italiano, ca. 1914), by Benedictus de Spinoza, trans. by Erminio Troilo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics, by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Gutenberg text)
- Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. D. Ross
- Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, trans. by H. Rackham (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, Newly Translated into English (third edition; London: Longmans, Green, 1879), by Aristotle, trans. by Robert Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
- Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1898), by Plutarch, ed. by A. R. Shilleto (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Plutarch's Morals: Theosophical Essays (London: George Bell and Sons, 1908), by Plutarch, trans. by C. W. King (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Sayings of the Wise, or, Food for Thought: A Book of Moral Wisdom, Gathered From the Ancient Philosophers (London: E. Stock, 1908), by William Baldwin
- The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated; With a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (3 volumes; London: T. Tegg, 1845), by Ralph Cudworth, trans. by John Harrison, contrib. by Johann Lorenz Mosheim
- Ad Lucilium Epistolae Morales (in Latin and English; 3 volumes; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1918-1925), by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, trans. by Richard M. Gummere
- The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence as the Science of Right (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1887), by Immanuel Kant, trans. by W. Hastie (HTML and PDF files at libertyfund.org)
- Protagoras, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
- Protagoras, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)
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