The Oresteia
458 BC · 335 pages
Agamemnon comes home from Troy to a wife who has spent ten years planning her welcome, and the killing runs down the generations until Athena stops it by seating the first jury.
★ 8.6
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The Last Days of Socrates (includes Apology)
399 BC · 256 pages
Charged with corrupting the young and denying the gods, Socrates defends himself, refuses the escape his friends arrange, argues that the soul survives, then drinks the poison. His calm is the hard part.
★ 7.5