Behemoth: The History of the Civil Wars of England

Hobbes's translation of Thucydides, his first published book, in an 1830 Oxford edition with notes and an analysis of each book. The war between Athens and Sparta that taught him how states fall apart.

Thucydides, translated by Thomas Hobbes

Hobbes's English digest of Aristotle's Rhetoric, followed by his own Art of Rhetoric and Art of Sophistry. A compact guide to persuasion, the passions and the tricks of argument.

Thomas Hobbes

Homer's two epics in rhymed verse, translated by Hobbes in his late eighties. A rare chance to read the Iliad and the Odyssey in the words of the philosopher who wrote Leviathan.

Homer, translated by Thomas Hobbes