The Iliads and Odysses of Homer

Hobbes's history of the English Civil War, from the Long Parliament to the Restoration, told as a dialogue between two speakers. Charles II refused to license it, so it was printed only after Hobbes's death.

Thomas Hobbes

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