The Whole Art of Rhetoric

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

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