Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian War

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 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