The ancient world's library, translated anew from the original languages into one clear modern voice — the first openly AI-translated classics series.
See the proof — the originality & accuracy numbers →A New Plain-English Prose Translation
Homer's war epic in clear, vivid modern prose — all 24 books, translated directly from the Greek. No archaisms, no verse gymnastics: the story, at full speed.
A New Plain-English Prose Translation
The homecoming of Odysseus in fresh contemporary prose — all 24 books from the Greek. Read it like the page-turner it always was.
71 Essays — The First Complete Plain-English Edition
On Superstition, On Isis and Osiris, On the Decline of Oracles, the Table Talk, and 67 more — most have never had an affordable modern English translation. 690,000 words from the Greek.
Jewish War · Antiquities · Against Apion · The Life
The indispensable historian of the New Testament era — all four works, 628,000 words, newly translated from Niese's Greek. The only cheap alternative was made in 1737.
37 Treatises — The First New Complete English Philo Since 1855
The philosopher who taught the New Testament its vocabulary — every surviving Greek treatise in clear modern English, keyed to the scholarly section numbers.
A New Plain-English Prose Translation
The first history book ever written — Croesus, Cyrus, Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis — all nine books in clear modern prose, translated directly from the Greek.
All 124 Letters — A New Plain-English Translation from the Latin
The most readable stoicism ever written: on time, fear, friendship, wealth, and death — every surviving letter, translated directly from the Latin into plain contemporary English.
The Republic, the Laws, and Two More Dialogues — A New Plain-English Translation
The Republic complete in ten books, the Laws complete in twelve, the Timaeus, and the Crito — the philosophy that shaped every century after it, translated directly from the Greek.
The Two Poems — A New Plain-English Prose Translation
The birth of the gods and the oldest farmer's-almanac-and-sermon in Greek — Pandora, Prometheus, the Five Ages of Man — translated directly from the Greek into vivid modern prose.
The public-domain translations are monuments — and they read like it. Hear the same lines side by side:
Independent AI referees re-read the Greek behind random batches hunting for errors; an outside comparative review of six famous passages found our accuracy “never beaten, occasionally sharper” than the classic versions. Every number is published on the proof page.
Read Philo beside Josephus beside Plutarch without time-traveling between translators from 1737, 1854 and 1919. One consistent register means when the authors sound different, that difference is real — which is exactly what comparative readers and researchers need.
A complete modern-English Philo does not exist at any price. Most of Plutarch’s Moralia has never had an affordable modern translation. Complete-works Josephus in current English costs a shelf of Loebs. This library fills gaps, not shelves.
A second, independent, modern rendering is a lens: wherever two honest translations diverge, the Greek is telling you something. That’s why we publish the sample of every volume free.
Every Plainspoken volume is being narrated — a clear, unhurried voice, made with the same openly-AI craft as the translations. Sample players are on each book above. Waitlist members get the full audiobooks with their purchase when we launch.
Join the audiobook waitlistRight now, every book above is free to read and download in full — we are a new press earning its readers. That won't be true forever: as the library grows (audiobooks, new volumes, improved editions), the full books will become paid editions. Join the list and you'll hear before anything changes — early readers will always get the best deal we ever offer.
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