1. 1)Plato’s Stories: From the myth of the Demiurge to the first book of The Republic itself, the storytelling element in Plato’s text is made to sing.
   

2. 2)Aristotle’s traveller’s tales. The natural history of the Greek world, comic, sad and occasionally profound
   

3. 3)Excerpts from Lucretius: Possibly the greatest philosophic poem  in all its splendid oddity!
   

4. 4)Plotinus’s dreaming: Plotinus was never quite happy in writing his works, and this piece uses various texts from the Enneads to show why...

1. 1)Rationalist Tales. The stories of Spinoza and Leibniz are set free from their philosophical settings ...
   

2. 2) The Cynical and the Ethical. Spinoza and De la Rochefoucauld fight out the battle of the bon mots!
   

3. 3)An Old Man’s Debt. The stranger twists and byways of Kant’s posthumous papers are  played with.
   

4. 4)The Forgotten Marx. The fifteenth chapter of Das Capital is presented as a stand alone, and very relevant work.
   

5. 5)The final book of Zarathurusta. Written as opera, but works as stories.

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