READ CLASSICAL AUTHORS ON-LINE!

This page (maintained by John R. Lenz at Drew University) will collect links to all known online electronic texts of Classical authors, and other related ancient Greek and Latin texts. Texts are available in both the original or (usually) in translations (usually old ones). For texts in the original Greek or Latin, look at the Archives of Texts first; unless otherwise indicated, most links in the alphabetical list of authors are to translations.

 Contents:

  1. Archives of Texts
  2. Alphabetical list by author
  3. NEW! Classical Tradition: Modern Authors on Classical Themes

1. Archives of Texts


2. Alphabetical list by author (a partial list)

Apollodorus (or Pseudo-Apollodorus):  Library of Mythology: Text from Perseus with a

           hyperlinked index: a great resource
Apollonius: The Argonautica, Translated by R.C. Seaton (1912); another copy
 
Apuleius:
Aristophanes: Aristotle: Augustine: Augustus: Res Gestae Divi Augusti, Latin text; Res Gestae (another copy)

Aurelius, Marcus [emperor 161-180]:

Caesar:  Gallic War, Civil War, other commentaries

Catullus:

Christian writers (Patristics): Empedocles:   Empecocles Bibliography; see also "Presocratics" below

Cicero:

Epictetus: Epicurus: Heraclitus:  fragments(trans. R. Hooker)

Herodotus:

Hesiod: at MIT Hippocrates: Historia Augusta (lives of some later Roman emperors: introduction, with Latin texts of lives)

 Homer:

Horace:  Ode 1.17 (Latin & English; with audio of the poem read in Latin!)

Lucretius:

Marcus Aurelius: SEE Aurelius, Marcus

Origen: Contra Celsum: Commentary by Phila. seminar (pub. 1987)

Ovid:

Parmenides:
    Parmenides (trans. R. Hooker)
    Parmenides Bibliography by Vishwa Adluri
Pausanias:
Description of Greece: English translation with a great hyperlinked index, in Perseus (Greek text also there)
Philodemus Project home page

 Plato:

Plautus: Casina (in Latin)

Pliny the Elder: Natural History, Latin text (ed. Karl Mayhoff, Teubner) Pliny (the younger):Letters (10.96-97) to and from Trajan about the Christian problem

 Plotinus, Enneads(trans. MacKenna & Page; enormous file!)

Plutarch:

Procopius:  The Secret History

Presocratics:

SHA (Scriptores Historiae Augustae): see "Historia Augusta"

Sophocles:

Stoics: SEE Epictetus; Aurelius, Marcus

Suetonius:

Tacitus: Terence: Tertullian (introduction and texts of five works in English)

Thucydides:

Vergil: Xenophon:

NEW! CLASSICAL TRADITION: MODERN AUTHORS ON CLASSICAL THEMES

(somewhat in chronological order)

Vergil in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance

GIBBON, Edward: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (published 1776-; selected chapters)
The "Best of" Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

 MACAULAY, Thomas Babington: Lays of Ancient Rome: "Horatius [at the bridge]" and other ballads of early Roman legends by Thomas Babington Macaulay (mid-19th century British historian)

 HOUSMAN, A.E.: Fragment of a Greek Tragedy (1901) and original version (1883) with a few comments

 MODERN GREEK AUTHORS: CAVAFY, SEFERIS, ELYTIS: a WWW index


Please e-mail me with corrections or additions: John R. Lenz (Drew University)

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