Online Ancient Texts
Ancient authors online, in the original and in translation.
This is an attempt to list transcriptions and online translations into English of any significant ancient authors in Greek and Latin. Many of these are to be found at one of the major online collections listed in the Archives tab below, including Bill Thayer’s LacusCurtius site and the Perseus Greek and Roman Materials collection at Tufts.
In a few cases source material is available on multiple sites; for example, the LATIN tag might link to the Latin source material at site A, but the ENGLISH tag might link to an English translation at site B with Latin alongside it there as well. If the author or work is not listed below it may still exist in one of the archive collections listed under the archive tab below.
Please contact me if you find that links are not working or are incorrectly reported here, or with any suggestions to improve this list. If one of the links below leads to only part of an expected work, let me know so I can flag it.
Key: * = partial (for one work) or incomplete (works of an author). † = abridgment. L = Latin; G = Greek; E = English; F = French.
Abbreviations are from the Oxford Classical Dictionary, rev. 3rd. ed. (2003), when listed there.
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: Iep.utm.edu
Info: Elfinspell.com
Info: Virgil.org
WorksLatin
Info: Aaronpoochigian.com
Info: Earlyjewishwritings.com
Letter to PhilocratesEnglish
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: Fragmentarytexts LacusCurtius
De viris illustribus (auctor ignotus)Latin
Info: Iranicaonline
Info: Encyclopedia.com
WorksLatin
Info: St-andrews.ac.uk
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: Pelasgians
WorksLatin
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: Rudy.negenborn.net
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: LacusCurtius LacusCurtius LacusCurtius LacusCurtius LacusCurtius Sites.la.utexas.edu
Perseus Results PageLatin English
Cato Maior de SenectuteEnglish
Laelius de AmicitiaEnglish
BrutusEnglish
Letters to and from CassiusEnglish
Scholia in Ciceronis Orationes BobiensiaLatin
Info: Oxfordreference.com
WorksLatin
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: web.archive
Info: Avalon.law.yale.edu
WorksEnglish
Info: Elfinspell.com
Info: Play.google.com
Info: Maicar.com
Info: LacusCurtius Livius
Info: Tandfonline.com
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: Sacred-texts.com
WorksEnglish
Info: Forumromanum
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: People.virginia.edu
WorksLatin
WorksLatin
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: Luxlapis.co.za
WorksLatin
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: Princeton.edu
Info: Elfinspell.com
Info: Livius
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: Ancientlibrary.com
Info: Historymedren.about.com
Info: Keithmurphy.info
WorksLatin
Info: People.ucalgary.ca
Info: Alexthenice.com
Info: Ancientlibrary.com
WorksLatin
Info: Forumromanum
Info: Circle.ubc.ca
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: Ebooks.adelaide.edu.au
Info: Plato.stanford.edu
Info: Classicpersuasion
Info: LacusCurtius
WorksEnglish
Info: Hellenisticastrology.com
Scroll of FastsEnglish
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: Prometheustrust.co.uk
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: Community.middlebury.edu
Info: LacusCurtius LacusCurtius Livius
Perseus Results PageGreek English
Parallel Lives (biographies)English
MoralsEnglish*
The Roman and Greek QuestionsEnglish
[See also Pseudo-Plutarch below]
Info: Somegreymatter.com
WorksLatin
Info: Plato.stanford.edu
WorksEnglish
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: Plato.stanford.edu
WorksEnglish
Info: Community.middlebury.edu
Info: Freespace.virgin.net
WorksLatin
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: Oxfordindex.oup.com
WorksLatin
Info: LacusCurtius
WorksEnglish
Info: LacusCurtius
WorksGreek
WorksEnglish
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: Inthemedievalmiddle.com
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: LacusCurtius
Info: Community.middlebury.edu
Info: LacusCurtius
Collection Archives
- LacusCurtius — Bill Thayer’s Gateway to ancient Rome. A large and carefully curated site dedicated to Roman antiquity, with many texts in Latin and Greek and in English translation, plus a photosampler of Roman and Etruscan cities and monuments, Latin inscriptions, maps, and more.
- Perseus Greek and Roman Materials — The vast Tufts University collection of digital Greco-Roman documents in Greek, Latin, and English, with morphological and vocabulary assistance.
- Loeb Classical Library — The entire Loeb library is digitized and online for those with access via their institution’s subscription, with the same facing page original on the left/English on the right system as in print.
- The Latin Library — Extensive collection of source materials in Latin, curated by William L. Carey at George Mason. Index here. Latin and classics-related links here.
- L'antiquité grecque et latine — Comprehensive assemblage by the late Philippe Remacle of classical and medieval texts in French translation, often side-by-side with the original Latin or Greek.
- Internet Sacred Texts Archive — John Bruno Hare’s site includes a section for texts from ancient Greece and Rome, largely with some connection to pagan beliefs; mostly in English or with English in parallel to the original.
- Ancient History Sourcebook — A compendium of excerpts from ancient sources on specific topics, collected and edited by Paul Halsall at Fordham.
- Bibliotheca Augustana - Graeca - Latina — Ulrich Harsch’s collection of arts and literature from various cultures, including texts in Latin, Greek, and several other languages and a virtual museum of ancient and medieval art and artifacts.
- Elfinspell History collection — An open source publisher of arts, literature and invention, organized according to the nine Muses. Clio history site includes a variety of secondary sources on various periods and some primary source material.
- PHI Latin Texts — A collection of classical texts compiled by the Packard Humanities Institute. Index here.
- Theoi Classical E-Texts Library — A collection of works from ancient Greek and Roman literature in translation emphasizing classical mythology and so primarily ancient poetry, drama and prose renditions of myth.
- Livius — Articles, commentary, and source documents. Livius is a website on ancient history written and maintained since 1996 by the Dutch historian Jona Lendering. Includes articles on a broad array of ancient and related topics, including a subsite of materials relating to Alexander the Great.
- Intratext – Latina — Republisher of texts of varying usefulness and provenance.
Linkstorms
- Attalus — Contains detailed lists of events and sources for the history of the Hellenistic world and the Roman republic. It includes links to online translations of many of the sources, plus some original translations.
- Library of Ancient Texts Online (LATO) — Aims to be the internet’s most thorough catalogue of online copies of ancient Greek texts, both in Greek and in translation.
- The Latin Bookcase — Links to classical, medieval, and liturgical texts in Latin, some with translations.
- The Rome Project — Compilation of links to resources on Rome relating to archaeology, drama, literature, military, philosophy, religion, trade, and so on.
- Classical History Resources — Links to resources for classical and medieval history at Library of Congress.
Other Sources
- Inscriptions
- CIL Open Access
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum DB Search
- Inscription Database
- Roman Inscriptions (Latin)
- Elogia (English + links to Latin)
- Roman Epitaphs (Latin)
- Legal Texts
- Sources on Roman Law
- Ancient Law Documents
- Roman Law Texts (English and Latin)
- The Civil Law
- Justinian (Latin)
- The Roman Law Library
- Fasti
- Fasti Triumphales (English)
- Fasti Capitolini (English)
- List of Interreges
- Lesser aggregation pages at Attalus
- Fragments of Greek historians
- Translations from Greek and Latin
- Greek Historians (English)
- Greek Chronicles (English)
- Extracts from Other Authors (English)
- Lives of the Hellenistic poets (English)
- Lesser aggregation pages at Latin Library
- Medieval Texts (Latin)
- Neo-Latin Texts
- Christian Texts (Latin)
- Readers for Lehman College courses
- Roman Pedigrees