Ancient literature online; poets and writers, databases, libraries
A guide to ancient texts
See also: Hellenic, Greek Literature Classical Literature Latin Literature Sacred Texts Manuscripts
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Ancient Scripts
The aim of Ancient Scripts is not to replace texts books or instructional web sites. Instead, it is designed to give an introduction to writing systems, which hopefully will tantalize the reader into searching for more information on the web or in books and publications.
Ancient texts, hieroglyphs, cuneiform tablets *
Ancient Scripts.com
Writing systems from around the world.
Babylonia and Ancient Near Eastern Texts
Britannica Keyed
Enuma Elish
The Seven Tablets of Creation
Cuneiform *
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC, until the end of the pre-Christian era.
Hermitage Cuneiform Collection
Cornell University Cuneiform Library
Cornell University Kroch Library
Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire
Demotic Texts on the World Wide Web
Legal and administrative texts, religious texts, letters, non-literary yexts, literature, unidentified texts. A guide to internet resources on papyri, Egyptian, Greek, Greco-Roman texts.
Internet Classics Archive, MIT. Greek, Roman and Oriental texts.
Linear B,
Wikipedia entry.
Papyri *
Papyrus of Ani; The Egyptian Book of the Dead,
translated by E.A. Wallis Budge.
Oxyrhynchus papyri
Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Wikipedia entry.
Oxford University: Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project
The Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri
The Oxyrhynchus papyri
edited with translations and notes by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt.
Sacred Texts
A collection of scared texts in etext format.
Scripts, writing systems.
Wikipedia entries.
Trismegistos.org
Online database of ancient manuscripts.
Writing systems.
Wikipedia entries.
Arabic literature,
Wikipedia entry.
British Museum Collections Database. Search.
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead. Papyri
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Greek and Latin. Textkit
Learn Greek and Latin.Textkit is the Internet’s largest provider of free and fully downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers. With currently 146 free books to choose from, Greek and Latin learners have downloaded 384,641 grammars, readers and classical e-books.
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Hindu literature *
Hindi literature,
Wikipedia entry.
Krishna.com – The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
Bhagavad-gita online and other texts.
Hindu Poets
A collection of Hindu Poetry
Internet Classics Archive
Online classical literary texts.
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Judaic literature *
The Sefer Yezirah. “The Book of Creation”
Scholem, Gershom. Gershom Scholem tra Sionismo e Kabbalà (in Italian).
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Latin texts *
See also: Classical Literature
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Persian literature *
The Packard Humanities Institute: Persian Texts in Translation
The history of Persian literature.
Fal e Hafez
Complete database of Hafez poems and Fals.
National Committee for the Expansion of the Persian Language and Literature
Persian literature,
Wikipedia entry.
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Religious Literature, sacred texts, a guide to websites.
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Sanskrit *
GRETIL: Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages
A cumulative register of numerous download sites for electronic texts in Indian languages.
Vedabase.net
Vaishnava literatures with word for word translations from Sanskrit to English.
The Clay Sanskrit Library
Publisher of classical Indian literature with facing-page texts and translations.
Sanskrit literature,
Wikipedia entry.
Scripts *
Scripts
Ancient Scripts.com
Writing systems.
Wikipedia entries.
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Universities *
University of London Institute of Classical Studies
Information and links to other Classics sites.
Yale University Department of Classics
Harvard University Department of the Classics
Indiana University, Bloomington, Department of Classical Studies
University of Berkeley Department of Classics
University of Chicago Department of Classics
Columbia University Department of Classics
Cornell University Classics Department
Writing systems.
Wikipedia entries.
Classical Roman Authors *
See also: Classical Literature
Apuleius. The Golden Ass, by Apuleius.
A profile and background.
Cupid and Psyche,
a Wikipedia entry.