Greek and Roman classical literature online; classical studies, a comprehensive list of websites
Blogs
C
The Cambridge University Classics Department
Center of Hellenic Studies, Harvard University
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
The Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents was established in 1995 under the auspices of Oxford University’s Faculty of Literae Humaniores to provide a focus for the study of ancient documents within Oxford. It has developed into a research centre of national and international importance.
Classical and Medieval History
The Library of Congress
Classical etexts, databases, libraries
Perseus Project
Includes texts from the classical and Renaissance world.
Classical texts (M.I.T). Oriental, Arabic, Western.
The Cambridge University Classics Department
Center of Hellenic Studies, Harvard University.
Theoi
Library is a collection of works from ancient Greek and Roman classical e-texts in translation.
Comedy; Ancient Greek and Roman comedy
Meander
Aristophanes
Artistophane
The comedies of Aristophanes. Project Gutenburg
Plautus
Plautus Titus Maccius Plautus
Plautus, Titus Maccius
Terentius
Terentius
Adelphi
A synopsis of the play by Terence.
Terence
Theatre Database
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Diotima Journal
Materials and essays for the study of women and gender in the Ancient World.
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Greek literature
Aioidoi. Greek poets.
A site dedicated to the study of ancient Greek poetry from the Epics to Anacreontics.
Greek drama
Etexts
Theoi Classical Et-Texts Library
The Theoi Classical E-Texts Library is a collection of works from ancient Greek and Roman literature.
Greek dictionaries.
Dictionnaires (généraux et spéciaux) du grec.
Manuscripts
Images of ancient Greek manuscripts and information about their production.
Wikipedia entry on ancient Greek literature.
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Internet Classics Archive. M.I.T.
Full texts. search the classical literature archive by title and author.
J
Journals of classical studies
Arion. A Journal of Humanities and the Classics
Classical texts and journals.
Cambridge University
Diotima Journal
Materials and essays for the study of women and gender in the Ancient World.
Latin
Carmenta Online Latin School
High-quality online Latin classes using live audio and video.This course, taught live by a real teacher in an online web conferencing classroom, is an excellent choice for homeschoolers, people studying in an academic setting where Latin is not offered, people who do not have access to a Latin course where they live, or those for whom the online classroom is more convenient.
Latin dictionary and grammar aid.
Latin internet pages, Roman and Ecclesiastical.
Latinists,Ancient History and Culture, a directory from Thought.co.
Latin texts online
Aesopica
Aesop’s fables in English, Latin and Greek.
Theoi Classical Et-Texts Library
The Theoi Classical E-Texts Library is a collection of works from ancient Greek and Roman literature.
Manuscripts
See also: Manuscripts
Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, Ohio State University
The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at OSU is a unique research facility within the Department of Classics. It has a rich special library and a large collection of squeezes and photographs. It offers short term post-doctoral fellowships and organizes an annual seminar,Texts and Contexts, and a biannual Summer Course in Greek and Latin Epigraphy.
Greek Language, Ancient Manuscripts Gateway
Manuscripts at Oxford University
Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals. This site provides access to over 80 early manuscripts now in institutions associated with the University of Oxford.
Papyrology at The University of Oxford
A survey of Greek and Latin manuscripts.
Oxford University Classics Department
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Papyri
Papyrology websites, from The University of Oxford.
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Rassegna degli Strumenti Informatici per lo Studio dell’Antichità Classica
Classical Greek and Roman authors, dramatists and poets
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Aeschylus
The Oresteia, Wikipedia entry.
Works by Aeschylus. Project Gutenberg
Online English Translations of Aeschylus
Aesop
Aesop. Aesop’s Fables
MIT Classics
Aesop’s Fables homepage.
An online collection of Aesop’s Fables including a total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed.
Aesop’s Fables, Wikipedia entry.
Apuleius
Apulei Opera
Latin texts at The Latin Library.
English translation of the Apologia by H. E. Butler
Apuleius’ works.
Texts, concordances and frequency list.
The Golden Ass
Project Gutenberg
Aristophanes
Aristophanes
Aristophanes
Works by Aristophanes at The Internet Classics Archive.
Aristophanes,
Wikipedia entry.
Aristophanes
The Eleven Comedies, in ebook format.
Works by Aristophanes at Project Gutenburg.
Aristophanes and his Comedies
Aurelius, Marcus. Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations
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Cato
Cato
Wikipedia entry.
Catallus
Catullus.Gaius Valerius
Catullus Poems in English Translation
Caius Valerius Catullus Poetry Archive
Catullus
Poems in Latin
Catullus
Condordia Carminum Catulli
Catullus
Peresus Project. Texts with dictionary and grammar.
Catullus
Wikipedia entry.
Catallus’ Page
In Latin and Javascript.
Euripides
Euripides. Works by Euripides from The Internet Classics Archive.
Alcestis
Translated by Richard Aldington
Andromache
Translated by E. P. Coleridge
The Bacchantes
Electra
Translated by E. P. Coleridge
Hecuba
Translated by E. P. Coleridge
Ion
Translated by Robert Potter
Iphigenia in Tauris
Translated by Robert Potter
Medea
Translated by E. P. Coleridge
Orestes
Translated by E. P. Coleridge
The Suppliants
Translated by E. P. Coleridge
The Trojan Women
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Herodotus
Herodotus
The History of Herodotus. Internet Classics Archive
Herodotus
Wikipedia entry.
Hesiod
Hesiod
Shield of Heracles, Theogony, Works and Days
Hesiod
Wikipedia entry.
Homer
Homer and the Papyri,
first created by Professor Dana Sutton of the University of California, Irvine, is here published in a second electronic edition. The new edition consists of a fully searchable relational database of Homeric papyri.
Homer
Biography and searchable database of works.
Wikipedia Homer entry.
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Horace
Horace
The Odes. MIT Classics.
Horace
An introduction from The Theatre Database.
Livy
Livy
The History of Rome
Longus
Longi Pastoralium de Daphnide et Chloe Libri IV Graece et Latine
Ed. Christ. Guil. Mitscherlich, Biponti (Zweibrucken)
Longi Pastoralia
First complete Greek text of Daphnis and Chloe, edited by P.-L. Courier.
Longi Pastoralia
Greek text of Daphnis and Chloe with a Latin translation.
Lucretius
Lucretius
On the Nature of Things. Internet Classics Archive.
Lucretius, Wikipedia entry.
M
Meander
Menander
An introduction.
Dyskolos.
An English translation.
Menander
Wikipedia entry.
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Ovid
Ovid, Wikipedia entry.
Metamorphoses
Latin Library: Ovid
Sacred Texts Archive: Ovid
The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria)
The Love Books of Ovid. Sacred Texts
The Poems from Exile: Tristia, Ex Ponto and Ibis
Full text of Tristia Ex Ponto. Internet Archive
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Petronius
Petronius
The Sayricon of Petronius: English translation by Alfred R. Allison.
Satiricon Liber
Latin text.
Petronius
Wikipedia entry.
Petronius
The Satyricon of Petronius: English translation by Alfred R. Allison.
Satiricon Liber. Latin text.
Petronius, Wikipedia entry.
Pindar
Pindar
Works by Pindar from The Internet Classics Archive.
Pindar
Wikipedia entry.
Plato
Plato. Works by Plato at The Internet Classics Archive.
Plato
Wikipedia entry.
Plato complete works, annotated and searchable, at ELPENOR.
The Dialogues of Plato
Translations by B. Jowett.
The Symposium
Translated by Benjamin Jowett.
Phaedrus
Translated by Benjamin Jowett.
The Republic
Translated by Benjamin Jowett.
Pliny
Pliny the Elder
Wikipedia entry.
Plautus
Plutarch
Plutarch’s Lives
English translation by John Dryden. MIT Classics.
Shakespeare’s Sources in Plutarch’s Lives.
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Socrates
Socrates
Wikipedia entry.
The Dialogues of Plato, Project Gutenberg etexts.
Meno
Apology
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Cratylus
Critias
Crito
Phaedo
Phaedrus
The Symposium
The Socratic Method Research Portal
Sophocles
Sophocles
Etexts from The Internet Classics Archive.
Antigone
Electra
Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus the King
SparkNotes: The Oedipus Plays
Wikipedia entry on Sophocles.
Sophocles. Cast of a bust in the Pushkin Museum.
Sappho
Sappho
The Isle of Lesbos
Sappho
Wikipedia entry.
The Poems of Sappho,
trans. E.M. Cox
The Divine Sappho
Seneca
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Seneca’s Plays
Seneca biography and web links.
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Tacitus
Tacitus
The Annals, The Histories Internet Classics Archive
The Annals
Terence
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Thucydides
Thucydides
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Vergil
Vergil
The Vergil Project
Virgil
Wikipedia entry.
Works by P Vergilius Maro
Perseus Project
P. Vergilius Maro
Latin texts
Vergil
The Anaeid
Xenophon
Xenophon
Works by Xenophon at the Internet Classics Archive.