Library Research Guides: Classical Studies Online Resources: Read Ancient Texts

A great deal of classical literature is available to read for free online, both in the original language and in translation.

Perseus Digital Library
Read texts in the original Latin or Greek or in English translation. Includes word-study tools to aid in translation as well as significant commentaries on the text.

Loeb Classical Library
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A fully searchable and extensive library of Greek and Latin literature side-by-side with English translations.
Includes epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory.
Library of Latin Texts
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Contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature to the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).
The Library of Latin Texts is a searchable full-text database of classical, patristic, medieval and neo-Latin writers. It includes:
- Literature from Antiquity (Plautus, Terence, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Titius-Livius, the Senecas, the two Plinys, Tacitus and Quintilian and others).
- Literature from Patristic Authors (Ambrose, Augustine, Ausonius, Cassian, Cyprian, Gregory the Great, Jerome, Marius Victorinus, Novatian, Paulinus of Nola, Prudentius, Tertullian and others) It also contains non-Christian literature of that period (Ammianus Marcellinus, the Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Claudian, Macrobius and Martianus Cappella).
- Literature from the Middle Ages (Anselm of Canterbury, Beatus de Liebana, Bernard of Clairvaux, William of St. Thierry, Sedulius Scottus, Thomas à Kempis, Thomas de Celano, the Sentences of Peter Lombard, the Rationale of Guilelmus Durandus and important works by Abelard, Bonaventure, Ramon Llull, Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham and others).
- Neo-Latin Literature (decrees from the modern ecumenical Church councils up to Vatican II and translations into Latin of important sixteenth-century works).

Biblioteca Augustana
A huge collection of texts in many languages including Latin and Greek. Browse chronologically or search by author.
The Internet Classics Archive
English translations of almost 500 works of classical literature.
The Latin Library
Latin texts from a huge range of authors.
Topos Text
Classical texts in translation, with all people and places mentioned in the text linked to entries that list every text where that person or place can be found.

Homer and Hesiod:

Chicago Homer
Contains the original Greek text of early Greek epic (primarily Homer and Hesiod) as well as English and German translations.

Aristotle:

Aristoteles Latinus Database
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Digital access to the complete corpus of medieval translations of the works of Aristotle.
Aims at documenting the various tools that were used in the Middle Ages for the study of Aristotle, with a special emphasis on Latin translations. Includes Greco-Latin translations in the printed Aristoteles Latinus series and also in some unpublished editions in preparation. Also includes the corpus of Latin translations of Greek commentaries and glosses on Aristotle (most of them published in the Corpus Latinum Commentariorum in Aristotelem Graecorum), texts that were closely associated with the Corpus Aristotelicum (such as the Liber sex principiorum, the Paraphrasis Themistiana or the Vita Aristotelis), and some translations from the Arabic (the Analytica Posteriora, tr. Gerardi and Averroes’Poetria, tr. Hermanni).

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