READ CLASSICAL AUTHORS ON-LINE!

 Contents:

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

1. Archives of Texts

• Bibliotheca Augustana NEW! Archive of Latin texts: Classical, Christia, Medieval, AND Modern
• MIT: The Internet Classics Archive

. great! browse or search almost 400 texts!
• Eris Project at Virginia Tech

A list of many authors; includes translations of Classical writers such as Aeschylus, Aesop, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Epictetus, Euripides, Galen, Herodotus, Hippocrates, Homer, Lucretius (under T. Lucretius), Marcus Aurelius, Ovid, Plato, Plotinus, Plutarch, Sophocles, Tacitus (under P. Cornelius T.), and Virgil
• Perseus Project--Greek texts with translations
• The Labyrinth Library of Latin Texts (both Ancient and Medieval; also includes some Greek texts. Labyrinth is A large server for all things Medieval.)
• The Latin Library
• The Online Medieval and Classical Library
• Project Libellus at U. of Washington (Latin texts; read their instructions)
• Romulus Project of Latin texts
• See Guide to Classics Resources for other places to look and for other directories of Classics on the Internet.
• See Reference page for directories of online books, etc., etc.

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:

• Apology of Apuleius; Apologia (another text)
• The Golden Asse, trans. by Richard Adlington (1566)
• Cupid and Psyche, Latin text (from the Metamorphoses or Golden Ass); Cupid and Psyche (another)
• Apuleius Web Page
• Apuleius! The Home Page!

• Works (menu)

• Works (many; A menu)
• Works: menu of Aristotle's works available in the Eris Project
• Many works available at MIT (menu)
• Selection:   "The Doctrine of the Mean" from Nicomachean Ethics II.6-7
• Selection:   "The Four Causes" from Physics II.3
• The Athenian Constitution (trans. by F.G. Kenyon) at MIT
• another copy

• Augustine page by J. O'Donnell (very large!) (note: if using Lynx, scroll down on the first screen)
• Many resources (menu in Guide to Early Church Documents)
• See the Labyrinth archive (above) for another large menu

Aurelius, Marcus [emperor 161-180]:

 Meditations (in MIT archive)

Catullus:

• Carmina Catulli [text taken from Project Libellus]
• Carmina Catulli (from ed. of Mynors, Oxford, 1958)
• Catullus page

• "The Early Church Fathers"--the 38 volumes of the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene series
• Guide to Early Church Documents (enormous collection)
• Journal of Early Christian Studies (articles available to subscribers)
• Journal of Higher Criticism (articles & menu of links)

• Cicero's Home Page . . . isn't he on the ball . . .
• Latin texts of various works (menu; in the Latin Library)

• Enchiridion (Handbook)
• Selections, trans. R. Hooker

• Letter to Menoeceus
• Principal Doctrines

Herodotus:

• History at MIT (book-by-book menu) (trans. by George Rawlinson)
• Oral Performance and the Composition of Herodotus' Histories:  article by William A. Johnson (1994)

• Theogony
• Works and Days

• Oath and Law
• Many works (menu) at MIT

 Homer:

• The Iliad, trans. by Samuel Butler (book-by-book)
• Butler's Iliad, another copy (very, very long)
• The Odyssey, trans. by Samuel Butler
• George Chapman's Odyssey (beautiful!)

Lucretius:

• On the Nature of Things (trans. by W.E. Leonard)
• Article on "... Golden Age in Lucretius and Vergil" by Taro Yamashita (1994)

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

Ovid:

• Ovid on the WWW--lots!
• An Ovid Home Page in the Netherlands
• Who's Who in the Metamorphoses of Ovid
• Images of Ovid's Metamorphoses
• Recent Bibliography on Ovid (1990-) by S. Redmond

Pausanias:

Description of Greece: English translation with A great hyperlinked index, in Perseus (Greek text also there)

 Plato:

• Works (menu)
• Apology of Socrates:
• Greek text from Perseus (see their instructions)
• Crito
• Republic:
• Jowett's translation, book-by-book
• Jowett's translation (with table of contents)
• another copy of Jowett's (too large except to download!)

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:

• Lives (menu)
• International Plutarch Society: texts, bibliographies, other info.

Presocratics:

• Fragments and Testimonials (adapted from Burnet)
• Fragments (with links to Greek & Roman philosophers)

Sophocles:

• Oedipus (trans. F. Storr, 1912)

Suetonius:

• Vita Divi Augusti (Life of Augustus in Latin)

• Annals and History (book-by-book indexes)
• Germania

• Adelphoe (Brothers) (in Latin)
• "The Unity of Terence's Adelphoe" by Taro Yamashita (Kyoto, Japan) (1996)
• The Terence Project: still-photos and quotations from the new video film of "The Brothers" in English (by C. Mercier and A. Gombach)

Thucydides:

• History of the Peloponnesian War at MIT (book-by-book menu) (trans. by Richard Crawley)
• another copy (very long)
• Selection:  Pericles' Funeral Oration
• Selection:  The Melian Dialogue
• Modern Works on Thucydides
• Short Bibliography on Thucydides by Lowell Edmunds

• Vergil's Home Page. . no one can say he doesn't keep up . .
• Works in English (menu; Eris Project)
• Aeneid (trans by John Dryden; long file, 614K)
• Seven articles on Vergil by Taro Yamashita (Kyoto, Japan) (4 on the Georgics)
• Vergil in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance

• Works (menu)
• Hellenica (both English and Greek)
• Xenophon Home Page

NEW! CLASSICAL TRADITION: MODERN AUTHORS ON CLASSICAL THEMES

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