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Internet Ancient History Sourcebook:
Studying Ancient History
See Main Page for a guide to
all contents of all sections.
Contents
Using Primary Sources
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Nature of Historiography
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Other
Sources of Information on Ancient History
- General Guides to Net Texts [link to texts at other sites.]
- General Etext Projects [sites with texts online.]
-
K. C. Hanson: Collection of
Ancient Documents [At Internet Archive]
- MIT Classics Archive [440
classical Greek and Latin texts!]
These are all full text translations, and are presented in HTML and plain text forms. Some
texts are links to the Perseus project (see below).
- Diotima: Women and
Gender in the Ancient World
Includes an anthology of texts, much of Mary Lefkowitz' and Maureen Fant's Women's
Life in Greece and Rome, as well as other sources.
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University of Saskatchewan:
Department Translations
Select translations in modern idiom of many texts useful for class discussion. Useful for
classroom use over the archaic language of many public domain sources.
- Bibliotheca Augustana
Texts in Latin and Greek. Can only be accessed in short segments. This, as at Perseus, is
annoying since it inhibits the text search abilities inherent in e-texts.
- Online Medieval and Classical Library
A select library of full texts in translation.
- J. P. Adams: Classics Dept, CSUN
A variety of interesting texts presented.
- Paul Brians: Reading
About the World I [At WSU]
Selections from a published sourcebook.
-
World Civilization
Reader [At Internet Archive, from CCNY]
- Northpark University History
Department:
Many texts integrated into the survey courses' class outlines.
- World Cultures: An Internet Classroom and Anthology
Online texts and notes by Richard Hooker at WSU. This is probably the best graphical
design of any online texts site.
- Exploring Ancient World Cultures
A full scale online textbook, with texts and secondary discussions, of all ancient world
cultures, Mediterranean, Indian, and East Asian.
- Egypt/ANE
- Greece
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Perseus Project Texts
Perseus is perhaps the most ambitious text project on the web.
It presents texts in English, Greek and now Latin as well. Unfortunately, from the
perspective of an online sourcebook, where texts need to be printable, one can only access
the texts in small segments. If possible I have avoided links to Perseus here. More than any other project, though, Perseus is of use to
advanced scholars. [Note: From July 1st 1998, Perseus intends to
charge for access to many parts of its site. Essentially this amounts to a destruction of
an Internet resource.]
See Perseus Texts Elsewhere for alternate locations of
authors at Perseus.
- Greek Philosophy Archive
- Rome
- Latin Library
Texts of major Roman and Medieval authors in Latin at Ad Fontes
Academy [No longer at George Mason University].'
- White Trash Scriptorium
Despite the name, it really does have a number of Latin texts.
- Religion
- Philosophy
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Adding More Texts
If you have public domain or copy-permitted etexts, I am very willing to add them to
this project. If you would like to add to the available corpus of ancient history etexts,
see the following list of texts/translations, now in the public domain, but not online.
Basically any text or translation published more than 75 years ago is fair game in the US.
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Other Ancient World
Resource Projects
Links to major sites related to specific areas are given in all pages. These sites
provide general overviews.
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NOTES:
Dates of accession of material added since July 1998 can be seen in the New Additions page..
The date of inception was
4/8/1998.
Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site
name or location].
Locally available texts are marked by [At this Site].
WEB indicates a link to one of small
number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable
overview.
The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook is part of the
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
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