Internet Ancient History Sourcebook:
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Contents
- Human Origins
- Full texts here
- Full texts elsewhere
- Mesopotamia
- Full texts here
- Full texts elsewhere
- Egypt
- Full texts here
- Full texts elsewhere
- Israel
- Full texts here
- Full texts elsewhere
- Greece
- Full texts here
- Historians
- Poets
- Dramatists
- Philosophers
- Orators
- Other
- Full texts elsewhere
- Historians
- Poets
- Dramatists
- Novels
- Philosophers
- Orators
- Science
- Other
- Rome
- Full texts here
- Historians
- Poets
- Thinkers
- Other
- Full texts elsewhere
- Historians
- Poets
- Thinkers
- Other
- Christian
- Full texts here
- Full texts elsewhere
- Asian Texts
- Full texts here
- Full texts elsewhere
Human Origins
- Full texts here
- Full texts elsewhere
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Mesopotamia
- Full texts here
- Full texts elsewhere
-
Epic of Gilgamesh, entire text [At Near Eastern Resources/piney.com]
Somewhat hard to read in this format.
- WEB Avesta Page [Website]
A significant collection of Zoroastrian texts.
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Egypt
- Full texts here
- Full texts elsewhere
-
The Memphite
Theology [At Internet Archive, from Creighton]
Ptah as creator god.
- The Book of
Ani, or the Egyptian Book of the Dead [At Upenn][Full text in E. Wallis Budge's
translation.]
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Israel
- Full texts here
- Full texts elsewhere
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Greece
- Full texts here
- Historians
- Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE)
- The Histories 440BCE [At this Site, formerly
ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file]
- Thucydides (c.460/455-c.399 BCE)
- History of the Peloponnesian War
[MSWord files, in Greek with embedded fonts]
- Aristotle (384-323 BCE)
- Xenophon (c.428-c.354 BCE)
- Anabasis, or March Up Country or Persia
Expedition
- Pausanias (fl.c.160 CE)
- Poets
- Homer (c.8th Cent. BCE)
- The Iliad trans. Samuel Butler [At this Site, formerly
ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file]
- Homer: The Odyssey [At this Site, formerly
ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file]
- The Odyssey
Complete text [in one 769k HTML file] of the translation by Samuel Henry Butcher
(1850-1910) and Andrew Lang (1844-1912) [Harvard Classics series]
- Dramatists
- Aeschylus (525-456 BCE)
- Agamemnon [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full
Text][Ascii Text in one file]
- Eumendides [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full
Text][Ascii Text in one file]
- Sophocles (496-405/6 BCE)
- Antigone 442 BCE [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full
Text][Ascii Text in one file]
- Euripides (c.485-406 BCE)
- The Bacchae [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full
Text][Ascii Text in one file]
- Hippolytus [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full
Text][Ascii Text in one file]
- Philosophers
- Plato (427-347 BCE)
- The Meno [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full
Text][Ascii Text in one file]
- The Gorgias [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full
Text][Ascii Text in one file]
- The Symposium [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full
Text][Ascii Text in one file]
- The Symposium [HTML]
- The Republic [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full
Text][Ascii Text in one file]
- The Crito [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii
Text in one file]
- The Phaedo [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii
Text in one file]
- The Phaedrus [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full
Text][Ascii Text in one file]
- Aristotle (384-323 BCE)
- Xenophon (c.428-c.354 BCE)
- (Pseudo)-Plutarch
- Des Opinions des philosophes
Full text of a French translation. This seems to have been the first collection of placita in terms of philosopher's opinions organized into themes.
- Orators
- Aeschines (c.390-c.322 BCE)
- Other
- Full texts elsewhere
- Historians
- Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE)
- Thucydides (c.460/455-c.399 BCE)
- Aristotle (384-323 BCE)
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE)
- Poets
- Homer (c.8th Cent. BCE)
- Hesiod (c.700 BCE)
- Sappho (c.580 BCE)
- Dramatists [Former ERIS text no longer online]
- Aeschylus (525-456 BCE
- The Suppliants prob. 463 BCE
- Oresteia trilogy 458 BCE
- Agamemnon [See above under Full texts here]
- The Choephori
- Eumendides [See above under Full texts here]
- The Seven Against Thebes 467BCE
- Prometheus Bound date unknown
- The Persians 472 BCE
- The Persians 472 BCE [annotated HTML] [At Calgary]
-
The Persians 472
BCE [At Saskatchewan]
- Sophocles (496-405/6 BCE)
- Ajax 440 BCE
-
Antigone 442 BCE [See above under Full texts here]
Antigone 442 BCE
[At Diotima]
A much more modern translation, with extensive annotation.
- Electra btw. 418-410 BCE
- Philoctetes 409 BCE
-
Oedipus the King c.430 BCE
See 2ND Study Guide [At Brooklyn
College]
- Oedipus at Colonna c.405/6 BCE [At MIT]
- The Trachiniae c.430 BCE
- Euripides (c.485-406 BCE)
- Alcestis
- Andromache
- The Bacchae [See above under Full texts here]
- The Cyclops
- Electra
- Hecuba
- Helen
- The Heracleidae
- Heracles
- Hippolytus [See above under Full texts here]
- Ion
- Iphigenia at Aulis
- Iphigenia In Tauris
- Medea
Orestes
- The Phoenissae
- Rhesus
- The Suppliants
- The Trojan Women
- Aristophanes (c.445-c.385 BCE)
- The Acharnians 425 BCE [At Eserver, formerly ERIS]
- The Birds 414 BCE [At
Eserver, formerly ERIS]
- The Clouds 423 BCE
[At Eserver, formerly ERIS]
- The Ecclesiazusae (Women in Politics) [At Eserver, formerly ERIS]
- The Frogs 405 BCE
[At Eserver, formerly ERIS]
- The Knights 424BCE
[At Eserver, formerly ERIS]
- Lysistrata 411 BCE
[At Eserver, formerly ERIS]
- Peace 421 BCE [At
Eserver, formerly ERIS]
- Plutus 382 BCE (his last
play) [At Eserver, formerly ERIS]
- The
Thesmophorizusae 411BCE [At Eserver, formerly ERIS]
- The Wasps 422 BCE
[At Eserver, formerly ERIS]
- Menander (342/1-293/89 BCE)
- Novels
- Apollonius of Rhodes (c.295-after 247 BCE): Argonautica [At OMACL]
- Quintus Smyrnaeus (fl. f4th Cent CE): The
Fall of Troy [At OMACL]
- Lucius Apuleius (c. 123-c. 170 CE): Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass [At Eserver]
Latin Text [At Bibliotheca
Augustana]
Adlington's translation, 1566
- Philosophers
- Plato (427-347 BCE)
- Aristotle (384-323 BCE)
-
Aristotle (384-323 BCE): Poetics [At
MIT][Chapter length files]
- Epicurus (342-270 BCE)
- Science
- Other
- Aesop (d. 564 BCE): Fables,
text, [At Eserver]
- Lucius Apulieus (c.123-c.170 CE): Apologia [At UPenn]
Full text in Latin and English, or see translation by Butler [At MIT]
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Rome
- Full texts here
- Historians
- Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE)
- Tacitus: (b.56/57-after 117 CE)
- Annals [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full
Text][Ascii Text in one file]
- Life of Cnaeus Julius Agricola, c.98 CE trans.
J. Church and W. J. Brodribb. [At this Site]
- Germania. trans. J.
Church and W. J. Brodribb.[At Medieval Sourcebook]
- Germania,
trans. Thomas Gordon, full text, Also available in Latin. [At
Medieval Sourcebook]
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE)
- Aelius Spartianus: Life of Hadrian, (r. 117-138 CE.),
complete. [At this Site]
- Poets
- Lucretius (98-c.55 BCE)
- Juvenal (c. 55/60-127 CE):
- Thinkers
- Cicero (105-43 BCE)
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): Selected Letters. 36 selected
letters. [At this Site]
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): On Friendship, or Laelius,
full text, trans by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh [At this Site]
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): On Friendship, or Laelius,
full text, trans by W. Melmoth [At this Site]
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): Old Age, c. 65 BCE (Harvard
Classics series)[At this Site]
- Marcus Aurelius Antonius (b.121-r.161-d.180 CE)
- Plotinus (c.205-c.270 CE)
- Six Enneads [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full
Text][Ascii Text in one file]
- The Emperor Julian
- Mispogon (or "Beard-Hater")[At this Site]
- Other
- Pliny the Younger (61/62-113 CE)
- Selected Letters, c 100 CE (Harvard Classics series)[At
this Site]
Selected letters: General (110 letters), and Correspondence with the Emperor Trajan (122
letters).
- Letters, Book X. 25ff : The Correspondence of a
Provincial Governor and the Emperor Trajan, c. 112 CE [At this Site]
- Full texts elsewhere
- Historians
- Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE):
- Sallust (prob.86-35 BCE)
- Livy (59 BCE-17 CE)
History of Rome Complete surving text online in English translation [At Virginia]
- Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE)
- Josephus (37- after 93 CE)
-
Complete Works [At CCEL]
Includes Antiquities of the Jews, The Jewish War and Against Apion
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE)
- Tacitus: (b.56/57-after 117 CE)
- Nicolaus of Damascus (1st Cent CE): Life of Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE)[At
CSUN]
- Aurelius Victor, Liber de
Caesaribus 13: Trajan [In Latin][At CSUN]
- Aelius Spartianus (dates?): Life
of Caracalla (r.211-217 CE) [At Heliogabby]
- Aelius Lampridius (dates?): Life
of Heligabulus and in Latin (r.218-222 CE)[At Heliogabby][Full Text]
- Poets
- Plautus (d.184 BCE)
- Virgil (70-19 BCE)
-
Virgil (70-19 BCE): The
Aeneid, Dryden translation, [At MIT][Full Text][Chapter files]
See 2ND
Study Guide [At Internet Archive, from Brooklyn
College]
- Aelius Donatus (fl. 350 CE): Life of
Virgil, tr. David Wilson-Okamura [At Virgil.org]Petronius Arbiter (c.27-66 CE): Satyricon c.61 CE
- Petronius Arbiter
- Juvenal (c. 55/60-127 CE)
- Satires 1,2,3,8,9, trans. N. Rudd, [At Princeton]
-
Avianus (fl. c. 400 CE): Fabulae in Latin [At UPenn]
- Priapea (collected 5th Cent CE) in
Latin [At IPA]
- Thinkers
- Plotinus (c.205-c.270 CE)
- Porphyry (232/3-c.305 CE)
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Christian
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Asian Texts
- Full texts here
- Full texts elsewhere
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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].
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