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Online Translations

  • Translated Texts for Historians – English 
    These expert scholarly translations of historical sources from 300–800 AD, including letters, annals, political speeches, handbooks, poems, documentary sources, Lives of saints, and many more.

Online Bilingual Editions

Bilingual (Greek/Latin & English)

  • Loeb Classical Library
    Online access to all of the in-print volumes of this major series of Greek and Latin texts with facing translations.
  • Perseus Digital Library
    Texts of the major Greek and Latin authors linked to dictionaries, English translations and commentaries. Also includes an Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser. Try the Scaife Viewer, Perseus’ new text interface.
  • Brill’s New Jacoby = Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (FGH)
    Online edition of F. Jacoby’s monumental Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker Parts I-III, providing Greek text, facing English translation, and new commentary and bibliography of the fragmentary works of 856 Greek historians.
  • See also the Müller-Jacoby Table of Concordance.

Online Texts in the Original Language

  • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) – Authoritative
    Texts of Greek literature from Homer (8th century BCE) to the fall of Constantinople (1453 CE). After you’ve logged in you need to register/login on the site. Click “Log In” to “Register” (top right). Don’t use your Kent credentials.
  • Library of Latin Texts – Series A & B – Authoritative
    Texts of Latin literature spanning the Classical, Patristic, Medieval, and Neo-Latin periods.
  • Diogenes – Greek & Latin
    Free software that provides access to a locally loaded copy of Liddell & Scott’s Greek dictionary and Lewis and Short’s Latin dictionary (web version using Perseus texts). Also can be used as an interface for the PHI CD-ROMs. NOTE: while the texts of the PHI CD-ROMs are also available online (Classical Latin Texts and Searchable Greek inscriptions) the Packard Humanities Institute still provides the CD-ROMs free of charge. Simply read the Terms and then scan and send the License agreement to phi@packhum.org.
  • PHI License
  • PHI Terms
  • Perseus under Philologic – Greek & Latin
    Greek and Latin texts from the Perseus Digital Library are here accessed via the interface Philologic from the University of Chicago, which searches not only words and word lemmas, but parts of speech, verb voice, tense and mood, and noun gender and case.
  • Iliados – Greek
    Allows grammatical and syntactical searches via the Perseus Greek Treebank on Homer, Hesiod and Aeschylus (Agamemnon, Eumenides).
  • Oxford Text Archive – Greek & Latin
    A repository of full-text literary and linguistic resources, including ancient Greek and Latin texts.
  • Voci dal mondo antico – Greek & Latin
    Database of Greek and Latin prose and poetry, especially helpful for identifying instances of elision, alliteration, homeoteleuton and final monosyllables in Latin poetry.
  • Open Greek and Latin Project – Greek & Latin
    Collection of open source files featuring a corpus of digital texts, deep-reading tools, and open-source software. All materials can be downloaded, modified, and redistributed in accordance with all applicable licenses. Developed by the University of Leipzig Digital Humanities.
  • Corpus Corporum – Greek & Latin
    The texts are divided into corpora on a specific topic that can be searched and studied separately.
  • Library of Ancient Texts Online (LATO) – Greek & English
    Aims to be the internet’s most thorough catalogue of online copies of ancient Greek texts, both in Greek and in translation. Handy source for direct links to public domain editions.
  • Corpus medicorum Graecorum/Latinorum – Greek & Latin
    Full-text access to all but the most current editions of this important series of classical medical texts, including prefatory material, apparatus, translations and commentary.For a list of Hippocratic volumes, their titles in Greek, Latin and English, and their various editions, see the attachment.
  • Acta Sanctorum – Greek & Latin
    Complete text of the collection of documents examining the lives of saints published by the Société des Bollandistes between 1643-1940.
  • Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG) – Greek
    Digital version of the five volumes of the  Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (FHG) edited by Karl Müller in the 19th century.
  • Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca (CAG) – Greek
    Links to the Internet Archive or Google Books digitizations of all CAG volumes.
  • Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum – Latin
    Handy database of Latin authors listing editions and translations as well as links to public domain texts.
  • Latin Library – Latin
    Handy collection of Latin texts from all periods (Classical, Christian, Medieval, Neo-Latin).
  • Musisque Deoque – Latin
    “Digital archive of Latin poetry from its origins to the Italian Renaissance.” Many poems linked to their manuscript apparatus. Search by “metrical typology” as well.
  • Pedecerto – Latin
    Program for the automatic analysing of Latin verses developed by the Università di Udine.
  • Patrologia Latina – Latin
    Texts of Latin Church Fathers from Tertullian (200 CE) to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. All prefatory material is included as well as the critical apparatus and indexes. Now includes Niermeyer’s Mediae latinitatis lexicon minus.
  • Roman Law Library – Greek & Latin +
    Handy and searchable collection of primary Roman law texts.
  • Early European Books: printed sources to 1700 – Greek & Latin +
    This resource traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the 17th century, offering full-colour facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.

Metre

  • Musa Pedestris: Metre and Meaning in Roman Verse. Morgan, Llewelyn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
  • The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994. Halporn, James W.
    Classmark: PA 219
    Includes a table of meters and a glossary of technical terms.
  • A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition. Califf, David J. London: Anthem, 2002.
    Includes a table of meters and a glossary of technical terms.