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Yiannis
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Topic: Ancient Greek/Roman Literature & Sources Posted: 16-Sep-2004 at 05:10 |
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Posted: 16-Sep-2004 at 07:08 |
What a wonderful idea, Yiannis! Thanks for start this.
Here you can find the Annals of Tacitus:
http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/annals.html
The Internet Classics Archive is a valuable resource - over 400 different works!
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Posted: 17-Sep-2004 at 22:43 |
PERSEUS DIGITAL LIBRARY http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Database on Classics, the biggest dynamic databse on the web, including images, texts with imbedded dictionary.
CLASSICS POETRY RECITAL http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/poetry_and_prose/poetry .html
Audio files on many poems, especially the Aeneid
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty. Aristotle, Politics
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Posted: 12-Oct-2004 at 10:18 |
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/index.htm
A selection of classical Romand and Greek stuff, from Homer to Ovid, and then some.
(Just cleaning up my bookmarks here)
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Posted: 23-Oct-2004 at 04:25 |
Great thread! Sticky this puppy!
Several folks have mentioned parts of Fordham University and Paul Halsall's contribution to The Internet History Sourcebooks - great stuff and lots of it
If they don't have it - Perseus (above) or MIT (also above) will
There's also:
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/oldindex.htm
containing study guides to and parts of translations of a few of the classics
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/home.html
look under Lacus Curtius for translations of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Quintus Curtius' Histories of Alexander the Great, the Saturnalia of Macrobius, and Censorinus' de Die Natali; Vitruvius, Frontinus, Velleius Paterculus, Suetonius, Cato's de Re Rustica, Celsus' de Medicina, and most of Claudian in both Latin and English; complete English translations of Polybius, Cassius Dio, Appian's Civil Wars and Quintilian and a whole lot more
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/index.html
Tacitus, Plato, Homer, and a number of texts from other cultures - Egyptian book of the Dead, Khayyam, The Enuma Elish, Gilgamesh - very eclectic
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/
but not in translation - just in Latin
http://www3.la.psu.edu/cams/default.aspx?pageid=40§i onid=5
is the links page from Penn State Classics and Mediterranean Studies - many of these are not source texts but commentaries and study texts
and - for the outrageously researh minded-
http://www.etana.org/
again - no source texts - but a great online collection for all who wanted to read things like the reprinted texts of "the Pyramids and Temples of Giza" by Sir William Flanders Petrie, 1883. They have many similar texts available.
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Posted: 23-Oct-2004 at 04:41 |
For Biblical texts try
http://www.blueletterbible.org/
Thy will give you a number of english translations (New Living Translation, New King James Version, New American Standard Bible, Revised Standard Version, Noah Webster Version, Robert Young Translation, J.N Darby Translation, American Standard Version, Hebrew Names Version, Jerome's Latin Vulgate) and the Hebrew and/or Greek for any particular verse.
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In the time of your life, live - so that in that wonderous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it. (Saroyan)
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Posted: 17-Nov-2004 at 09:54 |
Great topic lads, gotta love all that info.
Don't forget Project Gutenberg, at http://promo.net/pg/list.html
It has all the classics and many more.
Keep the links coming!
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Posted: 18-Nov-2004 at 02:58 |
Thanks and welcome RN. Your input is much appreciated !
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty. Aristotle, Politics
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Posted: 23-Nov-2004 at 01:08 |
This is a good one!
Plutarch: http://www.blackmask.com/books31c/plutadex.htm
And here, you can find books on line, just type a search word from the title of the book or the writer: http://www.blackmask.com/cgi-bin/newlinks/page.cgi?g=&d= 1
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty. Aristotle, Politics
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Posted: 07-Dec-2004 at 08:04 |
All available sources on Alexander the Great. Many thanks to Pothos site!
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty. Aristotle, Politics
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Posted: 19-Jan-2005 at 19:50 |
http://www.livius.org
A huge site with articles on ancient history.
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Posted: 28-Jan-2005 at 22:31 |
I don't have a link for this book however I trully recommend it. Most
of you may have heard of it already but I recommend reading I,
Claudius. For those who have never heard of it its an amazing book
written as the fictional biography of Emperor Tiberious Claudius. Its a
true classic.
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Posted: 23-Apr-2005 at 12:33 |
I recommend a great book by Victor David Hanson , titled " Who Killed Homer ? "... and in this link u can find a discussion about it..
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1998/sepoct/arti cles/homer.html
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Posted: 24-May-2005 at 06:33 |
With great relief I observe that many ancient greek texts are made
available through universities and other institutions around the globe
save for the greek universities, that have failed to do so.
Bitterness? Perhaps...
Absolutely amazing collection, people. I will post my contribution as soon as I get my home PC repaired.
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Posted: 26-May-2005 at 05:18 |
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty. Aristotle, Politics
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