Classical Antiquity (Bookshelf)

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Classical antiquity (also the classical era or classical period) is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

It is conventionally taken to begin with the earliest-recorded Greek poetry of Homer (8th–7th century BC), and continues through the rise of Christianity and the decline of the Roman Empire (5th century). It ends with the dissolution of classical culture at the close of Late Antiquity (AD 300-600), blending into the Early Middle Ages (AD 500-1000).

—Excerpted from Classical antiquity on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.

Titles follow those at http://www.hup.harvard.edu/loeb/author.html

A blue bullet indicates works available in the original Greek or Latin.

Currently under construction, much more to come.

Contents 1 Aeschylus 2 Apicius 3 Apollonius Rhodius 4 Apuleius 5 Aristophanes 6 Aristotle 7 Augustine 8 Bion 9 Boethius 10 Caesar 11 Cato 12 Catullus 13 Cicero 14 Demosthenes 15 Dio Cassius 16 Euripides 17 Hesiod 18 Homer 19 Horace 20 Moschus 21 Ovid 22 Sappho 23 Tacitus, Caius Cornelius 24 Theocritus 25 Varro 26 Virgil

Aeschylus

Wikipedia

• Oresteia
  • Agamemnon  transl. Gilbert Murray (English)
  • Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers, and Eumenides  transl. E. D. A. Morshead (English)
• Seven Against Thebes
  • transl. Ioannis Gryparis  (Modern Greek)
• Collections
  • Suppliant Maidens, Persians, Seven Against Thebes, and Prometheus Bound  transl. E. D. A. Morshead (English)

Apicius

• De re coquinaria 

Apollonius Rhodius

Wikipedia

• Argonautica
  • etext #1  etext #2  transl. R. C. Seaton (English)

Apuleius

Wikipedia

• Metamorphoses (aka The Golden Ass)
  • transl. William Adlington  (English)
  • excerpted in Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories  (English)

Aristophanes

Wikipedia

• Acharnians  (English)
• Birds  (English)
• Clouds  transl. William James Hickie (English)
• Frogs  (English)
• Lysistrata  (English)
  • transl. Polyvios Dimitrakopoulos  (Modern Greek)
• Peace  (English)
• Collections
  • Knights, Acharnians, Peace, Lysistrata, Clouds  (English)
  • Wasps, Birds, Frogs, Women at the Thesmophoria, Assemblywomen, Wealth  (English)
  • Acharnians, Knights, Clouds, Wasps, Peace  transl. Eugène Talbot (French)
  • Birds, Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria, Frogs, Assemblywomen, Wealth  transl. Eugène Talbot (French)

Aristotle

Wikipedia

• Categories  transl. E. M. Edghill (English)
• Nicomachean Ethics  transl. J. A. Smith (English)
• Poetics
  • transl. Ingram Bywater  (English) (Audio version )
  • transl. S. H. Butcher  (English)
  • transl. Alfred Gudeman  (German)
• Politics  transl. William Ellis (English)

Augustine

Wikipedia

• Confessions  transl. E. B. Pusey (English)

Bion

Wikipedia

• in Theocritus, Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose  transl. Andrew Lang (English)

Boethius

Wikipedia

• Consolation of Philosophy  transl. H. R. James (English) (Audio version )
• Theological Tractates and Consolation of Philosophy  transl. H. F. Stewart & E. K. Rand (English and Latin)

Caesar

Wikipedia

• The Gallic War
  • I-IV  V-VIII  (Latin)
• Collections
  • The Gallic War and The Civil Wars  transl. W. A. MacDevitt (English)

Cato

Wikipedia

• On Agriculture  transl. F. H. Belvoir (English)

Catullus

Wikipedia

• ed. Robinson Ellis  (Latin)
• transl. Sir Richard F. Burton & Leonard C. Smithers  (English)
• transl. Robinson Ellis  (English)
• "To Lesbia"  (English)

Cicero

Wikipedia

• Academica  ed. James S. Reid (Latin with English notes)
• On Old Age  ed. James S. Reid & Francis W. Kelsey (Latin with English notes)
• Scipio's Dream  transl. Andrew P. Peabody (English)
  (part of the sixth book of On the Republic)
• Letters
  • Vol. 1 of 4 - letters 1-181  Letters 1-36 (different numbering scheme)  transl. Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (English)
• Orations
  • In Catilinam 1-4  (Latin)
• Collections
  • Brutus and Orator  transl. E. Jones (English)
  • On Friendship and On Old Age  transl. Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (English)
  • Tusculan Disputations, On the Nature of the Gods, On the Republic  transl. C. D. Yonge (English)
  • Philippics, On Invention, Orator, Topics, On the Divisions of Oratory, The Best Kind of Orator  transl. C. D. Yonge (English)

Demosthenes

Wikipedia

• Olynthiacs and Philippics  transl. Charles Rann Kennedy (English)
• The Public Orations of Demosthenes, vol. 1  vol. 2 (of 2)  transl. Arthur Wallace Pickard (English)

Dio Cassius

Wikipedia

• Roman History, vol. 1  vol. 2  vol. 3  vol. 4  vol. 5  vol. 6 (of 6)  transl. Herbert Baldwin Foster (English)

Euripides

• Alcestis  (English)
• Electra
  • transl. Gilbert Murray  (English)
  • transl. Angelos Tanagras  (Modern Greek)
• Hippolytus/The Bacchae  transl. Gilbert Murray (English)
• Iphigenia in Tauris  transl. Gilbert Murray (English)
• The Trojan Women  transl. Gilbert Murray (English)

Hesiod

Wikipedia

• Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica  transl. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (English)
  Includes Works and Days, Theogony, fragments of the Catalogue of Women and the Eoiae, The Shield (attributed to Hesiod), and fragments of various works attributed to Hesiod.

Homer

Wikipedia

• Iliad
  • transl. Samuel Butler  (English)
  • transl. Theodore Alois Buckley  (English)
  • transl. William Cowper  (English)
  • transl. Edward, Earl of Derby  (English)
  • transl. Andrew Lang  (English)
  • transl. Alexander Pope  (English)
  • transl. Charles-René-Marie Leconte de L'Isle  (French)
• Odyssey
  • transl. Samuel Butler  (English)
  • transl. S. H. Butcher  (English)
  • transl. William Cowper  (English)
  • transl. Alexander Pope  (English)
  • transl. Charles-René-Marie Leconte de L'Isle  (French)
• Homeric Hymns and Homeric Apocrypha
  • Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica  transl. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (English)
    Includes the Homeric Hymns and the Epigrams of Homer (both attributed to Homer), fragments of the Epic Cycle (parts of which are sometimes attributed to Homer), fragments of other epic poems attributed to Homer, Battle of Frogs and Mice, and The Contest of Homer and Hesiod.

Horace

• Art of Poetry 
• Odes and Epodes 
  • transl. John Conington  (English)
  • transl. C. Smart  (English)

Moschus

Wikipedia

• in Theocritus, Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose  transl. Andrew Lang (English)

Ovid

Wikipedia

• Fasti 

Sappho

• Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics  transl. Bliss Carman

Tacitus, Caius Cornelius

• Germania and Agricola 

Theocritus

Wikipedia

• in Theocritus, Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose  transl. Andrew Lang (English)
• transl. C. S. Calverley  (English)

Varro

Wikipedia

• On Agriculture  transl. F. H. Belvoir (English)
• On the Latin Language  ed. Augustus Wilmanns (Latin)

Virgil

Wikipedia

• The Aeneid 
  • transl. John Dryden  (English)
  • transl. E. Fairfax Taylor  (English)
  • transl. J. W. Mackail  (English)
• Bucolics and Eclogues 
  • English translation 
  • transl. Robert Mellin  (Finnish)
• Georgics