Ancient Library — Read the Greek & Latin Classics in the Original

A complete parsing reader for the classical canon. Click any word in any text for its lemma, morphology, and full dictionary entry — Lewis & Short for Latin, Liddell-Scott-Jones for Greek. Text Critical Functions developed by Princeton University’s Logion Project.

12097 works · 8335 Latin · 3762 Greek · 4051 authors · browse the full A–Z index

Greek

EpicHomer, Hesiod, and their heirs.139 works Lyric & ElegyPindar, Sappho’s heirs, and the Anthology.235 works TragedyAeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides.86 works ComedyAristophanes and Menander.204 works HistoryHerodotus, Thucydides, and their successors.442 works Geography & TravelStrabo and Pausanias.52 works BiographyPlutarch’s Lives and more.206 works Oratory & RhetoricThe Attic orators and the Second Sophistic.416 works PhilosophyPlato, Aristotle, and the Stoics.583 works Didactic & TechnicalManuals and treatises.86 works Myth, Hymn & ReligionApollodorus’ library of myth.64 works Satire & FableLucian of Samosata.100 works Prose FictionThe Greek novel.53 works Science & MedicineHippocrates, Galen, Euclid, Ptolemy.627 works Grammar & ReferenceAncient lexica.357 works Early Christian WritingsThe Fathers of the Church.112 works

Latin

EpicThe great narrative poems of Rome.172 works Lyric & ElegyCatullus, Horace, and the Roman elegists.778 works TragedySeneca’s tragedies.45 works ComedyPlautus and Terence.96 works HistoryCaesar, Livy, Sallust, Tacitus.545 works BiographyLives of the Caesars and famous men.857 works Oratory & RhetoricCicero and the art of Roman speech.221 works PhilosophyCicero, Seneca, Lucretius.312 works LettersCicero, Pliny, Seneca.1274 works Didactic & TechnicalTeaching in verse and prose.181 works Myth, Hymn & ReligionOvid’s calendar and mythological verse.348 works Satire & FableHorace, Juvenal, Persius, Phaedrus.94 works Prose FictionThe Roman novel.29 works Science & MedicinePliny’s encyclopedia and Roman science.216 works Grammar & ReferenceGrammarians, commentators, and encyclopedists.317 works Early Christian WritingsTertullian, Augustine, Jerome, and the Latin Fathers.2144 works Geography & TravelItineraries, pilgrimages, and descriptions of the world.73 works LawRoman law codes, jurists, and medieval charters.633 works