LibGuides: Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies: Primary Text Sources

Reed Digital Collections

Ancient Mediterranean Studies Image Database
High quality digital images selected by Reed Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean faculty in Reed Digital Collections.

Greek text databases and language resources

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
Contains virtually all Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and the majority of surviving works up to the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453.
See the TLG help tab for tips on using the database.
Digital Loeb Classical Library
Greek and Latin, with English translations for every Loeb edition in print, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content.
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online - Classics (Latin Poetry, Latin Prose, Latin History)
Contains authoritative critical editions, texts, and translations of all the major Latin authors as well as some Greek tragedians, comedians, and philosophers. Users can search across the texts, read texts and translations side by side, and look up words in the Oxford Latin Dictionary.
Perseus Digital Library
A digital library containing primary resources from the classical world written in Greek and Latin often accompanied by English translations, secondary sources written in English, and images relevant to classical culture.

The Chicago Homer
A multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek. (English, Greek, and German)
The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics
The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (EAGLL) is a unique work that brings together the latest research from across a range of disciplines which contribute to our knowledge of Ancient Greek. It is an indispensable research tool for scholars and students of Greek, of linguistics, and of other Indo-European languages, as well as of Biblical literature.

Latin text databases and language resources

Oxford Scholarly Editions Online - Classics (Latin Poetry, Latin Prose, Latin History)
Contains authoritative critical editions, texts, and translations of all the major Latin authors as well as some Greek tragedians, comedians, and philosophers. Users can search across the texts, read texts and translations side by side, and look up words in the Oxford Latin Dictionary.
Digital Loeb Classical Library
Greek and Latin, with English translations for every Loeb edition in print, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content.
Library of Latin Texts Series A & B - Brepolis
A comprehensive database of Latin texts, containing over 3,000 texts classified under 900 authors, spanning from the patristic and medieval periods through Antiquity and the early-modern and modern eras.
Library of Latin Texts (Series A and B Cross-search) Brepolis
A comprehensive database of Latin texts, containing over 3,000 texts classified under 900 authors, spanning from the patristic and medieval periods through Antiquity and the early-modern and modern eras. (For Series A, research was done to verify facts relating to the texts and will be most useful for students; for Series B, the materials have been taken directly from existing editions.)
Patrologia Latina
An electronic version of the Patrologia Latina published between 1844 and 1865. Includes the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian (200 AD) to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.
Database of Latin Dictionaries
A searchable database comprised of modern and historical language translation dictionaries as well as dictionaries providing semantic and etymological explanations in Latin of Latin words.

Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Latin Texts
A website contains essentially all Latin literary texts written before A.D. 200, as well as some texts selected from later antiquity.

Perseus Digital Library
A digital library containing primary resources from the classical world written in Greek and Latin often accompanied by English translations, secondary sources written in English, and images relevant to classical culture.

The Vergil Project
Collaborative enterprise dedicated to collecting, creating and disseminating resources for teaching and researching Vergil. (Latin)

Selected Web Resources

HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and great resource for public domain and out of copyright books. Many editions of public domain Classical works can be found.
The Internet Classics Archive
A collection of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors. (English)
LacusCurtius
A website specializing in ancient Rome; contains older Latin translations (mostly Loeb) and Greek texts in English translation. (Latin, Greek, and English)

Papyrology and Epigraphy

Papyri.info
Aggregates and displays information from the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP), the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV), and Bibliographie Papyrologique (BP), as well as links to Trismegistos.
Trismegistos
Bibliographic information on published ancient documents focusing on the history of Egypt between approximately 800 BC and 800 AD. Includes the Leuven Database of Ancient Books, among other resources.
Center for the Study of Ancient Documents
Home of Oxford University's epigraphical archive, with links to high quality epigraphy sites.