Classical Hellenistic Literature And History!

[Guest Scanderbeg]

(Credit must be given to allempires members for giving this stuff out)

 

The Iliad by HOMER: http://www.uoregon.edu/~joelja/iliad.html

 

and again: http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/homer/iliad_title.htm

 

The Odyssey by HOMER: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hom...r-odysseySB.txt

 

HERODOTUS FULL TEXT: http://www.herodotuswebsite.co.uk/Text/extext.htm

 

APOLOGY OF SOCRATES, By PLATO: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html

 

LIFE OF ARISTOTLE BY DIOGENES LAERTIUS: http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogen...dlaristotle.htm

 

First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis: http://www.textkit.com/learn/ID/103/author_id/38/

 

or all books here(in Greek and English): http://www.mikrosapoplous.gr/xenophon/anb1d10.htm

 

SYMPOSIUM by XENOPHON (move through the pages by clicking on the blue arrows at the top and bottom right side of the page-consider downloading greek fonts): http://www.mikrosapoplous.gr/xenophon/xen3a.htm

 

Cyropaedia by Xenophon: http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Cyropaedia/00000012.htm

 

or: http://www.iranchamber.com/history/xenopho...yropaedia_xenop

 

NEW TESTAMENT original text (in koine Greek): http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/gnt...t/chapters.html

 

Aesop's Fables: http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/AesopFables/00000010.htm

 

Many more here: http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/

 

or here: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook07.html

 

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/poetr...nd_prose/poetry .html

Audio files on many poems, especially the Aeneid

 

Aristeides: To Plato, in defense of oratory

 

http://www.livius.org/phi-php/philostratus...s/aristides.htm

 

All sources available on Alexander the Great

http://www.alexander-sources.org/

 

Tacticus : Germania - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/tacitus1.html

 

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

 

Plutarch: http://www.blackmask.com/books31c/plutadex.htm

 

[Ursus]

This is a great list.

[Guest Scanderbeg]

No problem Ursus. They are pretty fun to read. Now I also wish I could read Greek

[Ursus]

I pinned it for future reference. If anyone cares to add to the list of online resources, feel free.

[DecimusCaesar]

Here is Plutarch's 15 Greek Heroes, from the Lives -

 

http://www.e-classics.com/index.html

 

Here are the Lives that are covered:

 

Theseus The Athenian Adventurer (c. 1300 B.C.)

Lycurgus The Father of Sparta (c. 800 B.C.)

Solon The Lawmaker of Athens (c. 600 B.C.)

Aristides "The Just" (530 - 468 B.C.)

Pericles "The Olympian" (495 - 429 B.C.)

Nicias The Slave of Fear (died 413 B.C.)

Agesilaus The Lame King of Sparta (444 - 360 B.C.)

Pelopidas The Freedom Fighter (410 - 364 B.C.)

Dion The Savior of Syracuse (409 - 354 B.C.)

Timoleon The Friend of Fortune (411 - 336 B.C.)

Alexander "The Great" (356 - 323 B.C.)

Phocion "The Good" (402 - 318 B.C.)

Pyrrhus The Fool of Hope (319 - 272 B.C.)

Agis The Reformer of Sparta (reigned 245 - 241 B.C.)

Philopoemen "The Last of the Greeks" (252 - 182 B.C.)