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From these pages you can download or read the texts of many ancient Greek writers. The number of the titles increases gradually.
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  Issue, date, size Compressed file
Aeschines, Letters (pdf format), contributed by A.K. 1.0, 27/2/07, 80kB Aeschines_letters
Aeschines, Against Timarchus 1.1, 14/5/00, 52kb ais111.zip
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
(ed. G. Murray, Oxford 1955)
Offered by Slaven Skoko - Student Philological Association Zagreb
1.0, 14/6/02, 49kb aeschylus_agamemnon.zip
Aeschylus, Choeforoi
(ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, 1926)
1.0, 20/7/03, 32kb choeforoi_u10.zip
Aeschylus, Eumenides
(ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, 1926)
1.0, 20/7/03, 29kb eumenides_u10.zip
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1.0, 20/8/00, 36kb promitheus.zip
Aeschylus, Septem contra Thebas
(ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Cambridge 1926)
1.0, 1/11/01, 31kb EptaEpiThivas01u.zip
Apollodorus (pseudo-), Library A 1.0, 16/9/00, 34kb apolla10.zip
Apollodorus (pseudo-), Library B 1.0, 24/9/00, 39kb apollb10.zip
Apollodorus (pseudo-), Library C 1.0, 21/10/00, 43kb apollc10.zip
Apollodorus (pseudo-), Library Epitome
contributed by Spyros Missiakoulis
1.0, 9/7/04, 57kb apolle10.zip
Aristophanes, Acharnians 1.0, 18/6/00, 41kb dikaip.zip
Aristophanes, Clouds 1.0, 22/4/00, 53kb arist110.zip
Aristophanes, Frogs
[ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart, Oxford. 1907]
1.0, 4/10/01, 54kb
frogs_u10.zip
Aristophanes, Knights
[ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart, Oxford. 1907]
1.0, 30/3/02, 50kb
knights10.zip
Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1.0, 9/6/01, 46kb lysistrata10.zip
Aristophanes, Peace
[ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart, Oxford. 1907]
1.0, 30/3/02, 46kb peace10.zip
Aristophanes, Wasps
[ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart, Oxford. 1907]
1.0, 30/3/02, 54kb wasps10.zip
Aristotle, About Poetics 1.0, 1/12/00, 38kB
PeriPoihtikhs.zip
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, books 1 & 2
[ed. J. Bywater, Aristotle's Ethica Nicomachea. Oxford, 1894]
1.1, 31/12/02, 37kB
nicom12u10.zip
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, books 3 & 4
[ed. J. Bywater, Aristotle's Ethica Nicomachea. Oxford, 1894]
1.1, 31/12/02, 44kB nicom34u11.zip
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, books 5-10
contributed by Spyros Misiakoulis
1.0, 06/01/05, 175kB nicom5-10.zip
Aristotle, Parva Naturalia
[ed. W. D. Ross, Oxford 1955]
1.0, 29/11/01, 102kB
mfu10.zip
Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 1.0, 17/6/00, 8kb
arvv.zip
Diogenis Laertii Vitae Philosophorum,
text only (in html)
(ed. H S Long, Oxford 1964)
   
Epictetus, Enchiridion
(ed. H. Schenkl, Teubner Leipzig 1916)
1.0, 20/7/03, 22kb enchiridion_u10
Epicurus, Epistula Tertia Ad Menoeceum 1.0, 10/4/01, 7kb pros_menoikea.zip
Epicurus, Ratae Sententiae 1.0, 10/4/01, 7kb kyriai_doxai.zip
Euripides, Bacchae
(ed. Gilbert Murray, Oxford. 1913)
1.0, 18/11/01, 43kb bacchae10u.zip
Euripides, Electra
(ed. Gilbert Murray, Oxford. 1913)
1.0, 18/7/02, 38kb euripides_electra.zip
Euripides, Hippolytus
(ed. J. Diggle, Oxford 1984)
Offered by Slaven Skoko - Student Philological Association Zagreb
1.0, 14/6/02, 44kb
euripides_hipolit.zip
Euripides, Iphigeneia in Tauris 1.0, 9/10/00, 49kb
tayrois10.zip
Euripides, Medea 1.0, 18/2/01, 41kb
medea10.zip
Herodotus, History 1 1.0, 3/6/01, 123kb herod1u10.zip
Herodotus, History 2 1.1, 3/6/01, 90kb herod2u11.zip
Herodotus, Histories 3-9
(ed. A. D. Godley. Cambridge 1920)
1.1, 20/1/04, 509kb herodotus3-9u11.zip
Hesiod, Opera Et Dies
Thanks to Manuel Delgado Dominguez
1.0, 1/4/00, 33kb
OperaEtDies.zip
Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 1.0, 21/10/00, 18kb
aspis10.zip
Hesiod, Theogony
1.0, 1/11/00, 38kb

theogony.zip
Hippocrates, De morbo sacro
(ed. E. Littre, Paris 1849)
1.0, 27/10/02, 19kb

hippocrates_de_morbo_sacro.zip
Homer, Iliad, books 1-24
(ed. D. B. Monro and T. W. Allen. Oxford, 1920)
[You can download each book in a separate file from here.]
Many thanks to Manuel Delgado Dominguez for providing the first book of the Iliad.
1.0, 1/1/02, 557kb
iliad_u10.zip
Homer, Odyssey, books 1-24
Also with translation by Arg. Eftaliotis
[You can download each book in a separate file from here.]
1.0, 3/6/01, 449kb
odyssey.zip
Isocrates, Busiris, Nicocles, In sophistas, Panathenaicus, Panegyricus, Philippus
contributed by Michalis Solomonides
1.0, 7/1/05, 213kb isokrates.zip
Lucian, About Peregrino’s death (De morte Peregrini)
contributed by Spyros Misiakoulis
1.0, 14/6/06, 33 kb luc_De_morte_Peregrini.zip
Lucian, About sacrificies (De sacrificiis)
contributed by Spyros Misiakoulis
1.0, 14/6/06, 18 kb luc_De_sacrificiis.zip
Lucian, Charon or reviewers (Charon sive contemplantes)
contributed by Spyros Misiakoulis
1.0, 14/6/06, 27 kb luc_Charon_sive_contemplantes.zip
Lucian, Deathly dialogues (Dialogi mortuorum)
contributed by Spyros Misiakoulis
1.0, 13/6/06, 76kb luc_Dialogi_mortuorum.zip
Lucian, A True Story 1.1, 9/6/01, 45kb louk1u11.zip
Lucian Dialogi Deorum
in html format.
(ed. H S Long, Oxford 1964)
   
Lucian, The Dance (De saltatione) 1.0, 3/6/01, 30kb peri_orxhsews.zip
Lucian, The Dream or Lucian's Career 1.0, 29/9/00, 10kb
enypnion10.zip
Lucian, Fatherland’s encomium (Patriae encomium)
contributed by Spyros Misiakoulis
1.0, 14/6/06, 8 kb luc_Patriae_encomium.zip
Lucian, Herodotus or Aetion (Herodotus)
contributed by Spyros Misiakoulis
1.0, 13/6/06, 8kb luc_herodotus.zip
Lucian, How to write History 1.0, 31/12/00, 32kb PosDeiIstorian10.zip
Lucian, Podagra 1.0, 14/6/06, 17 kb luc_podagra.zip
Lucian, Slander (About not being too quick to believe a calumny) 1.1, 9/6/01, 15kb louk2u11.zip
Lucian, Symposium or Lapithae (Symposium)
contributed by Spyros Misiakoulis
1.0, 14/6/06, 36 kb luc_Symposium.zip
Lucian, The consonants at law (Trial of sigma) 1.1, 9/6/01, 7kb louk3u11.zip
Lysias, Hyper Adynatou
(ed. U. Albini, Sansoni, Florence 1955)
An offer of Georgia Galani
1.0, 18/7/02, 14kb lysias_adynatoy.zip
Lysias, Pro Mantitheo
(ed. U. Albini, Sansoni, Florence 1955)
An offer of Georgia Galani
1.0, 18/7/02, 11kb
lysias_mantitheou.zip
Various, Lyrica
(Callinus, Tyrtaeus, Mimnermus, Theognis, Archilochus, Simonides, Alcaeus, Sappho, Anacreon etc.)
Offered by Slaven Skoko - Student Philological Association Zagreb
1.0, 14/6/02, 23kb
lirika.zip
Menander, Dyscolus
(ed. F.H. Sandbach, Oxford 1972)
Offered by Slaven Skoko - Student Philological Association Zagreb
1.0, 14/6/02, 35kb
menander_diskol.zip
Musaeus, Hero et Leander
(ed. H. Färber, Munich 1961)
Offered by Slaven Skoko - Student Philological Association Zagreb
1.0, 14/6/02, 14kb
musaeus_hrw.zip
Pausanias Attica
(ed. F. Spiro. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903)
1.0, 20/7/03, 96kb paus_attica_u10.zip
Pausanias Korinthiaka
(ed. F. Spiro. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903)
1.0, 20/7/03, 85kb paus_korinthiaka_u10.zip
Pindarus, Olympia I & Nemea I
(ed. H. Maehler [post B. Snell], Leipzig 1971)
Offered by Slaven Skoko - Student Philological Association Zagreb
1.0, 14/6/02, 10kb
pindar.zip
Plato, Apology
(ed. John Burnet, 1903)
1.0, 2/6/02, 33kB
plato_apology10u.zip
Plato, Crito
(ed. John Burnet, 1903)
1.0, 2/6/02, 18kB
plato_crito10u.zip
Plato, Euthyphro
(ed. John Burnet, 1903)
1.0, 2/6/02, 21kB plato_euthypron10u.zip
Plato, Laws
contributed by Spyros Missiakoulis
1.0, 26/9/04, 628kB plato_laws_10.zip
Plato, Phaedo
(ed. John Burnet, 1903)
1.0, 2/6/02, 76kB plato_phaedon10u.zip
Plato, Phaedrus 1.0, 21/11/00, 66kB phaedrus1.zip
Plato, Republic
contributed by Spyros Missiakoulis
1.0, 9/7/04, 543kB Plato_Republic_1.0.zip
Plato, The Seventh Letter
Also with translation by J. Harward
1.0, 14/1/01, 35kB 7th-ltr-u10.zip
Plato, Symposium 1.1, 8/1/01, 64kB symposium11.zip
Plato, Timaios
(ed. John Burnet, 1903)
1.0, 20/1/04, 88kb
timaios_u10.zip
Plutarch    
Sophocles, Ajax
[Ed. Richard Jebb. Cambridge. 1893]
1.0, 4/10/01, 43kb
ajax_u10.zip
Sophocles, Antigone
[ed. Sir Richard Jebb, Cambridge. 1891]
1.0, 29/9/01, 33kb
antigone_u10.zip
Sophocles, Electra
[ed. Richard Jebb, Cambridge. 1894]
1.0, 30/3/02, 46kb
electra10.zip
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
[ed. Richard Jebb, Cambridge. 1889]
1.0, 30/3/02, 62kb
oed_col_u10.zip
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus
[ed. Richard Jebb. Cambridge. 1887]
1.0, 4/10/01, 48kb
otu10.zip
Sophocles, Philoctetes
[ed. Richard Jebb. Cambridge. 1898]
1.0, 30/3/02, 46kb
philoctetes10.zip
Sophocles, Trachiniae
[ed. Richard Jebb. Cambridge. 1892]
1.0, 30/3/02, 40kb
trachiniae10.zip
Theocritus, Idylls
Also available in HTML format with an introduction to Theocritus work and life (in Greek)
1.1, 26/6/04, 91kb
theocritus11.zip
Theophrastus, Characters
Also available with introduction, translation and index by E. David (in Greek)
1.0, 3/6/01, 30kb
characters10.zip
Thucydides, Histories 1, 2 and 3
files converted to Unicode from Internet Ancient History Source Book of Paul Halsall, after permission
1.2, 18/06/06, 220kb thucy1-3u12.zip
Thucydides, Histories 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8
(ed H.S. Jones - J.E. Powell, Oxford 1942)
1.0, 27/10/02, 377kb thucydides4-8.zip
Xenophon, Anabasis 1.1, 14/5/00, 197kb
xen211.zip
Xenophon, Symposium 1.0, 22/4/00, 36kb
xen110.zip

 
 


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