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Free Literature Books - Classical Languages and Literature
  1. Aesop's Fables by Aesop, trans. by George Fyler Townsend (Gutenberg text)

  2. Against Ctesiphon by Aeschines (HTML at Perseus)

  3. Against Leocrates by Lycurgus (HTML at Perseus)

  4. Against Leptines by Demosthenes (HTML at Perseus)

  5. Against Midias by Demosthenes (HTML at Perseus)

  6. Against Neaera by Demosthenes (HTML at Perseus)

  7. Agamemnon by Aeschylus, trans. by E. D. A. Morshead (HTML at Internet Classics)

  8. Agamemnon by Aeschylus, trans. by Herbert Weir Smyth (HTML at Perseus)

  9. Agesilaus by Xenophon
    1. HTML at Perseus
    2. Gutenberg text

  10. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges (first edition) by Herbert Weir Smyth (HTML at Perseus)

  11. Ajax by Sophocles, trans. by Richard C. Jebb (HTML at Perseus)

  12. Ajax by Sophocles, trans. by R. C. Trevelyan (HTML at Internet Classics)

  13. Alcestis by Euripides, trans. by David Kovacs (HTML at Perseus)

  14. Alcestis by Euripides, trans. by Richard Aldington (HTML at Internet Classics)

  15. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Joseph Henry Allen and James Bradstreet Greenough (HTML at Penn)

  16. Anabasis by Xenophon
    1. HTML at Perseus
    2. Gutenberg text

  17. Andromache by Euripides, trans. by David Kovacs (HTML at Perseus)

  18. Andromache by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge (HTML at Internet Classics)

  19. Antigone by Sophocles, trans. by Richard C. Jebb (HTML at Internet Classics)

  20. Apology by Plato, trans. by Harold North Fowler (HTML at Perseus)

  21. Apology by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text

  22. Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius, trans. by R. C. Seaton (HTML at OMACL)

  23. Bacchae by Euripides, trans. by T. A. Buckley (HTML at Perseus)

  24. Barlaam and Ioasaph by John the Monk, trans. by G. R. Woodward and H. Mattingly (HTML at OMACL)

  25. Complete (Existing) Plays. by Aeschylus (HTML at MIT)

  26. Complete (Existing) Plays. by Aristophanes (HTML at eserver.org)

  27. Complete Existing Speeches. by Isaeus, trans. by Edward Seymour Forster (HTML at Perseus)

  28. Complete Existing Speeches. by Lysias, trans. by Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb (HTML at Perseus)

  29. Comprehensive Study Guide for Wheelock's Latin (prepublication version) by Dale A. Grote (text files in Hong Kong)

  30. Cyclops by Euripides, trans. by David Kovacs (HTML at Perseus)

  31. Cyropaedia by Xenophon, ed. by F. M. Stawell, trans. by Henry Graham Dakyns (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 29 Feb 2000)

  32. Cyropaedia by Xenophon (HTML at Perseus)

  33. De Fuga in Persecutione by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

  34. De Officiis by Cicero, trans. by Walter Miller (HTML at stoics.com)

  35. Electra by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge (HTML at Internet Classics)

  36. Electra by Sophocles, trans. by Richard C. Jebb (HTML at Internet Classics)

  37. Epinomis by Plato (HTML at Perseus)

  38. Eumenides by Aeschylus, trans. by E. D. A. Morshead (HTML at Internet Classics)

  39. Eumenides by Aeschylus, trans. by Herbert Weir Smyth (HTML at Perseus)

  40. Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult by Deborah Lyons (HTML at Princeton)

  41. Germania by Cornelius Tacitus (HTML at Fordham)

  42. Hecuba by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge (HTML at Internet Classics)

  43. Helen by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge (HTML at Internet Classics)

  44. Hellenica by Xenophon
    1. HTML at Perseus
    2. Gutenberg text

  45. Heracles by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge (HTML at Internet Classics)

  46. Hiero by Xenophon, trans. by Henry Graham Dakyns (Gutenberg text)

  47. Hippolytus by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge (HTML at Internet Classics)

  48. Hippolytus by Euripides, trans. by David Kovacs (HTML at Perseus)

  49. Histories (translation modernized) by Herodotus, trans. by Alfred Denis Godley (HTML at Perseus)

  50. Ion by Euripides, trans. by Robert Potter (HTML at Internet Classics)

  51. Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides (HTML at Internet Classics)

  52. Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides, trans. by Robert Potter (HTML at Internet Classics)

  53. Laelius, or, An Essay on Friendship by Cicero, trans. by W. Melmoth (HTML at Fordham)

  54. Libation Bearers by Aeschylus, trans. by Herbert Weir Smyth (HTML at Perseus)

  55. Lysistrata by Aristophanes (text at English Server)

  56. Lysistrata by Aristophanes, ed. by Jeffrey Henderson (HTML at Perseus)

  57. Medea by Euripides, trans. by David Kovacs (HTML at Perseus)

  58. Medea by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge (HTML at Internet Classics)

  59. Memorabilia by Xenophon
    1. HTML at Perseus
    2. Gutenberg text

  60. Menexenus by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)

  61. Metamorphoses by Ovid (HTML at Internet Classics; END MISSING)

  62. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles, trans. by Richard C. Jebb (HTML at Perseus)

  63. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, trans. by E. H. Plumptre (HTML at BiblioBytes)

  64. Oedipus the King by Sophocles, trans. by Francis Storr (HTML at Michigan)

  65. Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles, trans. by Richard C. Jebb (HTML at Perseus)

  66. Olynthiacs by Demosthenes
    1. number 1: HTML at Perseus
    2. number 2: HTML at Perseus
    3. number 3: HTML at Perseus

  67. On Horsemanship by Xenophon, trans. by Henry Graham Dakyns (Gutenberg text)

  68. On the Crown by Demosthenes (HTML at Perseus)

  69. On the Murder of Eratosthenes by Lysias, trans. by Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb (HTML at Perseus)

  70. On the Mysteries by Andocides (HTML at Perseus)

  71. On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus, trans. by William Ellery Leonard (HTML at Internet Classics)

  72. Orestes by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge (HTML at Internet Classics)

  73. Panegyricus by Isocrates (HTML at Perseus)

  74. Peace by Aristophanes (HTML at Internet Classics)

  75. Persians by Aeschylus, trans. by Herbert Weir Smyth (HTML at Perseus)

  76. Pharsalia (The Civil War) by Lucan
    1. HTML at OMACL
    2. Gutenberg text

  77. Philippics by Demosthenes
    1. number 1: HTML at Perseus
    2. number 2: HTML at Perseus
    3. number 3: HTML at Perseus
    4. number 4: HTML at Perseus

  78. Philoktetes by Sophocles, trans. by Gregory McNamee (Gutenberg text)

  79. Philoctetes by Sophocles, trans. by Thomas Francklin (HTML at Internet Classics)

  80. Philoctetes by Sophocles, trans. by Richard C. Jebb (HTML at Perseus)

  81. Philodemos = Philodemos: His Twenty-Nine Extant Poems by Philodemus, trans. by George Economou (HTML at Light and Dust)

  82. Plutus by Aristophanes (HTML at Internet Classics)

  83. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, trans. by Herbert Weir Smyth (HTML at Perseus)

  84. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (HTML at Internet Classics)

  85. Rhesus by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge (HTML at Internet Classics)

  86. Rhesus by Euripides (HTML at Internet Classics)

  87. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology, ed. by John William Mackail (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Oct 2000)

  88. Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus, trans. by Herbert Weir Smyth (HTML at Perseus)

  89. Suppliant Women by Aeschylus, trans. by Herbert Weir Smyth (HTML at Perseus)

  90. Symposium by Xenophon
    1. HTML at Perseus
    2. Gutenberg text

  91. The Acharnians by Aristophanes, ed. by Jeffrey Henderson (HTML at Perseus)

  92. The Acharnians by Aristophanes (HTML at Internet Classics)

  93. The Aeneid by Virgil, trans. by John Dryden
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. text at Wiretap

  94. The Apology (Latin and English, with commentary) by Lucius Apuleius, trans. by H. E. Butler (frame-dependent HTML at Penn)

  95. The Bacchantes by Euripides (HTML at Internet Classics)

  96. The Birds by Aristophanes (HTML at Internet Classics)

  97. The Choephori by Aeschylus (HTML at Internet Classics)

  98. The Clouds by Aristophanes, ed. by Jeffrey Henderson (HTML at Perseus)

  99. The Clouds by Aristophanes (HTML at Internet Classics)

  100. The Complaint of Nature by Alain of Lille, trans. by Douglas Maxwell Moffat (HTML with commentary at Fordham)

  101. The Cyclops by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge (HTML at Internet Classics)

  102. The Ecclesiazusae by Aristophanes (HTML at Internet Classics)

  103. The Eclogues by Virgil (HTML at Internet Classics)

  104. The Economist by Xenophon, trans. by Henry Graham Dakyns (Gutenberg text)

  105. The Fall of Troy by Quintus Smyrnaeus, trans. by Arthur Sanders Way (Gutenberg text)

  106. The Frogs by Aristophanes, trans. by Matthew Dillon (HTML at Perseus)

  107. The Frogs by Aristophanes (HTML at Internet Classics)

  108. The Georgics by Virgil (HTML at Internet Classics)

  109. The Golden Asse by Lucius Apuleius, trans. by William Adlington
    1. HTML at the English Server
    2. Gutenberg text

  110. The Herecleidae by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge (HTML at Internet Classics)

  111. The Herecleidae by Euripides, trans. by David Kovacs (HTML at Perseus)

  112. The Homeric Hymns by Homer (HTML at OMACL)

  113. The Iliad by Homer, trans. by Augustus Taber Murray (HTML at Perseus)

  114. The Iliad by Homer, trans. by Samuel Butler
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text; unofficial until 30 Jun 2000

  115. The Knights by Aristophanes (HTML at Internet Classics)

  116. The Letters of Pliny the Consul by Pliny the Younger, trans. by William Melmoth (HTML at BiblioBytes)

  117. The Library by Apollodorus (hypertext at Perseus)

  118. The Odyssey by Homer, trans. by Samuel Henry Butcher and Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

  119. The Odyssey by Homer, trans. by Samuel Butler
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text

  120. The Odyssey by Homer, trans. by Augustus Taber Murray (HTML at Perseus)

  121. The Odysseys of Homer by Homer, trans. by George Chapman (HTML at Bartleby)

  122. Theogony by Hesiod, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (HTML at Perseus)

  123. The Persians by Aeschylus, trans. by Robert Potter (HTML at Internet Classics)

  124. The Phoenissae by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge (HTML at Internet Classics)

  125. The Phoenician Women by Euripides (HTML at Perseus)

  126. The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by John Wilson (illustrated HTML at Sewanee)

  127. The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by Betty Radice (HTML at stupidity.com)

  128. The Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter, trans. by Alfred R. Allinson (HTML with commentary at gis.net)

  129. The Scholemaster by Roger Ascham
    1. HTML at Oregon
    2. Gutenberg text

  130. The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus, trans. by E. D. A. Morshead (HTML at Internet Classics)

  131. The Suppliants by Aeschylus, trans. by E. D. A. Morshead (HTML at Internet Classics)

  132. The Suppliants by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge (HTML at Internet Classics)

  133. The Thesmophoriazusae by Aristophanes (HTML at Internet Classics)

  134. The Trachiniae by Sophocles, trans. by Richard C. Jebb (HTML at Internet Classics)

  135. The Trojan Women by Euripides (HTML at Perseus)

  136. The Trojan Women by Euripides (HTML at Internet Classics)

  137. The Wasps by Aristophanes (HTML at Internet Classics)

  138. Three Essays on Thucydides by John M. Finley (HTML at Perseus)

  139. Topics by Aristotle, trans. by W. A. Pickard-Cambridge (HTML at Internet Classics)

  140. Works and Days by Hesiod, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (HTML at Perseus)