Portal:Ancient and Classical texts
Ancient and Classical Texts covers all works originally written before the Middle Ages. A good rule: The Arab conquest in the seventh century was a major shift, and may be taken to mark the beginning of Medieval Literature. Texts written before that belong in this category.
This is an index for English translations of books or other texts from Ancient or Classical times. The original languages of many or most such texts would be classical Hebrew, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin. (But perhaps ambitious contributors might want to add English translations of Egyptian hieroglyphics or Akkadian myths!)
Sometimes it is unclear whether a text belongs in this period or whether it is later (medieval). In fact, some texts continued to be revised, redacted and expanded over the course of many centuries, such that dating them becomes impossible. In case of doubt, upload the text under the category you think most readers would be likely to look for it.
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Ancient and Classical authors[edit]
- Aeschylus
- Aesop
- Ammianus Marcellinus
- Aristotle
- Appian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Julius Caesar
- Gaius Valerius Catullus
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Demosthenes
- Epictetus
- Euclid
- Euripides
- Heraclitus
- Herodian
- Herodotus
- Hippocrates
- Homer (fl. 8th century BC)
- Homeric Hymns
- The Iliad
- ΙΛΙΑΣ (original greek text)
- The Odyssey
- ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ (original greek text)
- Laozi (老子)
- Josephus
- Juvenal
- Ovid
- Pausanias
- Plato
- Procopius
- Sophocles
- Oedipus Plays
- Ajax
- Electra
- Philoctetes
- Trachiniae
- Tacitus
- Wang Xizhi (王羲之)
- Virgil
Ancient and Classical texts[edit]
Mesopotamian[edit]
Akkadian[edit]
- The Code of Hammurabi — original Akkadian
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
Mesopotamian[edit]
- Inscription on Borsippa, ostensible biblical Tower of Babel
Hebrew and Aramaic (Biblical and Second Temple Periods)[edit]
Egyptian[edit]
Asia Minor (pre-classical)[edit]
Hittite[edit]
- Old Hittite — original Hittite
China[edit]
- Tao Te Ching (Wikisource translation), by Laozi (老子)
- The Analects, by Confucius
- The Doctrine of the Mean, by Confucius
- The Great Study, by Confucius
- The Way and its Virtue, by Laozi (老子)
- Sanguo Zhi, compiled by Chen Shou
- Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion, by Wang Xizhi (王羲之)
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms, by Luó Guànzhōng
India[edit]
Greek[edit]
- An Account of Egypt by Herodotus
- Ajax by Sophocles
- Anabasis by Xenophon
- Antigone by Sophocles
- Apology by Plato
- Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
- Categories by Aristotle
- Charmides by Plato
- Cratylus by Plato
- Critias by Plato
- Crito by Plato
- Electra by Sophocles
- Elements by Euclid
- Ethics by Aristotle
- Euthydemus by Plato
- Euthyphro by Plato
- Fragments of Heraclitus
- Gorgias by Plato
- Hippocratic works
- Ion by Plato
- Laches by Plato
- Laws by Plato
- Lysis by Plato
- Menexenus by Plato
- Meno by Plato
- Metaphysics by Aristotle
- Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
- Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- On Interpretation by Aristotle
- Organon by Aristotle
- Parmenides by Plato
- Phaedo by Plato
- Phaedrus by Plato
- Philebus by Plato
- Philoctetes by Sophocles
- Physics by Aristotle
- Politics by Aristotle
- Prior Analytics by Aristotle
- Protagoras by Plato
- Posterior Analytics by Aristotle
- The Republic by Plato
- Sophist by Plato
- Statesman by Plato
- Symposium by Plato
- Theaetetus by Plato
- Timaeus by Plato
- Trachiniae by Sophocles
- Trojan Woman, The by Euripides
- The Iliad Homer, translated by Samuel Butler
- The Odyssey Homer, translated by Samuel Butler
- The Secret History
Latin (Roman Republic and Empire)[edit]
- The Aeneid
- Agricola
- Cicero, Pro Milone Paragraphs 24-32
- Dialogue on Orators
- Germania
- Histories (Tacitus)
- History of the Wars
- Roman History (Ammianus Marcellinus)