The object of these pages is to provide ancient Greek texts
available to everyone, "without limits, without strings".
If you are the owner of a similar site or you know one, please let
me know in order to be included in the links
(email: aper@otenet.gr).
What you can find here
From these pages you can download or read the texts of many ancient greek writers. The number of the titles increases gradually.
The texts you can download are compressed and each file contains a
full text in MS Word 97 format (the original text only - no translation).
A font of Unicode encoding type that supports the "Greek Extended" range
is all that you need in order to be able to see the texts.
For further details please look at "Unicode
fonts for Polytonic Greek". If you have got any such font you can
use it in order to read and print the texts.
The texts are added to the site without any predefined order. If a text requires
less work to reach an acceptable form then probably it will be uploaded
first.
If you find any errors in the texts please inform
me in order to correct them. The issue number shows such corrections.
Any changes are recorded in the history.
Texts with translation
You can browse some texts side by side with the translation.
How you can download the texts
Just "click" the "download" button for the compressed (zipped) file.
When you are asked for a response, select "save to disk". Then you can decompress
the file and use your editor to see it (of course you must have installed
an appropriate font as described above).
Feedback
If you are interested in some specific texts you can ask me and I will
try to upload them asap (if they are available). You can also send me email
and I will inform you of any new uploads.
About the buttons
Since 12-Sep-00, 'download' buttons have been added opposite to the file
for download. This is just to indicate to me which texts you are interested in.
There is nothing tricky here: the only information that is transferred is
about the filename and the date.
| Issue, date, size | Compressed file | |
| Aeschines, Against Timarchus | 1.1, 14/5/00, 52kb | |
| Aeschylus, Agamemnon (ed. G. Murray, Oxford 1955) Offered by Slaven Skoko - Student Philological Association Zagreb |
1.0, 14/6/02, 49kb | |
| Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound | 1.0, 20/8/00, 36kb | |
| Aeschylus, Septem contra Thebas (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Cambridge 1926) |
1.0, 1/11/01, 31kb | |
| Apollodorus (pseudo-), Library A | 1.0, 16/9/00, 34kb | |
| Apollodorus (pseudo-), Library B | 1.0, 24/9/00, 39kb | |
| Apollodorus (pseudo-), Library C | 1.0, 21/10/00, 43kb | |
| Aristotle, About Poetics | 1.0, 1/12/00, 38kB | |
| Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, books 1 & 2 [ed. J. Bywater, Aristotle's Ethica Nicomachea. Oxford, 1894] |
1.1, 31/12/02, 37kB | |
| Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, books 3 & 4 [ed. J. Bywater, Aristotle's Ethica Nicomachea. Oxford, 1894] |
1.0, 23/9/01, 44kB | |
| Aristotle, Parva Naturalia [ed. W. D. Ross, Oxford 1955] |
1.0, 29/11/01, 102kB | |
| Aristotle, Virtues and Vices | 1.0, 17/6/00, 8kb | |
| Aristophanes, Acharnians | 1.0, 18/6/00, 41kb | |
| Aristophanes, Clouds | 1.0, 22/4/00, 53kb | |
| Aristophanes, Frogs [ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart, Oxford. 1907] |
1.0, 4/10/01, 54kb | |
| Aristophanes, Knights [ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart, Oxford. 1907] |
1.0, 30/3/02, 50kb | |
| Aristophanes, Lysistrata | 1.0, 9/6/01, 46kb | |
| Aristophanes, Peace [ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart, Oxford. 1907] |
1.0, 30/3/02, 46kb | |
| Aristophanes, Wasps [ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart, Oxford. 1907] |
1.0, 30/3/02, 54kb | |
| Epicurus, Epistula Tertia Ad Menoeceum | 1.0, 10/4/01, 7kb | |
| Epicurus, Ratae Sententiae | 1.0, 10/4/01, 7kb | |
| Euripides, Bacchae (ed. Gilbert Murray, Oxford. 1913) |
1.0, 18/11/01, 43kb | |
| Euripides, Electra (ed. Gilbert Murray, Oxford. 1913) |
1.0, 18/7/02, 38kb | |
| Euripides, Hippolytus (ed. J. Diggle, Oxford 1984) Offered by Slaven Skoko - Student Philological Association Zagreb |
1.0, 14/6/02, 44kb | |
| Euripides, Iphigeneia in Tauris | 1.0, 9/10/00, 49kb | |
| Euripides, Medea | 1.0, 18/2/01, 41kb | |
| Herodotus, History 1 | 1.0, 3/6/01, 123kb | |
| Herodotus, History 2 | 1.1, 3/6/01, 90kb | |
| Hesiod, Opera Et Dies Thanks to Manuel Delgado Dominguez |
1.0, 1/4/00, 33kb | |
| Hesiod, Shield of Heracles | 1.0, 21/10/00, 18kb | |
| Hesiod, Theogony | 1.0, 1/11/00, 38kb |
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| Hippocrates, De morbo sacro (ed. E. Littre, Paris 1849) |
1.0, 27/10/02, 19kb |
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| 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 Iliad. |
1.0, 1/1/02, 557kb | |
| 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 | |
| Lucian, A True Story | 1.1, 9/6/01, 45kb | |
| Lucian, The Dance (De saltatione) | 1.0, 3/6/01, 30kb | |
| Lucian, The Dream or Lucian's Career | 1.0, 29/9/00, 10kb | |
| Lucian, How to write History | 1.0, 31/12/00, 32kb | |
| Lucian, The consonants at law (Trial of sigma) | 1.1, 9/6/01, 7kb | |
| Lucian, Slander (About not being too quick to believe a calumny) | 1.1, 9/6/01, 15kb | |
| Lysias, Hyper Adynatou (ed. U. Albini, Sansoni, Florence 1955) An offer of Georgia Galani |
1.0, 18/7/02, 14kb | |
| Lysias, Pro Mantitheo (ed. U. Albini, Sansoni, Florence 1955) An offer of Georgia Galani |
1.0, 18/7/02, 11kb | |
| 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 | |
| Menander, Dyscolus (ed. F.H. Sandbach, Oxford 1972) Offered by Slaven Skoko - Student Philological Association Zagreb |
1.0, 14/6/02, 35kb | |
| Musaeus, Hero et Leander (ed. H. Färber, Munich 1961) Offered by Slaven Skoko - Student Philological Association Zagreb |
1.0, 14/6/02, 14kb | |
| 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 | |
| Plato, Apology (ed. John Burnet, 1903) |
1.0, 2/6/02, 33kB | |
| Plato, Crito (ed. John Burnet, 1903) |
1.0, 2/6/02, 18kB | |
| Plato, Euthyphro (ed. John Burnet, 1903) |
1.0, 2/6/02, 21kB | |
| Plato, Phaedo (ed. John Burnet, 1903) |
1.0, 2/6/02, 76kB | |
| Plato, Phaedrus | 1.0, 21/11/00, 66kB | |
| Plato, The Seventh Letter Also with translation by J. Harward |
1.0, 14/1/01, 35kB | |
| Plato, Symposium | 1.1, 8/1/01, 64kB | |
| Plutarch, Alcibiades | 1.0, 28/5/00, 43kb | |
| Plutarch, Aristides | 1.0, 29/9/00, 34kb | |
| Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride (ed. W. Sieveking, Plutarchi moralia, vol. 2.3, Leipzig 1935) |
1.0, 18/7/02, 66kB | |
| Plutarch, Kimon | 1.0, 25/11/00, 27kB | |
| Plutarch, Theseus | 1.0, 29/9/00, 33kb | |
| Sophocles, Ajax [Ed. Richard Jebb. Cambridge. 1893] |
1.0, 4/10/01, 43kb | |
| Sophocles, Antigone [ed. Sir Richard Jebb, Cambridge. 1891] |
1.0, 29/9/01, 33kb | |
| Sophocles, Electra [ed. Richard Jebb, Cambridge. 1894] |
1.0, 30/3/02, 46kb | |
| Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus [ed. Richard Jebb, Cambridge. 1889] |
1.0, 30/3/02, 62kb | |
| Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus [ed. Richard Jebb. Cambridge. 1887] |
1.0, 4/10/01, 48kb | |
| Sophocles, Philoctetes [ed. Richard Jebb. Cambridge. 1898] |
1.0, 30/3/02, 46kb | |
| Sophocles, Trachiniae [ed. Richard Jebb. Cambridge. 1892] |
1.0, 30/3/02, 40kb | |
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Theocritus, Idylls Also available in HTML format with an introduction to Theocritus work and life (in Greek) |
1.0, 26/12/00, 78kb | |
| Theophrastus, Characters Also available with introduction, translation and index by E. David (in Greek) |
1.0, 3/6/01, 30kb | |
| Thucydides, Histories 1, 2 and 3 files converted to Unicode from Internet Ancient History Source Book of Paul Halsall, after permission |
1.1, 18/03/03, 213kb | |
| Thucydides, Histories 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 (ed H.S. Jones - J.E. Powell, Oxford 1942) |
1.0, 27/10/02, 377kb | |
| Xenophon, Anabasis | 1.1, 14/5/00, 197kb | |
| Xenophon, Symposium | 1.0, 22/4/00, 36kb |