Ancient Library — Read the Greek & Latin Classics in the Original

A complete parsing reader for the classical canon. Click any word in any text for its lemma, morphology, and full dictionary entry — Lewis & Short for Latin, Liddell-Scott-Jones for Greek. 1060 works · 293 Latin · 767 Greek · 140 authors · browse the full A–Z index Latin EpicThe great narrative poems of Rome.23 worksLyric & ElegyCatullus, Horace, and the Roman elegists.42 worksTragedySeneca’s tragedies.10 worksComedyPlautus and Terence.26 worksHistoryCaesar, Livy, Sallust, Tacitus.16 worksBiographyLives of the Caesars and famous men.68 worksOratory & RhetoricCicero and the art of Roman speech.48 worksPhilosophyCicero, Seneca, Lucretius.22 worksLettersCicero, Pliny, Seneca.8 worksDidactic & TechnicalTeaching in verse and prose.5 worksMyth, Hymn & ReligionOvid’s calendar and mythological verse.12 worksSatire & FableHorace, Juvenal, Persius, Phaedrus.6 worksProse FictionThe Roman novel.4 worksScience & MedicinePliny’s encyclopedia and Roman science.2 worksGrammar & ReferenceGellius’ learned miscellany.1 work Greek EpicHomer, Hesiod, and their heirs.45 worksLyric & ElegyPindar, Sappho’s heirs, and the Anthology.26 worksTragedyAeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides.34 worksComedyAristophanes and Menander.11 worksHistoryHerodotus, Thucydides, and their successors.47 worksGeography & TravelStrabo and Pausanias.2 worksBiographyPlutarch’s Lives and more.146 worksOratory & RhetoricThe Attic orators and the Second Sophistic.247 worksPhilosophyPlato, Aristotle, and the Stoics.53 worksDidactic & TechnicalManuals and treatises.12 worksMyth, Hymn & ReligionApollodorus’ library of myth.2 worksSatire & FableLucian of Samosata.71 worksProse FictionThe Greek novel.7 worksScience & MedicineHippocrates, Galen, Euclid, Ptolemy.26 worksGrammar & ReferenceAncient lexica.2 worksBiblical TextsThe Greek New Testament.27 worksEarly Christian WritingsThe Fathers of the Church.9 works