Ancient Literature and Texts   A Guide to the Best Websites

Academic departments, departments of Classical Studies,
a web directory from the Open Directory Project.
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The Ancient Novel, from The Petronius Society.
Chaireas and Callirhoe, Ethiopian Story, The Ephesian Romance, Daphnis and Chloe, Leukippe and Kleitophon, Apollonius King of Tyre. Apuleius, Aseneth.
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Ancient Scripts
The aim of Ancient Scripts is not to replace texts books or instructional web sites. Instead, it is designed to give an introduction to writing systems, which hopefully will tantalize the reader into searching for more information on the web or in books and publications.
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Ancient texts, hieroglyphs, cuneiform tablets

The Art of War, by Sun Tzu.
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Ancient Scripts.com
Writing systems from around the world.
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Babylonia and Ancient Near Eastern Texts
Britannica Keyed

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Enuma Elish
The Seven Tablets of Creation
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Cuneiform

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC, until the end of the pre-Christian era.
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Vorderasiatisches Museum
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Hermitage Cuneiform Collection
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Ashmolean Museum
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Institut Catholique de Paris
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Hearst Museum of Anthropology
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New York Public Library
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Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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Horn Museum
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Cornell University Cuneiform Library
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CUNES
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Cornell University Kroch Library
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Walters Art Museum Cuneiform
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Oriental Institute
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Iraq Museum
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Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire
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USC Archaeological Collection

Demotic Texts on the World Wide Web
Legal and administrative texts, religious texts, letters, non-literary yexts, literature, unidentified texts. A guide to internet resources on papyri, Egyptian, Greek, Greco-Roman texts.
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Internet Classics Archive, MIT. Greek, Roman and Oriental texts.
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Linear B,
Wikipedia entry.
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Papyri

Sacred Texts
A collection of scared texts in etext format.
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Scripts, writing systems.
Wikipedia entries.
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Trismegistos.org
Online database of ancient manuscripts.
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Writing systems.
Wikipedia entries.

Hindu literature

Internet Classics Archive
Online classical literary texts.
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Judaic literature

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Latin texts

See:
Classical Literature
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Latin Literature

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Persian literature

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Religious Literature, Sacred Texts
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S

Sanskrit

Scripts

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Writing systems.
Wikipedia entries.

Classical Roman Authors   See also:  Classical Literature

Cupid and Psyche,
a Wikipedia entry.

Vergil. The Anaeid

ARABIC, PERSIAN, ISLAMIC LITERATURE

Arabic literature,
Wikipedia entry.
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Arabic/Middle Eastern general literature and culture portal.
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Arabic Poetry Page
A comprehensive poetry collection.
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Libyan arts, music and literature.
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Persian Poets, Poetry and Poetic Art.
Including Khalgha'an-e Toe, Khalgha'an-e Toe, Vatan.