Ancient Literature, Ancient Texts

Ancient Literature and Texts A Guide to the Best Websites
A Ancient Texts E G H Hindu Judaic L P Persian R S Classical Roman Arabic Literature

See also: Hellenic, Greek Literature Classical Literature Latin Literature Sacred Texts Manuscripts

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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

Papyrus of Ani; The Egyptian Book of the Dead,
translated by E.A. Wallis Budge.
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Oxyrhynchus papyri

Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Wikipedia entry.
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Oxford University: Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project
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Oxyrhynchus Online
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Table of Contents
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The Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri
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The Oxyrhynchus papyri
edited with translations and notes by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt.

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.

Arabic, Persian, Islamic Literature
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Arabic literature,
Wikipedia entry.
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead. Papyri

Greek and Latin. Textkit
Learn Greek and Latin.Textkit is the Internet's largest provider of free and fully downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers. With currently 146 free books to choose from, Greek and Latin learners have downloaded 384,641 grammars, readers and classical e-books.
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Hindu literature

Hindi literature,
Wikipedia entry.
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Sacred-Texts: Hinduism
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Clay Sanskrit Library
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Hindubooks.org
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Krishna.com - The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
Bhagavad-gita online and other texts.
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Hindu Poets
A collection of Hindu Poetry

Internet Classics Archive
Online classical literary texts.
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Judaic literature

Judaic sacred texts.
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Sacred Judaic texts online:

Haggada
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Talmud
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Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)
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The Sefer Yezirah. "The Book of Creation"
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Scholem, Gershom. Gershom Scholem tra Sionismo e Kabbalà (in Italian).

Latin texts

See:
Classical Literature
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Latin Literature

Latin texts (In Latin with English translations).
The Perseus Project
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Live ancient etexts.
Perseus Project (Greek and English).

Persian literature

The Packard Humanities Institute: Persian Texts in Translation
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The history of Persian literature.
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Sokhan
Persian Books and Literature Online, a Shop
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Fal e Hafez
Complete database of Hafez poems and Fals.
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The Persian Language
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National Committee for the Expansion of the Persian Language and Literature
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Poems. Searchable Poems by Classical Persian Poets (Rumi, Hafez, Sa'di, Rudaki, and others)
Persopedia
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in e-book format.
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Persian literature,
Wikipedia entry.

Religious Literature, Sacred Texts
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Sanskrit

GRETIL: Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages
A cumulative register of numerous download sites for electronic texts in Indian languages.
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Sanskrit Wikibooks
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TITUS Indica
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Sanskrit Literature
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Vedabase.net
Vaishnava literatures with word for word translations from Sanskrit to English.
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The Clay Sanskrit Library
Publisher of classical Indian literature with facing-page texts and translations.
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Sanskrit Documents Collection
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Sanskrit literaure,
Wikipedia entry.

Scripts

Scripts
Ancient Scripts.com
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Writing systems.
Wikipedia entries.

Universities, departments of Classical Studies,
a web directory from the Open Directory Project.
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Writing systems.
Wikipedia entries.

Classical Roman Authors See also: Classical Literature

Apuleius. The Golden Ass, by Apuleius.
A profile and background.

The Golden Ass
Project Gutenberg etext.
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Cupid and Psyche,
a Wikipedia entry.

Horace. The Odes
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Longus. Summary of Daphnis and Chloe
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Ovid. The Metamorphosis
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Petronius. The Satyricon
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Vergil. The Vergil Project

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.

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Ancient Greek Literaure.
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Islamic Sacred Texts, Islamic Poetry.
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