Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
An online platform provides a comprehensive parsing reader for 1,060 classical Greek and Latin texts, allowing users to click words for linguistic analysis. The collection covers a wide range of genres including philosophy, history, and science, utilizing established dictionaries for reference.
Why it matters
This tool significantly lowers the barrier to entry for students and researchers studying classical languages and literature.
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
Epic The great narrative poems of Rome. 23 works
Lyric & Elegy Catullus, Horace, and the Roman elegists. 42 works
History Caesar, Livy, Sallust, Tacitus. 16 works
Biography Lives of the Caesars and famous men. 68 works
Oratory & Rhetoric Cicero and the art of Roman speech. 48 works
Philosophy Cicero, Seneca, Lucretius. 22 works
Didactic & Technical Teaching in verse and prose. 5 works
Myth, Hymn & Religion Ovid’s calendar and mythological verse. 12 works
Satire & Fable Horace, Juvenal, Persius, Phaedrus. 6 works
Science & Medicine Pliny’s encyclopedia and Roman science. 2 works
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