LibGuides: Ancient Greece & Rome: Primary Sources

Primary Sources

The Loeb Classical Library series would be especially useful for finding original accounts and narratives from the time period.

To see a list of print titles in this series, do a keyword search in the library catalog for "Loeb Classical Library". You can also do an author search to find works by particular ancient authors, such as Suetonius, Tacitus, and Herodotus.
To access electronic copies of titles in this series, please use the Loeb Classical Library link below.

Loeb Classical Library
More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease. An interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture. Find more information.
ARTstor Digital Library
As of August 1, 2024 the Artstor platform has been retired and its content migrated to JSTOR, where Artstor content and key functionality can be accessed. All Artstor users can use their existing Artstor accounts to access Artstor on JSTOR.
The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 2 million digital images in the arts, art history, architecture, anthropology, history, humanities, foreign languages and literatures, religion, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Find more information.

Perseus Digital Library
features a collections covering "the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world."