Ancient Greek
Print Editions of Greek Authors
Find books and other materials at Penn State by searching in the CAT (the online catalog). Begin your search by choosing the BROWSE page to search by title, or the KEYWORD page to search for books on your topic. For more info on searching the CAT, click here.
Note: Greek literature exists in numerous other editions and translations. Always check with your professor to see if a specific edition or translation is required.
Electronic Texts
TLG: Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. Full text date base of primary sources covering Greek literature from Homer (eighth century BCE) until the closing of the Academy (sixth century CE). Library resource available from LIAS E-Resource List.
The TLG is also available on CD-ROM:
UP Copy: Call # PA3405.T494 CD-ROM.E 1999, Arts & Humanities, West Pattee 2nd Flr-Music & Media Center .
Past Masters: Full-text electronic editions of major works in philosophy. Library resource on LIAS E-Resource List.
Perseus Project: Greek and Latin texts, archaeology, and art, and other humanities resources, from Tufts University .
Perseus 2.0, Comprehensive ed., platform-independent version on CD-ROM.
UP Copy: Call # DF77.P46 2000, Arts & Humanities, West Pattee 2nd Flr-Music & Media Center.
Dictionaries
The Oxford classical dictionary 3rd ed. rev.
UP Copy: Call # DE5.O9 2003, Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference
English-Greek dictionary: a vocabulary of the Attic language.
UP Copy: Call # PA445.E5W6 1932, Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference
A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature, 3rd ed.
UP Copy: Call # PA881.B38 2000, Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference.
Greek lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine periods: from B.C. 146 to A.D. 1100.
UP Copy: Call # PA1125.S7 1957 v.1-v.2, Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection
Secondary Sources for Ancient Greek Authors and Works
Ancient Greek authors.
UP Copy: Call # PS221.D5 v.176, Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection.
Ancient writers : Greece and Rome.
UP Copy: Call # PA3002.A5 1982, Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference .
Gwinup, Thomas, and Fidelia Dickinson. Greek and Roman authors : a checklist of criticism, 2nd ed.
UP Copy: Call # Z7016.G9 1982, Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection.
Note: You can also search the LIAS Cat for history and criticism of genres, authors and works; for example:
Epic poetry, Greek--Criticism, textual.
Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
Plato. Symposium.
Thucydides--Criticism and interpretation.
Electronic Sources for Greek Literature
Année philologique 1969-present
- Primarily classical Greece and Rome , with some coverage of the ancient Near East
- Language, literature, history, art, archaeology, philosophy, and religion
- Strong coverage of European scholarship
- Covers journal articles, books, chapters, and collections
- “Get It” feature will retrieve full text online (link listed as sfx )
FRANCIS 1984-present. (LIAS E-Resource List)
- Covers range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities and social sciences
- Strong in religion, the history of art, psychology, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature.
- Wide range of materials, including serials, journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, French dissertations, exhibition catalogs, legislation, teaching materials, and reports
IBZ: Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur 1984-present (LIAS E-Resource List)
- Indexes multidisciplinary journals with a strong European content
- Indexes European-language journals in the humanities and social sciences
- Full-text, full-image archive of journals in a various humanities and social sciences disciplines, including many journals in classical literature and archaeology
- Some content back to the nineteenth century
- Content excludes the most recent three to five years
TOCS-IN: Tables of Content of Journals of Interest to Classicists
- Journals in classics, religious studies, and the ancient Near East
- Indexes about 160 journals and some collections of articles, such as Festschriften
- Free resource offered by CHASS (Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Toronto )
Web Links
Ancient History Sourcebook. This site focuses on online texts, which, for the most part, means public domain texts translated more than 75 years ago.
Perseus Project : Greek and Latin texts, archaeology, and art, and other humanities resources, from Tufts University .
This page is under development. Send comments, questions, and suggestions to Eric Novotny, Humanities Librarian for History, at ecn1@psu.edu ; IM: HistoryLibrarian.