LibGuides: Online Texts for Program Readings: Freshman Readings

Online Texts

This is a guide with links to full-text/audio resources of program works. Below is a list of databases with full-text sources and audio recordings. For help accessing these resources, please contact Catherine Hines, Library Director at 410-626-2550 or catherine.hines@sjc.edu.

Digital Loeb Classical Library

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Early Modern Texts

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Naxos Spoken Word Library

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Project Gutenberg

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Aeschylus

Work	Online Resources
Agamemnon; Libation Bearers; Eumenides;	Complete Oresteia Texts (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides) Trans. Richmond Lattimore (blank verse; Internet Archive) Trans. E. D. A. Morshead (Project Gutenberg) Trans. Alan H. Sommerstein (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Read by Hollywood Theater of the Ear Production; Trans. Ian Johnston (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Agamemnon-Only Texts Trans. Gilbert Murray (rhyming verse; Project Gutenberg)

Aristotle

Work	Online Resources
Nicomachean Ethics	Trans. R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye (JSTOR) Trans. H. Rackham (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Read by Nadia May; Translator Unknown (Naxos Spoken Word Library)
Metaphysics	Trans. W. D. Ross (JSTOR) Trans. Hugh Tredennick (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Vol. 1 (Books I-IX) Vol. 2 (Books X-XIV)
On The Soul	Trans. W. S. Hett (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Trans. R. D. Hicks (with facing Greek; Internet Archive) Trans. J. A. Smith (JSTOR) Read by Geoffrey Edwards; Trans. R. D. Hicks (LibriVox)
Physics	Trans. R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye (JSTOR) Trans. Richard Hope (Internet Archive–hourly borrowing) Trans. Philip Wicksteed (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Vol. 1 (Books I-IV) Vol. 2 (Books V-VIII)
Poetics	Trans. S. H. Butcher (Project Gutenberg) Trans. I. Bywater (JSTOR) Trans. Stephen Halliwell (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Read by Frederick Davidson; Translator Unknown (Naxos Spoken Word Library)
Politics	Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Internet Classics Archive) Trans. Benjamin Jowett (JSTOR) Trans. H. Rackham (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Read by Bernard Mayes; Translator Unknown (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

Herodotus

Work	Online Resources
Histories	Trans. A. D. Godley (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Vol. 1 (Books I-II) Vol. 2 (Books III-IV) Vol. 3 (Books V-VII) Vol. 4 (Books VIII-IX) Trans. G. C. Macaulay (Project Gutenberg) Vol. 1 (Books I-IV) Vol. 2 (Books V-IX) Read by Bernard Hayes; Translator Unknown (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Read by David Timson; Translator Unknown (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

Plato

Work	Online Resources
Apology and Crito	Trans Henry Cary (Project Gutenberg) Trans. Chris Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Read by Pat Bottino; Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Apology (track 2) Crito (track 3)
Gorgias	Trans. Walter Hamilton (Internet Archive–hourly borrowing) Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Project Gutenberg) Trans. W. R. M. Lamb (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library)
Meno	Trans. G. M. A. Grube (Internet Archive–hourly borrowing) Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Project Gutenberg) Trans. W. R. M. Lamb (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library)
Parmenides	Trans. Harold N. Fowler (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Project Gutenberg)
Phaedo	Trans Henry Cary (Project Gutenberg) Trans. Chris Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Read by Pat Bottino; Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Phaedo (tracks 4-6)
Phaedrus	Trans. Harold N. Fowler (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Internet Classics Archive) Trans. Alexander Nehemas and Paul Woodruff (Internet Archive–hourly borrowing)
Republic	Trans. Chris Emlyn-Jones (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Vol. 1 (Books I-V) Vol. 2 (Books VI-X) Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Project Gutenberg) Read by Pat Bottino; Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Naxos Spoken Word Library)
Sophist	Trans. Harry N. Fowler (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Project Gutenberg)
Symposium	Trans. Chris Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Project Gutenberg) Read by David Shaw-Parker et al.; Trans. Tom Griffith (Naxos Spoken Word Library)
Timaeus	Trans R. G. Bury (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Trans. Benjamin Jowett (MIT Classics Archive)
Theaetetus	Trans. R. G. Bury (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Internet Classics Archive)

Thucydides

Work	Online Resources
Peloponnesian War	Trans. Richard Crawley (Project Gutenberg) Trans. C.F. Smith (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Vol. 1 (Books I-II) Vol. 2 (Books III-IV) Vol. 3 (Books V-VI) Vol. 4 (Books VII-VIII) Trans. Rex Warner (Internet Archive) Read by Pat Bottino; Translator Unknown (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

Aristophanes

Work	Online Resources
Clouds	Trans. Jeffrey Henderson (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Trans. William J. Hickie (Project Gutenberg) Internet Archive (Greek; Ed. Lewis L. Forman)

Euripides

Work	Online Resources
Bacchae	Trans. David Kovacs (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Trans. Gilbert Murray (Project Gutenberg)
Hippolytus	Trans. David Kovacs (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Trans. E.P. Coleridge (MIT Classics Archive) Trans. David Grene (Internet Archive)
Medea	Trans. David Kovacs (Perseus Digital Library) Trans. E.P. Coleridge (MIT Classics Archive) Trans. Gilbert Murray (Project Gutenberg)

Homer

Work	Online Resource
Iliad	Trans. A. T. Murray (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Vol. 1 (Books I-XII) Vol. 2 (Books XIII-XXIV) Trans. Alexander Pope (Project Gutenberg) Read by Anthony Heald; Trans. W. H. D. Rouse (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Read by Anton Lesser; Trans. Ian Johnston (Naxos Spoken Word Library)
Odyssey	Trans. A. T. Murray (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Vol. 1 (Books I-XII) Vol. 2 (Books XIII-XXIV) Trans. Alexander Pope (Project Gutenberg) Read by Anthony Heald; Trans. W. H. D. Rouse (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Read by Anton Lesser; Trans. by Ian Johnston (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

Plutarch

Work	Online Resources
Lives	Trans. John Dryden (Project Gutenberg) Trans. Bernadotte Perin (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Read Bernard Mayes; Trans. John Dryden (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Lycurgus (tracks 6-7) Solon (track 10)

Ptolemy

Work	Online Resources
Almagest	Trans. G. J. Toomer (JSTOR)

Sophocles

Work	Online Resources
Antigone	Trans. Hugh Lloyd-Jones (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Trans. F. Storr (Project Gutenberg) Performed by Students of McGill University (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Read in Ancient Greek By Members of Columbia University (Naxos Spoken Word Library)
Oedipus at Colonus	Trans. Hugh Lloyd-Jones (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Trans. F. Storr (Project Gutenberg)
Oedipus Rex	Trans. Hugh Lloyd-Jones (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Trans. F. Storr (Project Gutenberg) Trans. Duncan Steen (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Performance by Students of Amherst College (Naxos Spoken Word Library)
Philoctetes	Trans. Hugh Lloyd-Jones (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Trans. Gregory McNamee (Project Gutenberg)