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Online Texts for Program Readings: Sophomore Readings

This guide provides links to full-text resources and audio resources available for program 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

Early Modern Texts

Naxos Spoken Word Library

Open Library (Internet Archive)

Project Gutenberg

Anselm, Saint

Works	Online Resources
Proslogion	Trans. M. J. Charlesworth (JSTOR)

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Work	Online Resources
Saint Matthew Passion	Text Trans. Pamela Dellal (with German; Vocal Music Instrumentation Index) Score MuseScore MusOpen Recordings IMSLP Petrucci Music Library (various)

Bacon, Francis

Work	Online Resources
Novum Organum	Trans. Basil Montagu (Hanover College)

Calvin, John

Work	Online Resources
Institutes of the Christian Religion	Trans. Henry Beveridge (Christian Classics Ethereal Library) Trans. John Allen (Google Books) Trans. John Allen (Project Gutenberg) Read by Bob Soeur; Trans. Henry Beveridge (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

Christian Creeds

Work	Online Resources
Christian Creeds	Apostolic Creed (translators unknown) Christian Classics Ethereal Library Wikipedia Nicene Creed (translators unknown) Christian Classics Ethereal Library Wikipedia Athanasian Creed (translators unknown) Christian Classics Ethereal Library Wikipedia (*all creeds also available in the bookstore at the back of the "Selections from the Summa Theologica" class manual*)

Dante

Works	Online Resources
Divine Comedy	Complete Divine Comedy Texts Trans. Rev. H. F. Cary (Project Gutenberg–no line numbers) Trans. Jefferson B. Fletcher (Internet Archive–hourly borrowing) Trans. Henry Johnson (Internet Archive) Trans. Henry W. Longfellow (Project Gutenberg–no line numbers) Inferno-Only Texts Trans. Robert M. Durling (with facing Italian; Internet Archive) Trans. Courtney Langdon (with facing Italian; Online Library of Liberty) Trans. James R. Sibbald (Project Gutenberg) Read by Enrico de Negri (Italian; Naxos Spoken Word Library–Cantos I-VIII only) Read by Heathcote Williams; Trans. Benedict Flynn (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Purgatorio-Only Texts Trans. Robert M. Durling (with facing Italian; Internet Archive) Trans. Courtney Langdon (with facing Italian; Online Library of Liberty) Read by Heathcote Williams; Trans. Benedict Flynn (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Paradiso-Only Texts Trans. Robert M. Durling (with facing Italian; Internet Archive–hourly borrowing) Trans. Courtney Langdon (with facing Italian; Online Library of Liberty) Read by Heathcote Williams; Trans. Benedict Flynn (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

Epictetus

Work	Online Resources
Handbook	Trans. W. A. Oldfather (Digital Loeb Classical Library) Trans. Thomas W. Higginson (Project Gutenberg)

Machiavelli, Niccolò

Works	Online Resources
Discourses on Livy	Trans. Harvey Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov (Internet Archive) Trans. Ninian Thomson (Project Gutenberg)
The Prince	Trans. W. K. Marriott (Project Gutenberg) Read by Nigel Carrington; Trans. W. K. Marriott (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Read by Patrick Cullen; Trans. Daniel Donno (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

Plotinus

Works	Online Resources
Enneads	Trans. A. H. Armstrong (Digital Loeb Classical Library) Vol. 3 (Ennead III) Vol. 5 (Ennead V) Trans. Stephen Mackenna (Online Library of Liberty)

Ptolemy

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

Tacitus

Works	Online Resources
The Annals	Trans. Clifford Moore & John Jackson (Digital Loeb Classical Library) Vol. 3 (Books I-III) Vol. 4 (Books IV-VI) Trans. Thomas Gordon (Project Gutenberg)

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Work	Online Resources
Summa Theologica	Complete Summa Theologiae Texts Corpus Thomisticum (Latin) "First Part of the Second Part"-Only Texts Trans. Fathers of the Dominican Province (Project Gutenberg) Trans. Fathers of the Dominican Province (Thomistic Institute) "Second Part of the Second Part"-Only Texts Trans. Fathers of the Dominican Province (Project Gutenberg) Trans. Fathers of the Dominican Province (Thomistic Institute)

Augustine, Saint

Work	Online Resources
Confessions	Trans. Carolyn J. -B. Hammond (with Latin; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Vol. 1 (Books I-VIII) Vol. 2 (Books IX-XIII) Trans. Edward. B. Pusey (Project Gutenberg) Read by Bernard Mayes; Trans. Edward B. Pusey (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Read by Mark Meadows; Trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

The Bible

Work	Online Resources
The Bible	Full Bible Texts (Christian Bible) King James Version (Project Gutenberg) Various Translations (Bible Gateway) Various Translations (interlinear with Hebrew and Greek; Bible Hub) Full Tanakh Texts (Hebrew Bible or Old Testament) Various Translations (Sefaria) New Testament-Only Texts Read by James Earl Jones; King James Version (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Work	Online Resources
Canterbury Tales	Complete Canterbury Tales Texts Project Gutenberg (Middle English) Audio Versions of Selected Tales (Naxos Spoken Word Library) General Prologue ; Physician's Tale (Middle and Modern English; Trans. Frank Ernest Hill) Knight's Tale (Middle English) Wife of Baths Tale ; The Clerk's Tale ; The Reeve's Tale ; The Nun's Priest's Tale (Modern English; Trans. Frank Ernest Hill) The Friar's Tale ; The Summoner's Tale ; The Lawyer's Tale; The Seaman's Tale ; The Manciple's Tale ; The Physician's Tale (Modern English; Translator Unknown)

Descartes, René

Work	Online Resources
Discourse on Method	Trans. John Veitch (Internet Archive) Trans. John Veitch (Project Gutenberg) Read by Adam James; Unknown Translator (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Read by Mark Meadows; Trans. Elizabeth Haldane and John Veitch (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

Lucretius

Works	Online Resouces
De Rerum Natura	Trans. W. D. H. Rouse (Digital Loeb Classical Library) Trans. Cyril Bailey (Online Library of Liberty) Trans. William Ellery Leonard (Project Gutenberg) Trans. Ian Johnston (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

Montaigne, Michel de

Works	Online Resources
Essays	Complete Essays Texts (Books I-III): Trans. Charles Cotton (Online Library of Liberty) Trans. Charles Cotton (Project Gutenberg) Trans. Donald M. Frame (Internet Archive) Trans. M. A. Screech (Internet Archive) ARFTL (French; 1588 edition) ARTFL (French; Bordeaux Copy) Book I-II-Only Texts ARTFL (French; 1580 edition)

Plutarch

Works	Online Resources
Lives: Caesar; Cato the Younger	Trans. John Dryden; Ed. Arthur H. Clough (Project Gutenberg) Trans. Bernadotte Perrin (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library) Vol. 7 (Caesar) Vol. 8 (Cato the Younger) Read by Bernard Mayes; Trans. John Dryden (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Caesar (tracks 16-18) Cato the Younger (tracks 21-23)

Shakespeare, William

Works	Online Resouces
As You Like It	Folger Digital Texts Edition Project Gutenberg Edition Read by Niamh Cusack et al. (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Performed by Globe on Screen (video; Drama Online)
Hamlet	Folger Shakespeare Library Project Gutenberg Read by Anton Lesser et al. (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Read by Simon Russell Beale et al. (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Performed by Globe on Screen (video; Drama Online)
Henry IV Part 1	Folger Shakespeare Library Project Gutenberg Read by Jamie Glover et al. (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Performed by Globe on Screen (video; Drama Online)
King Lear	Folger Shakespeare Library Project Gutenberg Read by Clive Merrison et al. (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Read by Paul Scofield et al. (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Performed by Globe on Screen (video; Drama Online)
Macbeth	Folger Shakespeare Library Project Gutenberg Read by Stephen Dillane et al. (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Read by Hugh Ross et al. (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Performed by Globe on Screen (video; Drama Online)
Othello	Folger Shakespeare Library Project Gutenberg Read by Hugh Quarshie et al. (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Read by Jasper Britton et al. (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Performed by Globe on Screen (video; Drama Online)
Richard II	Folger Shakespeare Library Project Gutenberg Read by Sarah Agnew et al. (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Read by Julian Glover et al. (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Performed by Globe on Screen (video; Drama Online)
The Tempest	Folger Shakespeare Library Project Gutenberg Read by Simon R. Beale et al. (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Read by Ian McKellen et al. (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Performed by Globe on Screen (video; Drama Online)

Virgil

Work	Online Resources
The Aeneid	Trans. H. R. Fairclough (Digital Loeb Classical Library) Vol. 1 (Books I-VI) Vol. 2 (Books VII-XII) Trans. John Dryden (Project Gutenberg) Trans. Cecil Day-Lewis (Naxos Spoken Word Library)