Public-Domain Books for Classicists


All Google Books listed here are available to me in full view but may not be available to readers outside the USA (explained further here). Deadlinks below used to provide access and reflect Google's unconscionable policy of denying access in some cases where a publisher has a commercial interest in reprinting the title. For scanned Classics books elsewhere on the internet, see my big page of links under "Online Language Tools" ("Online PDF/page-scan Reprints") and under "Online Scholarly Books."

Inevitably I'm not the only one with this idea. As I become aware of similar efforts, I'll post them here: Mischa Hooker (Greek, Latin, Bible & Patristics, Classics of scholarship) has now started a wiki; Edwin Donnelly has made useful lists of Loebs and school texts (mostly); Ed Snible (numismatics); Westcott & Hort Bookshelf; Luminarium.

Of course, one ought to be able to (but cannot) search in a proper library catalog for Google Books. Some of the contributing bricks-and-mortar libraries (e.g. Harvard) have made it simpler than others to go from their own library records to the online copy.


Homer and Hesiod

Ancillae


Greek Drama

Ancillae


Other Greek Poetry


Herodotus and Thucydides


Plato

Friedrich Ast, Lexicon Platonicum

Codex Clarkianus, A.D. 895 (photographed from Codex oxoniensis Clarkianus 39 phototypice editus, Leiden 1898-1899)


Xenophon

Ancillae


Attic Orators

Ancillae


Aristotle and Theophrastus

   Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca

   Supplementum Aristotelicum

Jewish Literature

New Testament

Other Early Christian Literature

Ancillae


Plutarch

Ancillae


Greek Mathematics and Astronomy


Other Greek Prose


Greek Language

Greek Lexica

Greek Pedagogy

Greek Composition


Latin Literature

Latin Grammar and Italic Languages

Latin Pedagogy

Medieval Latin

Individual Authors and Texts Collections Ancillae

Later Latin

Major authors Curiosities

General Reference


Secondary works