Classic and Medieval Sources
Hammurabi (c. 1790 B.C.E.)
Hammurabi's Code of Laws
The Code of Hammurabi

Homer (c. 9th Century B.C.E.)
The Homeric Hymns
Epigrams of Homer
Iliad
Odyssey   [Study Guide]

Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 B.C.E.)
[Gilgamesh Summary]

The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)
Revised Standard Version - Etext Center, UV
Multiple Versions - Bible Gateway

Hesiod (fl. c. 700 B.C.E.)
Theogony   [2nd copy]
Works and Days   [2nd copy]
Shield of Heracles   [2nd copy]
The Catalogues of Women and the Eoiae (fragments)
The Divination of Birds to Idaean Dactyls
The Marriage of Ceyx to Doubtful (fragments)
Online Works

Aesop (c. 520-460? B.C.E.)
Fables       [Texts]
Fables  (Illustrated)

Aeschylus (c. 525-456 B.C.E.)
Tragedies

Sophocles (c. 495-406 B.C.E.)  [More info]
Tragedies

Herodotus (c. 484-425 B.C.E.)
History  [2nd Copy]

Euripides (c. 485-406 B.C.E.)
Tragedies

Thucydides (c. 460-400 B.C.E.)
History of the Peloponnesian War   [2nd Copy]

Hippocrates (c. 460-377? B.C.E.)
Aphorisms
Law
Hippocratic Oath
On Airs, Waters, and Places
Selected Writings and Commentary
Medical Writings
Works

Sun-Tzu (c. 450-380 B.C.E.)
The Art of War

Aristophanes (c. 448-380 B.C.E.)
Comedies

Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.E.[More info]
The Republic    [tr. Benjamin Jowett]
Dialogues

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.)  [More info]
Works

Epicurus (c. 341-270 B.C.E.)  [More info]
Letter to Herodotus
Letter to Menoecus

Euclid (c. 365-300 B.C.E.)  [More Bio]
Elements    (Interactive version)

Archimedes (c. 287-212 B.C.E.)

Apollonius of Perga (fl. c. 240 B.C.E.)

Cicero (106-43 B.C.E.[Plutarch's 'Cicero']
Letters
De Officiis
Old Age
Works

Lucretius (c. 95-55 B.C.E.)
On the Nature of Things

Virgil (70-19 B.C.E.)
Works

Horace (65-8 B.C.E.)   [More info]
Works

Livy, Titus Livius (59 B.C.E.--C.E. 17)
History of Rome

Ovid (43 B.C.E.--C.E. 17)  [More info]
Works

Plutarch (c. 45-125)
Plutarch's Lives   [FTP]
Moralia
Works   [2nd Copy] (Index of writings)

Tacitus (c. 55-117)
Histories  [2nd copy]
Annals     [2nd copy]
Agricola
Germania

Nicomachus of Gerasa (fl. c. 100 C.E.)
     [Gif of Greek Multiplication Table]

Epictetus (c. 60-120[More info]
Discourses
Golden Sayings
Enchiridion  [2nd copy]

Claudius Ptolemy (fl. 127-145)

Lucian of Samosata (c. 117-c.180)
Alexander the Oracle-Monger
Zeus Rants

Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
Meditations

Galen of Pergamum (c. 129-216)
On Hippocrates' On the Nature of Man
On the Natural Faculties    [HTML]
Exhortation to the Study of the Arts, Especially Medicine
On Diagnosis in Dreams

The New Testament
Revised Standard Version - Etext Center, UV
Multiple Versions - Bible Gateway

Plotinus (205-270)
The Enneads  [2nd copy]

St. Augustine (354-430[More Bio]
On the Teacher
Expositions on the Book of Psalms
Enchiridion
On Dialectic
Confessions
City of God
On Christian Doctrine

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (470?-524)   [More Bio]
The Consolation of Philosophy

Beowulf (c. 700-750)
[Resources for Study]
[More Resources]

St. Anselm (1033-1109)   [More info]
Proslogion
- Gaunilo's Response to Anselm (In behalf of the Fool)
  - Anselm's Response to Gaunilo (Apologetic)
Monologion
Cur Deus Homo
On God's Existence

Gottfried von Strassburg (fl. 1210)
Tristan and Isolde  [Bibliography]

The Song of Roland (1185-1187)
  2nd Copy-HTML   [PDF Version]

The Nibelungenlied (c. 1200)
(Volsunga Saga - The Story of the Volsungs)

The Saga of Burnt Njal (c. 13th century)

Magna Carta (1215[2nd copy]

St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274) [More Bio] [Even more]
Of God and His Creatures   (Annotated)
On the Principles of Nature
Commentary on Aristotle's De memoria et reminiscencia
On the Eternity of the World
Summa Theologica      [Companion]
 

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)  [More Bio] [Even more]
The New Life
On Monarchy
The Divine Comedy

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375[More Bio]
The Decameron  (text version)

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)
Troilus and Criseyde
The Canterbury Tales    [In Middle English]
The Legend of Good Women
The Book of the Duchesse
The House of Fame
The Parliament of Fowles
A Treatise on the Astrolabe
Complete Works with Commentary

Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight (ca. 1375-1400)
  [2nd copy]  [PDF Version]

Thomas À Kempis (1380-1471)
The Imitation of Christ   [2nd Copy]

Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1446-1471)
Le Morte d'Arthur v.1
Le Morte d'Arthur v.2

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Notebooks
      [PURCHASE WORKS ABOUT]

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)
Oration on the Dignity of Man
 

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)  [More Bio] [Even more]
The Prince
Discourses on Livy
      Machiavelli by Thomas Macaulay

Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536)  [More info]
The Praise of Folly
Colloquia - Concerning Men, Manners, and Things
Complete Works

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
    [Dedication]

Sir Thomas More (1477-1535)  [More Bio]
The History of King Richard the Third
Utopia
Last Letter, To Daughter

Martin Luther (1483-1546)   [More info]
Table Talk
On the Freedom of a Christian
95 Theses (HTML)
An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility
Address to the Nobility
Treatise on Good Works

Francois Rabelais (c. 1494-1553)
Gargantua and Pantagruel

John Calvin (1509-1564)  [More Bio]
Institutes of the Christian Religion
The Necessity of Reforming the Church
Commentaries

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Essays
Of Books
That We Should Not Judge of Our Happiness
   Until After Our Death
Of Friendship
Of The Institution and Education of Children

William Gilbert (1540-1603)

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Don Quixote
   H-Cervantes Online

Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-1599) [More info]  [Even more]
The Faërie Queene
Amoretti and Epithalamion
Astrophel, etc.
Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
Daphanaïda
Epithalamion
Prothalamian
The Foure Hymnes
Shepheardes Calendar
Selected Poetry

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)  [More info]
Essays
Advancement of Learning
Essays Or Counsels - Civil and Moral
Argument That Bacon Authored Shakespeare
Novum Organum
Experiments Touching Sulphur and Mercury
New Atlantis   [2nd copy]
Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning
   Divine and Humane
Experiment Solitary, Touching the Making of Gold

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Tamburlaine the Great
The Jew of Malta
Passionate Shepherd To His Love  [2nd copy]
Doctor Faustus
Dido, Queen of Carthage
Edward II
Nature That Framed Us of Four Elements
Hero and Leander the First Sestiad  [2nd copy]
Amorous Neptune
The Massacre at Paris
Ovid's Elegies

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)  [Bio]
Poetry and Plays
  [Hamlet Study Guide]
  [Julius Caesar Study Guide]
  [King Lear Study Guide]
  [Much Ado About Nothing Study Guide]
  [Romeo and Juliet Study Guide]
  [The Taming of the Shew Study Guide]

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642[More Info]
The Starry Messenger   [Lecture]

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
Volpone
The Alchemist  [2nd copy]
Bartholomew Fair
Epigrams: To John Donne
Essay on Shakespeare
Catiline
On Lord Francis Bacon
Cynthia's Revels
Epicoene
Every Man in his Humour
The New Inn
Sejanus
Timber
Selected Poetry and Prose

William Harvey (1578-1657)
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)  [More info[Even more]
The Leviathan  [2nd copy]
De Cive
Of Liberty and Necessity
Seven Philosophical Problems
The Art of Sophistry
Decameron Physiologicum
Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student...
The Whole Art of Rhetoric
The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic

Rene Descartes (1596-1650)   [More Bio]
Discourse on the Method   [2nd copy]
Meditations on First Philosophy

John Milton (1608-1674)   [More info]
Shorter Poems
Areopagitica
Lycidas
Of Education
Paradise Lost    [2nd copy]
Paradise Regained    [2nd copy]
Colasterion
Comus, A Mask
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
The History of Britian
Il Penseroso
L'Allegro
Samson Agonistes
Tetrachordon
Poetical Works Online
Online Works