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The great books of the Western tradition — the Greek and Latin classics in clean English translations alongside the originals, the Church Fathers, and the English Renaissance. Free forever.
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Greek Authors
Epic, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy and oratory — in English translations alongside the Greek originals.
149 works · 4485.3k wordsLatin Authors
Poetry, oratory, history and philosophy — in English translations alongside the Latin originals.
49 works · 2000.8k wordsJewish Writers
Josephus and Philo in Greek and English, the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and the fragments of lost Second Temple works.
100 works · 1838.3k wordsChurch Authors
The Apostolic Fathers, apologists, Alexandrians, church historians, Cappadocians, Latin theologians, and the councils.
151 works · 5973.5k wordsBible Translations
The full Bible in public-domain translations, with a side-by-side compare view.
24 translationsEnglish & Later
Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Spenser, Jonson and Donne — the English Renaissance.
52 works · 1444.2k wordsTools
Learn the Languages
Lingua Antiqua — 100-day courses in Ancient Greek, Classical Latin, and Classical Arabic.
LXX & Vulgate Reader
The Septuagint and the Vulgate side by side, with tap-a-word dictionaries.
Lexicon
Look up any Greek, Latin, or Hebrew word — LSJ and Abbott-Smith for Greek, Lewis & Short and Lewis Elementary for Latin, Brown-Driver-Briggs for Hebrew, with alphabetical neighbors and type-ahead suggestions.
Concordance
Search a word in the Torah and the Prophets across five versions in parallel — Septuagint, Masoretic Text, Vulgate, Targum Onkelos, and Targum Jonathan.
Masora
Masora-style notes on the Masoretic Text — rare and unique forms verse by verse, with full occurrence lists, for the Torah and the Prophets.
Vulgate Notes
Translator’s notes on Jerome’s Vulgate — Genesis 1, 2, and 3, verse by verse, against the Hebrew, Septuagint, and Targum.
Legends of the Jews
Louis Ginzberg’s collection of Jewish legends — the narrative in full, with notes linked to the Church Fathers, Philo, and Josephus in the library.
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New in Scholarship
Research guides, new reviews, and new source digitizations.
The Hexapla
Field’s Hexapla fragments — a work in progress.
501 works · 15742k words · more sections coming