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This section contains texts from ancient Greece and Rome, primarily about Classical Pagan beliefs. However, any text which has survived from this period of antiquity is, by definition, a classic. Many of these texts were only saved from the flames of the dark ages in locations remote from Rome and Athens, such as the legendary city of Timbuktu in central Africa, Irish monastaries, and by Islamic scholars in centers of learning as Baghdad. AESCHYLUS The Dramas of Aeschylus ARISTOTLE The Works of Aristotle SOPHOCLES The Dramas of Sophocles EURIPIDES The Dramas of Euripides OVID Metamorphoses English and Latin Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris and Medicamina Faciei Femineae English and Latin Latin Resources at wordgumbo.com [External Site]
by Samuel Butler · 1898
by Samuel Butler · 1900

by Samuel Butler · 1922
Men are from the Iliad, Women are from the Odyssey...

by Thomas Taylor · 1792

by Kathleen Freeman · 1948
The framentary textual remains of the oldest ancient Greek philosophers.

by Edwin Marion Cox · 1925

by Edwin Marion Cox · 1925

by Pierre Louÿs & Alvah C. Bessie · 1926
A famous hoax, which has had a huge impact on our modern perception of Sappho.

by Pierre Louÿs & Willis L. Parker & Frank J. Buttera · 1932
Tragic loves of a courtesan in Ptolemaic Egypt, from the author of Bilitis.

by G. C. Macaulay · 1890
The epochal conflict between the Greeks and Persians, by 'the Father of History.'

by Aesop & George Fyler Townsend · 1887

by R.C. Seaton · 1912
The primary text for the story of Jason, the Argonauts, and the quest for the Golden Fleece.

by Florence M. Firth · 1902

by Edouard Schuré · 1906
The philosopher, his times and thought, and the modern esoteric interpretation of his legacy.
by George Robert Stowe Mead · 1901
Mead's review of the literature around Apollonius
by Philostrates & F.C. Conybeare · 1912
Philostrates' Life of Apollonius is our primary contemporary account.
by Charles William King · 1908
Six essays by Plutarch, rich with details of ancient mythology and natural philosophy.
by Plutarch & Frank Cole Babbitt · 1938
A treasure trove of classical pagan lore.

by Arrian & P.E. Matheson · 1916
The Discourses, Fragments, and Enchiridion, of the Stoic Greek philosopher Epictetus.
by Herbert A. Strong · 1913
Lucian's hair-raising description of ancient Goddess worship.

by Proclus & Thomas Taylor · 1825
Some writings of the last classical era neo-Platonist philosopher.
by John Dryden · 1697
by J.W. MacKail · 1934
by J.W. MacKail · 1934

by Apuleius & William Adlington · 1566

by Apuleius & William Adlington & Dorothy Mullock · 1914

by Plotinus & Stephen MacKenna & B. S. Page · 1917-1930

by Julius Caesar & W.A. McDevitte & W.S. Bohn · 1869
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus & George Long
by Titus Lucretius Carus & William Ellery Leonard
by Gaius Petronius & Alfred R. Allinson · 1930
A satirical, bawdy and hallucinatory trip through the underbelly of Neros' Rome

by L.C. Smithers & Richard Burton · 1890

by Alfred John Church & William Jackson Brodribb · 1864-1877
The preeminent Latin historian of the first century CE.

by Thomas Taylor · 1793
by Stanislas Marie César Famin · 1871
Sixty lithographs of erotic Roman art and artifacts.

by Edward Gibbon · 1776-88
The majestic history of the downfall of Rome, unabridged.

by Thomas Bulfinch · 1855
Bulfinch's able retelling of the classic myths has served as an introduction to the subject for generation of readers.

by Thomas Taylor · 1891
What secrets lay at the heart of the ancient initiation rituals at Eleusis?

by Charles Kingsley · 1901
A retelling of the myths of Perseus, Jason and the Argonauts, and Theseus for young adults, with lavish art-deco illustrations.

by Milton S. Terry · 1899
The (pseudo)-Sibylline Oracles are ancient books of prophecy.

by Donald A. Mackenzie · 1917
A survey of what is known about the civilization of ancient Crete.

by Hippolyto Joseph da Costa · 1820

by I. P. Cory · 1832
by Louisa Menzies · 1880

by Franz Cumont · 1903
The religion that might have taken the place of Christianity.

by Franz Cumont · 1911
Roman paganism later incorporated a diverse set of beliefs including ecstatic near-eastern religions, a wide range of goddess cults, dualism from Persia, and astrology.
by Franz Cumont · 1912



by Jesse Benedict Carter · 1906
An excellent history of the evolution of Roman religious ideas.
by Guy Cadogan Rothery · 1910
by Florence Mary Bennett · 1912
by Edward Carpenter · 1917
An anthology of literary quotes about (primarily) male friendship, from David and Jonathan to Walt Whitman, particularly those verging on romantic love.

by Edward Carpenter · 1922
Carpenter explores the similaries between Christianity and ancient mystery religions, as well as the similiarities between the narrative of Christ and other solar heros.
by John Addington Symonds · 1901
A study of Greek homosexuality, centering on the institutionalized (and idealized) love of adolescent males by older men.
by Edward Carpenter · 1914
Carpenter reviews the data on homosexuality in the ancient world

by Jane Harrison · 1913

by Gilbert Murray · 1925
The evolution of Greek religion from the ancient Olympians to the Platonic philosophers, and onward.


by Martin P. Nilsson · 1932

by Martin P. Nilsson · 1940

by Jane Harrison · 1922
An in-progress posting of the first two chapters of Jane Harrison's masterwork.

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