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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 apparent policy of denying access in some cases where a publisher has a commercial interest in reprinting the public domain 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; German Wikisource: Klassische Philologie, largely the work of Jonathan Groß, is a treasure-trove if you are seeking anything from Wilamowitz's Lesefrüchte to a Pauly-Wissowa article; Edwin Donnelly has made useful lists of Loebs (conveniently offered via Loebolus) and school texts (mostly); Ed Snible (numismatics); Westcott & Hort Bookshelf; Luminarium; Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL); SIEPM for texts related to Medieval philosophy; Resources for Syriac Studies from Dumbarton Oaks.

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

Collections

Herodotus and Thucydides

Ancillae

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

Scholia

Scholia Graeca in Aeschinem et Isocratem ex conicibus aucta et emendata, ed. Dindorf (Oxford 1852): [Google Books edition]

Ancillae

Aristotle and Theophrastus

Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca

Supplementum Aristotelicum

Jewish Literature

New Testament

Other Early Christian Literature

Ancillae

Plutarch

Ancillae

Wyttenbach, Index Graecitatis (Index vocum verborumque exquisitiorum in Plutarcho) (1829): [Google Books edition: alpha-iota, kappa-omega]

Greek Mathematics and Astronomy

Apollonius, Conica , Teubner edition, Heiberg: [WilbourHall.org]

, Teubner edition, Heiberg: [WilbourHall.org] Archimedes, Teubner edition, Heiberg (1880-1881): [WilbourHall.org]

Archimedes, Teubner edition, Heiberg (1910): Stomachion, Ad Eratosthenem Methodus

Aristarchus of Samos: The Greek Copernicus , ed. and trans. Heath (Oxford 1913): [WilbourHall.org]

, ed. and trans. Heath (Oxford 1913): [WilbourHall.org] Autolycus, De sphaera quae movetur and De ortibus et occasibus , Teubner edition, Hultsch (1885): [WilbourHall.org]

and , Teubner edition, Hultsch (1885): [WilbourHall.org] Diophantus, Teubner edition, Tannery (1893-1895): [WilbourHall.org]

Euclid, Teubner edition, Heiberg: [WilbourHall.org]

Geminus, Elementa Astronomiae , Teubner edition, Manitius (1898): [WilbourHall.org]

, Teubner edition, Manitius (1898): [WilbourHall.org] Nicomachus, Introductio Arithmetica , Teubner edition, Hoche (1866): [WilbourHall.org]

, Teubner edition, Hoche (1866): [WilbourHall.org] Pappus, Collectio , ed. Hultsch (Berlin 1876-1878): [WilbourHall.org]

, ed. Hultsch (Berlin 1876-1878): [WilbourHall.org] Proclus, In primum Euclidis Elementorum librum commentarii , Teubner edition, Friedlein (1873): [WilbourHall.org]

, Teubner edition, Friedlein (1873): [WilbourHall.org] Ptolemy, Teubner edition, Heiberg (1898-1907): [WilbourHall.org]

Other Greek Prose

Greek Language

Greek Lexica

Greek Pedagogy

Greek Composition

Latin Literature

Latin Grammar and Italic Languages

Latin Pedagogy

Latin Composition

John Penrose, Easy Exercises in Latin Elegiac Verse (1850): [Google Books edition, key]