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Shakespeare's sources online:
Latin and Greek Authors

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English translations of Greek and Roman texts: [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=Greco-Roman&type=text&lang=en]
Classic texts: translations of Latin and Greek authors [http://classics.mit.edu/]
Latin Texts, Ad Fontes Academy, Latin library (online texts of major works, links to other Latin sites. [http://patriot.net/~lillard/cp/] (last visit: 03/09/99)
Latin Texts, ASCI-files [ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/libellus/texts/]
Five 16th century Latin plays. From the collection of Comedies and Tragedies edited by Nicholas Brylinger, Basel, 1540 Translation (C) C. C. Love, Toronto 1992: [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/rnlp/rnlp.html] (l. v. September 2001)
Shakespeare and the Stoics [http://www.stoics.com/]
Velz, John W.
Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition, Minnesota 1968. (An electronic republication of the edition of 1968 from the University of Minnesota Press) [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SCT/index.html]

Aelius Spartianus,
The Life of Antoninus Caracalla, (=Bassianus) trans. David Magie, Loeb Classical Library (1924) [http://members.aol.com/heliogabby/bio/caracall.htm]
Aesop
Fables transl. Georg Fyler Townsend [http://classics.mit.edu/Aesop/fab.1.1.html]
Aesop,
Fables, [http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/]
Aesop,
Fables in English [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AesFabl.html]
Anon.
Gesta Romanorum, (in Latin) [http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/gestarom.html]
Apuleius, The XI Books of the Golden Asse conteigninge the
Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius, trans. W. Adlington 1566 [http://eserver.org/books/apuleius/]
Apuleius,
Metamorphoses, in Latin [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6946/literature/apuleius.html]
Aristotle,
Poetics, translated by William Hamilton Fyfe HTML-Version,
Aristotle,
Poetics, transl. by S. H. Butcher [http://webatomics.com/Classics/Aristotle/poetics.html]

Bartolomaeus.
Christus Xilonicus Translation (C) C. C. Love, Toronto 1992 [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/rnlp/christus.html] (l. v. September 2001)
Betulius,
Susanna, Translation (C) C. C. Love, Toronto 1992 [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/rnlp/susanna.html] (l. v. September 2001)
Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy 520-526? in Latin and English [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/boethius.html] (May 2002)

Caesar, De bello gallico / Gallic Wars. (Jan. 2002)
Cicero, De officis transl. and annotated by Ben Schneider [http://www.stoics.com/books.html]
Cicero,
orations and letters in Latin [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/latin_TOC.html#Cicero]

Euripides,
Hippolytus, Engl. (Coleridge) [http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/hippolytus.html]
Euripides,
Trojan Women, Engl. [http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/troj_women.html]

Josephus Flavius,
Antiquitates Judaicae in Greek (ed. B. Niese) and English (ed. William Whiston) [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0145]
Florus,
Epitomae (in Latin) [http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/florus.html]

Herodotus,
The Histories, in Greek and English (A.D.Godley):
Homer,
Illiad, in Greek:
Homer,
Iliad, trans. Samuel Butler [http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html]
Homer,
Odyssey, transl. Samuel Butler [http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html]
Chapman, George:
Homer's Odysseys [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/chapman/] (last visit: 09/03/99)
Homer,
Odyssey, in Greek: [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0135]

Titus Livius,
Ab urbe condita in Latin and English (Rev. Canon Roberts) [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0027]
Lucan,
Pharsalia (The Civil War), transl. Edward Ridley, 1896 [http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Pharsalia/]
Lukianos von Samosata,
Timon (Dialog), dt. von Chr. M. Wieland [http://projekt.gutenberg.de/autoren/lukian.htm] (May 2002)
Lukianos,
Dialogoi (in Greek) [http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/graeca/Chronologia/S_post02/Lukianos/luk_intr.html]

Macropedius
Hecastus Translation (C) C. C. Love, Toronto 1992 [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/rnlp/hecastus.html] (l. v. September 2001)
Macropedius
Andrisca Translation (C) C. C. Love, Toronto 1992 [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/rnlp/andrisca.html] (l. v. September 2001)
Naogeorgus.
Pammachius Translation (C) C. C. Love, Toronto 1992 [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/rnlp/pammach.html] (l. v. September 2001)

Ovidius Naso,
Metamorphoses in Latin (Hugo Magnus) and English (Brookes More), [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0029]
Ovid,
Metamorphoses, in Latin: [http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/ovid.met.html] Ovid, Metamorphoses, transl. into English verse under the direction of Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve [http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/books/metamor/ovid_met_toc.html]
Ovid,
Metamorphosis in English, Garth, Dryden, Pope etc.: [http://classics.mit.edu/Ovid/metam.html], also here: analytical Onomasitcon project [http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/onomasticon-sampler/]
Ovid,
Metamorphosen, Deutsch von J. H. Voss [http://www.projekt.gutenberg.de/ovid/metamor/metamor.htm]

Plautus,
Menaechmi, in Latin [http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/plaut.menaechmi.html]
Plautus,
Menaechmi, Latin, ed. F. Leo
Plutarch,
Plutarch, Parallel Lives, trans. North in J.W. Skeats edition. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/JC/plutarch.north.html] (Jan. 2002)
North's translation
in original spelling (Jan. 2002)
Plutarch,
bioi paralleloi (Greek) [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/chunk_TOC.grk.html#Plutarch]
Plutarch,
Lives, transl. by A. H. Clough [http://sailor.gutenberg.org/etext96/plivs10.txt#]
Plutarch,
Lives, transl. by Dryden [http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index-Plutarch.html]
Plutarch,
Lives, transl. by Dryden [http://www.usu.edu/~history/ploutarchos/plutext.html]
Plutarch's Antony, transl. by Dryden http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/antony.html (02/09/99)
Plutarch and Shakespeare comparison pages passages from Antony and Cleopatra compared to their source. (22/01/00)
Prokopius of Caesarea:
Secret History, translated by Richard Atwater, (Chicago: P. Covici, 1927), repr. Ann Arbor, 1961 [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/procop-anec.html]
Procopius:
Alaric's Sack of Rome, 410 AD. Ancient History Sourcebook: From: History of the Wars, 7 vols., trans. H. B. Dewing (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard UP & Wm. Heinemann, 1914; reprint ed., 1953-54), II.11-23. [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/410alaric.html]

Sallust,
Fragmenta Historicarum [http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/sall.hist.html] (May 2002) or here [http://patriot.net/~lillard/cp/sall.html]
Seneca,
Medea (Latin) [http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/sen_trme.html] and also here: [http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/sen.medea.html]
Seneca,
Oedipus Staging Oedipus by Seneca, text excerpts; ed. and trans. M. E. Rutenberg [http://www.oedipusmax.com/staging.htm]
Seneca, Thyestes: Marwell, Andrew:
The Second Chorus from Seneca's Thyestes [http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/seneca.htm]
Seneca's
Moral Essays (3 vols) [http://www.stoics.com/books.html]
Seneca's
Moral Epistles (3vols) [http://www.stoics.com/books.html]
Stoics page,
The Stoic Legacy to the Renaissance: Cicero's De Officiis, Seneca's Moral Essays (3 vols), Seneca's Moral Epistles (3vols), Plutarch's Lives translated by North (3 vols of 8). 1 volume of Plutarch's Lives translated by Dryden, Full texts in English, indexed and annotated by Ben R. Schneider [http://www.stoics.com/]
Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum,
Divus Iulius (The Lives of the Caesars, The Deified Julius), written trans. J.C.Rolfe, 1920 [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/suetonius-julius.html]

C. Tacitus,
The Annals transl. by Alfred John Church and W. J. Brodripp [http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/annals.html]
Velleius Paterculus
Romanae Historiae in Latin [http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/vell.html]

Virgil,
Aeneid, in Latin and in two English translations (Dryden and Theodore C. Williams)
Virgil: Aeneid (Dryden) [http://classics.mit.edu/Virgil/aeneid.html]
Virgil in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, bibliography and links [http://www.virgil.org/bibliography/]

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