Ancient Greek Texts
The surviving literary works of ancient Greece, Homer through late antiquity — an open, public-domain corpus in clean Unicode Greek.
1,358 authors 4,060 works 44 million words
Public Domain
This is the open data store of Eulogikon, a digital library of ancient Greek literature. The reading, search, and browse experience lives at eulogikon.org; this repository is the archive itself, with every text as a downloadable file. No logins, no fees, no paywalls.
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Browse the corpus by author, domain, period, or school.
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By period
- Archaic 800–480 BCE The Archaic period runs from the adoption of the Greek alphabet to the Persian Wars.
- Classical 480–323 BCE From the Persian Wars to the death of Alexander, the Classical period is the golden age of Athenian democracy and pan-Hellenic culture.
- Hellenistic 323–31 BCE After Alexander's death, Greek culture spreads across the eastern Mediterranean and Near East while new royal courts patronise scholarship.
- Late Antique 330–600 CE Late antiquity bridges the Roman Empire's Christianisation and the early Byzantine world.
- Roman 31 BCE–330 CE Under Roman rule, Greek remains the language of education and elite culture across the eastern Empire.
By domain
- Comedy Old, Middle, and New Comedy—satirical drama from Aristophanes to Menander, mocking politics, philosophy, and everyday life.
- Drama Tragedy and dramatic poetry performed in the theatre—Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and the tragic tradition they established.
- Epic Long narrative verse in the epic tradition—Homeric and Hesiodic poetry and the learned epic of the Hellenistic age.
- Geography Descriptions of lands, peoples, and journeys—periploi, ethnography, and the geographic books of historians.
- Grammar Technical writing on language—grammar, orthography, etymology, and the scholarly tools of Alexandrian philology.
- History Historical narrative and inquiry—from Herodotus and Thucydides through Hellenistic and Roman historians to Byzantine chronicles.
- Mathematics Mathematical treatises in the Greek tradition—geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and mechanics from Euclid to Ptolemy.
- Medicine Medical and anatomical writing in the Hippocratic and Galenic traditions—clinical cases, theory, and pharmacology.
- Oratory Forensic, deliberative, and epideictic speeches—Demosthenes, Lysias, Isocrates, and the art of persuasion in the assembly and courts.
- Philosophy Philosophical treatises, dialogues, and commentaries—from the Presocratics through Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic schools.
- Poetry Lyric, elegiac, and hymnic verse outside epic and drama—personal song, choral poetry, and imperial panegyric.
- Scholia Marginal and standalone commentaries on canonical authors—scholia preserving ancient exegesis and textual variants.
By school
- Aristotelian Followers of Aristotle and the Peripatetic tradition—logic, ethics, natural philosophy, and commentary.
- Epicurean Epicurus and his followers—atomist physics, hedonist ethics, and the ideal of tranquil pleasure.
- Neoplatonist Late antique Platonists from Plotinus to Proclus—hierarchical metaphysics, commentary, and religious philosophy.
- Platonist Plato and the Platonic tradition—dialogue, Forms, and the Academy's heirs before Neoplatonism.
- Stoic The Stoic school from Zeno to Roman Stoics—logic, physics, and ethics unified in a rational cosmos.
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How the corpus compares
No other freely licensed collection of ancient Greek runs this deep. The bars below set Eulogikon against the two largest open Greek text collections taken together, counted the same way, on the same day, from their own published repositories.
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Measured 3 August 2026. Both sides are counted alike: where a work survives in several editions only the fullest is counted, translations are left out, and a word means a word of Greek. Sources: PerseusDL/canonical-greekLit and OpenGreekAndLatin/First1KGreek.