Finding Ancient Texts in the Local Catalog
To find translations of ancient texts try searching the Local Catalog for:
- The language name and the truncated version of the word "translation."
- For example: Sumerian translat*
- The words "ancient" "texts" and the truncated version of the word "translation."
- For example: ancient texts translat*
- The language name and the phrase "translations into English."
- For example: Egyptian "translations into English"
Databases and Directories
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Acta Sanctorum This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1643-1940
Provides access to an electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, including prefaces, original texts, critical apparatus, and indices. This collection of documents examines the lives of saints, arranged according to each saint's feast day.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Aristoteles Latinus This link opens in a new window
Medieval Greek-Latin translations of Aristotle's works.
Note: To access this resource, choose “IP Authentication” on the resource platform.
Access to this resource is funded by the OU Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (Fordham Univ.)Provides and organize texts for use in classroom situations. This site focuses on online texts, which, for the most part, means public domain texts translated more than 75 years ago.
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Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Full Text Sources (Fordham Univ.)Includes Church Councils, Islam, Medieval Thought, Reformation Texts and more.
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Library of Latin Texts (Series A and B) This link opens in a new window
The Library of Latin Texts is the world's leading database for Latin texts with works from the ancient period to the 20th century. Series A consists of Latin texts from the beginning of Latin literature through the Second Vatican Council while series B provides access to Latin texts of all periods and genres. This resource includes the complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas a Kempis.
Note: To access this resource, choose "IP recognition" on the resource platform.
Access to this resource is funded by the OU Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Loeb Classical Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease. Works of epic and lyric poetry, drama, history, philosophy, medicine, religion, mathematics, and more are included in this resource.
Access to this resource is funded by the OU Department of Classics and Letters.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Monumenta Germaniae Historica This link opens in a new window
Provides access to published sources for the study of German history from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500. Resources include historical works, charters, legal texts, letters, political texts, and literature from the European Middle Ages.
Note: To access this resource, choose "IP recognition" on the resource platform.
Access to this resource is funded by the OU Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Patrologia Latina This link opens in a new window
Access the electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae This link opens in a new window
A digitized collection of most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorials.
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Translated Texts for Historians E-Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a wide variety of texts from 300-800 AD. Resources are translated from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian, Armenian and Old Irish and include notes on content, interpretation, and debates. University of Oklahoma Libraries has access to volumes published through July 2023.
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Trismegistos This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary database of papyrological and epigraphic resources on Egypt and the Nile valley between roughly 800 BC and AD 800. Includes texts in a variety of languages from Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt, as well as a database of people and place names found in Greco-Roman Egypt.
Access to this resource is funded by the OU Department of Classics and Letters.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.