About Eulogikon
Eulogikon is a free library of ancient Greek texts.
Open to students, scholars, independent researchers, and anyone who wants to read the originals.
The collection spans a millennium of Greek thought.
There is Homer and Hesiod, the earliest poetry we have. There are the Pre-Socratics, preserved in fragments quoted by later writers. There is Plato, complete. There is Aristotle, complete. The Stoics survive mostly in fragments, collected and organized by scholars over centuries. The Epicureans. The Neoplatonists.
There are the historians. Herodotus on the Persian Wars. Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Appian, Cassius Dio.
There are the geographers. Strabo describing the known world. Pausanias walking through Greece, recording what he saw.
There are the orators. Demosthenes, Isocrates, Lysias, Aeschines. The speeches that shaped Athenian politics.
There are the poets. Pindar's odes. The tragedians: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides. The comedies of Aristophanes and Menander.
There are the medical writers. Hippocrates and Galen.
There are the mathematicians. Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius.
Not excerpts. Not selections. The works as they have come down to us, including the fragments preserved by later writers.
Every text has been cleaned and normalized. Consistent formatting, proper Unicode, a font that handles polytonic Greek properly. You can read online or download PDFs for offline use.
Where 19th-century editors imposed their structure, we've preserved it. Fragment numbers, book divisions, the scholarly apparatus that lets you trace a passage back to its source. We're working to improve readability in future releases.
The texts are the texts. Free to read, free to download, free to use.
Rather than scratch around dozens of sites for the works you are interested in, Eulogikon provides a single home for archaic, classical, and Hellenistic Greek texts.
Easy to find, formatted for reading, sharing, and discussion: aimed at readability.
Greek texts in Greek, without the Latin editorial apparatus that clutters so many editions. We are far from achieving this, but we are working on it.
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Sources & Acknowledgements
Eulogikon draws on the collective work of the digital classics community. The Greek texts in this collection are sourced from openly licensed repositories including:
- Perseus Digital Library & Scaife Viewer (Tufts University)
- First1KGreek & Open Greek and Latin Project (Leipzig/Harvard/UVA)
- Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (Monica Berti, University of Leipzig / Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities)
- HathiTrust Digital Library
- Papyri.info & the Integrating Digital Papyrology project
- Digital Athenaeus (Monica Berti, University of Leipzig)
- I.Sicily (University of Oxford)
- Trismegistos (KU Leuven)
- Internet Archive
All sources are licensed under Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA, CC-BY), are in the public domain, or have been verified against public domain print editions.
We have made every effort to attribute individual files correctly. If you notice a text that requires additional attribution, please contact us and we will update accordingly.
Eulogikon's own contributions—sentence identifiers, site structure, and processing apparatus—are released under CC0 (public domain dedication).