The Ancient World: History, Literature, Religion, and Philosophy, including Greek and Roman Classics

Copyright © 2002 Richard Seltzer

This Web page shows the table of contents of our Ancient World CD, with 610 books. Internal links will take you to the various sections, but you cannot get to the books themselves here on the Web. For that you need the CD.

This CD was compiled by Richard Seltzer. It includes works written up until the fall of the Western Roman Empire or dealing with subjects from that time. This is the first of a series of CDs with books organized by time period.  The other CDs in that series include Medieval/Renaissance, 16th Century, 17th Century, and 18th Century.

For details about this publishing service, check the readme document.

The books themselves are in the public domain. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original. But the collection and its indexes, created for your convenience, are under copyright. Please contact us first if you are interested in making copies of this CD for commercial purposes. seltzer@samizdat.com

This Ancient World CD, with 673 works of history, literature, religion, and philosophy (most in translation, some in Latin), in plain text, is available for $19 at our online store.

User's Guide: Suggestions on how to get the most out of your books on CD ROM

If you would like to have your PC (with speakers) read these texts aloud to you, while they are displayed in text on the screen, see below about the free ReadPlease software that we have included on this CD.

These books are in plain text format. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original.  You can open these books by clicking on the titles in this index page with your Web browser or a recent Windows-based word processor.

We publish plain text books (unencrypted) on CD, and we want to provide a simple way for customers and other interested people to share their insights into how to get the most out of this new way of reading and studying. To do so we have set up an email discussion group at Yahoo. All are welcome to join and to post here, but I'll manage this group in "moderated" style, filtering messages before they go out to the whole group, to control the volume of the messages and to make sure that they are on-topic. Tips and information that would be helpful to people you have plain text books on CD are welcome -- including examples of how you are using yours, suggestions for improvement,  suggestions for future CDs, and useful/interesting texts found on the Web that should be included in future CDs. To subscribe, go to the discussion group Web site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/plaintextbooksoncd  or send a blank email to plaintextbooksoncd-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
 

  • Language
  • History
  • Religion
  • Philosophy and Science
  • Literature

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    Table of Contents of the Greek and Roman Classics CD

    This Ancient World CD, with 610 books of history, literature, religion, and philosophy (most in translation, some in Latin), in plain text, is available for $19 at our online store.

    Language

    History

    Collections and Multi-Culture Works History of Babylon and Assyria History of Britain History of Egypt History of Persia History of China History of France/Gaul History of Greece History of India History of Ireland History of Phoenicia History of Rome
  • Frank Frost Abbott
  • The Common People of Ancient Rome, 1911
  • Jacob Abbott
  • Julius Caesar
  • Pyrrhus
  • Nero
  • Anne C.E. Allinson
  • Roads from Rome
  • Ammianus Marcellinus
  • The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus
  • A.H. Beesley
  • The Gracchi, Marius, and Sulla, 1921
  • Julius Caesar
  • The Gallic War/Commentaries (De Bello Gallico)

    • History of both Greece and Rome

    History of the Byzantine Empire

    Religion

    General

    Celts

    Egyptian

    Babylonian and Assyrian

    Greek

    Roman

  • Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Franz Cumont
  • Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Lanciani
  • The Religion of Ancient Rome by Cyril Bailey, 1907
  • The Religion of Numa by Jesse Benedict Carter, 1906
  • Roman Antiquities and Antient Mythology for Classical Schools by Charles Dillaway

    • Hinduism

    Buddhism

    Israel -- Religion and History

    Early Christianity

    Zoroastrianism

    Philosophy and Science

    Overviews

    Greek Philosophy and Science

    Roman Philosophy

    Chinese Philosophy and Religion

    Literature

    General Collections

    Assyrian and Babylonian Literature

    Egyptian Literature

    Greek Literature

    Roman Literature and Art and Latin Language

    Historical Novels and Plays about Ancient Times

    Essays about Ancient Greece and Rome

    Related Anthropology, Myth and Legend


    This Ancient World CD, with 610 books of history, literature, religion, and philosophy (most in translation, some in Latin), in plain text, is available for $19 at our online store.

    How to install and use the free ReadPlease software included on this CD

    Click here if you would like to install this software. When you click on that link, you will be asked wheter you want to save it on your computer or just run it. Choose Save -- it will only take about 10 Mbytes; so choose Save. Then select which version you want to install and the directory that you'd like to put it in. When the rapid, automatic installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop.

    When running ReadPlease, click on File, then Open, and browse to the texts you are interested on the CD (or any other text file you have). Click on Play and it will start "reading" the book aloud to you. Highlight a chunk of text (of any size) with your browser and then click on Selection, and it will read the text you selected. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows).

    When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and type whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on your hard drive.

    Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They are the experts on it. They have even better versions with even clearer, more natural voices, which they sell. You can listen to samples at their Web site www.readplease.com, where you can also see detailed help files.  And you can contact them at: ReadPlease Corporation, 121 Cherry Ridge Road, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada P7G 1A7. Phone: 807-474-7702


    Tips for using/enjoying the texts on this CD:

    The easiest way to get started is to click on My Computer, then on your CD drive, then on index.html. (That should bring you to here, in Word or your Web browser, or WordPad or Notepad, depending on your computer's setup.)

    From the index, click on an individual work to see the full text in your browser or in Word. Click "Back" in your browser to return here.  Use the "find" function in your browser (under Edit/Find in both Netscape and IE) to find any word or phrase within a document.

    When you stop reading, jot down the last phrase (a unique set of words) so you can search for that the next time you want to read and easily find the spot where you left off.

    If you just want to read and if you have a large screen, use your browser and under View increase the type size to meet your taste.

    If you just want to read and you have a small screen, try using WordPad or Word.

    If you want to take notes while you read, first save the file on your hard drive, then open it in WordPad or Word, enter your notes with the text (making them distinctive with bold or italic or by enclosing them in brackets] as you go along, and save the entire file, with those changes, when you are done.

    If you use Word, you can Select All [under Edit], and modify the font and type size (to make the letters larger and easier to read) [under Format and Font], and save the files on your hard drive [under File, Save As] with whatever changes you have made (including notes you made while reading).

    Note regarding copyright:  On our "Classic Collections" CDs, we include works published in the US before 1923, works from Australia and Canada when the author died 50 years or more ago, and works from the European Union (including the United Kingdom and Ireland) when the author died 70 years or more ago. NB -- Due to The European Union's extension of copyright by 20 years to 70 years after the death of the author many works which had been in the public domain under the previous law are now once again under copyright. Hence we are unable to include on our CDs some popular writers whose works are still readily available over the Internet.

    Sacred Books of the East and related religious texts

    Some of the best religious books on this CD were obtained from the Internet Sacred Text Archive at www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm and are included here with their permission. Please visit their site and check the other riches they make available to the public for free.

    They note that: "The Sacred Books of the East (SBE) series, comprising fifty volumes, was issued by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. It has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. The series was edited by the famous linguist Max Müller, who also produced many of the translations."

    HTML versions of those books are available at:

    Volumes 1 and 15 Upanishads, http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/upan/index.htm

    Volume 2 Sacred Laws of the Aryas volume 1 of 2 (Dharma Sutras)
    http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sla/index.htm

    Volume 3 The Sacred Books of China, vol. 1 of 6. Part I of The Texts of Confucianism.The Shû king. The religions portions of the Shih king. The Hsiâo king http://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/sbe03/index.htm

    Volume 4 The Zend-Avesta, vol. 1 of 3 The Vendîdâd. http://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/sbe04/index.htm

    Volume 5 Pahlavi Texts, vol. 1 of 5 The Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and Shayast La-Shayast.
    http://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/sbe05/index.htm

    Volume 7 Institutes of Vishnu http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe07/index.htm

    Volume 8 The Bhagavadgita With the Sanatsugâtiya and the Anugitâ
    http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/index.htm

    Volume 10 The Dhammapada and The Sutta-Nipâta, a collection of discourses; being one of the canonical books of the Buddhists, translated from Pâli; and The Dhammapada, a collection of verses, translated from Pâli  http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/index.htm

    Volume 11 Buddhist Suttas The Mahâ-parinibbâna Suttanta, The Dhamma-kakka-ppavattana Sutta, The Tevigga Suttanta, The Âkankheyya Sutta, The Ketokhila Sutta, The Mahâ-Sudassana Suttanta, The Sabbâsava Sutta.
    http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe11/index.htm

    Volume 13 Vinaya Texts, vol. 1 of 3 The Patimokkha. The Mahavagga, I-IV. http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe13/index.htm

    Volume 16 The Sacred Books of China, vol. 2 of 6 Part II of The Texts of Confucianism. The Yi King: (I Ching). http://www.sacred-texts.com/ich/index.htm

    Volume 21 The Saddharma-Pundarika or The Lotus of the True Law http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/lotus/index.htm

    Volume 23 The Zend-Avesta, vol. 2 of 3 The Sîrôzahs, Yasts, and Nyâyis.  http://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/index.htm#sbe23

    Volume 24 Pahlavi Texts, vol. 3 of 5 Dinai Mainög-i khirad, Sikand-Gümanik Vigar, Sad Dar.  http://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/index.htm#sbe24

    Volume 25 The Laws of Manu Translated, with extracts from seven commentaries. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/manu.htm

    Volume 27 The Sacred Books of China, vol. 3 of 6 Part III of the texts of Confucianism.
    The Lî Kî, part 1 of 2.  http://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/liki/index.htm

    Volume 28 The Sacred Books of China, vol. 4 of 6 Part IV of the texts of Confucianism.
    The Lî Kî, part 2 of 2. http://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/liki2/index.htm

    Volume 31 The Zend-Avesta, vol. 3 of 3 The Yasna, Visparad, Afrînagân, Gâhs, and miscellaneous fragments http://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/index.htm#sbe31

    Volume 39 The Texts of Taoism, Part 1 of 2. The Sacred Books of China, vol. 5 of 6
    Also: The Tâo teh king (Tao te Ching): The writings of Kwang-tze, books I-XVII. http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/sbe39/sbe39.htm

    Volume 40 The Texts of Taoism, Part 2 of 2. The Texts of Taoism, Part 2 of 2. Includes The Writings of Kwang Tse, books XVII-XXXIII, The Thâi-shang tractate of actions and their retributions, other Taoist texts, and the Index to vols. 39 and 40. http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/sbe40/sbe40.htm

    Volume 42 Hymns of the Atharva-Veda Togther With Extracts From the Ritual Books and the Commentaries. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/av.htm

    Volume 48 The Vedanta-Sutras, vol 3 of 3. with the commentary of Râmânuja. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe48/index.htm

    The Tanach, the Jewish Bible, 1917 Jewish Publication Societies' English translation http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/jps/index.htm

    Babylonian Talmud http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/talmud.htm

    Medieval Hebrew, featuring the Midrash and medieval collections of Jewish Biblical lore and legend  http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/mhl/index.htm

    Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirqe Aboth), translated by Charles Taylor http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/sjf/index.htm

    Kabbalah -- Sepher Yetzirah, translated by W.W. Westcott http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/yetzirah.htm

    Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/tmm/index.htm

    Hebraic Literature: translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/hl/index.htm

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