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Agamemnon - by Aeschylus : t. E. D. A. Morshead - Ex Libris: eserver
Page with a link to 351K pdf version of the text.
http://eserver.org/sparks/books/agamemnon.html
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Analects - Sayings of Confucius [Kong Zi] [Kung Tze]
Links to full text of Analects online in 16 different languages.
http://www.chinapage.org/confucius/kungtze1.html
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Analects of Confucius, The - by Confucius: t. James Legge
Guttenburg version of this text from Penn State University.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4094
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Art of War, The - by Sun Tzu : t. Lionel Giles - Ex Libris: Classics Archive
One page html version with a 44K txt version.
http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html
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Code of Hammurabi, The - by Hammurabi, King of Babylonia; t. King, L. W
Known as the first codified, written law.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/hammenu.htm
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Duke Papyrus Archive
The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt.
http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/
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Egytian Book of the Dead, The - by : t. E.A. Wallis Budge
The Papyrus of Ani Multiple page html indexed by chapter. A one page text file also availible. 1240BCE
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~drokk/BoD/toc.html
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Eleven Comedies, The - by Aristophanes: t. not given - Ex Libris: University of Adelaide
Each play, written c410, has its own page. Simple readable html. The Acharnians, The Birds, The Clouds, The Ecclesiazusae, The Frogs, Lysistrata, The Knights, Peace, Plutus, The Thesmophoriazusae, The Wasps.
http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/etext/a/a7/
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Fables - by Aesop: t. George Fyler Townsend - Ex Libris: literature.org
Html version idexed by individual fable, with a preface and history of Aesop.
http://www.literature.org/authors/aesop/fables/
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Gilgamesh Epic, The - by Shin-eqi-unninni - Ex Libris: Ancient Texts
The 11 tablet Akkadian version of the oldest existing written story about the Mesopotamian king Gilgamesh.
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/
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Gilgamesh Epic, The - by Shin-eqi-unninni
Summary of the Akkadian version of the oldest existing written story about the Mesopotamian king Gilgamesh.
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/GILG.HTM
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Iliad, The - by Homer: t. Samuel Butler
The siege of Troy. This selection has been divided by book and a full .txt version is also availible.
http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html
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Odyssey, The - by Homer: t. Samuel Butler
Odysseus' great journey from Troy to Ithica. Divided by book with a full .txt version availible.
http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html
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Orations - by Cicero, Marcus Tullius - Ex Libris: Gutenberg
Text in Latin .txt or .zip availible. Links to various mirrors.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=226
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Poems of Sappho, The - by Sappho : t. Edwin Marion Cox - Ex Libris: Sacred Texts
Multple page html indexed by part, with each poem in htmlized greek, literaly translated and poetically translated. Also a biography on the Greek poetess.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/sappho/
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Tao Te Ching - Dao de Jing - by Lao Tse
Several translations of this ancient chinese spiritual text, including one in German, are hosted here or linked directly from this site.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/ttc-list.htm
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The Roman Law Library
Collection of Roman laws of Alexandre Koptev (Latin texts and translations), carried out with the collaboration of Yves Lassard, Professor with the Faculty of Law of Grenoble.
http://www.upmf-grenoble.fr/Haiti/Cours/Ak
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Twelve Tables of Roman Law - by t. Allan Chester Johnson, Paul Robinson Coleman-Norton, Frank Card Bourne - Ex Libris: Avalon Project
One page html of this 450BCE set of laws
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/twelve_tables.htm
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