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The Ancient History Collection goes back to the primary sources — the historians who first shaped how Western civilization would understand its origins. Herodotus sets the Persian Wars against a canvas of ethnography and wonder; Thucydides dissects the Peloponnesian War with unflinching political realism; Livy and Tacitus give Rome its epic and its tragedy. All are available as free, cleanly-formatted EPUB downloads.

The collection extends beyond Greece and Rome to encompass Josephus on the Jewish world, Suetonius on the Caesars, and the rich body of classical biography collected in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives. Together they form the documentary foundation of ancient studies, presented in authoritative Victorian and Edwardian translations that remain highly readable.

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The Anabasis of AlexanderArrian
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, CompleteSuetonius
The IliadHomer
The Germany and the Agricola of TacitusCornelius Tacitus
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Vie de JésusErnest Renan
The Natural History of Pliny, Vol. 3the Elder Pliny
PlutarchPlutarch
LysistrataAristophanes
AnabasisXenophon
The Art of Waractive 6th century B.C. Sunzi
Antiquities of the JewsFlavius Josephus
The History of the Peloponnesian WarThucydides
Cookery and Dining in Imperial RomeApicius
The History of the DeclineEdward Gibbon
The City of God, Volume IAugustine of Hippo
Cités et ruines américainesEugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
A History of Art in Chaldæa & AssyriaGeorges Perrot
Pagan and Christian RomeRodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
The History of Herodotus — Volume 1Herodotus
Ancient States and EmpiresJohn Lord
The Legacy of Greece
The Story of the GreeksH. A. Guerber
Famous Sea Fights, from Salamis to Tsu-ShimaA. Hilliard Atteridge
The Natural History of Pliny, Vol. 1the Elder Pliny
The Oriental Religions in Roman PaganismFranz Cumont
The History of Rome, BooksLivy
Ancient America, in Notes on American ArchaeologyJohn D. Baldwin
The Wars of the JewsFlavius Josephus
Geschichte Alexanders des GrossenJohann Gustav Droysen
Best of the World’s Classics, Vol. 1
Politics: A Treatise on GovernmentAristotle
The Odyssey of HomerHomer
Ancient LawSir Henry Sumner Maine
The Religious Experience of the Roman PeopleW. Warde Fowler
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1Marcus Tullius Cicero
A Selection from the Discourses of EpictetusEpictetus
The Story of ParisThomas Okey
The Two Great Retreats of HistoryGeorge Grote
The Natural History of Pliny, Vol. 2the Elder Pliny
Babylonians and AssyriansA. H. Sayce
A Critical Exposition of the Popular ‘Jihád’Cherágh Ali
Romulus: Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott
XerxesJacob Abbott
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4)Plutarch
Best of the World’s Classics, Vol. 2
The Histories of PolybiusPolybius
Roman Society from Nero to Marcus AureliusSamuel Dill
Punicorum Libri SeptemdecimTiberius Catius Silius Italicus
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus LiviusNiccolò Machiavelli
An Account of EgyptHerodotus
The Geography of Strabo, Vol. 3Strabo
Sun Tzŭ on the Art of Waractive 6th century B.C. Sunzi
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
PyrrhusJacob Abbott
The History of LondonWalter Besant
Letters of Plinythe Younger Pliny
The Roman History of Ammianus MarcellinusAmmianus Marcellinus
History of the DeclineEdward Gibbon
An Abridgment of the Architecture of VitruviusVitruvius Pollio
Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian SymbolismThomas Inman
Au bord du lacÉmile Souvestre
Outlines of Greek and Roman MedicineSir James Elliott
The Bronze Age in IrelandGeorge Coffey
The Bronze Age and the Celtic World Harold Peake
On The Structure of GreekHugh E. Seebohm
History of EgyptL. W. King
The Instruction of Ptah-HotepPtahhotep
"De Bello Gallico" and Other CommentariesJulius Caesar
The Athenian ConstitutionAristotle
HellenicaXenophon
Tacitus: The HistoriesTacitus
Cyropaedia: The Education of CyrusXenophon
Helps to Latin Translation at SightEdmund Luce
宋史Tuotuo
A History of Rome to 565 A.D.Arthur E. R. Boak
The Persian WarProcopius
The First Four Books of Xenophon's AnabasisXenophon
The World of Homer Andrew Lang
Fishing from the Earliest Times William Radcliffe
History of PhoeniciaGeorge Rawlinson
Tacitus on GermanyCornelius Tacitus
A History of Roman Classical Literature Robert William Browne
The History of ProstitutionWilliam W. Sanger
Livy: The History of Rome, Books 9–26Livy
History of the WarsProcopius
Roman Public Life A. H. J. Greenidge
Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient EgyptJames Baikie
Early Greek PhilosophyJohn Burnet
Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic ArtWalter Woodburn Hyde
NeroJacob Abbott
HannibalJacob Abbott
The NegroW. E. B. Du Bois
The Mirror of Taste, No. 2Samuel James Arnold
Physical Science in the Time of NeroSeneca
Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez CodexWilliam Gates
The Vandalic WarProcopius
The Catacombs of RomeW. H. Withrow
A History of Roman LiteratureHarold North Fowler
The Reign of TiberiusTacitus
Stories from Aulus GelliusAulus Gellius
Ancient Egypt George Rawlinson
Saint John ChrysostomW. R. W. Stephens
The Roman Festivals of the RepublicW. Warde Fowler
A History of Babylon L. W. King
AristotleGeorge Grote
A Source Book for Ancient Church HistoryJoseph Cullen Ayer
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985–1503
The Decipherment of CuneiformArthur John Booth
The Literature of the Ancient EgyptiansE. A. Wallis Budge
The Apology of SocratesXenophon
Atlantis: The Antediluvian WorldIgnatius Donnelly
The Gods of MexicoLewis Spence
The Private Life of the RomansHarold Whetstone Johnston
The Secret HistoryProcopius
Livy: The History of Rome, Books 27–36Livy
A History of Sumer and Akkad Leonard W. King
Studies on HomerW. E. Gladstone
A Day in Old Rome William Stearns Davis
The Grandeur That Was Rome J. C. Stobart
Mythical MonstersCharles Gould
Primitive Time-Reckoning Martin P. Nilsson
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the WorldEdward Shepherd Creasy
Roman Britain Edward Conybeare
Caesar: A Sketch James Anthony Froude
The Byzantine EmpireCharles Oman
The Origin of TyrannyP. N. Ure
The Extant Odes of PindarPindar
Post-Augustan PoetryH. E. Butler
Four Phases of MoralsJohn Stuart Blackie
Livy: The History of Rome, Books 37–endLivy
The Maya ChroniclesDaniel G. Brinton
A Critical History of Greek PhilosophyW. T. Stace
The Sacred TreeMrs. J. H. Philpot
The Chaldean Account of GenesisGeorge Smith
A History of GermanyBayard Taylor
History of BrighthelmstonJohn Ackerson Erredge
Roman History, Books I–III Livy
Sextus Empiricus and Greek ScepticismMary Mills Patrick
The Roman WallJ. Collingwood Bruce
The Religions of Ancient Egypt and BabyloniaA. H. Sayce
Athens: Its Rise and FallEdward Bulwer-Lytton
Age of Justinian and TheodoraWilliam Gordon Holmes
Augustus Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial Army G. L. Cheesman
SwedenVictor Nilsson
The Eleusinian Mysteries and RitesDudley Wright
Egyptian Tales, Second SeriesW. M. Flinders Petrie
Darius the GreatJacob Abbott
Familiar Studies in HomerAgnes M. Clerke
Egyptian Ideas of the Future LifeE. A. Wallis Budge
Mesopotamian ArchaeologyPercy S. P. Handcock
Manual of Egyptian ArchaeologyGaston Maspero
The Spanish Conquest of YucatanPhilip Ainsworth Means
The Life of Flavius Josephus Flavius Josephus
A Day in Old Athens William Stearns Davis
The Origin and Deeds of the GothsJordanes
Legends of Babylon and EgyptL. W. King
Catiline and the Jugurthine WarSallust
History of Julius Caesar Jacob Abbott
Ancient China SimplifiedEdward Harper Parker
The Birth of Civilization in the Near East Henri Frankfort
Keskikoulun Yleinen Historia 1Oskari Mantere
Life of Augustus Nicolaus of Damascus
Homer and His AgeAndrew Lang
The Cavalry General Xenophon
The Life and Times of Cleopatra Arthur Weigall
Chaldea Zénaïde A. Ragozin
Biblical Geography and History Charles Foster Kent
Ancient Calendars and Constellations Emmeline M. Plunket
The Early Christians in Rome H. D. M. Spence-Jones
The Empire of RussiaJohn S. C. Abbott
Cicero’s Brutus and OratorCicero
The Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks Frank Pierrepont Graves
The Great Persian War G. B. Grundy
A History of Sinai Lina Eckenstein
Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America Herbert J. Spinden
Ancient Rome: The Lives of Great Men Mary Agnes Hamilton
Patriarchal Palestine A. H. Sayce
Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations A. H. Sayce
Alexander the Great Jacob Abbott
The Early History of the Hebrews A. H. Sayce
The New York Obelisk Charles E. Moldenke
The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Arthur Weigall
Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens Morris Jastrow
The Glory of the Pharaohs Arthur Weigall
Ancient Man Hendrik Willem van Loon
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero Cicero
Primitive Athens as Described by Thucydides Jane Ellen Harrison
The Land of the Hittites John Garstang
Cleopatra’s Needle James King
The Greek Orators J. F. Dobson
Constantine the Great John B. Firth
Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic Andrew Stephenson
The Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste Ralph Van Deman Magoffin
Cicero and His Friends Gaston Boissier
The Retreat of the Ten Thousand Carl Witt
The Story of Ancient Irish Civilisation P. W. Joyce
Greek Cities and Islands of Asia Minor W. S. W. Vaux
Stories from Thucydides H. L. Havell
The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos A. H. Sayce
A Visit to the Roman Catacombs J. Spencer Northcote
Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments A. H. Sayce
The Jews among the Greeks and Romans Max Radin
The Romanization of Roman Britain F. Haverfield
The Life and Times of Akhnaton Arthur Weigall
Constantinople Alexander Van Millingen
A History of Roman Literature Charles Thomas Cruttwell
The Olynthiacs and the Philippics Demosthenes
The Ancient East D. G. Hogarth
Authors and Their Public in Ancient Times George Haven Putnam
Cyrus the Great Jacob Abbott
The Archaeology of the Cuneiform Inscriptions A. H. Sayce
The Glory That Was Greece J. C. Stobart
Attila and the Huns Edward Hutton
Cleopatra Jacob Abbott
Famous Men of Ancient Times Samuel G. Goodrich
Antimachus of Colophon and Women in Greek Poetry E. F. M. Benecke
The Tell el Amarna Period Carl Niebuhr
Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul T. G. Tucker
The Makers and Teachers of Judaism Charles Foster Kent
The Nurse in Greek Life Sister Mary Rosaria
The Commentaries of Caesar Anthony Trollope
A Thousand Years of Jewish History Maurice H. Harris
The Pharaohs and Their People E. Berkley
A History of Rome During the Later Republic A. H. J. Greenidge
The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla A. H. Beesly
Life and Literature in the Roman Republic Tenney Frank
Cicero W. Lucas Collins
The Defeat of Varus W. A. Oldfather
Pagan Ideas of Immortality Clifford Herschel Moore
Problems in Greek History J. P. Mahaffy
Tell el Amarna and the Bible Charles F. Pfeiffer
Travels Amongst American Indians Lindesay Brine
Richard Lepsius Georg Ebers
The Dawn of History C. F. Keary
Stories of the Wars of the Jews A. L. O. E.
The Transmission of Ancient Books to Modern Times Isaac Taylor
Josephus Norman Bentwich
The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West Robert E. Anderson
Cleopatra’s Needle Erasmus Wilson
Social Life at Rome in the Age of CiceroW. Warde Fowler
The Greek View of Life G. Lowes Dickinson
Roman Life in the Days of Cicero Alfred J. Church
The Wonders of Pompeii Marc Monnier
Gaza: A City of Many Battles Theodore Edward Dowling
Ravenna Edward Hutton
The Two Great Republics James Lewis
The Orations of Lysias Lysias
Palestine, or the Holy Land Michael Russell
London Before the Conquest W. R. Lethaby