Primary Sources: Ancient History: General Sources Ancient

A collection on ancient documents provided as part of the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

The Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL) is an initiative of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University. AWDL will identify, collect, curate, and provide access to a broad range of scholarly materials relevant to the study of the ancient world.

With NYU's Digital Library Technology Services (DLTS), AWDL is developing mechanisms to digitize, preserve, and host digitized print and born-digital scholarly content. We are actively soliciting partnerships with publishers, scholarly societies, organizations, and individuals who hold the rights to scholarly content as we expand our collection.

"As part of its mission of bringing together a variety of research interests centered on Hellenic civilization and sharing them with a wider audience, the Center for Hellenic Studies publishes books, journals, proceedings of colloquia, discussions, databases, lectures, and other materials, both online and in print. Unless otherwise stated, the works presented online are made available via Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.

Additional citation information is provided for items in the Hellenic Studies Series, curated books, curated essays, and primary sources, as well as for short writings by Director Gregory Nagy."

The site includes items such as the Vindolanda writing tablets; Romano-British curse tablets; and various collections of papyri.

Created to provide access to primary source texts for educational purposes.

A collection of 441 works by 59 authors covering classic works mainly Greco-Roman, with some Chinese and Persian. (English translations)

The main collection was designed to cover "the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. " It includes both primary and secondary resources. Click on the Collections link to access these resources and resources for other topics including Arabic language documents; materials for the study of the Germanic Peoples; primary and secondary sources in early modern English literature; Issues of the Richmond Times Dispatch; Sources on the history of the 19th-century United States and Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri.