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Online Sources: Ancient History

Avalon Project - Ancient Documents
Center for Hellenic Studies - Harvard University
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The website includes Digital Humanities Projects and provides free access to selected primary and secondary sources as well as materials available for purchase.
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
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The site includes items such as the Vindolanda writing tablets; Romano-British curse tablets; and various collections of papyri.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
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Created to provide access to primary source texts for educational purposes.
Internet Classics Archive
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A collection of 441 works by 59 authors covering classic works mainly Greco-Roman, with some Chinese and Persian. (English translations)
Perseus Digital Library
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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.
Selections from Cicero- Speeches, Philosophical Works & Letters:
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Book Sources: Ancient History

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
Click the title for location and availability information.

Off campus access instructions (for e-books)

Defining Documents in World History: Ancient World (2700 B.C.E. - c.500 C.E.) [ebook] by Salem Press
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Call Number: Online - Salem Press
ISBN: 1619257718
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Defining Documents in World History: Ancient World (2700 B.C.E. - c.500 C.E.) [print book] by Salem Press
Call Number: D59 .A53 2015
ISBN: 1619257718
Chronicles of the Barbarians by David Willis McCullough
Call Number: D104 .C55 1998
ISBN: 0812930827

Eyewitness accounts of pillage and conquest from the ancient world to the fall of Constantinople
Daily Life through World History in Primary Documents
Call Number: CB69 .D35 2009
ISBN: 0313338981

v. 1. The ancient world / David Matz, volume editor -- v. 2. The Middle Ages and Renaissance / Lawrence Morris, volume editor -- v. 3. The modern world / David M. Borgmeyer and Rebecca Ayako Bennette, volume editors.
Eyewitness to History: From Ancient Times to the Modern Era by Stephen G. Hyslop et al.
Call Number: D21.3 .H94 2011
ISBN: 1426206526

"The voices of the great and humble speak through songs, documents, edicts, poetry, letters, menus, and even graffiti."
Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World by Tiffany K. Wayne (Editor)
Call Number: PN56.F46 F47 2011
ISBN: 0313345805

Also online via GVRL
CNU ONLY
V. 1, pt. 1. Feminist writings, 2350 BCE-1899 -- v. 2, pt. 2. Feminist writings, 1900-2009.
Foundations of Atlantis, Ancient Astronauts and Other Alternative Pasts by Jason Colavito (Editor)
Call Number: D10 .F678 2015
ISBN: 0786496452

"This book examines more than 130 primary sources texts used to make the case for Atlantis, aliens, fallen angels, the Great Flood, giants, transatlantic voyagers, ancient high technology and many other mysteries. English translations are presented with explanatory notes showing how these texts have been used and abused to make entertaining claims about prehistory"
From Alexander to Constantine by Sir Ernest Barker
Call Number: H51.B255 F9

passages and documents illustrating the history of social and political ideas, 336 B.C.-A.D. 337 / translated with introductions, notes, and essays
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life by Joyce E. Salisbury (Editor); Gregory S. Aldrete (Editor); Andrew E. Kersten (Editor); Lawrence Morris (Editor); Peter Seelig (Editor)
Call Number: GT31 .G74 2004
ISBN: 0313325413

A Tour through History from Ancient times to the Present
See end of each volume for primary sources
v. 1 The ancient world v. 2. The medieval world v. 3 15th and 16th centuries v. 4. 17th and 18th centuries v. 5 19th century v.6 The modern world
How They Lived: An Annotated Tour of Daily Life through History in Primary Sources by James D. Ciment
Call Number: CB69.2 .C56 2015
ISBN: 1610698959

Volume 1. Ancient and medieval world -- volume 2. 1500 to the present day
Loeb Classical Library by Various
Call Number: Varies

Translated works from classical civilizations. Click the title to see a list of items included.
Milestone Documents in World History (ebook) by Brian Bonhomme
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Call Number: Online - Salem Press
ISBN: 9780979775864

"Key documents from all important world cultures are included"
Milestone Documents in World History (print)
Call Number: D5 .M55 2010
ISBN: 9780979775864

"Key documents from all important world cultures are included"
Readings in Ancient History by Nels M. Bailkey
Call Number: D52.B156 R2
ISBN: 0669002496
Readings in the History of the Ancient World by William C. McDermott
Call Number: D52.M134 R2
Sources for Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations by Ralph W. Mathisen
Call Number: DE86 .M375 2017
ISBN: 0190280913

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