Free Resources
Other free places to learn Latin and Greek, read the great books and explore the ancient world. None of these are mine, and I’m not paid to list them; they’re just good.
🏛️ Learning Latin
- Dickinson College Commentaries ↗Latin and Greek texts with notes and vocabulary for learners, plus core vocabulary lists of the most common words.
- Latinitium ↗Articles, audio and videos in and about Latin, and a free dictionary search.
- Textkit ↗Public-domain Latin and Greek textbooks to download, and a learners’ forum.
- The National Archives: Learn Latin ↗Step-by-step beginner lessons with exercises.
- Whitaker’s Words ↗Type any Latin word form and get its dictionary entry and parsing.
- The Latin Library ↗A large collection of plain Latin texts, from Plautus to the Middle Ages.
- Daily Dose of Latin ↗Short videos that walk through one Latin sentence a day.
🏺 Learning Greek
- Daily Dose of Greek ↗Two-minute videos on one New Testament verse a day, plus a free beginner course.
- Ancient Greek Tutorials (Donald Mastronarde) ↗Pronunciation guides, drills and paradigms from the University of California, Berkeley.
- STEP Bible ↗The Greek New Testament and Septuagint with a click-through dictionary and grammar for every word.
- Bible Hub Interlinear ↗Word-by-word Greek and English for the whole New Testament.
- Logeion ↗Look a word up in many Greek and Latin dictionaries at once, including Liddell–Scott–Jones and Lewis & Short.
- Alpheios Reading Tools ↗A browser add-on that explains any Greek or Latin word you double-click.
📜 Reading the texts
- Perseus Digital Library ↗Greek and Latin literature with translations, dictionaries and word-by-word help.
- Scaife Viewer ↗The newer reading interface for the Perseus collection.
- Loebolus ↗Public-domain Loeb Classical Library volumes as free PDFs.
- LacusCurtius ↗Bill Thayer’s large site of Roman texts in translation, including Plutarch, Cassius Dio and Suetonius.
- The Internet Classics Archive ↗Several hundred works of classical literature in English translation.
- New Advent: Church Fathers ↗The writings of the early Church Fathers in English, including Augustine’s City of God.
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library ↗Public-domain Christian writings from every period.
📚 Great books
- Project Gutenberg ↗Over 70,000 free e-books, including most of the Western canon.
- Standard Ebooks ↗Carefully formatted and proofread editions of public-domain books.
- LibriVox ↗Free audiobooks of public-domain works, read by volunteers.
- Internet Archive ↗Scanned books, including old editions of the Harvard Classics and many translations.
- Hillsdale College Online Courses ↗Free video courses on the great books, history and philosophy.
- Open Yale Courses ↗Full recorded Yale lecture courses, including ancient Greek history and the early Middle Ages.
🗺️ History and background
- World History Encyclopedia ↗Readable, reviewed articles on the ancient and medieval world.
- Livius ↗Jona Lendering’s articles on ancient history, with many photographs of sites.
- ORBIS ↗Stanford’s travel map of the Roman world: how long and how costly a journey was.
- Pleiades ↗A gazetteer of ancient places, each with its location and names.
- Theoi ↗Greek gods and myths, with the ancient sources quoted for each.
- The History of Rome (podcast) ↗Mike Duncan’s narrative of Rome from its founding to the fall of the West.
- Literature and History (podcast) ↗Doug Metzger’s episode-by-episode tour of ancient literature.
On this site, see also the language tools, games and infographics.