Classical Poets
Catullus
At Rudy Negenborn's site, you will find everything you need to know about the greatest of Latin lyric poets: an introductory critical biography, the Latin texts, & translations into 12 modern languages, including English & Estonian.
At Rudy Negenborn's site, you will find everything you need to know about the greatest of Latin lyric poets: an introductory critical biography, the Latin texts, & translations into 12 modern languages, including English & Estonian.
Homer
Good background info at the Perseus Project, but most importantly, you will find the entire texts of The Iliad & The Odyssey, in Samuel Butler's translations, from Joel Jaeggli at the University of Oregon.
Good background info at the Perseus Project, but most importantly, you will find the entire texts of The Iliad & The Odyssey, in Samuel Butler's translations, from Joel Jaeggli at the University of Oregon.
Horace
UCLA Humanities' site on the archaeological study of Horace's villa provides side-by-side Latin & English versions of his odes, epistles & satires.
UCLA Humanities' site on the archaeological study of Horace's villa provides side-by-side Latin & English versions of his odes, epistles & satires.
Internet Classics Archive
A great resource, the ICA offers English texts by 441 Greek & Roman authors (with just a few Persian & Chinese at the end), searchable & accompanied by reader comments.
A great resource, the ICA offers English texts by 441 Greek & Roman authors (with just a few Persian & Chinese at the end), searchable & accompanied by reader comments.
Li Po (aka Li Bai)
Remembered for drowning while drunkenly attempting to embrace the moon's reflection in the Yangtze, Li Po is also revered as the best of China's classical poets. Read his poems in English at the Poetry Store, Wendy Yang's Classical Chinese Poetry site & at China the Beautiful.
Remembered for drowning while drunkenly attempting to embrace the moon's reflection in the Yangtze, Li Po is also revered as the best of China's classical poets. Read his poems in English at the Poetry Store, Wendy Yang's Classical Chinese Poetry site & at China the Beautiful.
Li Po (aka Li Bai)
Columbia University's Asian Topics offers comprehensive resources on Li Po & the other great T'ang Dynasty poets: bibliography, stylistic analysis, historical & social context, audio, video & images.
Columbia University's Asian Topics offers comprehensive resources on Li Po & the other great T'ang Dynasty poets: bibliography, stylistic analysis, historical & social context, audio, video & images.
Li Po
Poems & links on our own page for Li “Wiseguy” Po, Survivor poet.
Poems & links on our own page for Li “Wiseguy” Po, Survivor poet.
Ovid
Sean Redmond's Ovid FAQ is the best place to start finding out about the author of the Metamorphoses (link here is to Dryden's translation in MIT's Internet Classics Archive).
Sean Redmond's Ovid FAQ is the best place to start finding out about the author of the Metamorphoses (link here is to Dryden's translation in MIT's Internet Classics Archive).
Ovid
Hope Greenberg's Ovid Project, “Metamorphozing the Metamorphoses,” has put the beautiful & rare illustrated versions of Ovid's masterwork owned by the University of Vermont on the Web for all to see: 1703 edition with engravings by Johannes Baur & George Sandys' 1640 edition.
Hope Greenberg's Ovid Project, “Metamorphozing the Metamorphoses,” has put the beautiful & rare illustrated versions of Ovid's masterwork owned by the University of Vermont on the Web for all to see: 1703 edition with engravings by Johannes Baur & George Sandys' 1640 edition.
“Who's Who in the Metamorphoses of Ovid”
The Analytical Onomasticon Project is an attempt to create a concordance & crosslinked reference to all the names in the Metamorphoses, that might demonstrate how Ovid's “pastiche-epic” is a coherent work of literature. Bring your Latin dictionary.
The Analytical Onomasticon Project is an attempt to create a concordance & crosslinked reference to all the names in the Metamorphoses, that might demonstrate how Ovid's “pastiche-epic” is a coherent work of literature. Bring your Latin dictionary.
The Perseus Project
This online classics library edited by Gregory Crane at Tufts University is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in the classics -- among other things, it boasts an ever-growing archive of browsable English translations of many Greek & Roman poets.
This online classics library edited by Gregory Crane at Tufts University is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in the classics -- among other things, it boasts an ever-growing archive of browsable English translations of many Greek & Roman poets.
Sappho
Sappho is the legendary Greek love poet whose work was admired by the ancients, burned in the middle ages, and still speaks to us 25 centuries later in the few fragments that remain for us to read.
Sappho is the legendary Greek love poet whose work was admired by the ancients, burned in the middle ages, and still speaks to us 25 centuries later in the few fragments that remain for us to read.
Sappho
Peithô’s Web has “The Divine Sappho” among its resources on classical rhetoric, and it’s the best place to begin your Sappho explorations: there’s a first-line index to various translations of the fragments, H.T. Wharton’s life of Sappho, selected writings about Sappho both classical & modern, & a great assortment of links for further reading.
Peithô’s Web has “The Divine Sappho” among its resources on classical rhetoric, and it’s the best place to begin your Sappho explorations: there’s a first-line index to various translations of the fragments, H.T. Wharton’s life of Sappho, selected writings about Sappho both classical & modern, & a great assortment of links for further reading.
Sappho
Where else would you find the poems left to us by the original Sappho, but at sappho.com? Their Lesbian Poetry pages offer a selection of Sappho poems by different translators, plus bio & bibliography.
Where else would you find the poems left to us by the original Sappho, but at sappho.com? Their Lesbian Poetry pages offer a selection of Sappho poems by different translators, plus bio & bibliography.
Tu Fu (aka Du Fu)
Tu Fu was a friend & contemporary of Li Po's. Not as much of his poetry lives on the Net, but there are some English translations to be found at China the Beautiful & at Wendy Yang's Classic Chinese Poetry.
Tu Fu was a friend & contemporary of Li Po's. Not as much of his poetry lives on the Net, but there are some English translations to be found at China the Beautiful & at Wendy Yang's Classic Chinese Poetry.
Tu Fu (aka Du Fu)
Columbia University's Asian Topics offers comprehensive resources on Tu Fu & the other great T'ang Dynasty poets: bibliography, stylistic analysis, historical & social context, audio, video & images.
Columbia University's Asian Topics offers comprehensive resources on Tu Fu & the other great T'ang Dynasty poets: bibliography, stylistic analysis, historical & social context, audio, video & images.
Virgil
David Wilson-Okamura’s University of Chicago site is the place to start, but if you really get into Virgil’s poetry, you’ll want to join Mantovano, the Virgil email list, or become a member of the Vergilian Society.
David Wilson-Okamura’s University of Chicago site is the place to start, but if you really get into Virgil’s poetry, you’ll want to join Mantovano, the Virgil email list, or become a member of the Vergilian Society.