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eulogikon
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ancient-greek-texts

eul_aid stringlengths 3 3	author_display_string stringlengths 4 41	name_english stringlengths 4 57	name_greek stringlengths 0 63	period stringclasses 7 values	dialect stringclasses 39 values	domain stringclasses 19 values	affiliation stringclasses 25 values	works_count int64 1 147
jlu	abydenus-the-historian	Abydenus the Historian	Ἀβυδηνὸς ὁ ἱστορικός	Hellenistic	Ionic (frg)	History		1
dha	achaios-of-eretria	Achaios of Eretria	Ἀχαιός ὁ Ἐρετριεύς	Classical	Attic (dr, frg)	Drama		1
que	achilles-tatius-of-alexandria	Achilles Tatius of Alexandria	Ἀχιλλεὺς ὁ Τατίος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς	Roman	Koine	Fiction	Sophist	1
pbo	achilles-tatius-the-astronomer	Achilles Tatius the Astronomer	Ἀχιλλεὺς Τάτιος ὁ Ἀστρονόμος	Roman	Technical Koine	Science		1
bls	acusilaus-of-argos	Acusilaus of Argos	Ἀκουσίλαος ὁ Ἀργεῖος	Archaic	Ionic (frg)	History		4
ayg	aegimius	Aegimius	Αἰγίμιος	Archaic	Epic (Homeric) (frg)	Epic		1
ria	aelian-of-praeneste	Aelian of Praeneste	Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός	Roman	Koine	Oratory	Sophist	4
opg	aelian-the-tactician	Aelian the Tactician	Αἰλιανός ὁ Τακτικός	Roman	Technical Koine	Science		1
pnc	aelius-aristides-of-smyrna	Aelius Aristides of Smyrna	Πόπλιος Αἴλιος Ἀριστείδης Θεόδωρος	Roman	Attic	Theology	Sophist	3
psw	aelius-dionysius	Aelius Dionysius of Halicarnassus	Αἴλιος Διονύσιος ὁ Ἁλικαρνασσεύς	Roman	Atticizing Technical	Grammar	Sophist	1
mvc	aelius-dius-the-historian	Aelius Dius the Historian	Αἰλίους Δῖος	Hellenistic	Koine (frg)	History		1
rdk	aelius-moeris-the-atticist	Aelius Moeris the Atticist	Αἴλιος Μοίρης ὁ Ἀττικιστής	Roman	Atticizing Technical	Grammar		1
nxo	aelius-theon-the-sophist	Aelius Theon the Sophist	Αἴλιος Θέων ὁ σοφιστής	Roman	Koine	Oratory	Sophist	1
tfg	aeneas-of-gaza	Aeneas of Gaza	Αἰνείας ὁ Γαζαῖος	Late Antique	Christian Koine	Philosophy	Christian	2
ftq	aeneas-of-stymphalus	Aeneas of Stymphalus	Αἰνείας ὁ Στυμφάλιος	Classical	Attic	Science		1
ule	aeschines-lives	Aeschines Lives	Ἀισχίνου Βίοι	Late Antique	Koine	Biography		1
hbm	aeschines-of-athens	Aeschines of Athens	Αἰσχίνης ὁ Ἀθηναῖος	Classical	Attic	Oratory		4
dys	aeschines-of-sphettus	Aeschines of Sphettus	Αἰσχίνης ὁ Σφήττιος	Classical	Attic (phi, frg)	Philosophy	Socratic	2
hvc	aeschrion-of-samos	Aeschrion of Samos	Αἰσχρίων ὁ Σάμιος	Hellenistic	Ionic (ia, frg)	Poetry		2
mjy	aeschylus-of-alexandria	Aeschylus of Alexandria	Αἰσχύλος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς	Hellenistic	Epic (Homeric)	Drama		1
tro	aeschylus-scholia	Aeschylus Scholia	Αἰσχύλου Σχόλια	Late Antique	Byzantine Greek	Scholia		15
emo	aeschylus-the-tragedian	Aeschylus the Tragedian	Αἰσχύλος ὁ τραγικός	Classical	Attic Drama	Drama		10
pqy	aesop-life-anon	Aesop Life-anonymous	Αἰσώπου Βίος-ἀνώνυμος	Roman	Koine	Fiction		5
aqo	aesop-the-fabulist	Aesop the Fabulist	Αἴσωπος ὁ μυθολόγος	Archaic	Mixed Dialects	Fiction		17
aci	aethiopis	Aethiopis	Αἰθιοπίς	Archaic	Epic (Homeric)	Epic		1
fza	aethlius-of-samos	Aethlius of Samos	Ἀέθλιος ὁ Σάμιος	Classical	Ionic (frg)	History		1
vhc	aetius-of-amida	Aëtius of Amida	Ἀέτιος ὁ Ἀμιδηνός	Late Antique	Technical Koine	Medicine		14
ovu	aetius-the-doxographer	Aetius the Doxographer	Ἀέτιος ὁ Δοξογράφος	Roman	Koine (phi, frg)	Philosophy	Eclectic	2
qjk	agaclytus-the-historian	Agaclytus the Historian	Ἀγακλύτος ὁ Ἱστορικός	Roman	Koine	History		1
dbq	agamestor	Agamestor	Ἀγαμήστωρ	Classical	Ionic (el, frg)	Poetry		1
lue	agatharchides-of-cnidus	Agatharchides of Cnidus	Ἀγαθαρχίδης ὁ Κνίδιος	Hellenistic	Attic	Geography	Peripatetic	4
luy	agatharchides-of-samos	Agatharchides of Samos	Ἀγαθαρχίδης ὁ Σάμιος	Hellenistic	Attic (frg)	History		1
rps	agathemerus-the-geographer	Agathemerus the Geographer	Ἀγαθήμερος ὁ γεωγράφος	Roman	Technical Koine	Geography		1
izw	agathocles-of-cyzicus	Agathocles of Cyzicus	Ἀγαθοκλῆς ὁ Κυζικηνός	Hellenistic	Ionic (frg)	History		2
pua	agathodaemon-of-alexandria	Agathodaemon of Alexandria	Ἀγαθοδαίμων Ἀλεξανδρεὺς	Roman	Technical Koine	Science		1
eaq	agathon-of-athens	Agathon of Athens	Ἀγάθων Ἀθηναῖος	Classical	Attic Drama	Drama		1
dca	agathon-of-samos	Agathon of Samos	Ἀγάθων ὁ Σάμιος	Classical	Ionic (frg)	History		1
ezg	agesilaus-ii-of-sparta	Agesilaus II of Sparta	Ἀγησίλαος ὁ Β’ ὁ Λακεδαιμόνιος	Classical	Doric	History		1
aby	agias-of-troezen	Agias of Troezen	Ἀγίας ὁ Τροιζήνιος	Archaic	Epic (Homeric)	History		1
qja	aglaias-of-byzantium	Aglaias of Byzantium	Ἀγλαΐας ὁ Βυζάντιος	Roman	Koine (frg)	Poetry		2
hlm	aglaosthenes-naxius	Aglaosthenes Naxius	Ἀγλαοσθένης ὁ Νάξιος	Classical	Ionic (frg)	History		1
kbe	agroetas	Agroetas	Ἀγροήτας	Hellenistic	Koine (frg)	History		1
nhu	akesandros-the-historian	Akesandros the Historian	Ἀκέσανδρος ὁ ἱστορικός	Hellenistic	Koine (frg)	History		2
qhm	albinus-the-platonist	Albinus the Platonist	Ἀλβῖνος ὁ Πλατωνικός	Roman	Attic Philosophical	Philosophy	Platonist	2
asm	alcaeus-of-mytilene	Alcaeus of Mytilene	Ἀλκαῖος ὁ Μυτιληναῖος	Archaic	Aeolic	Poetry		2
fim	alcaeus-the-comic-poet	Alcaeus the Comic Poet	Ἀλκαῖος ὁ κωμικός	Classical	Attic (com, frg)	Comedy		3
rrg	alchemist-i	Alchemist I	Χρυσοποιὸς Αʹ	Roman	Technical Koine	Science		68
dkm	alcidamas-of-elaea	Alcidamas of Elaea	Ἀλκιδάμας ὁ Ἐλαεύς	Classical	Attic	Oratory	Sophist	1
ijs	alcimus-of-sicily	Alcimus of Sicily	Ἄλκιμος ὁ Σικελιώτης	Hellenistic	Attic (frg)	History		1
quo	alciphron-the-sophist	Alciphron the Sophist	Ἀλκίφρων ὁ Σοφιστής	Roman	Attic	Oratory	Sophist	1
bmw	alcmaeon-of-croton	Alcmaeon of Croton	Ἀλκμαίων ὁ Κροτωνιάτης	Archaic	Ionic (frg)	Philosophy	Presocratic	2
adw	alcman-lacedaemonius	Alcman Lacedaemonius	Ἀλκμάν ὁ Λακεδαιμόνιος	Archaic	Doric	Poetry		2
iuc	alexander-of-aetolia	Alexander of Aetolia	Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Αἰτωλός	Hellenistic	Attic (frg)	Poetry		2
ree	alexander-of-aphrodisias	Alexander of Aphrodisias II	Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Ἀφροδισιεύς	Roman	Mixed Dialects (frg)	Philosophy	Peripatetic	2
reo	alexander-of-aphrodisias	Alexander of Aphrodisias	Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Ἀφροδισιεύς	Roman	Philosophical Koine	Philosophy	Aristotelian	16
ufa	alexander-of-lycopolis	Alexander of Lycopolis	Ἀλέξανδρος Λυκοπολίτης	Late Antique	Philosophical Koine	Theology	Platonist	1
mte	alexander-of-miletus	Alexander of Miletus	Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μιλήσιος ὁ Πολυΐστωρ	Hellenistic	Koine (frg)	Grammar		1
vcc	alexander-of-tralles	Alexander of Tralles	Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Τραλλιανός	Late Antique	Technical Koine	Medicine		5
qko	alexander-son-of-numenius	Alexander Son of Numenius	Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ τοῦ Νουμήνιου	Roman	Attic	Oratory	Sophist	2
lfy	alexander-the-ephesian-poet	Alexander the Ephesian Poet	Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Ἐφέσιος	Hellenistic	Epic (Homeric)	Oratory	Sophist	1
hgm	alexander-the-great-letters	Alexander the Great Letters	Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ Μεγάλου Ἐπιστολαί	Classical	Koine	History		1
mhq	alexandrian-philosopher-anon	Alexandrian Philosopher Anonymous	Ἀνώνυμος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς	Hellenistic	Philosophical Koine	Philosophy	Jewish	1
lpy	alexarchus-of-macedon	Alexarchus of Macedon	Ἀλέξαρχος ὁ Μακεδών	Hellenistic	Koine	History		1
hye	alexis-of-samos	Alexis of Samos	Ἀλέξις ὁ Σάμιος	Hellenistic	Ionic (frg)	History		1
ivq	alexis-the-comic-poet	Alexis the Comic Poet	Ἄλεξις ὁ κωμικός	Hellenistic	Attic (com, frg)	Comedy		3
vrw	alphabetical-commentary	Alphabetical Commentary	Ἀλφαβητικὸν ὑπόμνημα	Late Antique	Technical Koine	Scholia		2
etw	amasis-letters	Amasis Letters	Ἀμάσιδος Ἐπιστολαί	Classical	Koine	Oratory		1
dwa	ameipsias-the-comic-poet	Ameipsias the Comic Poet	Ἀμειψίας	Classical	Attic (com, frg)	Comedy		2
cas	amelesagoras-of-chalcedon	Amelesagoras of Chalcedon	Ἀμελησαγόρας	Classical	Attic (frg)	History		1
rrq	amelius-letters	Amelius Letters	Ἀμελίου Ἐπιστολή	Roman	Philosophical Koine	Philosophy	Neoplatonist	1
uqo	ammonius-of-alexandria-phil	Ammonius of Alexandria Phil	Ἀμμώνιος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς	Late Antique	Atticizing	Philosophy	Neoplatonist	5
swu	ammonius-the-grammarian	Ammonius the Grammarian	Ἀμμώνιος ὁ Γραμματικός	Late Antique	Atticizing Technical	Grammar		2
cnk	amometus-the-historian	Amometus the Historian	Ἀμωμητὸς ὁ ἱστορικός	Classical	Koine (frg)	History		1
ejw	amphicrates-atheniensis	Amphicrates Atheniensis	Ἀμφικράτης Ἀθηναῖος	Classical	Attic	Oratory	Sophist	1
foq	amphis-comicus	Amphis Comicus	Ἄμφις ὁ Κωμικός	Classical	Attic (com, frg)	Comedy		2
gxg	amyntas-of-telmessos	Amyntas of Telmessos	Ἀμύντας ὁ Τελμησσεύς	Classical	Attic	Poetry		1
ars	anacharsis-the-scythian	Anacharsis the Scythian	Ἀνάχαρσις ὁ Σκύθης	Archaic	Mixed Dialects (frg)			1
bfy	anacreon-of-teos	Anacreon of Teos	Ἀνακρέων ὁ Τήϊος	Archaic	Ionic Elegiac	Poetry		3
bgi	anacreon-of-teos	Anacreon of Teos II	Ἀνακρέων ὁ Τήϊος	Archaic	Ionic	Poetry		1
nfc	anacreontea	Anacreontea	Ἀνακρεόντεια	Hellenistic	Mixed Dialects	Poetry		1
eqa	ananius-the-iambic-poet	Ananius the Iambic Poet	Ἀνανίος ὁ Ἰαμβοποιός	Classical	Ionic (ia, frg)	Poetry		1
uak	anatolius-of-alexandria	Anatolius of Alexandria	Ἀνατόλιος Ἀλεξανδρεύς	Late Antique	Philosophical Koine	Mathematics	Christian	1
btk	anaxagoras-of-clazomenae	Anaxagoras of Clazomenae	Ἀναξαγόρας ὁ Κλαζομένιος	Classical	Ionic (frg)	Philosophy	Presocratic	2
eug	anaxandridas-the-historian	Anaxandridas the Historian	Ἀναξανδρίδας ὁ Ἱστορικός	Classical	Koine (frg)	History		1
hbw	anaxandrides-comicus	Anaxandrides Comicus	Ἀναξανδρίδης ὁ κωμικός	Classical	Attic (com, frg)	Comedy		2
fhs	anaxarchus-of-abdera	Anaxarchus of Abdera	Ἀνάξαρχος ὁ Ἀβδηρίτης	Classical	Attic (phi, frg)	Philosophy	Democritean	2
iio	anaxicrates-historicus	Anaxicrates Historicus	Ἀναξικράτης ὁ Ἱστορικός	Hellenistic	Attic (frg)	History		1
hdu	anaxilas-the-comic-poet	Anaxilas the Comic Poet	Ἀναξίλας ὁ κωμικός (ὁ Ῥηγῖνος)	Classical	Attic (com, frg)	Comedy		2
aua	anaximander-of-miletus	Anaximander of Miletus	Ἀναξίμανδρος ὁ Μιλήσιος	Archaic	Ionic (frg)	Philosophy	Presocratic	2
fhi	anaximenes-of-lampsacus	Anaximenes of Lampsacus	Ἀναξιμένης ὁ Λαμψακηνός	Classical	Attic	History		3
bcm	anaximenes-of-miletus	Anaximenes of Miletus	Ἀναξιμένης ὁ Μιλήσιος	Archaic	Ionic	Philosophy	Presocratic	2
etm	anaximenes-ps-miletus-letters	Anaximenes-pseudo Miletus Letters	Ἀναξιμένους τοῦ Μιλησίου Ἐπιστολαί (Ψευδο-Ἀναξιμένης)	Classical	Ionic	Oratory	Presocratic	1
hvw	anaxippus-the-comic-poet	Anaxippus the Comic Poet	Ἀνάξιππος ὁ κωμικός	Hellenistic	Attic Comedy	Comedy		2
eym	andocides	Andocides	Ἀνδοκίδης	Classical	Attic	Oratory		5
saw	andreas-the-historian	Andreas the Historian	Ἀνδρέας ὁ ἱστορικός	Late Antique	Koine (frg)	History		1
lze	andriscus-the-pretender	Andriscus the Pretender	Ἀνδρίσκος ὁ Πλαστός	Hellenistic	Koine	History		1
gue	androetas-of-tenos	Androetas of Tenos	Ἀνδροέτας ὁ Τήνιος	Classical	Ionic (frg)	History		1
obk	andromachus-the-elder	Andromachus the Elder Physician of Crete	Ἀνδρόμαχος ὁ Κρητικός	Roman	Technical Koine	Poetry		1
mps	andron-of-alexandria	Andron of Alexandria	Ἄνδρων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς	Hellenistic	Koine (frg)	History		1
fmi	andron-of-ephesus	Andron of Ephesus the Historian	Ἄνδρων ὁ Ἐφέσιος	Classical	Ionic (frg)	History		1

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Ancient Greek Texts

The surviving literary works of ancient Greece — 1,353 authors and 4,055 works (≈47 million words), spanning Homer through late antiquity. Philosophy, history, drama, lyric, medicine, mathematics, rhetoric, and the fragmentary traditions, all in clean Unicode Greek.

This is the data store for Eulogikon: the reading site, search, and browse experience live there. This repository holds the corpus as downloadable files.

No logins. No fees. No paywalls. Public Domain Mark 1.0.

What's here

1,353 authors · 4,055 works · ≈47 million words · PDF, Markdown, and plain text

A complete index of every author and work lives in llms.txt (start here for AI assistants), llms-full.txt (every work with raw fetch URLs), manifest.authors.json and manifest.works.min.csv (compact lookup), MANIFEST.md (human-readable, grouped by domain and affiliation), manifest.json (full machine-readable index), and manifest.csv (one row per work).

The corpus spans the full arc of ancient Greek writing: pre-Socratic fragments, the Attic historians, Platonic dialogues, Aristotelian treatises, Hellenistic poetry, Stoic and Epicurean texts, medical writers, mathematicians, geographers, orators, dramatists, and late antique philosophers. Where only fragments survive, those fragments are included.

Files are produced from the same source as the Eulogikon website and updated alongside it.

Layout

ancient-greek-texts/
├── grc/{work_display_string}-{eul_wid}.grc.pdf    # Greek text as PDF
├── grc/{work_display_string}-{eul_wid}.grc.md     # Greek text as Markdown
├── grc/{work_display_string}-{eul_wid}.grc.txt    # Greek text as plain text
├── en/{author_display_string}-{eul_aid}.en.pdf    # English author page
├── en/{author_display_string}-{eul_aid}.en.md     # English author page as Markdown
├── en/{author_display_string}-{eul_aid}.en.txt    # English author page as plain text
├── affiliations/{school}.pdf                       # Texts grouped by philosophical school
├── domains/{domain}.pdf                            # Texts grouped by domain (philosophy, drama, …)
├── llms.txt                                        # LLM entry point and lookup guide
├── llms-full.txt                                   # Full work index with raw fetch URLs
├── manifest.authors.json                           # Compact author index
├── manifest.works.min.csv                          # Compact work index
├── MANIFEST.md                                     # Human-readable index of every author and work
├── manifest.json                                   # Machine-readable manifest
└── manifest.csv                                    # Manifest as one row per work

Files are flat — every Greek work and every English author page lives directly inside grc/ or en/, with no per-author subdirectory.

Display strings use lowercase kebab-case: an author's is e.g. plato, aristotle, thucydides-of-athens, sextus-empiricus; a work's prefixes a short author form, e.g. plato-republic. They are the human-readable URL and filename piece — attributes, not identifiers.

Identifiers are the trailing tokens. eul_aid is the opaque three-letter author ID (ffk, hgw, …), not derived from the name. eul_wid is the full work ID, {eul_aid}-{suffix} (e.g. ffk-ag) — the suffix alone (ag) is not the ID. So the work filename plato-republic-ffk-ag is {work_display_string}-{eul_wid}, and the author filename plato-ffk is {author_display_string}-{eul_aid}.

Domains covered: biography, comedy, drama, epic, fiction, geography, grammar, history, law, lexicography, mathematics, medicine, oratory, philosophy, poetry, rhetoric, scholia, science, theology.

Philosophical schools: Academic Sceptic, Aristotelian, Atomist, Cynic, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Neo-Platonist, Neo-Pythagorean, Platonist, Pre-Socratic, Pythagorean, Sophist, Stoic, and more.

Formats & entry points

Format	Greek texts	English author pages
PDF	✓	✓
Markdown	✓	✓
Plain text	✓	✓

The Markdown files carry the richest reading form — the full Greek text (or English author metadata: period, dialect, domain, affiliation, biography) with headings and structure preserved. Plain text and PDF carry the same content in their respective forms.

There is no per-work or per-author JSON in this repository — the structured surface is the manifest indexes (manifest.works.min.csv, manifest.json, manifest.csv); the texts themselves are the Markdown and plain-text files. Pick the entry point that matches the job:

If you want to…	Start here
Read, search, or browse	eulogikon.org — the reading site, or the hosted catalog
A clean text for research, DH, or NLP	`grc/*.grc.md` / `.grc.txt`, resolved via `manifest.works.min.csv`
Structured metadata for tooling	`manifest.works.min.csv` · `manifest.json` · `manifest.csv`
The whole corpus in bulk	`git clone` this repo, the Zenodo archive, or the Hugging Face dataset (parquet: `works` / `authors`)
Run an AI assistant against the corpus	`llms.txt` → `llms-full.txt` → fetch the resolved raw file

A few highlights

Author	Works
Plato	~41 dialogues including the Republic, Phaedo, Symposium, and Apology
Aristotle	Complete surviving corpus
Homer	Iliad and Odyssey
Thucydides	History of the Peloponnesian War
Herodotus	Histories
Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus	Extant tragedies
Diogenes Laertius	Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Parmenides, Democritus, …)	Fragments
Stoics (Chrysippus, Zeno, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius)	Surviving texts and fragments
Epicurus	Surviving works and fragments

Using these files

For reading: go to eulogikon.org — it offers full search, browse by author, period, domain, and philosophical school.

For downloading: clone or use the GitHub UI. All files are named predictably; no build step is needed.

For research / NLP / DH: the Markdown files are the richest format — clean Unicode Greek with headings and structure preserved, one file per work. Plain text gives the same content without markup. Author-level metadata (period, dialect, domain, affiliation, biography) is in each author's Markdown page under en/. Each work and author has a stable Eulogikon identifier (eul_wid / eul_aid) for citing the text as a whole; resolve it via the manifests.

For AI assistants / API callers: read llms.txt first. It follows the llms.txt convention — a short curated entry point that points to compact lookup files rather than the full indexes (llms-full.txt with every work, the ~14,000-line MANIFEST.md, or the ~74,000-line manifest.json). Resolve an author or work there, then fetch individual files from en/ or grc/.

# Clone the full corpus
git clone https://github.com/eulogikon/ancient-greek-texts.git

# Grab a single work (Plato's Republic, Greek text as Markdown)
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eulogikon/ancient-greek-texts/main/grc/plato-republic-ffk-ag.grc.md

# Get Plato's author page (biography, works list, period, dialect, …)
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eulogikon/ancient-greek-texts/main/en/plato-ffk.en.md

# Resolve a work from the compact CSV index, then fetch its Greek text
import pandas as pd
import urllib.request

base = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eulogikon/ancient-greek-texts/main"
works = pd.read_csv(f"{base}/manifest.works.min.csv")
row = works[works.eul_wid == "ffk-ag"].iloc[0]  # Plato's Republic
text = urllib.request.urlopen(f"{base}/{row.grc_md}").read().decode("utf-8")

# Or load the whole corpus as parquet from Hugging Face
from datasets import load_dataset

corpus = load_dataset(
    "eulogikon/ancient-greek-texts", "works", split="train"
)  # one row per work: identifiers, metadata, full Greek text
print(corpus[0]["title_english"])

(File names follow the patterns in Layout above. Resolve the exact display string and identifier for any author or work via manifest.authors.json or manifest.works.min.csv.)

For AI training and inference

The ancient Greek texts are Public Domain Mark 1.0 — public domain, no restrictions. Eulogikon's scaffolding (README, metadata shape, manifests) is CC0 1.0. AI training, fine-tuning, evaluation, retrieval-augmented generation, and any other use are explicitly permitted, with no opt-out, no attribution requirement, and no royalty.

If you are an AI assistant fetching this repository at inference time, start at llms.txt. It is a short curated entry point listing the compact lookup indexes (manifest.authors.json, manifest.works.min.csv), the pre-built domain and affiliation PDF compilations, and llms-full.txt — every work on one line with its raw fetch URLs — for exhaustive resolution. Do not crawl grc/ or en/ directly — together they hold 16,000+ files and the directory listings are essentially noise without the manifest.

Machine-readable dataset metadata is provided in three forms: schema.org JSON-LD, the embedded block below (parsed by Google Dataset Search), and CITATION.cff.

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org/",
  "@type": "Dataset",
  "name": "Ancient Greek Texts",
  "description": "The surviving literary works of ancient Greece: 1,353 authors and 4,055 works (≈47 million words) spanning Homer through late antiquity. Philosophy, history, drama, lyric, medicine, mathematics, rhetoric, and the fragmentary traditions, all in clean Unicode Greek. Public Domain Mark 1.0.",
  "url": "https://github.com/eulogikon/ancient-greek-texts",
  "sameAs": [
    "https://eulogikon.org",
    "https://github.com/eulogikon/ancient-greek-texts",
    "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20335421",
    "https://zenodo.org/records/20335421",
    "https://huggingface.co/datasets/eulogikon/ancient-greek-texts"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://github.com/eulogikon/ancient-greek-texts",
    "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20335421"
  ],
  "version": "v2026.06.08",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/",
  "isAccessibleForFree": true,
  "inLanguage": ["grc"],
  "temporalCoverage": "-0800/0600",
  "keywords": [
    "ancient Greek", "classics", "classical philology", "digital humanities",
    "text corpus", "Homer", "Plato", "Aristotle", "Stoicism", "Pre-Socratics",
    "Hellenistic literature", "late antiquity", "NLP dataset"
  ],
  "creator": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Eulogikon",
    "url": "https://eulogikon.org"
  },
  "distribution": [
    {
      "@type": "DataDownload",
      "name": "Machine-readable manifest (JSON)",
      "encodingFormat": "application/json",
      "contentUrl": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eulogikon/ancient-greek-texts/main/manifest.json"
    },
    {
      "@type": "DataDownload",
      "name": "Manifest (CSV)",
      "encodingFormat": "text/csv",
      "contentUrl": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eulogikon/ancient-greek-texts/main/manifest.csv"
    },
    {
      "@type": "DataDownload",
      "name": "LLM entry point (llms.txt)",
      "encodingFormat": "text/plain",
      "contentUrl": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eulogikon/ancient-greek-texts/main/llms.txt"
    },
    {
      "@type": "DataDownload",
      "name": "Zenodo archival snapshot",
      "encodingFormat": "application/zip",
      "contentUrl": "https://zenodo.org/records/20335421"
    },
    {
      "@type": "DataDownload",
      "name": "Hugging Face dataset",
      "encodingFormat": "application/x-parquet",
      "contentUrl": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/eulogikon/ancient-greek-texts"
    }
  ]
}

Licence

The ancient Greek texts are Public Domain Mark 1.0 — public domain, no restrictions. Eulogikon's own scaffolding and metadata (README, manifests, metadata shape) is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0 Universal. The full rights statement — including the public-domain notice for the texts — is in NOTICE. The embedded Gentium Plus font (in PDFs) is under the SIL Open Font License.

Contributing

This is a generated data store. Files are produced upstream and written here automatically; pull requests against corpus files are not accepted. For text corrections, visit the Eulogikon project.

Corrections and issues with scaffolding, metadata structure, or file naming can be raised as GitHub Issues.

Links


Reading site	eulogikon.org
Browse catalog	eulogikon.github.io/ancient-greek-texts
Organisation	github.com/eulogikon
GitHub data store	github.com/eulogikon/ancient-greek-texts
Zenodo archive	zenodo.org/records/20335421
Zenodo DOI	doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20335421
Hugging Face dataset	huggingface.co/datasets/eulogikon/ancient-greek-texts
Licence	Public Domain Mark 1.0

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