ReadAncientTexts.com is a free digital collection for exploring classical and ancient literature. Its library brings together works by 329 authors, organized into 714 works and 1,768 sections, with 1,745 parallel English translations. Visitors can browse authors and titles, then navigate longer texts by their individual sections, making the collection useful for readers seeking a particular passage as well as those discovering unfamiliar works.

The catalogue spans a wide range of historical periods, traditions, and subjects. Featured authors include Augustine, Apuleius, Aquinas, Alcuin, and Francis Bacon, alongside chroniclers, poets, theologians, philosophers, and historians. The collection includes major works such as Augustine’s Confessions and City of God, Apuleius’s Metamorphoses, Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, Bacon’s Novum Organum, and Augustus’s Res Gestae. It also covers letters, sermons, annals, treatises, poetry, fables, and practical writing, including Apicius’s work on cooking. ReadAncientTexts.com provides searchable-by-browsing access to these texts and their English translations, supporting study and independent reading across a substantial online library.