Looking for books in Greek to read the classics in their original language? Here you'll find Homer and Plato in Ancient Greek, novels and poems in Modern Greek, and the Bible in Koine.
Greek has the longest unbroken literary tradition in Europe, close to three thousand years. We've gathered the Odyssey, the Republic, the tragedies of Sophocles, and modern storytellers like Papadiamantis and Cavafy.
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Ancient Greek
Books in Ancient Greek
These are the Greek texts that founded Western literature, philosophy, and history. You'll read Homer, Plato, Sophocles, and Aristophanes in the original, in reference editions like the Oxford Classical Texts.
The complete Odyssey in Homeric Greek, all 24 books with numbered lines. A clean digital edition to follow Odysseus home to Ithaca as the poem was sung almost three thousand years ago.
The complete Iliad in Ancient Greek, from the wrath of Achilles to the funeral of Hector. Well-set polytonic text with line numbers every five verses, so you can find any passage fast.
Volume IV of John Burnet's Oxford edition of Plato, with the full Republic, the Timaeus and the Critias in Greek. This is the reference text scholars cite, with a critical apparatus at the foot of each page.
All seven surviving tragedies of Sophocles in Greek, including Antigone, Oedipus the King and Electra, in Wilhelm Dindorf's edition. Every play that reached us from the author, in a single volume.
Six comedies by Aristophanes in Greek, among them The Clouds, The Wasps, Peace and The Birds, in the Oxford edition by Hall and Geldart. The political humor of fifth-century Athens in its original language.
The first four books of Herodotus's Histories in Ionic Greek, in Carl Hude's Oxford edition. They tell the rise of Persia and the stories of Egypt and Scythia before the Persian Wars.
Books I to IV of the History of the Peloponnesian War in Attic Greek, in Henry Stuart Jones's Oxford edition. Includes Pericles' Funeral Oration and the account of the plague of Athens.
The complete Nicomachean Ethics in Greek, in Ingram Bywater's Oxford edition. The ten books where Aristotle works through happiness, virtue and friendship, with a critical apparatus at the foot of the page.
Modern Greek has its own literary tradition, and few of its authors ever reach English readers. Here are the novels of Papadiamantis and Rhoides, the stories of Vizyenos, and the poetry of Cavafy.
Papadiamantis's most famous novel: an old woman on the island of Skiathos decides to spare poor girls a life of misery. A classic of modern Greek prose, written in his distinctive katharevousa.
Rhoides's satirical novel about the legend of a woman who became pope, which got him excommunicated by the Orthodox Church. This is the 1866 edition, with the irony and erudition that made it a scandal.
The complete short stories of Vizyenos, including My Mother's Sin and The Only Journey of His Life, plus his stories for children. Psychological tales set in Thrace that founded the modern Greek short story.
Karkavitsas's short novel about a cunning beggar who arrives in a Thessalian village and exploits it until it is ruined. A harsh portrait of rural Greece in the late 19th century, with a biography of the author up front.
A broad selection of Cavafy's poetry in Greek, with Ithaka, Waiting for the Barbarians and The Horses of Achilles. The most widely read poet of 20th-century Alexandria, in the language he wrote in.
Kalvos's twenty odes to the Greek War of Independence of 1821, gathered from The Lyre and Lyrics. Patriotic poetry in a language all his own, halfway between Ancient and Modern Greek.
The New Testament was written in Koine Greek, the common language of the Mediterranean in the first century. These critical editions and the Septuagint let you read the Bible in Greek without a translator in between.
The Society of Biblical Literature's critical edition of the Greek New Testament, with notes comparing the readings of other editions. It's the most widely used free alternative to Nestle-Aland in seminaries.
The Textus Receptus, the Greek text behind the King James Version, with notes comparing manuscripts. Ideal for checking classic translations against their Greek source.
The Greek New Testament published by the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1904, still used today in the Orthodox liturgy. A clean edition with no critical apparatus, made for reading straight through.
The New Testament in the Byzantine text of Robinson and Pierpont (2018), with critical notes recording the variants of the major editions. A useful tool if you study textual criticism.
The complete Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, including the deuterocanonical books, in Brenton's edition. This is the Bible the New Testament writers quote.
