Loeb Classical Library, founded by James Loeb in 1911, are now made accessible as a virtual library by Harvard University Press. The digital Loeb Classical Library provides online access to the entirety of the Loeb Classical Library, with texts from 700 B.C to 700 A.D. The Library contains the entire Greek and Latin Classical heritage with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations with the Greek and Latin texts shown alongside the English translation. Content include: epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content.
Please note that the books in Loeb virtual library cannot be downloaded, only read on-screen.
| Name | Loeb Classical Library |
| Publisher/Provider | Harvard University Press |
| Subjects included | |
| Type of resource | An online library of digitized versions of printed books. |
| Fulltext format | HTML |
| Accessibility | Via IP address |
| Login authentication required | No, not on LU-campus. If you are off-campus you will be prompted to login via LU's Central Authentication Service (CAS) with a Student Account or LUCAT-ID. |
| Number of concurrent users | |
| Download required | No |
| Must be borrowed | No |
| Number of days for download | - - |
| Download and read offline | |
| Download to a portable device | No |
| Copying | |
| Printing | |
| Text to speech | |
| Export references | Exporting to EndNote is not supported. |
| Export formats | |
| How do I suggest a purchase | |
| Restrictions | |
| Interlibrary loan / Fjärrlån | |
| Text and Data Mining (TDM) Policy | |
| Miscellaneous | |