Open Access Books on Antiquity at Open Book Publishers

 [First posted in AWOL 2 May 2013, updated 7 September 2016]

Open Book Publishers

Complete digital versions of all our books are made freely available online via our website. You can find the link on each book's main page. These versions can be read on any computer or mobile device that is connected to the Internet. 

In addition to these free online editions, downloadable and printable pdfs can be purchased for all our titles. We also offer ebook files (in either ePub or mobi formats), although currently these are only available for select titles. 

Following are the titles relating to antiquity

Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733. Latin Text with Commentary

Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos

Ovid, Amores (Book 1)

William Turpin

Cornelius Nepos, 'Life of Hannibal': Latin Text, Notes, Maps, Illustrations and Vocabulary

Bret Mulligan

Cicero, On Pompey’s Command (De Imperio), 27-49. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation

Ingo Gildenhard, Louise Hodgson, et al.

Tacitus, Annals, 15.20­-23, 33­-45. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary

Mathew Owen and Ingo Gildenhard

Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299. Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays

Ingo Gildenhard

Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53-86. Latin Text with Introduction, Study Questions, Commentary and English Translation

Ingo Gildenhard

Cultural Heritage Ethics: Between Theory and Practice

Constantine Sandis (ed.)

From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme

Maja Kominko (ed.)

The Passion of Max von Oppenheim: Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler

Lionel Gossman

Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics

Brett D. Hirsch (ed.)

The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines

Kevin R. Brine, Elena Ciletti and Henrike Lähnemann (eds.)

That Greece Might Still Be Free: The Philhellenes in the War of Independence

William St Clair