2011/9/21 M. Williamson node.ue@gmail.com:
Holy ancient thread revival, Batman!
This seems like a good idea... but in the case of Wikisource, wouldn't that already be covered by multilingual Wikisource?
Yes, extinct/historical languages are collected by the multilingual Wikisource project.
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Classical_and_historical_languages
Ancient Greek works can also be found on the Greek Wikisource project.
http://el.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=19792 (Category:Αρχαία Ελληνικά)
Old English can also be found on the English Wikisource project.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Old_English_works