DATABASES OF ANCIENT AUTHORS
in Greek, Latin, and/or English
COLLECTIONS OF ANCIENT AUTHORS:
PERSEVS TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS: a massive database, including Greek and Latin texts with morphological links to text tools; English translations; secondary sources; and other items of interest (including, e.g., Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and its ancient sources). Here is a direct link to their list of Greek and Latin texts: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?type=text#text3
THE LATIN LIBRARY, an extremely extensive collection of Latin texts (including mediaeval and neo-Latin): http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/
David Camden's FORVM ROMANVM collection of classical and mediaeval Latin texts : http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6946/literature.html
The Augsburg BIBLIOTHECA AVGVSTANA (includes texts in Latin, Greek, German, English, and French): http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_index.html
ARMARIVM LABYRINTHI: The Labyrinth Latin Bookcase: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/latin/latin-lib.html
The INTERNET CLASSICS ARCHIVE's list of ancient Greek and Roman authors (with optional, subscription-based, links to the relevant cyberpages of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica): http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html
The SunSite OMACL (Online Mediaeval and Classical Library); searchable. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
The Wisconsin BIBLIOTHECA LATINA. This metasite is itself written in Latin, but the links click whether you read Latin or not. Texts in classical, mediaeval, and neolatin, and links to other sites: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/classics/biblio.htm
The UVA Electronic Text Center (Collection of online Latin texts): http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin.html
The Green Library (an extensive collection of philosophical and religious texts, including some in Greek and Latin) http://www.stormloader.com/cactus/
INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS: Click here to access text databases and other resources for the study of selected individual Greek and Latin authors.
For information on the LEUVEN DATABASE OF ANCIENT BOOKS, click on http://www.tu.be/hit/hit.htm
Greek/English Lexicon: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform
A Latin/English Dictionary: http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/frivolities.htmlAnd the mother of all lexica, the THESAVRVS LINGVAE LATINAE: http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/devito/e-TLL/
DICTIONARIES AND LANGUAGE RESOURCES: One of the most extensive lists of virtual dictionaries. http://www.refdesk.com/factdict.html
WWWEBSTER ENGLISH DICTIONARY: http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
The University of Kentucky's multi-lexicon page, including some searchable indices and other lookup tools (here you will find dictionaries and lexica for, e.g., Greek, Latin, German, and Sanskrit): http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/lexindex.html
The Bucknell Web of Online Dictionaries, which has links to dictionaries in over 130 languages: http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html
(NOTE: For wordlists and mini-lexica, see also sub uoc. 'Latin Grammar and
Vocabulary' below.)
These links lead you to resources for the study of their respective topics:
De Imperatoribus Romanis: Online database of Roman Emperors http://www.salve.edu/~dimaiom/deimprom.html
PROSOPOGRAPHIA IMPERII ROMANI: A 'Who's Who' of the Roman Empire. http://www.bbaw.de/vh/pir/index.html
ROMAN EMPERORS IN MARBLE (images of portrait busts): http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-41909/marmorei.html
Bill Thayer's Platner/Ashby TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ANCIENT ROME. http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/.Texts/PLATOP*/home*.html
ROMAN ATLAS: http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Maps/Periods/Roman/home.html
The GEOGRAPHIA of Ptolemy: http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/.Texts/Ptolemy/home.html
Cultural Map of Hellas (Hellenic Ministry of Culture): http://www.culture.gr/2/21/toc/index.html
PLAN DE ROME: A Virtual 3D Tour of Paul Bigot's 1 : 400 Scale Model of Rome. http://www.unicaen.fr/rome/
TOLLE, LEGE: Click here for easy Latin readings that are keyed to specific grammatical exercises.
ADVANCED PLACEMENT HORACE: a full-service Horace site designed to help secondary-level students prepare for the AP test on Horace. But let's be honest: there's a lot here that will be useful to our undergraduates as well. http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Langs/classics/Hor/horace.html
AbleMedia's CLASSICS TECHNOLOGY CENTER: http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/index2.html
James O'Donnell's NEW TOOLS FOR TEACHING: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/teachdemo/teachdemo.html
VROMA: A Virtual Community for the Teaching of Classics. http://vroma.rhodes.edu
What You Can Do With A Degree In Classics: http://bosshog.arts.uwo.ca/class/degree.html
On Graduate Education in Classics: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~joef/gradcurr.html
Positions for Classicists (APA): http://www.apaclassics.org/Administration/Placement/jobscurrent.html
David Meadows's ATRIVM Job Listings: http://web.idirect.com/%7Eatrium/bibliotheca/bulletin/jobs.html
AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html
!GALILEI< GLOBAL DIRECTORY OF UNIVERSITIES: http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/1599/index.html
PIR2 NAME INDEX: This is a searchable database of the names of elite Romans from circa 30 BCE to 280 CE. http://www.bbaw.de/vh/pir/suche.html
CONCORDANCES OF GREAT BOOKS: A searchable index of 86 authors and 200 full texts. http://www.concordance.com/
THE ATRIVM (includes a weekly guide to the Ancient World on TV, and Commentarium, a guide to coverage of antiquity in the popular press) http://web.idirect.com/~atrium/
LITERARY CRITICAL THEORY: A handy site that collects terminology and gives basic definitions of terms and ideas in this often arcane field. http://omni.cc.purdue.edu/~felluga/theory2.html
MLA STYLE MANUAL: For when you need to check MLA documentation style, including the details of citing internet data. http://www.mla.org/set_stl.htm
INFORMATION FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS IN ART HISTORY: http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~acd/
GUIDE TO GRAMMAR AND WRITING: a compendium of English grammar, usage, and writing information at the sentence, paragraph, and essay levels. http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/original.htm
THE ANCIENT HISTORY BULLETIN: http://www.trentu.ca/faculty/ahb/
ARACHNION (an online journal of ancient literature and history): http://www.cisi.unito.it/arachne/arachne.html
BRYN MAWR CLASSICAL REVIEW: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/BRYN MAWR ELECTRONIC RESOURCES REVIEW (an on-line journal for reviews of electronic resources having to do with the ancient world) http://csa.brynmawr.edu/BMERR/bmerr.html
DISCOVERING ARCHAEOLOGY (Scientific American) http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/
ELECTRONIC ANTIQUITY (gopher menu for the journal): gopher://info.utas.edu.au:70/11/Publications/Electronic%20Antiquity%20%3A%20 Communicating%20The%20Classics
GNOMON ONLINE: http://www.gnomon.ku-eichstaett.de/Gnomon/Gnomon.html
MEDITERRANEAN PREHISTORY ONLINE: http://www.med.abaco-mac.it/
NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY: http://www.asor.org/NEA/NEAHP.html
NEWJOUR (an archive of new journals and newsletters available online): http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/
SCHOLIA: STUDIES IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY : http://www.otago.ac.nz/classics/scholia
SCHOLIA REVIEWS (Classics book reviews online): http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/
SUDA ONLINE: http://www.stoa.org/sol/
SYNOPSIS (an annual index to scholarly publications on Greek studies): http://www.me.wustl.edu/add/synopsis.htm
TRADITIO: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/traditio/traditio.html
THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY (AJA): http://www.AmJournalArch.org/
TOCS-IN (gives the tables of contents of over 150 journals of interest to classicists): http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/amphoras/tocs.html
ARCHIVE FOR ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN E-MAIL LISTS: a searchable archive of e-mail lists pertinent to the ancient Mediterranean, which enables you to access and search past postings. http://www.umich.edu /~classics/archives.html
PURDUE STUDENTS: For a comprehensive website on subscribing to LISTSERV lists at Purdue, go to http://wwwicd.cc.purdue.edu/PUCC/ICD/listserv.shtml
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: http://www.aarome.org/
AMERICAN CLASSICAL LEAGUE: http://www.umich.edu/~acleague/
AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: http://scholar.cc.emory.edu/APA.html
AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS: http://www.ascsa.org/
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: http://www.archaeological.org/
ASSOCIATION OF ANCIENT HISTORIANS: http://depts.washington.edu/clio/
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES: http://chs.harvard.edu/
CENTRE FOR ROMAN STUDIES (University of Reading): http://www.rdg.ac.uk/Roman/
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND (CANE): http://www.wellesley.edu/GreekandLatin/CANE/cane.html
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF SCOTLAND (CAS): http://www.gla.ac.uk/Library/CAS/
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDDLE WEST AND SOUTH (CAMWS): http://www.rmc.edu/~gdaugher/camwshp.html
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST (CAPN): http://ivory.trentu.ca/www/cl/cac/
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY: http://www.ias.edu
JACT (Joint Association of Classical Teachers): http://www.source.co.uk/users/jprogs/jact/
WOMEN'S CLASSICAL CAUCUS: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~wcc/WCC.html
IMAGES FROM HISTORY: World Art & Archaeology. http://www.hartford-hwp.com/image_archive/index.html
MYTHOLOGY IN WESTERN ART:
http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/MYTHOLOGY_WESTART.HTML/a>
PICTURES FROM POMPEII & HERCVLANEVM: http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-41909/pomppict.html
Kevin Glowacki's ANCIENT CITY OF ATHENS: http://www.indiana.edu/~kglowack/athens/
MAECENAS: IMAGES OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (by Leo Curran) http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/
INTERNATIONAL PAPYROLOGICAL PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE (The Saskatoon repository of this collection of photographs of ancient papyri). http://www.usask.ca/classics/paparch.html
VATICAN LIBRARY: http://www.christusrex.org/www1/vaticano/
THE AMBROSE COLLECTION: Z. Philip Ambrose's slide-images for
Classical Mythology
http://www.uvm.edu/~classics/ambrose.html
STAR MYTHS AND CONSTELLATION LORE:
http://www.cosmopolis.com/star-myths/
Andrew Stewart's award-winning ONE HUNDRED GREEK SCULPTORS: THEIR CAREERS AND EXTANT WORKS. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=stew.+sculp.+toc
ARCHEOLOGIA ITALIANA: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/7707
DR. J's ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE CLASSICAL WORLD: Janice Siegel's illustrated tours of Greek sites, illustrated theme lectures, and illustrated texts. http://nimbus.temple.edu/~jsiegel
Andrew Wiesner's Images of Orality and Literacy in Greek Iconography of the Fifth, Fourth and Third Centuries BCE (carefully annotated): http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~awiesner/oralit.html
THE SOUND OF GREEK AND LATIN POETRY: Poems read in Greek and Latin by Harvard Professors. (Requires QuickTime, RealAudio, or other sound software) http://fas-nt4.fas.harvard.edu/Users/Poetry_and_Prose/poetry.html
AENEID IV: Listen to the tragic tale of Dido and Aeneas read in Latin by Wilfried Stroh: http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/aeneid/Aeneid.ram
L'ANNEE PHILOLOGIQUE ONLINE: the legendary, indispensable annual annotated classics bibliography. May be accessed in French or English. http://www.aph.cnrs.fr
REFERENCE LIBRARIES ONLINE: Access to online catalogues worldwide. http://www.yahoo.com/Reference/Libraries/University_Libraries/
BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA SELECTA (BCS): http://www.fusl.ac.be/Files/General/BCS/BCS.html
'ENCYCLOPEDIA': Bibliography for the study of Mediaeval Latin. http://grid.let.rug.nl/comers/bibl8.htm
BIBLIOGRAPHY ON LATIN DICTIONARIES: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/medieval/latdic.html
GNOMON ONLINE: a vast 'Bibliographische Datenbank.'http://www.gnomon.ku-eichstaett.de/Gnomon/einfuehrung.html
NESTOR: a bibliography of Aegean prehistory and related areas. http://ucaswww.mcm.uc.edu/classics/nestor/nestor.html
THE ELECTRONIC TEXT CORPUS OF SUMERIAN LITERATURE http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/
PROJECT BARTLEBY is a database that brings together a huge (and ever-growing) collection of texts in both poetry and prose. http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/index.html
Bartleby includes a BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/
PROJECT GUTENBERG is a similar database. http://jg.cso.uiuc.edu/pg_home.html
Samuel Johnson's Translations of Juvenal: http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~mmd6w/sjtest.html
Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire online: http://http://ccel.wheaton.edu/gibbon/decline/
ARMARIVM LABYRINTHI (a post-classical text-database including materials in mediaeval Latin, liturgical texts, etc.): http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/latin/latin-lib.ht ml
THE ONLINE MEDIEVAL AND CLASSICAL LIBRARY (OMACL): http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
THESAVRVS MVSICARVM LATINARVM (Mediaeval and Renaissance Music Theory): gopher://iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu/11/tml
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/ and http://www.gh.cs.su.oz.au/~matty/Shakespeare/
TAO TE CHING (the complete text in English translation): One of the great classics of Chinese literature. http://www.edepot.com/tao9.html#gnl
HELLINOMNIMON: a digital library of all the philosophical and scientific manuscripts written in Greek from 1600 to 1821 (and that's over half a million pages). http://sat1.space.noa.gr/hellinomnimon/project.htm
NORDIC NEO-LATIN LITERATURE: http://www.uib.no/neolatin/
RENASCENCE EDITIONS: Need a copy of Browne's Religio Medici, Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar, Gay's Beggar's Opera, or other works printed in English 1477-1799? Here's your site. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm
ABLEMEDIA'S CLASSICS TECHNOLOGY CENTER: http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/index2.html
Stefan Hagel's CLASSICAL TEXT EDITOR (a word-processor for critical editions, commentaries, and electronic publishing): http://www.oeaw.ac.at/~kvk/cte/index.htm