METASITES: INDEX-PAGES OF INTERNET RESOURCES FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES.

Click here for a list of websites that index, and give links to, various electronic resources for the study of Classics. From this link alone you can gain access to literally thousands of other sites.


Table of Contents for the Remainder of This Page (scroll down to the section you require)

  • LASE (Limited Area Search Engines)
  • Databases of Ancient Authors in Greek, Latin, and/or English
  • Dictionaries and Lexica: Including Classical Dictionaries and Lexica of Greek, Latin, English, &c.
  • Special Topics in Classical Studies
  • Prosopographical Aids: Who Was Who in the Ancient World
  • Maps & Topographical Resources
  • Greek Grammar, Vocabulary, and Stylistics
  • Latin Grammar, Vocabulary, and Readings
  • Especially for Teachers
  • On the Profession
  • Tools and Ancillae
  • Cyber-Journals and Other Online Resources for Periodicals and Serials
  • Classics Mailing Lists
  • Classics Organizations
  • Visual Resources
  • Audial Resources
  • Bibliographic Resources
  • Postclassical and/or Nonwestern Text Databases
  • World Wide Web and Software Resources
  • On the History of Classical Scholarship


    LASE (Limited Area Search Engines)

    ARGOS

    LVPA

    INTERNET CLASSICS ARCHIVE




    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/

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    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





    DICTIONARIES AND LEXICA: including CLASSICAL DICTIONARIES and LEXICA of Greek, Latin, English, &c.

    Bill Thayer's SMIGRA (Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities) http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/home*.html

    Greek/English Lexicon: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform

    A Latin/English Dictionary: http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/frivolities.html

    And 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.)



    SPECIAL TOPICS IN CLASSICAL STUDIES:

    These links lead you to resources for the study of their respective topics:



    PROSOPOGRAPHICAL AIDS: WHO WAS WHO IN THE ANCIENT WORLD

    WEBSITE ATTICA: searchable database of 10,000 Athenian names http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/attica/

    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


    MAPS & TOPOGRAPHICAL RESOURCES

    IAM (Interactive Ancient Mediterranean): Online atlas of the ancient Mediterranean world. http://iam.classics.unc.edu/index.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/


    GREEK GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY, AND STYLISTICS

    Click here to access resources for the study of Greek grammar and vocabulary, as well as an extensive bibliography on Greek stylistics.




    LATIN GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY, AND READINGS

    Click here to access extensive resources for the study of Latin grammar and vocabulary, including Wheelock's LATIN GRAMMAR and Allen and Greenough's NEW LATIN GRAMMAR.

    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


    ESPECIALLY FOR TEACHERS

    LATINTEACH: A website and email discussion list for Latin teachers. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/1790/index.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




    ON THE PROFESSION

    Classics FAQ: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/classics-faq/faq.html

    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




    TOOLS AND ANCILLAE

    COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY HOME PAGES: Access to academic personnel directories. http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.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




    CYBER-JOURNALS and other online resources for periodicals and serials

    AEON (a journal of myth and science specializing in comparative mythology and archaeoastronomy) http://www.ames.net/aeon/

    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




    CLASSICS MAILING LISTS

    Click here for an index of addresses for LISTSERV lists dedicated to various topics in Classical Studies, plus information on how to subscribe.

    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




    CLASSICS ORGANIZATIONS

    AERIA (Antikensammlung Erlangen Internet Archive): http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p1altar/home.html

    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




    VISUAL RESOURCES

    Bill Thayer's ROMAN GAZETTEER: http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/home.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




    AUDIAL RESOURCES

    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


    BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES

    LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUE: at this site you can search the entire LC card catalogue online. An invaluable research-tool.http://lcweb2.loc.gov/catalog/booksquery.html

    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



    POSTCLASSICAL AND/OR NONWESTERN TEXT DATABASES

    ALEX CATALOGUE OF ELECTRONIC TEXTS contains both ancient and modern texts. http://www.sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/

    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



    WORLD WIDE WEB AND SOFTWARE RESOURCES

    DISPLAYGREEK is a Java applet which properly displays polytonic Greek in web pages regardless of the fonts or system used by the person viewing the text. DisplayGreek does this by translating BetaCode-formatted text into a picture of the corresponding Gre ek text. To use DisplayGreek, you need not install the applet on your web server. For more information and an on-line tutorial, see: http://www.java.utoronto.ca/~brucerob/DisplayGreek/

    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




    ON THE HISTORY OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP

    HISTORY OF THE ALDINE PRESS: One of the great Renaissance publishing-houses, which produced editiones principes of numerous classical texts: http://library.byu.edu/~aldine/