Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second
Generation
DATABASES, WEB PROJECTS,AND INFORMATION
SERVERS
- The
AMPHORAS Project makes available part of the
archive collected by Virginia R. Grace at the excavations of the Agora
in Athens, as well as some additional materials. It includes a bibliography
(with a search index) of scholarly work on finding, identifying, and hypothesizing
about Greek and Roman amphoras and the trade they carried, translated
passages in ancient Greek literature on the use of amphoras, translations
into English of works (or parts of works) published in Russian on amphoras,
and links
to other Web sites with amphora information and/or images (excavations
on land and underwater, etc) and other
sources of bibliography.
- Ancient Greek music is a site maintained by Stefan Hagel. It contains all published fragments of Ancient Greek music with notes. All of them are recorded under the use of tunings based on ancient theoreticians (of the Pythagorean school, most of them cited by Ptolemaios). Instruments and speed are chosen by the author. The exact sound depends on your hard- and software.
- Atrium is a site designed and maintained by David Meadows. The site is divided into sections that provide links to various resources, including weekly updates of the "Ancient World on Television" TV programs, Rostra, a page where you can listen to assorted audio programmes in RealAudio format and a Bulletin Board with job postings and conference announcements.
- Ancient Medicine/Medicina
Antiqua is a resource for the study of medicine and medical thought
in the Greco-Roman world, from Mycenaean times to the fall of the Roman
Empire, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
- Byzantium:
Byzantine Studies on the Internet A Home Page with links to reference
and teaching materials related to Byzantine Studies.
- The Canon of Greek Authors and Works is a database containing all the authors and works included in the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae® Digital Library, with complete bibliographical references to printed editions.
- The images of the Dead
Sea Scrolls originally exhibited by the library of Congress are
now available on-line. In addition to the images, the site contains introductory
material about the history of the Scrolls and links to readings and other
related information.
- Diotima
is a site developed by Ross Scaife and Suzanne Bonefas. It contains materials
(course syllabi, essays, reviews, bibliographies, etc.) for the study of
Women and Gender in the Ancient World.
- The Duke Papyrus Archive
provides electronic access to texts about and images of 1,373
documentary papyri from ancient Egypt. The texts of the Duke Databank can be searched with the morphological tools developed by the Perseus Project.
- Egyptology Page offers an excellent collection of resources related to Egyptology.
- The Greek Manuscript
Database from Bates College is produced by Robert W. Allison, Bates
College, Lewiston, Maine (rallison@abacus.bates.edu).
The purpose of the database is to provide scholars with information about
the Philotheite Monastery manuscripts of Mount Athos. It is a division
of the Mount Athos Greek Manuscripts Catalogue Project of the Patriarchal
Institute for Patristic Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece.
- The Hellenic Ministry
of Culture maintains a server called Ulysses with information and
announcements about the actiivities of the Ministry. The server also provides
information about Museums,
Archaeological sites and contemporary arts in Greece.
- Horace's Villa is the Web site about the excavation of Horace's Villa near Licenza, Italy. The project is undertaken under the institutional sponsorship of the American Academy in Rome and the Archaeological Superintendency for Lazio of the Italian Ministry of Culture. The site offers an overview of the project, a quick tour of the site, including video clips of the villa and some of Horace's poetry read in Latin.
- The House of Ptolemy is a web site (defined as an annotated infobase by its creator, Adam Philippides) dedicated to the study of the Ptolemies and their world. It contains extensive annotated links to web resources related to the Prolemaic but also Roman and Byzantine rule in Egypt. The site is offered in association with Amazon.com and allows the user to search the Amazon catalog online.
- The I, CLAVDIVS PROJECT is the result of a collaborative web effort produced at Saint Anselm College, by members of the CL50: Latin Biography Seminar. The goal of this project is to create a web resource which provides source materials and analyses for the BBC production of I, Claudius. The site also includes resources and analyses on other topics relating to the emperor Claudius: his coinage, the imperial cult, and evaluations of Claudius and of his health. For more information, please contact Linda Rulman at lrulman@anselm.edu
- Interpreting
Ancient Manuscripts Web Page This site provides information about
the study of New Testament manuscripts.
- The Oriental
Institute Home Page at the University of Chicago provides information
pertinent to the study of the ancient Near East. A Virtual
Tour of the Museum's galleries with links to related materials is also
available.
- The Ovid Project
The University of Vermont has made available an extensive collectIon of17th
century engravings inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses by the German artist
Johann Wilhelm Baur. In the future the project will be expanded to include
other Ovid holdings included related texts and articles.
- The Perseus Project
Perseus is a Digital Library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond. The project started out as a Digital Library of Classical Civilization and has been expanding its holdings to include Latin Texts and lexicographical resources. The Project has produced a CD-ROM published by Yale
University Press. The Perseus Project web page includes information about the project
and provides web access to a large number of images (coins, vases, sculpture) Greek and Latin texts with translations and other resources. Due to copyright restrictions most of
the Perseus image collections are available to site license holders only but there
is still plenty of material available via the Web. The server also gives
access to Thomas Martin's Overview
of Archaic and Classical Greek History with links to Perseus materials, most Perseus 2.0 Primary
texts and morphological tools, and the electronic version of Liddell-Scott Dictionary (or the Liddell Scott Intermediate
Greek English Lexicon). The Perseus project has also created Web based versions of Smyth's Greek Grammar (1921) and Allen
and Greenough's New Latin Grammar (Ginn and Company 1903), a Web exhibit about Heracles and the Olympic Games with a Quicktime and Shockwave tour of Olympia, and many other resources.
- The Philological Museum is a web site originally created by Dana Sutton at the University of California, Irvine. The site is now maintained under the auspices of the The
Shakespeare Institute of the The University of Birmingham. It offers a collection of hypertext editions of NeoLatin Texts with extensive bibliographies.
- The
Roman Law Project maintained by Thomas Rüfner, provides indexed texts, links to other sites on legal history and classics and general information about Roman Law. Most of the information is available in English, Latin, German and Italian.
- The Rome Project
is a collection of resources for the study of Rome compiled by Dr. Neil
Goldberg, Archaeologist in Residence at the Dalton School. The site is
divided into sections (Literature, Military, Archaeology, Political, Philosophy,
Drama, Religion) that contain links to a large number of resources.
- The ROMULUS PROJECT
is an effort to create an electronic Latin literature collection with commentaries.
The aim of the Project which is open to collaboration, is to publish a
body of texts along with detailed supplementary material, including translation,
student-notes, literary discussions, and scholarly references.
- The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Background information and images about the seven Wonders of the Ancient World and other important ancient monuments (including the Parthenon).
- Silver Muse Project is a hypertext system to teach and promote research in Latin epic poetry of the early empire. Designed and maintained by Andrew Zissos the site presently contains a wide variety of materials including reading guides, commentaries, essays, and notes about Ovid, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius and Silius Italicus.
- The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. The TLG has collected and digitized the entire corpus of ancient Greek and Byzantine literature. The full TLG corpus is open to institutions and individuals by subscription. The site, however, provides open access to the TLG bibliographical materials, known as the Canon of Greek Authors and Works and the abridged version of the TLG with more than100 authors and works available to browse or search.
- A Web of Online Dictionaries is a site maintained by Robert Beard at Bucknell University. It provides links to over 800 online dictionaries in various languages, including Greek and Latin.
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