Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation
USEFUL GATEWAYS AND SITES OF INFORMATION
This section lists major meta-sites that maintain extensive lists of electronic
publications and other resources and offer links to such services. If you
are looking for general information or do not have the specific address
or way to access a certain site, you may want to start your search from
one of the following "gateways."
- The On-Line Survey of Audio-Visual Resources for Classics has been produced and maintained by Janice Siegel since 2000. The site has gone through several reincarnations and has most recently been converted
into a searchable, relational database housed at Hampden-Sydney College. Topics covered include Roman and Greek history, philosophy, religion, mythology, culture, art, archaeology, language and literature in the original Latin or Greek as well as in translation,
and its reception, influence and study in ages subsequent to antiquity.
- The University
of Kentucky Classics Department Home Page offers links to many resources of interest to Classicists,
including Art, Myth and Archaeology, links to Ted Higgs' compilation of web sites for Latin students as well as links to Diotima,
a Web site with resources related to the study of Women and Gender in Antiquity, Suda on-line and other sites affiliated with the Stoa Consortium.
- The Home Page of James O'Donnell's offers links to J. O'Donnell's electronic seminars on Augustine,
Boethius and
Worlds of Late Antiquity);
and many other sites.
- Bibliotheca
Classica Selecta (BCS) is a bibliographical guide to Classics resources
(bibliographies, source books, research tools, Web resources). BCS was
created by Jean-Marie Hannick, University of Louvain and Jacques Poucet,
Saint-Louis (Bruxelles). It is available in electronic and printed format.
- Ancient
Near East: a guide to Internet resources for the study of the ancient
Near East, entitled "Abzu" and edited by Charles E. Jones, Oriental
Institute, University of Chicago. Abzu is nicely organized in indexes (Author,
online Journals, Museum collections, Projects, Subject, etc.).
- Classics
Alcove is a collection of Classics Resources (Guides, Journals,
Texts, Databases, images, Software and Teaching Resources) offered via
the University of Florida Libraries.
- KIRKE is an extensive and very-well organized catalog of Internet resources maintained by Ulrich Schmitzer (Erlangen, Germany). It provides links to just about every site related to Greek and Latin literature, history and archaelogy, including links to Classics departments around the world.
- The
Library of Congress Classics Resources Home Page. The Library of
Congress has a Home Page with information about the Library's resources
for Greek and Latin, and extensive lists and links to other Internet Classics
Resources.
- The
University of Chicago Classics Department Home Page offers an extensive
list of resources which includes links to other collections
of resources (such as the U.K. Classics Department Home Page, the Classics
and Mediterranean Archaeology server, Repositories of Classical Texts,
etc.), Archives of e-texts and images, libraries, Electronic Journals,
Professional Societies and Associations, and other Classics Departments.
- "Voice of the Shuttle":
A Humanities Home Page contains an enormous amount of information
and extensive links to Internet resources for the Humanities in general (including Classics).
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Maintained by Maria C. Pantelia
Modified: 8/8/07