Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation
ELECTRONIC-TEXTS AND E-TEXT ARCHIVES

  1. The Abridged version of the Online Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Library (TLG) offers a large number of texts for browsing and searching (with the TLG search engine).

  2. Agnellus on-line The complete text of Andreas Agnellus's Liber Pontificalis Ecclesiae Ravennatis (MGH edition, edited by Otto Holder-Egger in the Scriptores Rerum Langobardicarum et Italicarum saec. VI-IX, pp. 265-391 (Hannover: 1878). The text was provided by Prof. Deborah Deliyannis of Western Michigan University.

  3. Athena is an e-text server which offers a remarkable collection of links to electronic versions of texts arranged in alphabetical order by author and title. The same site offers links to other e-text archives and will allow you to download viewers and other software needed to uncompress any files you download.

  4. Bibliotheca Augustana is a new electronic Latin text archive created by Ulrich Harsch. It contains a number of texts (either residing in the same site or accessible through links to other sites) organized by date or alphabetical order and prefaced by brief biographical information for each author. A very nicely organized and presented site.

  5. Claudian's Panegyric:The Latin text of Claudian's Panegyric in Honor of the Sixth Consulship of the Emperor Honorius (ad 404), from a 19th century Teubner edition.

  6. The E-Text Archives is an independent archive of electronic text. It contains links to electronic periodicals, books, mailing lists and other archives. It can be accessed via the Web at: URL: http://www.etext.org/. Its archives are also available via gopher (gopher.etext.org) or ftp (ftp.etext.org).

  7. The Gutenberg Project encourages the creation and distribution of English language electronic texts. The project takes books whose copyright has expired, converts them into text files and makes them available to the public at no charge.

  8. Homer The Greek text of Homer edited by Helmut van Thiel, University of Cologne (Olms:1991/96) is available on-line.

  9. The Latin Library is a large selection of html formatted Latin texts collected and mantained by William L. Carey at Ad Fontes Academy.

  10. The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of translations of important Classical and Medieval literary works. It contains, among others, an introduction and translation of Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica, Hesiod's works, the Homeric Hymns, and Quintus Smyrnaeus' The Fall of Troy

  11. Pietho's Web includes the translations and commentary in H.T. Wharton's Sappho (120 fragments) with Wharton's biography and select secondary sources, and links; Empedocles' fragments in unicode Greek and W.E. Leonard's English translation, with Diogenes' Laertius' Life of Empedocles, translated by C.D. Yonge; Cicero's De Inventioni, the C.D. Yonge translation with section by section links to the Latin Library; a translation of Lives of the 10 Orators; and The Rhys Roberts translations of Demetrius' On Style and Longinus' On the Sublime.

  12. The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia includes thousands of SGML-encoded electronic texts in English, French, German and Latin, some of which are limited to UVa users and some are available to the general public.

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