(Maria C. Pantelia, University of California, Irvine) – well-organised and annotated directory of Classics resources. Offers access to home pages of projects, journals, image collections, electronic texts, fonts, professional organisations and more
An annotated directory of Classics resources, including literary, papyrological, archaeological and epigraphical [English version using Google Translate]
A multi-institutional collaborative project designed to enhance the study of the history and culture of the ancient Near East. Includes Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world
“One of the most extensive database systems in Classical Studies, comprising 600,000 entries of specialized literature, including entries on the history of scholarship. The database lists monographies, edited volumes with all contributions, journal articles, reviews and dictionaries from all of the modern era and in all academic languages, all of which are researchable in detail with a comprehensive, multilingual thesaurus”.
A collaborative project of the Classics departments of Princeton University and Stanford University. Its purpose is to make the results of current Classics research undertaken by members of these universities available in advance of final publication
The site maps “the landscape of publications about Pompeii onto the space of the ancient city itself, creating a unified, bi-directional interface to both resources.”
“A professional organisation established for women and men committed to gender equality and diversity in ancient world studies including classics, ancient history, ancient languages and archaeology”
“This site is designed to share and inspire passion of the ancient world. The blog showcases research in ancient Mediterranean studies from scholars in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.”
“An online, rapid-publication project of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, devoted to sharing some of the latest thinking on the ancient world with researchers and the general public.”
(Fédération internationale des associations d'études classiques = International Federation of Associations of Classical Studies) News site with information from member societies, job openings, etc.
A variety of material on amphoras: searchable database of inscriptions (work in progress), passages form Greek literature mentioning amphoras (in English), bibliography of scholarly work on amphoras, Russian research papers (translated into English) and links to other websites describing amphoras from both land and sea excavations
An interactive cartographic history of the relationships between hydrological and hydraulic systems and their impact on the urban development of Rome, Italy. Timeframe from 753 BCE to the present day (work in progress)
“The main purpose of this web site is to make available a more comprehensive body of images of the Ara Pacis than previously available in any print or web publication.” Site includes a chronology and bibliography.
A large library of art objects (coins, vases, gems), sites and buildings. Each entry has a description of the object and its context; most have images. Produced in collaboration with many museums, institutions and scholars
An extensive collection of links to museums, projects, archaeological sites, sorted by period and subject. Includes individual named images of vases, friezes and monuments
○ Ancient Greek Art
○ Ancient Roman Art
A world centre for the study of ancient Greek painted pottery. Also includes extensive material on the history of gem-collecting and classical archaeology more generally
A digital model of the Roman Forum, created by the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory, as it appeared in late antiquity. The notional date of the model is June 21, 400 A.D.
NB. In this archived version, some links and features do not work.
“A database of archaeological excavations since the year 2000” – a project of the International Association of Classical Archaeology (AIAC) and the Center for the Study of Ancient Italy of the University of Texas at Austin (CSAI)
Over 1,500 colour and b&w photographs relating to ancient Greece and Rome taken by the author primarily for teaching purposes. Archived version via the Wayback Machine; internal search engine non-functional
The site maps “the landscape of publications about Pompeii onto the space of the ancient city itself, creating a unified, bi-directional interface to both resources.”
“This is a site for exploring the Column of Trajan as a sculptural monument. The core of the site is a searchable database of over 500 images focusing on various aspects of the design and execution of the column's sculptural decoration. These images (slides and drawings) were generated by and for sculptor Peter Rockwell, over the course of his study of Roman stone-carving practices.” Archived version via the Wayback Machine; internal search engine is non-functional.
“Contains all published fragments of Ancient Greek music which contain more than a few scattered notes. All of them are recorded under the use of tunings whose exact ratios have been transmitted to us by ancient theoreticians (of the Pythagorean school, most of them cited by Ptolemaios). Instruments and speed are chosen by the author.”
Reconstructs the time cost and financial expense associated with a wide range of different types of travel in antiquity. The model is based on a simplified version of the giant network of cities, roads, rivers and sea lanes that framed movement across the Roman Empire. It broadly reflects conditions around 200 CE, but also covers a few sites and roads created in late antiquity
The Project is based in the Faculty of Classics, at the University of Oxford. The website makes accessible the large amounts of data that are studied during the project. Includes access to full-text working papers, bibliographies and databases
An open access numismatic web portal. As at August 2020 you can browse through and search for coins and coin types minted in Moesia Inferior, Thrace, Mysia and the Troad.
Details of recent archaeological discoveries in Greece and Cyprus. Combines the Chronique published annually in the BCH by the École française d'Athènes/French School at Athens, and Archaeology in Greece, published as part of the annual Archaeological Reports by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and the British School at Athens. Texts are in English or French.
A digital encyclopedia (in progress) of classical Athenian democracy that describes the history, institutions and people of democratic Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE
○ Antiquity À-la-carte
To find places, choose the Interactive Map Gazetteer (top menu) and Static Labels (right menu, Map Layers)
○ Free Maps – various free downloadable maps of the ancient world
A collection of modern and historical maps, GIS data and resource links for archaeologists, novice cartographers and experienced GIS users – provided by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Historical geographic information about the ancient world in digital form – extensive coverage for the Greek and Roman world, expanding into Ancient Near Eastern, Byzantine, Celtic and Early Medieval geography
“This site allows scholars and students of classical Greek (and to some extent Roman) history to visualize data about Places (especially archaic and classical Greek city-states) and People (those famous enough to be included in a standard Classical dictionary) from two large data-sets, and to generate maps and simple statistical information from them.”
Links to digital projects dealing with ancient geography. “It has no pretensions of being complete or comprehensive, but is offered to give readers a sense of the range of materials currently accessible.”
Detailed lists of events and sources for the history of the Hellenistic world and the Roman republic, with links to online translations of many of the sources
Provides access to authors such as Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Aristotle, the Greek tragedians and orators that have traditionally been used in college level instruction of Greek. In addition it includes a large number of patristic texts. Access is free but users must create an account and login to the Abridged version.
Digitised lexica from the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae website (free website registration is required). At June 2020 these lexica are available:
Liddell-Scott-Jones (LSJ)
Cunliffe’s Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect
Powell's Lexicon to Herodotus Lexikon zur Byzantinischen Gräzität (LBG)
S. Koumanoudes’ Συναγωγή νέων λέξεων
Provides simultaneous lookup of entries in the many reference works that make up the Perseus Classical collection. Using Logeion: Quick Guide from the Kosmos Society, which is directed by Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies
The Library of Antiquity has brief introductions here and here
The About ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ page gives detailed guidance on using the database
An analysis of particle use across five genres of ancient Greek discourse: epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy and historiography. Volume V is a searchable database available only online.
Ancient Greek Tutorials @ AtticGreek.org – provides supplementary material to Mastronarde, 2nd ed. “Many parts of this site will be helpful, however, to anyone beginning or reviewing the study of ancient Greek with any textbook.”
An open-access textbook with “a series of Lessons and Exercises intended for students who have already covered most of an introductory course in the ancient Greek language. It aims to broaden and deepen students’ understanding of the main grammatical constructions of Greek. Further attention is given to grammatical forms to illustrate their functions.”
Electronic access to all the Homer’s texts in the original Greek. Includes English and German translations, e.g. Lattimore’s Iliad, Daryl Hine’s translations of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, and the German translations of the Iliad and Odyssey by Johan Heinrich Voss
“A collection of beautiful, inspiring and memorable passages from Greek and Latin literature, each with a translation so that anyone can enjoy them and share them”
(Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing & the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World)
Aggregates and displays information from the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP) and the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV), as well as links to Trismegistos
Links to resources available online, mainly Greek:
– A searchable corpus of early Greek hexameter poetry
– Early Greek hexameter inscriptions
– Papyri
– Inscriptions
Aims at providing a flexible and robust web interface for exploring intertextual parallels. It is a collaborative project of the University at Buffalo, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Geneva.
Help in using this tool: Help with Research: Using Tesserae for Intertextuality, Part 1 continued in Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 (The Library of Antiquity).
Provides explanations for technical terms related to stemmatology, a discipline of classical and medieval philology aiming at understanding the historical evolution of textual traditions
Extensive, well-organised site; includes biographies of characters (complete with sources), bibliographies of ancient authors' works, maps indexed by place name and a large collection of images
A companion website to Morford, Lenardon and Sham’s Classical Mythology, 9th ed. Includes glossaries of characters; words and phrases; maps. Access via the Wayback Machine.
The author’s podcast, websites, blog and publications, providing an entryway into social and religious life among Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians and others in the Roman empire
“A site exploring Greek mythology and the gods in classical literature and art.” Searchable; includes names in Greek, family trees, images from vases, and quotations from a variety of Classical texts.
Provides simultaneous lookup of entries in the many reference works that make up the Perseus Classical collection. Using Logeion: Quick Guide from the Kosmos Society, which is directed by Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies
The Library of Antiquity has brief introductions here and here
The About ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ page gives detailed guidance on using the database
“A collection of beautiful, inspiring and memorable passages from Greek and Latin literature, each with a translation so that anyone can enjoy them and share them”
Latin texts, ancient and modern, in HTML format. The texts are not intended for research purposes, and include some typographical mistakes resulting from OCR scanning errors.
“[This] digital archive of Latin poetry, from its origins to the Italian Renaissance, was established at the end of 2005 with the main goal of creating a singular database of Latin poetry, supported by a critical and exegetical electronic apparatus.” There is an overview by Amy Yarnell at The Library of Antiquity.
Aims at providing a flexible and robust web interface for exploring intertextual parallels. It is a collaborative project of the University at Buffalo, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Geneva.
Help in using this tool: Help with Research: Using Tesserae for Intertextuality, Part 1 continued in Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 (The Library of Antiquity).
YouTube channel from the Digital Latin Library, arranged in sequence by AWOL – The Ancient World Online. Includes discussion of interpolation, examinatio, recensio, critical editions and apparatus criticus
Provides explanations for technical terms related to stemmatology, a discipline of classical and medieval philology aiming at understanding the historical evolution of textual traditions
“The purpose of the IEP is to provide detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. Articles are written with the intention that most of the article can be understood by advanced undergraduates majoring in philosophy and by other scholars who are not working in the field covered by that article.”
“Covers an unparalleled breadth of subject matter, including Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy.”
A scholarly project that has produced an "Imperial Index" (either chronological or alphabetical) of all Roman and Byzantine emperors (and many pretenders [e.g. Nymphidius Sabinus, Septimius Vaballathus]) up to the fall of Constantinople. Those figures in the index for whom profiles have been completed are hyperlinked to biography files, each featuring an image of the subject (head or bust, coin or statue)
A well-organised site with considerable detail on each period, and on many aspects of society, religion and the army. Includes maps, timelines and images. Archived version on the Wayback Machine.
“This is a site for exploring the Column of Trajan as a sculptural monument. The core of the site is a searchable database of over 500 images focusing on various aspects of the design and execution of the column's sculptural decoration. These images (slides and drawings) were generated by and for sculptor Peter Rockwell, over the course of his study of Roman stone-carving practices.” Archived version via the Wayback Machine; internal search engine is non-functional.
○ Antiquity À-la-carte
To find places, choose the Interactive Map Gazetteer (top menu) and Static Labels (right menu, Map Layers)
○ Free Maps – various free downloadable maps of the ancient world
Historical geographic information about the ancient world in digital form – extensive coverage for the Greek and Roman world, expanding into Ancient Near Eastern, Byzantine, Celtic and Early Medieval geography
Links to digital projects dealing with ancient geography. “It has no pretensions of being complete or comprehensive, but is offered to give readers a sense of the range of materials currently accessible.”
Detailed lists of events and sources for the history of the Hellenistic world and the Roman republic, with links to online translations of many of the sources
A comprehensive, searchable database of all known members of the upper strata of Roman society created to facilitate prosopographical research into the elite of the Roman Republic, its structure, scale and changes in composition over time.
Online Roman legal texts, including most of the Justinianic and Pre-Justinianic texts and all the major surviving legal works from the 2nd to 6th centuries CE
A companion website to Morford, Lenardon and Sham’s Classical Mythology, 9th ed. Includes glossaries of characters; words and phrases; maps. Access via the Wayback Machine.
The author’s podcast, websites, blog and publications, providing an entryway into social and religious life among Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians and others in the Roman empire
“A resource for information on women, gender, sex, sexualities, race, ethnicity, class, status, masculinity, enslavement, disability, and the intersections among them in the ancient Mediterranean world.”
“A resource for information on women, gender, sex, sexualities, race, ethnicity, class, status, masculinity, enslavement, disability, and the intersections among them in the ancient Mediterranean world.”
Designed to digitise and explore the social, political and economic histories of women in the Roman Near East through the use of the latest digital humanities tools, with a wide range of sources such as literary texts, inscriptions and figurines.
A research project that investigates the performance of ancient texts in any medium and any period, from Greek tragedy to Roman epic, from stage to screen, from antiquity to the present day
