Resources for Classics and Ancient History
Bibliographic
Resources
Digitized
Text Databases
Images
Online
Journals
Topic-specific
Web Sites
General Resources
Electronic
Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation
Extensive listing of online,
Classics-related resources that includes
web site addresses for publishers, images, bibliographies, databases,
text archives, and more.
Perseus Project
Perseus is a Digital Library of
resources for the study of the ancient
world and beyond. Its Greek and Roman Materials section includes texts
of ancient authors in ancient Greek and English translation; Tom
Martin's Greek History overview; catalogs with images of sculpture,
vases, and other objects; an online version of Princeton Encyclopedia
of Classical Sites; and more.
Bibliographic Resources
L’Année
philologique
An online version of
L’Année philologique with bibliographic
records spanning the years 1969 to 2003. FSU maintains a subscription.
Bibliotheca Classica
Selecta
The Bibliotheca Classica
Selecta offers an introduction to Classical
Studies, principally through its "Bibliographie d'orientation," which
provides an bibliographies of many areas within the discipline of
Classics.
Gnomon
An online version of the Gnomon
bibliography.
TOCS-IN
TOCS-IN provides the tables of
contents of a selection of Classics,
Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both in text format and
through a Web search program. Where possible, links are given with
articles of which the full text or an abstract is available online
(about 15%).
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Digitized Text
Databases
Cornell Greek Epigraphy Project
(PHI Disks)
The Greek Epigraphy Project at
Cornell University makes available
computerized texts of as many Greek inscriptions as possible, from all
areas and periods. Texts are available on CD; the latest version is PHI
CD#7, which includes epigraphic texs from Attica, the Peloponnese, Asia
Minor and beyond. The FSU Classics Department has a copy of the this
disk.
Thesaurus
Linguae Graecae
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
(TLG) is a digitized corpus of ancient
Greek and Byzantine literature. The full TLG corpus is available online
by subscription (FSU seems not to subscribe) and on CD (FSU Classics
department has the disks). The CD's can be read using the Pandora
program on Macintosh computers using system OS 9 or below.
Online Medieval and
Classical Library (OMACL)
A collection of translations of
important Classical and Medieval
literary works, including, among others, an introduction and
translation of Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica, the works of Hesiod,
the Homeric Hymns, and Quintus Smyrnaeus' The Fall of Troy. All texts
are in the public domain and can be downloaded for classroom use.
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Images
The Ancient City of Athens.
An extensive photographic
archive of the archaeological and
architectural remains of ancient Athens.
Beazley
Archive.
An expanded version of the
original Beazley archive of photographs
(c.250,000), notes, drawings and books relating to ancient Greek art,
the web site includes bibliographies, essays, and images of ancient
gems, sculpture, and vase paintings.
Online Journals
JSTOR
JSTOR is online archive of
important scholarly journals, including more
than two dozen related to the ancient world. Issues as recent as two to
five years are available. Strozier Library maintains a subscription,
and access is available through the library web site at
http://www.lib.fsu.edu/ (see "Most Used Databases).
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MUSE
An online archive of more than
200 scholarly journals published by the
Johns Hopkins University Press. Its ancient world holdings are not as
extensive as JSTOR, but it includes some journals not found in that
more extensive database. Strozier Library maintains a subscription, and
access is available at http://www.lib.fsu.edu/resources/classics.html.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
The Bryn Mawr Classical Review
(BMCR) publishes online reviews of
current scholarly work in the field of classical studies (including
archaeology); very extensive archive going back to the early 1990s.
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Topic-specific Web
Sites
Ancient
Greek Tutorials
Designed to accompany Donald J.
Mastronarde's Introduction to Attic
Greek (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1993),
the Ancient Greek Tutorials site will be helpful to anyone learning
ancient Greek from any textbook. The site includes Pronunciation Guide,
Pronunciation Practice, and Accentuation Tutorial, Verb Drill, and
more.
Demos.
A digital encyclopedia of
classical Athenian democracy, the Demos web
site includes essays on Athenian democracy, history, law, punishment
and more.
Diotima
Diotima is a site containing
materials (course syllabi, essays,
reviews, bibliographies, etc.) related to the study of Women and Gender
in the Ancient World.
Prehistoric
Archaeology of the Aegean
This site presents Jeremy
Rutter's Aegean Prehistory Course from
Dartmouth College and offers 29 complete lessons/lectures on Aegean
prehistory together with extensive bibliographical information and a
glossary.
VROMA
The VROMA web site aims to
improve and expand the teaching of classical
languages and cultures—Roman in particular—through the development and
use of technology-assisted (virtual) materials. The site includes an
archive of digital images, teaching resources, and links to other web
sites.
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