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).

Project 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
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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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