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This page contains links to some of the most useful websites for classicists, as well as a list of useful apps. Included here are also several invaluable grammar handouts created by the late Dr. Karl Maurer and several supplements to Chase & Phillips.
The Perseus Digital Library, run by Tufts University, contains a wealth of classical information. Below are a few of the most useful resources.
Liddell & Scott Intermediate Greek Lexicon
Greek Word Study Tool
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary
Perseus also contains a database of classical texts, usually accompanied by commentaries. Most of these texts are searchable, so if you would like to track the occurrences of a specific word in a given text or texts, Perseus is an invaluable tool.
Online Etymology Dictionary (an excellent etymological dictionary of English)
Logeion (a search engine run by the University of Chicago that allows you to search simultaneously the LSJ, the Diccionario griego-español, Lewis & Short, and duCange)
You can also access the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae via the UD library webpage. This useful database allows you to track the use of specific words throughout Greek texts.
Dr. Maurer's Greek Grammar Handout
Dr. Maurer's Latin Grammar Handout
Dr. Maurer's Supplement to Chase & Phillips
Index to Chase & Phillips (by Alexandra Weston, University of Dallas)
On www.textkit.com, you can download PDFs of Smyth's Greek Grammar, Goodwin's Greek Grammar, North & Hillard's Greek Prose Composition, Allen & Greenough's New Latin Grammar, and Bennett's A Latin Grammar, among other useful books.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (reviews of books published on classical topics)
Oxford Classical Dictionary Abbreviations (standard classical abbreviations used in scholarly texts)
You can access JSTOR through the UD library website. This digital library of articles and journals contains much Classics scholarship that will help you with your research. You can also request articles and books that our library does not possess through Tipasa (UD's Interlibrary Loan system).
Society for Classical Studies (articles and news of interest to classicists, as well as announcements of opportunities for students and faculty)
Classical Association of the Middle West and South
Archaeological Institute of America (keep in touch with what is going on in the world of archaeology!)
Vice Verba by Ludicrous Software - this free application helps with mastering Latin verb forms
Anki by Ankitects Pty Ltd - this flashcard application is free for Android users and $25 for iPhone users; you can create your own flashcards or download those of other users, and the app employs a spaced repetition system geared for optimal memorization. There is a free desktop version, as well as an online companion website, and users can synchronize their cards and decks easily. $25 is, in the end, a small price to pay for such a useful app, but if you do not want to invest the money, you can always use the desktop version for free.
TOCS-IN (A searchable database consisting of the tables of contents of 160 journals and of many Festschrifts)
L'Annee Philologique (everything published on classical topics, whether in books or in journals, in the past few decades; available online or in the reference section of the library)
Gnomon (Contains all titles in classics from 1997 on; many very finely differentiated topics. The site is in German, but have patience because it's valuable to figure out)
Pinax Online (A splendid list of links to bibliographies for any aspect of the Ancient Greek World: language, literature, history, religion, mythology, art, and archaeology)
Diotima (A bibliography for classical authors, includes Greek lyric)
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (The best on-line classical journal: reviews most first-rate books on classical subject published in last 10 years or so. Quick easy search devices)
William H. Allen Bookseller (A 2nd-hand bookstore in Philadelphia, specializing in classics)
Schoenhof’s Foreign Books (Large Classics selection)
Amazon (For all books in print. But note well that Amazon’s cataloging is semi-literate. Often you must try different versions of the title etc.)
AbeBooks (In effect a huge world-wide consortium of 2nd-hand booksellers, so that your one search is searching in many countries)
Wildwinds (An online reference, attribution and valuation site for ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins)
Itinera Electronica (Concordances (“hypertexts”) to Latin authors)
Perseus Digital Library
Online Etymological Dictionary (A splendid etymological dictionary of English)
Orbis Latinus Online (The biggest and completest glossary of Latin place names)
RBMS/BSC Latin Place Names File (Latin place names and their modern equivalents)
Slater’s Lexicon to Pindar (at Perseus)
Woodhouse’s Greek to English Dictionary (An extremely well-made dictionary at the University of Chicago website for use in Greek composition)
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary (Another digitized version, called “Glossa: a Latin dictionary” but is really just Lewis & Short. This version you can download onto your desktop. When you search, it lists the half dozen words that precede and those that follow the one you’re searching for)
Glossarium Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis (A dictionary of medieval Latin)
Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini (TLIO) (A dictionary of old Italian)
Whitaker's Words Online (Type in the English word to get its possible equivalents in Latin)
Il Vocabolario Etimologico di Pianigiani (A famous old etymological dictionary of Italian by Ottorino Pianigiani. The entries are photocopied, but you can produce that for any word by typing it in the search window)
Greek-Latin & Latin-Greek Lexicon (Downloadable in Google Books)
Liddell & Scott Greek Dictionary
Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek Dictionary (At the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, gives links to the texts themselves.
LOGEION (A superbly well made search engine at the U. Chicago, where you can search for a word simultaneously in LSJ, the Diccionario griego-espanol, Lewis and Short, and DuCange; and if the word is Greek you can type it without accents)
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
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