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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.

Bibliographies, Book Reviews, Bookstores, Classical Associations, Classical Scholarship, Classics-themed Apps, Coins, Concordances, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Etruscans, Graduate Study in Classics, Grammar & Pronunciation of Greek and Latin, Greek Font, History, Greek and Roman, Inscriptions, Greek and Latin, Journals, Link Sites, Maps, Music and Meter, Medieval Studies, Late Antiquity, Christianity, Mythology, New Testament, Papyri, Pompeii, Oplontis, & Bay of Naples, Rhetoric, Rome, Texts (Greek, Latin, Both, Medieval/Neolatin/Renaissance, Greek Lyric, Individual Authors), Ancient Theater, Vases, Miscellaneous)

Bibliographies

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)

Lacus Curtius (This site made by the heroic Bill Thayer is one of the most magnificent, and has been for me the most constantly and prodigiously useful, of all classical sites on the web)

Book Reviews

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)

Bookstores

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)

Classical Associations

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!)

Classical Scholarship

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).

Classics-themed Apps

Vice Verba by Ludicrous Software (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)

Coins

Wildwinds (An online reference, attribution and valuation site for ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins)

Concordances

Itinera Electronica (Concordances (“hypertexts”) to Latin authors)

Dictionaries

Perseus Digital Library (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. Its most valuable resources are Liddell & Scott Intermediate Greek Lexicon, Greek Word Study Tool, and Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary)

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 (A fantastic Latin to English dictionary through the University of Notre Dame. 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-español, Lewis and Short, and DuCange; and if the word is Greek you can type it without accents)

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Accessed via the UD library webpage. This useful database allows you to track the use of specific words throughout Greek texts)

Encyclopedias

Suda On-line: Byzantine Lexicography (The entire Suda, which is a medieval Byzantine encyclopedia & Greek dictionary)

Ancient Names Galleria (Ancient proper names)

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

William Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (A complete digitized version)

Wikipedia: List of Ancient Romans (A biographical dictionary of ancient Romans)

Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines de Daremberg et Saglio (A magnificent old French classical encyclopedia. The text can be read either in digital form or in JPEG photos)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities Ed. by William Smith (Available both on Lacus Curtius and on the University of Michigan website. An old fine-textured classical encyclopedia about institutions, offices, places, things, etc., illustrated by charming old woodcuts. The Michigan link contains a Greek index (p.1242), a Latin index (p.1257), an English index (p.1281), and a Classified index (p.1284)

Cambridge Ancient History (1928-1936) (Volumes now in the public domain, downloadable from archive.org in many different formats, including text)

Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 18 vol. (Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing)

Catalogue of Roman Umbria

Etruscans

The Mysterious Etruscans

George Dennis: Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (A fascinating book by a learned mid-19th-century English traveller)

Graduate Study in Classics

Gradcafe (Gioves advice about, and links to, graduate programs)

Grammar & Pronunciation of Greek and Latin

Perseus Digital Library (has lexicons, grammatical links, etc)

Lingua Latina (Latin grammar)

Institute of Biblical Greek (Complete conjugation of the verb “luo”)

Greek Grammar Handout (Greek noun, pronoun, adjective & verb tables, and various other things, by Karl Maurer)

Latin Grammar Handout (by Karl Maurer)

Sketch of the Latin Language (The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica article by Wilkins and Conway)

Chase & Phillips Handout (By Karl Maurer, has a list of the Greek words used by Chase & Phillips listing the chapter in which each is first taught, additions to the English-to-Greek Vocabulary, various other things)

Chase & Phillips Index (By Alexandra Weston at University of Dallas)

How to Pronounce Latin (Latin verse and prose recited by professors at Harvard, of whom the best, I think, is Coleman. One must simultaneously handle the meter, the everyday stress-accent, and the meaning. The verse has to be musical, yet also living speech)

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.

Greek Font

MultiKey 5.01 / 6.00 (Free, downloadable Greek font and keyboard system; “Palatino Lintotype” is the recommended Unicode font)

Unicode Polytonic Greek for the World Wide Web (Greek that has acute, grave and circumflex accents and the breathings, not “modern”/“monotonic”, Greek that has only acute accents)

Tavultesoft Greek Font (Greek fonts that come with a keyboard so you can type and edit with breathings, accents, etc.)

History, Greek and Roman

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook at Fordham University (Links pertinent to all aspects of classical and later antiquity. The Greek and the Roman sections each include a very large collection of Latin & Greek texts arranged both by topics and chronologically. Texts are of all sorts)

Ancient Roman History Timeline IV (A crude list of events, persons, etc., associated with various dates in ancient times, listed chronologically)

Greek and Roman History (A very miscellaneous history site with some charming things)

Timelines for Ancient Rome (A good chronology of Roman history from Sandys’ old Companion to Latin Studies)

Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Lacus Curtius (Intelligently arranged entries from William Smith’s hugely useful old Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities)

Maecenas: Pictures of Ancient Greece and Rome

The Roman Legions (A site about the Roman legions: the locations and histories of each of them)

Little Roman Dictionary (By Karl Maurer. A “Little Political Dictionary” describing Roman magistracies, institutions, etc. and 3 ‘Appendices’ describing this or that in greater detail (Lawcourts, Army, Provinces, Festivals, and so on))

Little Athenian Dictionary (By Karl Maurer)

J. B. Bury's History of the Later Roman Empire (Reconstruction of the Western and Byzantine Roman Empire covers the period from 395 A.D., the death of Theodosius I, to 565 A.D., the death of Justinian)

Roman Britain (Three books: John Ward’s The Roman Era in Britain, a general survey; Thomas Codrington’s Roman Roads in Britain, long the standard authority in its field; and George Witts’s Archaeological Handbook of Gloucestershire)

Inscriptions, Greek and Latin

U.S. Epigraphy Project (An index of Greek, Latin, Etruscan inscriptions published in the USA. 4 types: Epitaphs, Dedicatory, Instrumentum domesticum, Miscellaneous, each subdivided by region)

American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (Links to epigraphical sites)

Greek Inscriptions Only

Oxford Inscriptions (Digitized photos of several hundred Inscriptiones Graecae organized by geographical region)

Elizabeth Meyer: On the Evolution of Slavery In Rome & Greece (A searchable archive of Greek inscriptions)

Latin Inscriptions Only

Epigraphik-Datenbank (Combines the different huge collections of Latin inscriptions into one magnificent, searchable data-base. “Beleg” = the modern source to search, “Provinz” = the Roman province to search, “Ort” = the place to search, and “Suchtext” = your keyword(s))

Abbreviations in Latin Inscriptions (Alphabetical list of all abbreviations used in Latin inscriptions)

Epigraphic Database Bari (Christian inscriptions from the 3rd to the 8th centuries)

Latin Inscriptions on Lacus Curtius (Three levels: (a) for the expert: a bare listing with transcriptions of 200 inscriptions; (b) for the student: a selection of 28 photographed inscriptions, sorted by level of difficulty, solutions presented separately; (c) for the surfer: a topical and a geographical index to various webpages)

Journals

First and foremost, always consult JSTOR or Project Muse, using your UD Library account credentials to log in or searching the "Databases" section of the Cowan-Blakely Library Website.

Bibliotheca Classica Selecta (Belgian site by Jacques Poucet. A complete list of classical journals on-line with descriptions & links)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Electronic Antiquity (1993 to present)

Link Sites

Electronic Resources For Classicists (UC Irvine)

Internet Resources: Ancient Greece

Latin Literature (Bucknell University)

Washington University Classics Resources

Packard Humanities Institute

Maps

Oriental Institute Map Series

Maps of the Roman Empire (A list of links to many maps especially pertinent to Roman history; includes ancient maps)

Ptolemy’s Geography

Virgil.org

Henry Davis: Ancient Maps

Maps and Illustrations from Samuel Ball Platner’s The Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome

Roman Atlas

Music and Meter

Austrian Academy of Sciences: Ancient Greek Music (Contains all published fragments of Ancient Greek music which contain more than a few scattered notes)

Nomenclator Metricus

Medieval Studies, Late Antiquity, Christianity

Patrologia Latina (A complete online version of Migne’s prodigious Patrologia Latina, the works of the “Church Fathers” from the 3rd to the 13th century. You have to use your UD Library login to access it)

The Labyrinth at Georgetown University (Links to resources for Medieval Studies)

Internet Medieval Sourcebook (By Paul Halsall at Fordham University)

Pagan & Christian Rome (by Rodolfo Lanciani, the rightly famous 19th century archaeologist and topographer [107 drawings, 16 photos, 12 maps & plans]: splendid account of how Rome made the transition from the capital of Antiquity to the great city of our own time)

Ancient and Early Medieval Topographical Texts

Mythology

Bullfinch’s Mythology

Theoi Project (An extremely rich site)

New Testament

Greek New Testament Index (A table of contents to the New Testament; by hitting the links you get the Greek text)

Biblioteca Augustana (Septuagint and Greek New Testament can both be downloaded)

Papyri

Oxyrrhynchos Papyri (Searchable by volume number & in other ways; has photos of the papyri themselves)

Center for Hellenic Studies (Homer & Papyri: Searchable data-base, edited by G. Nagy & others, of published Homeric papyri)

Catalogue of Mythographic Papyri

Pompeii, Oplontis, & Bay of Naples

Photos of Ostia and Pompeii

Arlington Learning in Retirement Institute (Pompeii, Vesuvius, the 79 AD eruption)

Pompeii interiors (mostly wall paintings, with a map of all Pompeii)

Bay of Naples (Maps and photos relating to the Bay of Naples and the 79 eruption)

Photos of Pompeii

Rhetoric

Silva Rhetoricae (by Gideon Burton, Brigham Young Univ. has a long, good alphabetical glossary of rhetorical terms (with examples from English lit.), and discussion by topics (kinds of oratory; kinds of proof; etc.))

Rome

Platner & Ashby’s A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome

Le Plan de Rome (A good French site, has pictures of the buildings as they are now, & as they were and quotes the ancient sources for each building)

Stanford “Rome”

Theatron Ltd. (Theatres of Rome)

Ancient Rome in the Footsteps of an 18th-c. Traveller (Links to hundreds of 18th-c. engravings of Rome by Giuseppe Vasi with photos of the same places as they appear today)

Pagan and Christian Rome (A fascinating book by Rodolfo Lanciani, “an archaeologist who for many years towards the close of the 19th c. was in charge of all the excavations within the city of Rome, and personally responsible for a number of major discoveries which we now take for granted”)

Comitium (A fairly accurate description of the Comitium with a very good analytical map, which seems based on the work of Filippo Coarelli)

The Roman Forum (Photos of a 3-dimensional model of the Roman Forum of 179 AD)

Vedute di Roma (Well-organized good photos of all Rome)

Roman Architecture & Engineering (Illustrations to a course in Roman architecture and engineering)

Texts

Internet Archive (Microsoft and Google’s endeavor to digitize all works in the public domain)

Greek Texts

The Little Sailing (Links to digital libraries of Greek texts, also includes Unicode Links)

Greci Autori (An Italian site; very miscellaneous selections from many Greek authors: some in Greek, some only in translation, some only in PDF format)

Greek Poetic Texts (Texts of lyric poets)

First 1000 Years of Greek (A huge database of (nearly) all Greek texts from Homer to 250 A.D. focusing on those not already in the Perseus library. One of our Alumns, Ben Yates (the updater of this very site), worked an internship updating and refining this database)

Latin Texts

The Latin Library (Many Latin authors, none translated. Has some texts not found elsewhere, e.g. all Pliny’s letters)

Autori Latini (A very long good Italian site — has texts with splendid, rapid concordances)

Brepolis Library of Latin Texts (CLCLT) (A prodigious database of Latin texts, classical, medieval, and modern. You have to use your UD Library login to access it. Their ultimate mad goal is to include every Latin text ever published, but already it has a vast number of obscure texts)

Postgate, Corpus Poetarum Latinorum vol. 1 (On Google Books)

Musis Deoque (A database of Latin poetry)

Latin and Greek Both

The Perseus Project (Has Greek & Latin texts, English translations, commentary, dictionaries, maps, pictures, etc.,; also has data-bank of papyri)

Biblioteca Augustana (Greek and Latin texts chronologically by century (up to the 20th) or alphabetically)

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (A “history” site, but the Greek & Roman sections have many primary texts (mostly in translation), arranged both by topics and chronologically)

Online Books Page at University of Pennsylvania (A long list of all on-line books (not only classical). All Greek & Roman authors are in English translation)

The MIT Internet Classics Archive (Many classical authors in English translation)

Latin Inscriptions (Inscriptions and texts in both Latin and English)

Navicula Bacchi (A wonderful library of Greek texts, many of which are not elsewhere online; many have facing German translations, and some, even old Latin translations; also includes a corresponding Latin site)

Medieval & Neolatin (Renaissance) Authors

Migne’s Patrologia Latina

The Labyrinth at Georgetown University

The Philological Museum (by Dana Sutton, UC Irvine. A truly magnificent huge list of links to sites pertinent to Neo-Latin authors)

Bibliotheca Augustana (Roman, Medieval, and Neo-Latin)

Thomas Hobbes’s Vita Carmine Expressa (Text, with translation and notes by Karl Maurer, of Hobbes’ autobiography which he wrote in Latin elegiac couplets)

Jacob Balde poems (Translation & notes by Karl Maurer at the University of Dallas)

CAMENA: Corpus Automatum Multiplex Electorum Neolatinitatis Auctorum (A splendid site containing the works of many Renaissance humanists, both verse and prose. The texts are in html format, and sometimes also in facsimiles of the original editions)

Greek Lyric (in English)

Greek Lyric Poets in English (with notes) (Translated John Porter U. of Saskatchewan. For Solon, Theognis see extension)

Introduction to Greek Lyric

Individual Authors (in alphabetical order of names)

Augustine of Hippo (& links there) (J. J. O’Donnell’s text of & commentary on the Confessions)

Famous Orations by Cicero

Hesiod & Homer

Machiavelli (Discourses on the First 10 Books of Titus Livy)

Pseudo-Xenophon: ‘Old Oligarch’ (Constitution of the Athenians: Text & grammatical commentary by Karl Maurer)

The Love Books of Ovid

Ovid Homepage (in German)

Recitations from 5 Odes of Pindar

Index of Pindar’s Images for Poet, Poetry, Song (By Karl Maurer)

Sappho (List of links)

Great Book Index: Sophocles (Sophocles in English & essays on him)

On the Life & History of Thucydides (Hobbes’ Life of Thucydides)

Thucydides Manuscripts (Used by Poppo, Arnold, Other Old Editors. A table by Karl Maurer correlating the old manuscript ‘sigla’ (those of Poppo and Arnold) with their modern sigla; it also shows the rough derivation of each important MS)

The Vergil Project (Resources for students, teachers and readers of Vergil; includes complete text in several versions, MS readings, commentary)

The Aeneid (Links and a newsletter)

Camena: Balde (Downloadable Balde works)

Jacobi Balde on Google Books (1643, 1643, 1645, 1646, 1649 (also here), 1660, 1660 (also see I, II, III, IV), 1664, 1706, 1729 (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII), 1795, 1805, 1829, 1831, 1833, 1842, 1844, 1868, Courson on Jesuits, Murray biography, Spach biography)

Theater, Ancient

Didaskalia (A site devoted to ancient theater, and to modern productions of ancient plays)

Vases (Greek)

Vase Search

Images of Attic Vases

Miscellaneous

The Classical Text Editor (Software you can download for free for making critical editions, offered by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. It is the primary purpose of the Classical Text Editor to do the automatable work which consumes so much time and energy, and let the scholar concentrate on scientific issues)

Commonest Abbreviations, Signs, Etc. Used in the Apparatus to a Classical Text (by Karl Maurer)

The Tomb of Mausolus (By W. R. Lethaby, an in-depth look at one of the wonders of the ancient world, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus: and an attempt at reconstructing it)

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