Research Guides: Library Resources for Classics: Web resources

Core Resources

Oxford Classical Dictionary This link opens in a new window
Continuously-updated encyclopedia to all aspects of classical antiquity. 5th ed. 2016. See here for its list of abbreviations of both scholarly journals and classical works (or download PDF).
Oxford Bibliographies: Classics This link opens in a new window
Annotated bibliographies of the most recent and authoritative classical scholarship.

Perseus Digital Library
Texts of the major Greek and Latin authors linked to dictionaries, English translations and commentaries. Also includes an Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser. Try the Scaife Viewer, Perseus' new text interface.

L'Année Philologique This link opens in a new window
Main index to the scholarship of classical studies published in all languages in both books and journals. 1924+

Journal abbreviations used in L'Année Philologique

Library of Latin Texts This link opens in a new window
Texts of Latin literature spanning the Classical, Patristic, Medieval, and Neo-Latin periods. For a database of the classical texts with a simpler interface see Classical Latin Texts, the online version of the PHI CD-ROM.

Loeb Classical Library
Online access to all of the in print volumes of this major series of Greek and Latin texts with facing translations.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) This link opens in a new window
Texts of Greek literature from Homer (8th century BCE) to the fall of Constantinople (1453 CE).
First-time users need to register for an account in order to gain access to the full corpus.

Ready Reference

Logeion
Quick look-up of Greek and Latin words across all of the Perseus lexica.
ΜΟΡΦΩ
Logeion's Greek morphology parser.
English / Latin Dictionary
English / Greek Dictionary
Chronologies of the Ancient World
Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)
Bibliography Recommendations
Princeton Classics Department's recommendations for footnote and bibliography entry formatting. Journal article exercise.
SonicWall
Installation instructions for SRA (Secure Remote Access) software necessary for authenticated off-campus access to purchased Library resources.
Citation management
Library support and training for Zotero, Mendeley, Refworks and Endnote.

Encyclopedias

Brill's New Pauly This link opens in a new window
English version of an important German encyclopedia of the ancient world (also, see the on-going digitization at Wikisource of the original "big" Pauly, the Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft). Topics are from one of two sections: Antiquity, which covers the ancient world of Greece and Rome, and the Classical Tradition, which covers the history of classical scholarship.
Cambridge Ancient History This link opens in a new window
Authoritative history of the ancient world presented in downloadable PDF chapters.

Cambridge Companions: Classics
Collections of essays by leading scholars on major topics in Classics.
Digital Encyclopedia of Atticism
Database of lexicographic entries drawn from "ancient 'dictionaries' that collect linguistic features to be cultivated or avoided in correct Greek."
Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics
Encyclopedia of the Ancient World
Covers the late Bronze Age through the seventh century CE., extending to all Mediterranean civilizations, including the Near East and Egypt.
Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity
Provides biographical information, bibliography and discussion of each grammarian, including the Greek text of preserved fragments.

Oxford Classical Dictionary This link opens in a new window
Continuously-updated encyclopedia to all aspects of classical antiquity. 5th ed. 2016.
Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization This link opens in a new window
Provides a survey of the Greek and Roman worlds in all their aspects. Edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth.

Bibliographies

L'Année Philologique This link opens in a new window
Main index to the scholarship of classical studies published in all languages in both books and journals. 1924+

Journal abbreviations used in L'Année Philologique

Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (ANRW)
Handbbook of "Roman Studies in the broadest sense, and includes the history of the reception and influence of Roman Culture up to the present time." Scroll down to "Work Overview" to access each volume.
Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts
Supplement of Brill's New Pauly provides an overview of the major authors and then lists all significant papyri, manuscripts, scholia, early and contemporary authoritative editions, translations and commentaries.
Diotima
Online resources for the study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World.

Dyabola This link opens in a new window
Projekt Dyabola provides access to the multilingual and regularly updated Archaeological Bibliography, containing book, article and web-based citations from 1956 to the present based on acquisitions at notable archaeological institutes in Europe. Additional resources related to ancient art, archaeology and history are also available. Once in, check the box at the top "activate IP access and press Start".

Gnomon Online
Indexes journals in classical philology, ancient history, and archaeology. Based on the journal Gnomon: Kritische Zeitschrift fur die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft. A good supplement to L'Annee Philologique since it provides more recent citations (see here for a citation comparison).
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC)
"LIMC-icon is not an electronic version of the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, it is an independent and complementary source of information. An ancient document can therefore be dealt with either in the database, or in the book, or in both."
Nestor (1959+)
Online index of the bibliographic entries compiled by Nestor, an international bibliography of Aegean studies, Homeric society, Indo-European linguistics, and related fields.

Oxford Bibliographies: Classics This link opens in a new window
Annotated bibliographies of the most recent and authoritative classical scholarship.

TOCS-IN
Tables of contents of the major journals of classical scholarship. Convenient source for browsing the most current journal literature.

Texts

Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL)
Full text--minus forewords, textual apparatus, and indices--of editions of texts from the Latin series of the Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum.

Brill's Jacoby Online This link opens in a new window
Online edition of F. Jacoby's monumental Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker Parts I-III, providing Greek text, facing English translation, and new commentary and bibliography. See also the Müller-Jacoby Table of Concordance.

Classical Language Toolkit (CLTK)
Offers natural language processing support for Classical languages.
Classical Latin Texts
Simple search interface to the classical Latin corpus provided by the Packard Humanities Institute.
Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca
Links to the Internet Archive or Google Books digitizations of all CAG volumes.
Corpus Corporum
Includes the entire Patrologia Latina, the Vulgate, Corpus Thomisticum and numerous other medieval and Neo-Latin collections of religious, literary and scientific texts.
Corpus medicorum Graecorum/Latinorum
Full-text access to all but the most current editions of this important series of classical medical texts, including prefatory material, apparatus, translations and commentary.
Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum
Handy database of Latin authors listing editions and translations as well as links to public domain texts.
Dickinson College commentaries
"Latin and Greek texts for reading, with explanatory notes, essays, vocabulary, and graphic, video, and audio elements."
Digital corpus for Greco-Arabic studies
Assembles a wide range of Greek texts and their Arabic counterparts.
Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG)
Digital version of the five volumes of the Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (FHG) edited by Karl Müller in the 19th century.
Diogenes
Free software that provides access to a locally loaded copy of Liddell & Scott's Greek dictionary and Lewis and Short's Latin dictionary (web version using Perseus texts). Also can be used as an interface for the PHI CD-ROMs. NOTE: while the texts of the PHI CD-ROMs are also available online (Classical Latin Texts and Searchable Greek inscriptions) the Packard Humanities Institute still provides the CD-ROMs free of charge. Simply read the Terms and then scan and send the License agreement to phi@packhum.org.

Greek and Latin texts with facing vocabulary and commentary
Free digital files for the textbook series written by Geoffrey Steadman
Latin Library, The
Handy collection of Latin texts from all periods (Classical, Christian, Medieval, Neo-Latin).
Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity
Provides biographical information, bibliography and discussion of each grammarian, including the Greek text of preserved fragments.
LIBER: Linear B Electronic Resources
Database contains all the Linear B documents from Knossos, Mycenae, Tiryns and Midea.

Library of Latin Texts This link opens in a new window
Texts of Latin literature spanning the Classical, Patristic, Medieval, and Neo-Latin periods.

Loeb Classical Library
Online access to all of the in print volumes of this major series of Greek and Latin texts with facing translations.
Musisque deoque
"Digital archive of Latin poetry from its origins to the Italian Renaissance." Many poems linked to their manuscript apparatus. Search by "metrical typology" as well.
Open Greek and Latin Project
Collection of open source OCR files from the University of Leipzig Digital Humanities.
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online: Classics
Currently includes Latin texts in critical editions (OCTs), commentaries and translations, many of which linked to the Oxford Latin Dictionary.

Patrologia Graeca This link opens in a new window
Greek texts relevant to the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439.
Patrologia Latina This link opens in a new window
Texts of Latin Church Fathers from Tertullian (200 CE) to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. All prefatory material is included as well as the critical apparatus and indexes. Now includes Niermeyer's Mediae latinitatis lexicon minus.
Alternative SSO Interface to text from University of Michigan.

Pedecerto
Program for the automatic analysing of Latin verses developed by the Università di Udine.
Perseus Digital Library
Texts of the major Greek and Latin authors linked to dictionaries, English translations and commentaries. Also includes an Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser. Try the Scaife Viewer, Perseus' new text interface.
Perseus under Philologic
Greek and Latin texts from the Pereus Digital Library are here accessed via the interface Philologic from the University of Chicago, which searches not only words and word lemmas, but parts of speech, verb voice, tense and mood, and noun gender and case.
Roman Law Library
Handy and searchable collection of primary Roman law texts.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) This link opens in a new window
Texts of Greek literature from Homer (8th century BCE) to the fall of Constantinople (1453 CE).
First-time users need to register for an account in order to gain access to the full corpus.

Voci dal mondo antico
Database of Greek and Latin prose and poetry, especially helpful for identifying instances of elision, alliteration, homeoteleuton and final monosyllables in Latin poetry.

Dictionaries

Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek Online
English translation of Franco Montanari’s Vocabolario della Lingua Greca. With 140,000 entries and new entries being added (online) on a regular basis.

Database of Latin Dictionaries This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to 10 medieval, early modern and modern Latin dictionaries with search results linked back to the Library of Latin Texts.
Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online This link opens in a new window
Lexicon of the most important languages and language branches of Indo-European, including Latin, Greek, Slavic, Proto-Celtic, Old Frisian, Armenian, Hittite, Luvian, the Iranian verb and Proto-Nostratic (Proto-Germanic and Persian are forthcoming).

Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
Niermeyer's Mediae latinitatis lexicon minus
Search "Lexicon term" field.
Repertorio bibliográfico de la lexicografía griega (RBLG): Suplemento
Bibliographic supplements of the RBLG

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive Latin dictionary whose detailed entries cover texts from antiquity to approximately 600 CE and include the etymology and later linguistic development of each word. However, not yet complete, comprising the letters A–M, O, P–pyxodes. See here for PDF digitizations of the the printed fascicles

Atlases

ADOPIA: Atlas Digital Onomastique de la Peninsule Ibérique Antique
Ancient World Mapping Center : maps for students
50 high-resolution maps of the ancient world freely available for download. See Pleiades for a database of geographic information related to the Greco-Roman world linked to Google Maps.
Antiquity À-la-carte
From the Ancient World Mapping Center, this resource "brings together the best available scholarly spatial data with an intuitive interface that lets users freely create, save, share, and download maps in a variety of formats."
Mapping Past Societies
Formerly the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization (DARMC). "Allows innovative spatial and temporal analyses of all aspects of the civilizations of western Eurasia in the first 1500 years of our era, as well as the generation of original maps illustrating differing aspects of ancient and medieval civilization."
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
Second version of the Pelagios project's base map. Provides extensive metadata and links to other geographical resources.
Digital Augustan Rome
Historical Atlas of the Ancient World
Supplemental volume of Brill's New Pauly.
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
"... reconstructs the time, cost and financial expense associated with a wide range of different types of travel in antiquity."
Roundup of Resources on Ancient Geography
Summary list of significant resources maintained by AWOL (Ancient World Online).

Epigraphy & Papyrology

Epigraphy & Papyrology

Law

Annotated Justianian Code (and Novels)
English translation of the Codex and Novels by Fred H. Blume, an attorney and Wyoming Supreme Court Justice. Completed in 1952. An expanded print edition of the Codex based on this translation, with commentary:
The Codex of Justinian : a new annotated translation, with parallel Latin and Greek text based on a translation by Justice Fred H. Blume / Bruce W. Frier, General Editor
Call number: (SC) KJA1192.2 2016
Basilica Online
Fully-searchable online edition of the 17 volumes of the Basilica text and its scholia, as edited between 1945 and 1988 by H.J. Scheltema, D. Holwerda, and N. van der Wal.

Basilicorum libri LX
Call Number: (SHS) KJA1412.2 1953
Publication Date: Groningen : J.B. Wolters, 1953-
7 v.
Basilicorum Libri LX E. Heimbach, ed.
Publication Date: Lipsiae, Barth, 1833-1870
Corpus Juris Civilis by Krueger, P, and Th. Mommsen, eds.
Call Number: (SCL) KJA1082.2 .C677 1954 (Clas) KBD .C67 1904 (SH) KJA1068.G3 C67 1970
Publication Date: Berlin: Weidmann, 1970-1972
3 v.
v.1 (1872) Institutiones/Digesta; v.2 (1888) Codex; v.3 (1895) Novellae
Entry in the Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts.
The Digest of Justinian by Watson, Alan, ed. with English translation
Call Number: (Clas) KJA1112.2 1998 and (SC) KBD .D5313 1985
Publication Date: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1985, 1998 (rev. ed.)
2 v.

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law
Berger, A. Union, NJ: Lawbook Exchange, 2002.
Call number: (Clas) KJA56 .B47 2002

Jus graecoromanum by Zepos, I.
Call Number: (SHS) KJA1355 .J87 1962
Publication Date: Aalen : Scientia, 1962.
8 v.
t. 1. Nearai kai chrysovoulla tōn meta ton Ioustinianon Vyzantinōn autokratorōn -- 2. Nomothesia Isaurōn kai Makedonōn -- t. 3. Theophilou antikēnsoros ta institouta -- t. 4. Peira Eustathiou tou Rōmaiou : Epitomē nomōn -- t. 5. Synopsis tōn vasilikōn -- t. 6. Ēyxēmenē eklogē -- t. 7. Ēyxēmenon procheiron -- t. 8. Kōdix politikos tou Prinkipatou tēs Moldavias.
The Novels of Justinian by David J. D. Miller (Translator); Peter Sarris (Editor)
Call Number: (F) (SHS) KJA1216 .E5 2018
ISBN: 9781107000926
Publication Date: 2018-11-15
The novels comprise a series of laws issued in the sixth century by the famous Emperor Justinian (r.527-65), along with a number of measures issued by his immediate successors on the throne of Constantinople. They reveal the evolution of Roman law at the end of antiquity and how imperial law was transmitted to both the Byzantine East and Latin West in the Early Middle Ages. Crucially, the texts cast fascinating light on how litigants of all social backgrounds sought to appropriate the law and turn it to their advantage, as well as on topics ranging from the changing status of women to the persecution of homosexuals, and from the spread of heresy to the economic impact of the first known outbreak of bubonic plague. This work represents the first English translation of the novels based on the original Greek, and comes with an extensive historical and legal commentary.

Roman Law Library
Handy and searchable collection of primary Roman law texts.
Roman Law Resources
"... provides information on Roman law sources and literature, the teaching of Roman law, and the persons who study Roman law."
The Theodosian Code and Novels, and the Sirmondian Constitutions
Translated with commentary, glossary, and bibliography by Clyde Pharr, in collaboration with Theresa Sherrer Davidson and Mary Brown Pharr; introduction by C. Dickerman Williams. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952.
Call number: (Clas) (SCL) Oversize KJA456 .E545 1952q

Theodosian Code: Novels
Searchable Word document of the Latin text. Thank you Merle Eisenberg.

Manuscripts

Abbreviationes Online
List of Latin manuscript abbreviations and suspensions.
Classical Text Editor
Allows scholars working on a critical edition, a text with commentary, or a translation to prepare a camera-ready copy or electronic publication.
Digitized Greek manuscripts
Simple database linking to images and descriptions of all fully digitized Greek manuscripts.
Early Latin manuscripts
Based on E. A. Lowe's Codices Latini Antiquiores "and thus focuses on non-documentary texts written before the year 800. All of the manuscripts in Lowe's corpus and its supplements will be found in our database, along with corrections by Lowe and later scholars."
Greek Codicology/Paleography
Comprehensive annotated bibliography by Immaculada Pérez Martín from Oxford Bibliographies Online.
Greek Paleography: From Antiquity to the Renaissance
Comprehensive tutorial created by Timothy Janz.

In Principio This link opens in a new window
Indexes the beginning words or line of Latin texts dating from their origins to the Renaissance. Particularly useful in identifying texts in manuscripts.

Latin Paleography, Editing, and the Transmission of Classical Texts
Comprehensive annotated bibliography by Maura Lafferty from Oxford Bibliographies Online.
Latin Paleography: From Antiquity to the Renaissance
Comprehensive tutorial created by A. M. Piazzoni
Pinakes
Descriptive database of Greek manuscripts hosted by the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes.

Numismatics

American Numismatic Society's MANTIS
The ANS collections database contains information on more than 600,000 objects in the Society’s collections. These include, coins, paper money, tokens, ‘primitive’ money, medals and decorations, from all parts of the world, and all periods in which such objects have been produced.
Coin hoards of the Roman Republic Online (CHRR Online)
Database of Roman Republican coin hoards mainly from the period 155 BC to AD 2.
Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE)
Joint project of the American Numismatic Society and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University to create a digital corpus of the coinage of the Roman Empire.
Ptolemaic Coins Online
Roman provincial coinage online
Roman Republican coinage
Coins from the beginning of the 3rd century BC up until the Battle of Actium in 31 BC issued under the Roman Republic in Rome but not coins struck by non-Roman issuers in Italy.
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum
SNG publishes illustrated catalogues of Greek coins in public and private collections in the British Isles, including coins produced by all ancient civilisations of the Mediterranean and neighbouring regions except Rome, though it does include the Roman Provincial series often known as 'Greek Imperials'.

Current awareness

ABZU
Database to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world. Also, follow developments related to the digital humanities at ABZU's blog, The Ancient World Online (AWOL).
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (1990+)
Full-text book reviews covering all aspects of classical scholarship.
Digital Classicist: Current projects
Lists “concise information on projects applying computing technologies to Classical/Ancient Historical research.”

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Contents

Core Resources

Ready Reference

Encyclopedias

Bibliographies

Texts

Dictionaries

Atlases

Epigraphy & Papyrology

Law

Manuscripts

Numismatics

Current awareness

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