Resources

On this page you will find a growing list of Classics-related websites.

Classical Languages Sources

Perseus

Persues Digital Library (version 4.0): the clarissimus digital collection of Latin and Greek texts, commentatries, and dictionaries. Perseus 5.0, the newest version, can be found at Scaif Viewer. The Philologic edition of the library allows you to search the corpus for individual words or phrases.

Logeion: an online dictionary that lets you switch between and compare defintitions from a number of different Ancient Greek dictionaries. Available for IOS.

Attikos: an Ancient Greek reading IOS App with the most famous classical authors. Tapping on a word parses it for you.

Greek and Latin Texts with Aids

Dickinson College Commentaries: Latin and Greek texts with student commentaries.

Steadman’s Commentaries: PDFs of Latin and Greek texts with facing commentary and vocabulary.

Loebolus: public domain Loebs. 

Greek and Latin Texts

Bibliotheca Augustana: includes many post-classical authors not available on other sites.

PHI Latin Texts

The Latin Library

Other Resources

The Bridge: creates customizable vocubulary lists (which can be uploaded to Anki) based on ancient texts.

Legentibus: an IOS for learning Latin through immersion in Latin texts both modern and ancient. You listen to Latin stories while you walk to class.

Whitaker’s Words: a Latin-English dictionary that parses any form you type in.

Latin Is Simple: includes a sentence analysis tool which will fully parse all the words in a passage for you. Also has a dictionary and a library with major Latin authors.

Vice Verba: an App for practice conjugating Latin verbs.

Classical Civilizations Resources

General Recources

Attalus.org: project to fit every single event of Hellenistic and Roman history mentioned in the texts or inscriptions into a timeline. Will list the event and then give citations, which links source. Very convenient when you need sources on a specific event or individual. 

ToposText: project to map all locations mentioned in ancient texts; click on any location on the map and it will give you all the ancient quotations mentioning it.  

Livius.org: articles on ancient history, including introductions to and translations of ancient sources.

Abbreviations | Oxford Classical Dictionary: comprehensive list of the abreviations required for citing ancient sources.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: includes articles on Ancient Philosophers.

Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire: the most comprehensive map of the Roman empire you’ll find on the internet. Google maps for the ancient mediterranean. 

Ancient authors in translation 

LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World: translations of Roman historians and biographers.

Perseus Digital Library: contains translations of most ancient authors.  

Poetry in Translation

Ancient Greece

Ancient Rome 

Other Primary Sources

Jacoby Online | Scholarly Editions: all fragments and testimonia of lost ancient historians with scholarly introductions to each author or text. 

Papyri.info: transcriptions, images, and (some) translations of Papyri. 

The Roman Law Library: thorough collection of Roman laws, though most are untranslated. 

Epigraphy

Attic Inscriptions Online: collection of translated inscriptions from Athens and Attica. 

Epigraphic Database Heidelberg: comprehensive, searchable collection of Latin inscriptions. 

Roman Inscriptions on Lacus Curtius: translated selection of +200 inscriptions from Rome.  

Cuneiform texts from Hellenistic Mesopotamia:

Astronomical Diaries Digital: translations of Babylonian astronomical diaries (basically they record all sorts of events from the price of grain or a king’s victory in battle in the context of astronomical phenomena) collected by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities. 

Mesopotamian Chronicles: translations of Hellenistic-period Mesopotamian chronicles on Livius. 

Greek & Roman Art | The MET: descriptions and high-res images of +500 pieces of Greek and Roman art.