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Lists of Classics Related Websites

The links gathered below represent only a small selection of the resources available. For more extensive surveys you should sample:

The "Classics Collections Page" (a nicely made compilation mounted by the University of Florida Libraries);
Rassegna delle risorse elettroniche per lo studio dell'Antichita' classica (compiled by Alessandro Cristofori; in Italian);
The valuable survey, Classical Computing: Electronic Resources for Classicists /The Second Generation, compiled by Maria C. Pantelia of the University of California-Irvine;
The Classical Studies Page of Alan Liu's "Voice of the Shuttle," a collection of electronic resources for the Humanities.
Note also:

Argos: a useful search tool for the ancient world on the Internet (University of Evansville)
The atrium: David Meadows' resources for classicists and ancient historians, including job listings.
Software Directory for the Classics (courtesy of Rob Latousek and the American Classical League).
The Stoa: consortium for electronic publication in the humanities.
Classics Course Database: the test version of a searchable database of syllabi and other course resources (courtesy of Suzanne Bonefas and the APA Committee on Computer Activities' Classics, Technology, and Teaching Subcommittee).
Survey of Audio-Visual Resources for Classics, by Janice Siegel.

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Texts, Images, Vistas

TEXTS

Bibliotheca Latina: a collection of links to Latin texts (Classical through Neo-Latin) and other Latin-related resources (compiled by Jeffrey Wills / University of Wisconsin--Madison)
Vademecum in opus Saxonis: a searchable Latin-Latin glossary.
Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar in the new Roman Perseus
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (Oxford University)
Homepages of some Greek and Latin authors:

Apollonius Rhodius (compiled by Jackie Murray), see also a bibliography compiled in Leiden by Tijn Cuypers for A.R. and Hellenistic poetry in general.
Augustine (compiled by Jim O'Donnell)
Ausonius
Bacchylides bibliography (compiled by Ilja Pfeijffer)
Bible:

The Bible Gateway: browse or search the Latin Vulgate, six different English translations, or versions in five other languages (no Greek)
The Tanach Page: the Masoretic text of Torah, Nevi'im, and Ketuvim (with instructions for viewing the Hebrew)

Boethius (compiled by Jim O'Donnell)
Callimachus bibliography
Catullus
Cicero (mounted by Andrew Riggsby / University of Texas--Austin)
Livy (a bibliography compiled by Timothy Moore / University of Texas--Austin)
Ovid:

Ovid im WWW (compiled by Ulrich Schmitzer / Erlangen)
The Ovid Project: Metamorphosing the Metamorphoses (compiled by Hope Greenberg / The University of Vermont)
Recent Ovidian Bibliography (compiled by Sean Redmond / NYU)
Who's Who in the Metamorphoses of Ovid: The Analytical Onomasticon Project (directed by Willard McCarty, with Burton Wright and Aara Suksi / Toronto)

Petronius and the Ancient Novel (by Gareth Schmeling- Petronian Society)
Pindar (a bibliography compiled by Ilja Pfeijffer / Leiden)
Plato (mounted by C. S. Planeaux)
Pliny the Younger (a bibliography compiled by Ulrich Schmitzer / Erlangen)
Thucydides (a short bibliography compiled by Lowell Edmunds / Rutgers)
Vergil

Vergil's Home Page

The Vergil Project (a collaboration headed by Joe Farrell / The University of Pennsylvania)

Mantovano: An Online Discussion of Vergil and His Influence (a list owned by David Wilson-Okamura / University of Chicago)

Greek Prose Style (mounted by Hardy Hansen / CUNY)
Bibliography of Greek linguistics (Michel Buys /Leiden)
Greek Grammar on the Web. Compiled by Marc Huys.
The website of the Spanish-Greek dictionary DGE.
North American Institute for Living Latin Studies (NAILLS) homepage
Latin Inscriptions: ILS on line (from Gnomon)
Perseus Project WWW

Perseus Texts and Translations
Perseus Lookup Tool, for searching all the Perseus databases
Roman Perseus: a new initiative, now with texts of Caesar, Catullus, Cicero and others (see also VRoma)

Project Libellus (Latin texts by ftp from the University of Washington)
The Tech Classics Archive (MIT)
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae

BOOKS AND WRITING

The Ancient Book: Palaeography and Illumination (from Seton Hall)
Duke Papyrus Archive
Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Aegyptens (courtesy of Dieter Hagedorn / Heidelberg)
The Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts (from Brown University) ["unavailable until further notice"]
The Mount Athos Greek Manuscripts Catalog: The Philotheou Monastery Project (compiled by Robert Allison / Bates College)
Papyrology Home Page (an extensive resource compiled by John D. Muccigrosso)
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (from Indiana University)

MAPS

The Classical Atlas Project (University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill)
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (University of Texas-Austin)
Perseus maps and Atlas project
Maps of Ptolemaic Egypt and other information in the "House of Ptolemy"
The Xerox PARC Map Viewer

ART, ARCHITECTURE, ARCHAEOLOGY

American Schools of Oriental Research
Ancient City of Athens (compiled by Kevin Glowacki and Nancy Klein)
Archimedia: Architecture in Ancient and Classical Art (developed by Ora Zehavi and Sonia Klinger)
ArchNet
ARGE: Archaeology Guide for Europe
Ariadne (a slide database at Skidmore College)
"Art History Resources on the Web" (compiled by Christopher Witcombe, Sweet Briar College)
ArtServe: Humanities Mosaic of the Australian National University (a large archive of images)
Ashmolean Museum
Cultural Map of Hellas (from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture)
Diotima's Art Links (a sub-page of the Diotima Web site)
Dr. J's Illustrated Sites (by Janice Siegel)
Internet Archaeology Home Page- a refereed e-journal
Kelsey Museum Educational and Outreach Programs
Model of Rome (from the University of Caen)
Mythology in Western Art (a promising archive of images drawn from several media)
Perseus: Art & Archaeology
Pompeii
Roman Archaeology (compiled by Menne C. Kosian)
Roman Art and Architecture: a collection of images grouped by media and by historical periods (University of Colorado--Colorado Springs)
Lacus Curtius, Bill Thayer's immense site
ROMARCH: the art and archaeology of Italy and the Roman Provinces
Rome Project (a useful collection of links to scattered resources for students of Roman culture, mounted by the New Laboratory for Teaching and Learning / The Dalton School)
"World Wide Arts Resources"

OTHER DIRECTIONS

Ancient History:

Ancient World Web: the "ancient world" conceived globally, with links to materials on Africa, Australia, and the Americas, as well as the Mediterranean world (compiled by Julia Hayden)
"Overview of Ancient Greek History" (by Thomas R. Martin / Holy Cross in collaboration with the Perseus Project)
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (by Alaa K. Ashmawy: an unexpected treat, elegantly done), or try this link

Ancient Medicine / Medicina Antiqua
Magic page by John-Gabriel Bodard at Reading
Byzantium (compiled by Paul Halsall)
Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World (a marvelous collection of resources compiled by Suzanne Bonefas and Ross Scaife)
Epigraphy: American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
Law:

Roman Law (compiled by Thomas Rüfner / Tübingen, with choice of pages in German, Italian, English, or Latin)
Roman Law Resources (University of Aberdeen)

Medieval Studies:

ORB: Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies
Labyrinth (from Georgetown University), alternatively: http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
NetSERF (from the Catholic University of America)

Mythology:

Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources (a fine collection of texts and images maintained by Laurel Bowman / University of Victoria)
Folklore and Mythology Homepage (the home page of an undergraduate concentration at Harvard, with a useful, if not very well sorted, collection of links to other sites)
Highly informative myth course homepage from Princeton

Postmodern Thought (from the University of Colorado--Denver)
Rhetoric (Yahoo!'s Rhetoric page)
Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today. With an Introduction to Ancient Theater
Skenotheke: Images of the Ancient Stage (from the University of Saskatchewan; not available at present)
VRoma: A Virtual Community for the Teaching of Classics (see also Roman Perseus)

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Libraries and Related Resources

The Library of Congress

The Library of Congress On-Line Catalog (WWW)
The Library of Congress Online Databases (LOCIS) (telnet)
The Library of Congress Classics Page (compiled by Joseph Casazza)

University of California (MELVYL) (telnet or WWW)
Harvard University (HOLLIS)
Princeton University (telnet or Java-telnet)
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL)
Association of Research Libraries
Aiolos: The University of Amsterdam Library Classics Page (compiled by R. L. Hunsucker)
From Washington & Lee: List of lists (of..) Libraries around the world
The Association of American University Presses Combined Online Catalog/Bookstore
Focus Publishing

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Electronic Journals and Mailing Lists

American Journal of Archaeology
Ancient History Bulletin
Arachnion: a journal of ancient literature and history
Bryn Mawr Classical and Medieval Reviews
Classical Review
CLASSICS: the best discussion group for classical studies on the Internet, administered by Linda Wright at the University of Washington
Classics Ireland: the journal of the Classical Association of Ireland
Electronic Antiquity
Gnomon
Histos: An Electronic Journal of Ancient Historiography
Journal of Roman Archaeology
Project Muse: a site which is putting many print journals on the web, such as Arethusa and AJP. Full text accessible from subscribing institutions, including the UofC.
Mailing Lists: searchable archives of aegeanet, ancien-l, ane-l,byzans-l, classics-m, greekarch, lt-antiq, numism-l, and romarch (provided by Sebastian Heath and John Muccigrosso / University of Michigan)
New England Classical Journal
Retiarius, Terence Tunberg's Living Latin on the web.
Scholia
TOCS-IN: a database of tables-of-contents from journals of interest to classicists
An index to the Vergilius bibliographies of Vergilian scholarship