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Some useful links to further resources

(See 'Key tools for remote study and exams' for some of the best resources to help during the pandemic!)

Typing Greek
  • TypeGreek.com - especially good for sublinear dots (just use '@')
  • RoboGreek - free utility for typing Greek

Good Fonts for Greek
  • ​The Brill - attractive font, and has the advantage of automatically putting sublinear dots in the right place

Greek and Latin Spellcheck
  • Titivillus - a spellchecker for Microsoft Word/Windows for Latin and Greek

Greek and Latin Language
  • Charlie Weiss' Language Page - a wide variety of language learning resources
  • Jo Wilmott's Website - many more language resources

Scansion
  • * METRON - scansion tool for Latin hexameters and pentameters
  • Mnemonics for metre - mnemonics for learning Greek/Latin metre by Armand D'Angour
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Guides to practical criticism/critical discussions (the close study of a specific passage from an ancient text):
  • Guide by Marianne Cole, Oliver Thomas and Helen Van Noorden (only accessible with a CRSid - now sadly defunct!)
  • Guide by Charlie Weiss​
  • Guide by Katherine McDonald 

Texts online
  • Alpheius Project - tool to assist reading texts online
  • Dickinson College Commentaries - brand new Open Access Greek & Latin commentaries (incl. Ovid Amores I), alongside some older commentaries and a core vocabulary list
  • * Loeb online - online (and searchable) versions of all Loebs.
  • *PHI Latin Texts - Latin texts, with word search and concordance function
  • Musisque Deoque - A digital archive of Latin poetry
  • The Suda Online (SOL) - searchable text and translation of the Suda
  • *TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae) - lots of Greek texts (click 'Canon' and search); text search (including 'lemma' and 'proximity'); good at parsing (just click on a word in a  text); NB need University login to access full corpus.

Databases
  • AGCO - Antigonid Coins Online - database of Antigonid coins
  • Aeschylus Agamemnon Catalogue - a bibliography of the Agamemnon from 1518 to the present
  • Callythea - an online (French) database of Hellenistic poets' treatment of mythological material, alongside iconographic comparanda
  • Diorisis Search 2.1 - select and search any of 820 lemmatized Ancient Greek texts
  • ​ETYGRAM - an online dictionary of etymologies proposed or suggested by ancient and medieval Greek texts for Greek words
  • Epigraphik-Datenbank - database of Latin inscriptions
  • Haverford Digital Commentary Library - an aggregator of open-access classical commentaries online
  • Homeric Speech Database - companion to D. Beck's study of Homeric Speech
  • Mueller-Jacoby Concordance - DFHG tool for finding concordances among ancient Greek fragmentary historians
  • The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece - database of references to oaths in Greek texts from earliest inscriptions to 322 BCE
  • Packhard Humanities Institute - searchable Greek inscriptions
  • PCO - Ptolemaic Coins Online - database of Ptolemaic coins
  • Proxeny Networks of the Ancient World - searchable overview of proxeny attestations in the ancient world
  • recensio.antiquitatis - an open access aggregator for scholarly reviews in all fields of ancient studies
  • SCO - Seleucid Coins Online - database of Seleucid coins
  • Tesserae - a search engine for intertextual parallels (Greek-Greek, Latin-Latin, Greek-Latin)
  • Trismegistos - database of metadata of all published and semi-published texts from Egypt and the Nile valley, c. 800 BCE - 800 CE

Maps
  • Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
  • Pelagios Commons

Networks
  • Augustan Poetry Network
  • Classical Collections Network
  • Epic Poetry Network
  • Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song

Bibliographies
  • * L'Année philogique - a handy searchable tool to find classical bibliography on any subject
  • * Google Scholar - search for an article/book, then see who's cited it (to trace bibliographic threads) 
  • Cognitive Classics - bibliographies on cognitive approaches to the humanities and classics
  • Dreams of Antiquity 2.0 - bibliography on dreams and visions in Greco-Roman antiquity
  • Greek Linguistics - bibliography of functional Greek linguistics
  • ​GrEpiAbbr - list of abbreviations of editions and reference works for Alphabetic Greek Epigraphy [older version]
  • Hellenistic Bibliography - bibliographies on post-classical Greek poetry and its influence
  • Nikephoros Bibliography - bibliography on sport in antiquity
  • Seleucid Research Bibliography - bibliography project of the Seleucid Study Group
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Other
  • Authors and Works - A handy list of many classical authors with approx. dates
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Archives
  • Digital Proceedings of the Virgil Society (dPVS) - digital repository for the Proceedings of the Virgil Society
  • Omnibus - Classics magazine aimed at those in the final years of high school/starting university

Reference Resources
  • Athenaeus - Casaubon - Kaibel reference converter
  • TLL -  Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Open Access

Educational Videos
  • Classics educational videos by Tom MacKenzie

Just for fun
  • Homeromanteion - consult the oracle of Homeric verses
  • Latinometer - how latinate is your prose?

Some Fun Compositions
  • A.E. Housman's "A Fragment of Greek Tragedy" in Aeschylean Greek by D.S. Raven
  • De Bello Sidereo Liber I in Latin hexameters by Alexis Hellmer
  • Samuel Butler's "Herodotus at Cambridge" in Herodotean Greek by J. Enoch Powell
  • Heroides 15 1/2 (After "Let it Go" from Disney's Frozen) in Latin elegiacs by David Petrain
  • The Duel of Eteocles and Polynices in Greek hexameters by Friedrich Engels

Near Eastern Resources
  • CAD - The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
  • ePSD2 2.0 - the second version of the electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
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Many more links available at:
  • http://classicsresources.info/
  • wiki.digitalclassicist.org
  • Mesopotamia: Cambridge Online Resources
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