Some useful links to further resources
NB Current students: See 'Key tools for remote study and exams' for some of the best resources to help in the current circumstances!
Typing Greek
Good Fonts for Greek
Greek and Latin Spellcheck
Greek and Latin Language
Scansion
Guides to practical criticism/critical discussions (the close study of a specific passage from an ancient text):
Texts online
Databases
Maps
Networks
Bibliographies
Other
Archives
Reference Resources
Educational Videos
Just for fun
Some Fun Compositions
Near Eastern Resources
Many more links available at:
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
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
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
Other
- Authors and Works - A handy list of many classical authors with approx. dates
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
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
Many more links available at:
- Mesopotamia: Cambridge Online Resources