Resources on the Internet for Ancient History and Classics

	Resources on the Internet for Ancient History and Classics *[CAVEAT EMPTOR: This site has not been systematically updated in many years.]* There is a constantly growing number of excellent resources available. These range from tables of contents of journals to electronic journals to illustrated tours of archaeological sites and museums. Also, there is a growing number of comprehensive lists of these resources available. I shall make no attempt at duplicating excellent work already done by others and shall list here only a selection, to serve as an entry "key". It is very unlikely that by pursuing the links here provided you will miss anything of importance.
	Bibliographic tools Search Engines Electronic journals Gateways to a broad range of resources Gender studies Undergraduate, graduate programmes; summer courses Lists of universities or ancient history and classics departments Directories of ancient historians and classicists Museums and sites Trivia
	Bibliographic tools: L'Année philologique The bibliographic tool, an annual bibliography covering our field as defined in the broadest possible terms Note for Trent users: APh on-line and searchable from 40 (1969) onwards You may also connect from off-campus using your Novell username and password TOCS-IN Tables of contents of a large number of scholarly journals of the last few years, constantly updated Gnomon — Gnomon Online: The Eichstätt Information System for Classical Studies The Gnomon Online Quick Start Guide Libraries of the world: Libraries world wide, from the University of Saskatchewan Library and Archives Canada (formerly National Library of Canada) / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada virtual Canadian union catalogue (vCuc) from the National Library of Canada / Bibliothèque nationale du Canada The European Library — Gateway to the National Libraries of Europe With on-line catalogues Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog "It gives easy access to more than 60 millions of books and serials in library and book trade catalogs worldwide" Bibliothèque nationale de France The British Library Public Catalogue Library of Congress Doctoral dissertations in progress or recently completed: An Index to classical dissertations and theses in progress or recently completed in North America and Great Britain (© 2000) PhD theses completed since 1992 in the Department of Classics, University of Toronto Liste des thèses en cours de préparation, Dissertations in progress at French universities From La SOciété des Professeurs d'Histoire Ancienne de l'Université (SOPHAU) (1998 [sic]) PhD theses in progress or recently completed at German-speaking Universities, compiled by the German Classical Association ("Mommsen-Gesellschaft") (no date of original creation or updating given) For lack of a better place I list in this section: Publishers world wide, from Saskatchewan abebooks.com — the " world's largest network of independent booksellers" from Victoria BC List of second hand book stores by P. Riedlberger, including Toronto's Atticus Compare prices at various e-bookstores (remember that those who advertise most widely need to recover these expenses) AddALL book searching and price comparison BookFinder4U (Ancient History) E-dictionaries: "Look it up!" "This page has not been updated in a long time; many of the search mechanisms have changed" "An Index of On-Line Dictionaries", from Afrikaans to Xhosa, and including Greek and Latin
	Search engines Index antiquus: a subject-specific search engine for classical and early latin medieval texts Cross Project Resource Discovery offers links to some two dozen search engines, bibliographies, etc.; the example here linked is Augustus Caesar. By Sebastian Heath, The American Numismatic Society "What do you want to know today?" offers also a very impressive collection of search engines, dictionaries, etc. Complex and difficult to use at first. By Ross Scaife, University of Kentucky. Google Scholar "Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web."
	Electronic Journals and journals with an electronic component: A very extensive (though not always reliable) list of journals with at least some electronic content (e.g. tables of contents) can be found at a site named Pomoerium Ancient History journals can also be found in the The History Journals Guide by Stefan Blaschke, ultimately part of The WWW Virtual Library founded by one the original creators of the WWW. Cf. TOCS-IN above Warning: My list below is badly out of date American Journal of Archaeology (AJA) Books received, tables of contents (recent volumes) American Journal of Philology (AJPh) L'Antiquité classique Searchable index (access otherwise denied) Archaeology "An Official Publication of the Archaeological Institute of America"; not limited to the ancient world, and for a wider audience Arethusa Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR) A review journal (and the first electronic journal) publishing some 200 to 250 reviews annually, ranging from ca 1,500 to up to ca 3,000 words) Classical Antiquity (ClAnt) Classical Philology (CPh) Classical Quarterly (CQ) Table of contents and some abstracts of current issues. Classical Review (CR) Table of contents and some abstracts of current volumes. Classical Views / Echos du monde classique(EMC), now Mouseion A journal of the Classical Association of Canada. Tables of contents Classics Ireland Dictynna: revue de poétique latine Articles in French, English, German, in this new on-line journal from Université Charles-de-Gaulle – Lille 3 Didaskalia: ancient theatre today An English-language publication about Greek and Roman drama, dance, and music as they are performed today. Includes links to internet resources related to ancient drama and the archaeological evidence Echos du monde classique / Classical Views (EMC): see above Electronic Antiquity: communicating the classics Eranos Contents of current and previous volumes Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaften An electronic first journal (cf. BMCR in the past), started in 1998 with the intent of publishing in the normal international languages of scholarship. Uses visually pleasing PDF instead of HTML. Greece & Rome (G&R) Tables of contents and abstracts of current volumes; full-text access to this electronic version of the journal is available with paid subscription Gymnasium Tables of contents Histos A journal of Ancient Historiography from the Department of Classics at the University of Durham (UK). Published in hard copy format and electronically Journal for Hellenic studies (JHS) Tables of contents of the most recent issues Klio: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte Tables of contents of most recent volumes Leeds International Classical Studies 'Electronic journal associated with the Leeds International Classics Seminar'; from vol. 1 (2002) New England Classical Journal Journal of the Classical Association of New England Phoenix: journal of the Classical Association of Canada Indices, tables of contents of recent issues, some articles, and reviews Pomoerium. Studia et commentarii ad orbem classicum spectantia Full text of journal available Retiarius: Commentarii Periodici Latini A journal on Latin in Latin! Rheinisches Museum für Philologie (RhM) Indices of recent volumes Scholia: Studies in classical antiquity Scholia Reviews Symbolae Osloenses Tables of contents of recent volumes Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE) "Digital ZPE": Download available free of charge for individual use only. Requires use of Acrobat Reader 4.0. (Supported through the assistance of BMCR, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.)
	Sites listing electronic resources: General: Library of Congress Resources for Greek and Latin Classics Very extensive. Covers also Ancient History, Archaeology, etc. The Cambridge External Gateway to Humanities Resources Classics at Oxford: Resources Includes many links to various internet resources Reading Classical Gateway Classics Éireann Extensive site for Classics at University College Dublin in Ireland Victoria University of Wellington "Classics Links" — fairly extensive listings Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation by Maria C. Pantelia, University of California at Irvine; one of the most comprehensive sites KIRKE A superb, wide ranging site which misses little, if anything Instructions in German — but remember: English language sites are recognised by their names which of course are in English; this also applies to the next two sites Bibliotheca Classica Selecta (BCS) By Jacques Poucet ["An introduction to the bibliography of classical studies"] (instructions in French) Rassegna degli strumenti informatici per lo studio dell'Antichità classica, by Alessandro Cristofori An excellent repository of resources; instructions in Italian Specialised: Perseus Project home page Mirror at the University of Chicago Mirror at the Max-Planck-Institut for the History of Science, Berlin "Internet Ancient History Resource Guide" Links to Web-based Resources for Epigraphy Wide range of important material, esp. for Roman historians, from ASGLE (American society for Greek and Latin epigraphy) PERSONS OF ANCIENT ATHENS Searchable (letters beta-delta so far) database of all persons of ancient Athens (over thirty thousand), compiled under the direction of John S. Traill, University of Toronto (in progress) A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names "A British Academy Major Research Project and a research unit of the Faculty of Literae Humaniores, Oxford University. Editors P.M. Fraser, E. Matthews." Online searches The oath archaic and classical Greece "A research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust, Director: Professor A.H. Sommerstein". Includes data base to 322 BCE. Papyrological Resources "A full list of other papyrology-related resources on the World Wide Web" from the excellent University of Michigan Papyrus Collection web site "Achemenet.com" Dedicated to Persian history of the Achaimenid period; by Pierre Briant, Collège de France Ancient World Mapping Center IAM: The Interactive Ancient Mediterranean Project Visit the Map Room for access to the various maps of superb quality; most maps require the free Acrobat Reader browser plug-in from Adobe Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project Medicina Antiqua. "It is devoted to the study of medicine in the Graeco-Roman world" Web sites pertaining to Late Antiquity From the Society for Late Antiquity The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities VRoma "A Virtual Community for Teaching and Learning Classics" (Roman / Latin, as the name indicates) Romulus Project home page Latin texts The Latin Library at Ad Fontes Academy Extensive selection of Latin texts
	Gender studies: Diotima: women and gender in the ancient world Women's Classical Caucus (WCC)
	Lists of Universities (see also below, "Directories"): Canadian Universities List of Canadian Universities with WWW home pages, arranged by province, from C. Redmond, University of Waterloo Canadian University Home Pages Compiled by Roger Kingsley, University Secretary, University of Winnipeg; lists also less well known institutions such as the University College of the Caribou Universities Worldwide Links to almost 6,000 Universities in over 160 countries College and University home pages List of Universities and Colleges with WWW home pages in the US and other countries from Argentina to Zambia (geographical listings), from C. Demello, MIT — but it "has not been updated in several years" (Demello) List from Cambridge University List of Departments of Ancient History and Classics in the UK List from Erlangen-Nürnberg University List of Institutes of Classical Studies in Europe and the world (instructions in German; click on "Deutschland", "Europa", etc., after "... Departments ..." near the top) Also contains extensive listings of resources (see above, KIRKE) "Classics Departments on-line" Listing of Classics departments with an on-line presence, from Maria Pantelia's site
	Undergraduate and graduate programmes; summer courses: Graduate programs in the USA "Summer courses in the Classics" "under the auspices of the Classical Studies Department of Wesleyan University, with help from the J.M.W. Keck Foundation"
	Directories of Ancient Historians and Classicists: Fédération internationale des Associations d'études classiques — International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies Classicists in British* Universities* American Philological Association: Directory of Members — Access restricted: only APA members may use it (think what you will) Classical Association of the Middle West and South E-mail directory of CAMWS members Classical Association of New England: CANE e-mail directory Classicists in New England colleges and universities Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest Membership directory Directory of Ancient Historians in the United States Directory: Alte Geschichte in Deutschland / Ancient History in Germany, Directory of Departments of Ancient History in Germany maintained by K.H. Kinzl with the collaboration of Jörn Kobes and continually updated Mirror at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main Althistorische Institute der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Official (but bare-bones) list of German Institutes of Ancient History, as of 2003-02 Ancient Historians in France: Annuaire de ses membres (Directory of its members) From La SOciété des Professeurs d'Histoire Ancienne de l'Université (SOPHAU) CASA Directory of classical scholars and research for higher degrees at universities in sub-Saharan Africa (1999) Includes a clickable map of countries with classical studies departments and a list of e-mail addresses only 1999 directory of Australian researchers in Classics and related fields From the Australian Society for Classical Studies. Includes theses in progress New Zealand Classics Departments Association Internationale de Papyrologues: Liste des membres ABZU Directory Index From the Chicago Oriental Institute, primarily listing numerous directories of scholars in oriental studies (i.e., Near Eastern, Egyptian, Mesopotamian) Directory of Historians of Ancient Law* / Verzeichnis über Rechtshistoriker des Altertums* By E. Metzger, University of Aberdeen. Includes Roman law resources Directory of members of MOISA: International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and Its Cultural Heritage Annuaire des chercheurs en médecine ancienne From Bulletin de Médecine Ancienne / Ancient Medicine Newsletter Fellows of the British Academy American School of Classical Studies at Athens Directory Links to other Associations from Cambridge
	Museums and sites Google Image Search Museum List From "The WWW Virtual Library" Greece (National Museum Athens, Thessaloniki) "Metis": "A QTVR Interface for Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites" (requires free Quick Time Player) Extraordinarily sophisticated, offering well over two dozen Greek sites in 360º panoramic views and from several vantage points (caution: up to 12 Mb per site), with links to Perseus Knossos (requires free Quick Time Player) Dozens of 360º panoramic views accompanied by diagrams form this virtual tour of the "Palace of Minos" and related sites Ephesus: 360º panoramic views "Greece in 360 degrees" (requires free Quick Time Player): 360º panoramic views of a variety of Greek locations; although meant for tourism promotion, there are several excellent panoramic views of archaeological sites Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project Pompeii, Virtual tour of Insula I.9 (requires free Quick Time Player)
	News and Weather *Kathimerini* English edition — somewhat abridged and adapted — of Greece's most respected daily newspaper *Athens News* English language weekly, formerly a daily paper; it played an important role in opposing the 1967-74 military dictatorship Athens weather data from the Ethniko Metsovio Politechnio (National Technical University), Athens Weather satellite image of Greece and the Aegean Weather satellite image of Italy

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