Databases

  • The AMPHORAS Project makes available part of the archive collected by Virginia R. Grace at the excavations of the Agora in Athens, as well as some additional materials. It includes a bibliography (with a search index) of scholarly work on finding, identifying, and hypothesizing about Greek and Roman amphoras and the trade they carried, translated passages in ancient Greek literature on the use of amphoras, translations into English of works (or parts of works) published in Russian on amphoras, and links to other Web sites with amphora information and/or images (excavations on land and underwater, etc) and other sources of bibliography.

  • Ancient Greek Music is a site maintained by Stefan Hagel. It contains all published fragments of Ancient Greek music with notes. All of them are recorded under the use of tunings based on ancient theoreticians (of the Pythagorean school, most of them cited by Ptolemaios). Instruments and speed are chosen by the author. The exact sound depends on your hard- and software.

  • Rogueclassicism is a site designed and maintained by David Meadows. It provides links to blogs, conferences and podcasts, online programs and other sites of interest to Classicists.

  • The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World created by the Ancient World Mapping Center.

  • Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet links to reference and teaching materials related to Byzantine Studies creted and maintained by Paul Halsall.

  • The Canon of Greek Authors and Works is a database containing all the authors and works included in the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae® Digital Library, with complete bibliographical references to printed editions (Registration required).

  • The Home page of the Searchable Greek inscriptions is a scholarly collection of Greek inscriptions developed by Cornell University and Ohio State University with funding from the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI).

  • The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts and images of documentary papyri from ancient Egypt. The site also provides links to the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) and its partners.

  • The Greek Manuscript Database from Bates College is produced by Robert W. Allison, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. The purpose of the database is to provide scholars with information about the Philotheite Monastery manuscripts of Mount Athos. It is a division of the Mount Athos Greek Manuscripts Catalogue Project of the Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece.

  • L'Année philologique on the Internet is a database published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, in collaboration with the Society for Classical Studies. It provides annotated bibliographies for all publications in the field of Classics.

  • The Perseus Project Perseus is a Digital Library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond. The project started out as a Digital Library of Classical Civilization and has been expanding its holdings to include Greek and Latin Texts and lexicographical resources. The site also includes a version of Liddell-Scott Dictionary, Smyth's Greek Grammar (1921), Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar (Ginn and Company 1903), and many other resources.

  • The Pleiades is an open source site that provides historical geographic information about the ancient world.

  • The Philological Museum is a web site originally created by Dana Sutton at the University of California, Irvine. The site is now maintained under the auspices of the The Shakespeare Institute of the The University of Birmingham. It offers a collection of hypertext editions of NeoLatin Texts with extensive bibliographies.

  • The Roman Law Project maintained by Thomas Rüfner, provides indexed texts, links to other sites on legal history and classics and general information about Roman Law. Most of the information is available in English, Latin, German and Italian.

  • The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) is a research program at the University of California. The TLG has collected and digitized the entire corpus of ancient Greek and Byzantine literature. The full TLG corpus is open to institutions and individuals by subscription. The site, however, provides open access to the TLG bibliographical materials, known as the Canon of Greek Authors and Works and the abridged version of the TLG with more than 100 authors and 1000 works available to browse or search.

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