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General Resources

Perseus. Start here for most searches for texts, translations, maps, images, etc. of the Greek world (it can also be helpful for Roman things as well).

Mapping Ancient Athens

Rassegna degli Strumenti Informatici per lo Studio dell'Antichita Classica is another source for digital resources on the classical world.

Greek and Roman Texts

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, also available as a database through the SCU library, contains digitized Greek texts from Homer to 1453 C.E.

The Internet Classics Archive provides English translations of 441 texts (most but not entirely Greek and Roman).

Latin Inscriptions-The Internet Release provides a link to over 100,000 texts from L'Année Épigraphique, C.I.L., and Dessau's Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae.

Finding Your Way Around Ancient Greece and Rome

Ancient World Mapping Center promotes cartography, historical geography, and geographic information; use this site for digital maps.

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, found within Perseus, is supplemented by The Perseus Site Catalogue.

Athenian Agora Excavations provides up-to-date information on the excavations with maps, diagrams, QTVR virtual reality movies, and links to other relevant sites.

VRoma provides online resources for learning about the Latin language and ancient Roman culture with images, texts, translations, articles—and it will even speak with you in Latin!

The Rome Project offers an excellent collection of resources for the study of classical Rome.

For Class

Diotima is the most helpful site for women, gender, and sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome

For ancient coins, see The American Numismatic Society, The Virtual Catalogue of Roman Coins, The Roman Numismatic Gallery.

Bibliographies of Classical Scholarship

L'Annee philologique, an index to work published since 1924 in fields related to the language, literature, history, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome, is the standard bibliographical tool for research in Classics.  The online electronic version covers the years 1949-2005. It is available as an electronic database through the SCU library.

Gnomon online is a good place to start to find recent books and journal articles in Classics.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review publishes online reviews (often review essays) of recent books in all areas of Classics.