Articles
Discipline Specific
http://0-www.annee-philologique.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/aph/
1969-
Contains citations of all known scholarly work published in any language anywhere in the world in the areas of ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, art, archaelogy, religion, mythology, music, science, early Christian texts, numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy. Coverage begins in 200 B.C. and ends roughly in 800 A.D.
Location: Ref. Z 7016 .M35a
General/Many Subjects
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=aph
1965- (varies).
Provides full text for 4,486 publications (3,718 peer-reviewed) covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. A total of 8,224 titles are abstracted and indexed, of which 7,132 are peer-reviewed.
http://0-www.jstor.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu
Full text (in PDF format) of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields. Note: journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent three to five years. For more recent articles, use one of the other indexes listed in this section.
http://0-muse.jhu.edu.library.lausys.georgetown.edu:80/journals/
Mid-1990s- (dates vary by title).
Provides access to almost 250 journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, and 40 other scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others. You can search across all journals in the database, selected subsets of journal titles or just a single title. Full text is available for titles marked with a green arrow.
Background Information
Abbreviations & Acronyms
http://0-macg4cube.gpam.ruhr-uni-bochum.de.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/abbrev.php
Database of over 70,000 medieval Latin abbreviations.
http://iam.classics.unc.edu/main/help/A.html
Alphabetic listing of abbreviations of names and titles of classical works. Does not include abbreviations for Journal titles.
Journal Title Abbreviations in Classics
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ARTH/lannee.html
List of abbreviations of journal titles as used in l'Année Philologique (HTML, hosted at UCB). You may also wish to consult the list of abbreviations used in the American Journal of Archaeology.
http://www.case.edu/artsci/clsc/asgle/abbrev/latin/
Listing of abbreviations found in Latin inscriptions that were published in l'Année Épigraphique between 1888 and 1993.
Dictionaries
Database of Latin Dictionaries
http://0-www.brepolis.net.library.lausys.georgetown.edu
Online collection of Latin dictionaries, including Blaise - Patristic (Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs chrétiens , 1954, 1967, 2005) Firmini Verris Dictionarius (Dictionnaire médiéval latin-français , 1440) and Du Cange (Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, ed. 1883-1887).
Includes live links from search results to the Library of Latin Texts.
Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
http://0-www.oxfordreference.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t174
Covers all facets of Byzantine history and civilization from the fourth to fifteenth centuries including the late Roman period. Bibliographies at the ends of the articles emphasize major works.
Location: Ref. DF 521 .O93 1991
http://old.library.georgetown.edu/service/cdnet/app.cfm?appname=TLL
Comprehensive dictionary of the Latin language; covers every author and work from the first items of Latin up to 600 AD. Dictionary articles allow the user to follow the development of meaning and usage in each word.
Handbooks
Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
http://catalog.library.georgetown.edu/record=b3021037~S4
Concise electronic edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary, which is available in print only.
Literature Reviews
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/
Publishes reviews of books on classical studies. Searchable; 1990- .
Books & Library Catalogs
Bibliographies
http://0-www.dyabola.de.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
Contains electronic subject catalogs of publications on the history of art and the ancient world. Includes the subject catalogs of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, the Bibliography of Iberian Archaeology from the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid, and the Archaeology of Roman Provinces from RGK Frankfurt.
http://trd.mom.fr/zsearch/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=27
FRANTIQ (Fichier de Recherche sur l'ANTIQuité), an intiative by the French CNRS. A bibliographic database of publications on all aspects of the ancient world. Allow users to search simultaneously in the bibliographies of the French archaeological missions (MAFE), and the French regional archaeological reports (Gallia).
Internet Resources
Gateways
http://www.etana.org/abzu/
"Abzu is a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world."
http://www.case.edu/artsci/clsc/asgle/
The Epigrapher's bookshelf is a collection of web resources compiled by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (ASGLE). These resources include at least one corpus of Inscriptions (IThesp, ed. Roesch; PDF) as well as links to other digitized corpora. In addition, the site offers reference tools, such as lists of abbreviations and numerals used in inscriptions. Somewhat out of date.
http://www.propylaeum.de/
A subject gateway to internet resources for Classics, Egyptology and Archeology. Includes links to bibliographic and text databases, and to lists of journals (some with full text). In German and English.
Web Sites
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
"Includes an overview of fifth-century B.C. Greek history, works in Greek and in translation by ten authors from the archaic and classical periods, an online ...Greek-English dictionary, and a collection of short articles and glossary entries on topics in Perseus including geographic regions, architectural terms, vase shapes, and biographies of ancient authors." Excellent illustrations.
Multimedia Materials
Image Collections
http://0-library.artstor.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
Comprehensive digital library of over 500,000 images of artworks, photographs, architecture, decorative arts, rare books, and items from popular culture. Images may be viewed live in ARTstor or offline in ARTstor's downloadable image viewer. Collections include: The Image Gallery - General collection of images; broad in scope, but does include some specialized image collections Art History Survey Collection Carnegie Arts of the United States Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts Illustrated Bartsch Mellon International Dunhuang Archive Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection Native American Art and Culture from the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution The Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection
Organizations, Associations, & Institutions
Museums
http://www.britishmuseum.org/
"The Department of Greece and Rome at the British Museum has one of the most comprehensive collections of antiquities from the Classical world, with over 100,000 objects. These mostly range in date from the beginning of the Greek Bronze Age (about 3200BC) to the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine in the fourth century AD, with some pagan survivals."
Images of selected items and detailed descriptions are available online, and may be downloaded by registered users (registration is free for individuals)
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp
"The collection of Greek and Roman art at the Metropolitan Museum holds more than seventeen thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America."
Images and short descriptions of select items available online.
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp
The Site of the Louvre. Each curatorial department offers images of selected artworks, detailed bibliographies, and maps.
Primary Source Materials
Primary Source Collections
APIS - Advanced Papyrological Information System
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/index.html
"APIS is a collections-based repository hosting information about and images of papyrological materials (e.g. papyri, ostraca, wood tablets, etc) located in collections around the world. It contains physical descriptions and bibliographic information about the papyri and other written materials, as well as digital images and English translations of many of these texts. When possible, links are also provided to the original language texts"
Inscriptiones Graecae
Major compendium of Greek inscriptions. Available in three formats:
- Microfiche edition of the complete run until 1956.
- Printed copy, currently being bound. The set remains incomplete, but the library is striving to acquire the missing volumes.
- Online edition of some of the more recent volumes [Includes IG IX, 1(2), 1; IG XII 6, 1, 1 - IG XII 6, 2, 1290]
- Princeton offers a useful table of contents for the various volumes, parts and fascicles
- Images of inscriptions in IG I and II are also available
Location: LAU Microforms Mfiche 569 (Cabinet 119)
STX flat folio CN360 .I62
http://www.papyri.info/
"papyri.info is dedicated to the study of ancient papyrological documents. It offers links to papyrological resources and a customized search engine (called the Papyrological Navigator) capable of retrieving information from multiple related sites. The Papyrological Navigator currently retrieves and displays information from the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP) and the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis (HGV)."-- home page
Searchable Greek Inscriptions (PHI online)
http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/
Free online access to the full text of Greek inscriptions; this version includes a selection of the larger PHI CD-Rom, which is available on a standalone PC in the reference area on the 3rd floor.
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum
"Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum is an annual publication collecting newly published Greek inscriptions and studies on previously known documents. Every volume contains the harvest of a single year and covers the entire Greek world. Material later than the 8th century A.D. is not included.
SEG presents complete Greek texts of all new inscriptions with a critical apparatus; it summarizes new readings, interpretations and studies of known inscriptions, and occasionally presents the Greek text of these documents. However, texts which are published in epigraphical corpora, repertoria or monographs containing elaborate indices are normally not included."
Location: LAU Stacks CN350 .S95
Text Collections
http://0-www.brepolis.net.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
Contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Includes the classical period, important patristic works, Medieval Latin literature, and the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Provides the complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Kempis. Search by author or title; results appear in the context of a sentence leading to the full text of the work.
http://0-stephanus.tlg.uci.edu.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/inst/fontsel
700 B.C. - A.D. 1453
The Thesaurus of the Greek Language Digital Library now contains virtually all Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600 and the majority of surviving works up the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453. The center continues its efforts to include all extant Greek texts from the byzantine and post-byzantine period. The web version currently provides access to 3,700 authors and 12,000 works, approximately 91 million words. It is updated quarterly with new authors and works.
Texts
Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
http://www.eagle-eagle.it/
This site, hosted by the Association Internationale d'Épigraphie Grecque et Latine (AIEGL), provides a common search interface for the following:
- Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH)
- Epigraphic Database Roma (EDR
- Epigraphic Database Bari (EDB)
Specialized Resources
Artifacts
http://www.cvaonline.org/cva/projectpages/CVA1.htm
Illustrated online catalogue of more 100K+ ancient vases; digital version of a massive printed catalogue prepared under the auspices of the Union Académique Internationale.
http://www.stoa.org/metis/
Virtual tours of archaeological sites throughout Greece, with breathtaking 360º views, and clickable maps of the sites for navigation.