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Digital Library Collections By Subject: Greek-Roman Texts

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• An Analytic Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Texts (Dana F. Sutton, Professor of Classics, University of California, Irvine). As of January 2001, lists close to 600 online texts by author.
• Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome. Katherine Wentworth Rinne. Charlottesville, Virginia: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia. A contemporary study of the aqueduct and water system of Rome, this site includes some HTML transcriptions of Roman and other documents, along with other media on the topic. Date added: 2002-09-08.
• Argos: Limited Area Search of the Ancient and Medieval Internet. Hosted by the University of Evansville (Evansville, Indiana, USA) . Established in 1996, this is a peer-reviewed guide and search engine to pre-Renaissance Internet/Web resources. Date added: 2002-09-08.
• Bulfinch's Mythlogy: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch (Bob Fisher). Hyperlinked edition of this classic work by the American author Thomas Bulfinch. Site includes links to original Greek and Roman sources.
• The Chicago Homer. Ahuvia Kahane and Martin Mueller, editors. Chicago: Northwestern University. Summary: " The Chicago Homer is a multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek. In addition to all the texts of ancient Greek epic in the original Greek the Chicago Homer includes English and German translations, in particular Lattimore's translation of the Iliad, Daryl Hine's translations of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, and the German translations of the Iliad and Odyssey by Johan Heinrich Voss. Through the associated web site Eumaios users of the Chicago Homer can also from each line of the poem access pertinent Iliad Scholia and papyrus readings." Date accessed: 2003-08-04. Date added: 2003-08-04.
• Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources (Laurel Bowman hosted by Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria).
• The Classics Page at Ad Fontes Academy. Fairfax Station, VA: Ad Fontes Academy. Subject gateway to classics resources on the Internet as well as links to a large number of HTML transcriptions by many contributors of primary texts (secular and religious) by authors writing in Latin. See also: The Latin Library. Date updated: 2002-09-08.
• Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation. Created and maintained by Maria C. Pantelia. Irvine, CA: University of California, Irvine. Contains annotated links to e-text archives and electronic publications. Date accessed: 2005-02-13. Date added: 2005-02-13.
• The Internet Classics Archive (Daniel C. Stevenson). Established in 1994 with a primary focus on Graeco-Roman literature. Over 400 works by nearly 60 authors are represented. Site-search engine. Due to a computer failure, some features are not working as of January 2001.
• KIRKE: Katalog der Internetressourcen für die Klassische Philologie aus Erlangen. Compiled by Ulrich Schmitzer. Nuremberg, Germany: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Subject gateway in German to primary texts and background resource materials relating to classical Greece and Rome.
• Kosmopolis Digital Collection. Rio Patras, Greece: Library & Information Service, University of Patras, 2004-. Unilingual interface: Greek. Search or browse through Greek language periodicals published from mid-19th to start of the 20th century. Date accessed: 2004-10-30. Date added: 2004-10-30.
• lector longinquus (the distant reader): Latin Texts at the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities/SCC (Rutgers University). Searchable/browsable collection of important works by Roman and others who wrote in Latin.
• The Online Medieval and Classical Library (Formerly managed by Douglas B. Killings hosted by Berkeley Digital SunSITE). Includes Graeco-Roman works.
• The Perseus Digital Library (Gregory Crane, Editor in Chief, Tufts University) provides access to ancient Greek and Roman texts, Renaissance materials, and links to other digital libraries.
• Project Libellus. Compiled by Konrad Schroder and Owen Ewald. Seattle, WA: University of Washington. Date accessed: 2005-06-19. Date added: 2005-06-19.
• Rassegna degli Strumenti Informatici per lo Studio dell'Antichità Classica. By Alessandro Cristofori. Subject guide to classicial Greek and Roman resources on the Internet. For electronic texts select the Biblioteche elettroniche link.
• Romarch: Roman Art and Archaeology. Compiled by Pedar W. Foss. Greencastle, IN: DePauw University. Subject gateway to classical Roman art and archaeological resources on the Internet, including primary texts listed under History, Latin Literature, and Epigraphy.
• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A Digital Library of Greek Literature. Irvine, CA: University of California, Irvine. Summary: " Founded in 1972 the TLG has already collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era. ... Since 1985, the TLG® Digital Library has been disseminated in CD ROM format. ... In April 2001, the TLG® became available Online to subscribing institutions and individuals. 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. Information about the authors and works included in the TLG Library is stored in a database, known as the Canon of Greek Authors and Works. The full Canon is open to the public and can be searched on this site. Non-subscribers can access an abridged/trial version of the TLG® corpus (click on Try out the Online TLG®). The abridged version has the same search capabilities as the full version but allows browsing and searching with a representative selection of texts." Date accessed: 2005-02-13. Date added: 2005-02-13.

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