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Databases and Web Resources in Classics

L'Année philologique This link opens in a new window
A specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. Its subjects are Greek and Latin literature and linguistics, including early Christian texts and patristics, Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, science, and scholarly sub-specialties such as numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary database (part of the Web of Science), covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities, with cited references but not abstracts. Search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A digital library of back issues of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Core titles from each discipline included.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new window
The MLA offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. This database includes journal abbreviations and acronyms for almost 3,500 titles.
Gnomon Bibliographic Database This link opens in a new window
Six hundred entries of specialized literature, including entries on the history of scholarship. The database lists monographies, edited volumes with all contributions, journal articles, reviews, and dictionaries from all of the modern era and in all academic languages, all of which are researchable in detail with a comprehensive, multinlingual thesaurus (currently ca. 25.000 catchwords).
Medieval and Early Modern Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
The world's leading interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500.
Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world. Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers novelists, essayist, poets, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of the most-studied authors.
Brill's New Pauly Online This link opens in a new window
The English edition of the authoritative Der Neue Pauly, published by Verlag J.B. Metzler since 1996. The encyclopedic coverage and high academic standard of the work, the interdisciplinary and contemporary approach and clear and accessible presentation have made the New Pauly the unrivalled modern reference work for the ancient world.
Perseus Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Digital collection covering the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of art reference works available online. Includes The Oxford Companion to Western Art; The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms; and the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Also articles about topics, bibliographies for further research, and thousands of searchable images made available through Oxford's partnerships with museums, galleries, and other outstanding arts organizations.
Library of Latin Texts This link opens in a new window
A collection of Latin words and works throughout history. Contains full text.
HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials PLUS This link opens in a new window
ATLA Religion Database combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals.

TOCS-IN
TOCS-IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both in text format and through a Web search program. Where possible, links are given with articles of which the full text or an abstract is available online (about 15%).

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Epigraphic Database Heidelberg This link opens in a new window
The Epigraphic Database Heidelberg contains the texts of Latin and bilingual (i.e. Latin-Greek) inscriptions of the Roman Empire. The epigraphic monuments are collected and kept up to date on the basis of modern research. With the help of search functions specific queries can be carried out - e.g. a search for words in inscriptions and / or particular descriptive data. The search results are often displayed together with photos and drawings
ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Dozens of collections from a wide variety of cultures across all major time periods are covered, the Artstor Digital Library shares 1.8 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences from outstanding museums, photo archives, photographers, scholars, and artists.
Loeb Classical Library This link opens in a new window
A series of books which presents important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience, by presenting the original Greek or Latin text on each left-hand page, and a fairly literal translation on the facing page.

The Beazley Archive
The online database of the Beazley archive, which houses a vast collection of Classical artwork, especially pottery. The database is searchable by such fields as location of origin, artist, shape and inscription.
PHI Latin Texts
A collection of Latin works by ancient authors, prepared by the Packard Humanities Institute.
Internet Classics Archive
A collection of over 400 Greek and Roman primary sources online.
eDonnelly Loeb Listing
A listing of the books in the Loeb Library (well-regarded translations of Classical sources), including links to editions that have fallen out of copyright and are available freely online as PDFs or ebooks.
American Numismatic Society
The American Numismatic Society is dedicated to the study and appreciation of numismatics and has assembled a permanent collection of more than 800,000 coins, monetary objects, medals, and other related items dating back to 2000 BCE. The specialized library contains approximately 100,000 books, documents, and artifacts that are among the finest of such resources. Together, they comprise one of the most extensive numismatic holdings in the world.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae This link opens in a new window
TLG is a research program at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG has 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.

Attalus
This site contains detailed lists of events and sources for the history of the Hellenistic world and the Roman republic. It includes links to online translations of many of the sources, as well as new translations of some works which have not previously been easily available in English.
Packard Humanities Institute's Epigraphic Works
Digitized version of Greek inscriptions, organized by region.
Attic Inscriptions Online
A resource structured around English translations of the inscriptions of ancient Athens and Attica. Frequently updated.

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