Classics: Websites

Open access tool for searching across Greek and Latin dictionaries, including Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, Autenrieth's Homeric Lexicon, and Lewis and Short's Latin-English Lexicon.

This English-Greek Lexicon is provided by the University of Chicago. The dialect used for the dictionary is Attic and the authors which the compiler used to build the dictionary include various orators, Thucydides, Plato, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. This dictionary is not exhaustive and should be used with careful and diligent research and study.

Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies, located in Washington DC, was founded by means of an endowment made "exclusively for the establishment of an educational center in the field of Hellenic Studies designed to rediscover the humanism of the Hellenic Greeks." This humanistic vision remains the driving force of the Center for Hellenic Studies. Contains online articles and books, lists of the Center's publications, and numerous other valuable resources.

A collection of Greek mythological characters, places, myths, and scholarship surrounding them.

A site exploring Greek mythology and the gods in classical literature and art. The aim of the project is to provide a comprehensive, free reference guide to the gods (Theoi), spirits (Daimones), fabulous creatures (Theres) and heroes of ancient Greek mythology and religion.

Map project designed to provide an interactive exploration of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Users can travel along a virtual timeline of the events of 431-404 by tracking the dates associated with each polis and area, or they may choose to visit select cities for more specific and localized information.

A photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens (Greece). It is intended primarily as a resource for students and teachers of classical art & archaeology, civilization, languages, and history as a supplement to their class lectures and reading assignments and as a source of images for use in term papers, projects, and presentations.

A collection of primary sources and scholarship in the topic of Athenian democracy. The goal of the project is to build a digital encyclopedia of classical Athenian democracy that will be useful to a wide audience. Describes the history, institutions, and people of democratic Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, publishes the efforts of scholars to answer questions about Athenian democracy, and invites you to explore, discover, and judge for yourselves.

This web site offers the full text of Household and City Organization at Olynthus, together with a database and interactive site plan of all the houses, rooms, objects, and graves from Olynthus.

Provides 2D site maps side by side with 3D google street view style views of 62 archeological locations in Greece. Included are multiple views on the Athenian Acropolis and Agora, Mycenae, Sparta, Phaistos, and many others. The sites range from Bronze Age up into the Classical and Hellenistic Periods.

This website is provided by Berkeley presents various exercises for practicing and learning of Ancient Greek. Some of these online practice modules include pronunciation, translation, principal parts, vocabulary, and other drills.

A useful list of articles, primary sources, and other online material provided by the University of Florida

The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN) was established to collect and publish all ancient Greek personal names, drawing on the full range of written sources from the 8th century B.C. down to the late Roman Empire.

Resource developed by the Harvard Classics teaching staff to help students grasp the vital performative aspect of ancient literature.

This is a list of introductory Latin links provided by the University of Florida. Some great links to look at for those students considering or currently beginning study in Latin.

This Dictionary and Grammar Aid provides various tools for translating or conjugating from English to Latin or Latin to English. A special word list is included to help students in their reading of medieval latin as well.

The dictionary is about 39000 entries, as would be counted in an ordinary dictionary. This may generate many hundreds of thousands of 'words' that one can construct over all the declensions and conjugations. The point of this tool is to help in simple translations for a beginning Latin student or amateur.

The dictionary is about 39,000 entries, as would be counted in an ordinary dictionary. This may generate many hundreds of thousands of 'words' that one can construct over all the declensions and conjugations. The point of this tool is to help in simple translations for a beginning Latin student or amateur.

A vast digital collection of Latin texts. Organized by author this database is useful for finding both mainstream and obscure Latin authors.

EpiDoc represents a growing, global collaboration of humanists and information technologists (a.k.a., the “EpiDoc Community”) whose joint aim is the creation of flexible but rigorous standards and tools for the digital encoding and interchange of scholarly and educational editions of ancient texts, especially those preserved on stone, metal and other durable materials, as well as on papyrus.

The Introductory Essays provide brief background on the column and discuss some of the issues this site may help to illuminate. The Database includes over 500 images (each viewable in 3 resolutions), accompanied by information on location, subject matter, and technical features (where relevant).

This site hosts a database of finds to accompany Penelope M. Allison, The Insula of the Menander in Pompeii vol iii: The Finds, a Contextual Study (Oxford University Press 2006). The database contains some 2000 artifacts found in this insula, including over 1000 photographs and 583 drawings. An introduction and an explanation of database fields assist the reader in using this database, which is searchable on a number of locational, typological, functional and other descriptive fields.

Another list of links provided by Cornell College's Classical Studies department. The links are separated in categories giving Online Exercises, History, Latin Texts, and for the lighthearted a bit of trivia.

This site hosts materials to accompany Penelope M. Allison, Pompeian Households: An Analysis of the Material Culture (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Monograph 42).

View Latin text of the Aeneid in any one of five versions, with online commentary and brief essays on topics such as Virgil's meter. Also allows individuals to create their own, personalized versions of the text. Ongoing work, under construction.