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LINKS
The Internet has become increasingly indispensable for study and research. It provides access to vast libraries of information, high-quality multimedia and tools for searching. On the other hand, the quality of content can be very variable, especially given the typical absence of any editorial control or academic processes such as peer review. Internet resources should therefore be used with caution.
The following is a guide to some of the most useful sites for Classical and medieval studies. It is intended as a work in progress, and suggestions are very welcome. Some of these resources are only accessible through institutional subscription: you may be able to gain access from within the NUI Galway campus network or alternatively via the Library catalogue (after logging on).
Note that you must reference citations from an Internet site just as you would for a printed resource.
Contents:
1. General reference
2. Scholarly literature
2.1 Collections
2.2 Bibliography
3. Art and archaeology
4. Texts
5. Language resources
6. Manuscripts collections
6.1 Individual libraries
6.2 Collections
7. Associations and institutes
8. Projects
1. GENERAL REFERENCE
Wikipedia
Yes, Wikipedia can be useful for quick reference and to get a general sense of a topic. It can also be very uneven, and some articles are inaccurate and/or badly outdated. Not to be relied on.
OxfordReference.com
A very good source for general reference. There is a subject search for
Classics, though a general search can sometimes produce results just as interesting.
Méditeranées
An excellent collection of resources relating to the Mediterranean in ancient and medieval times, in French.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Theoi: Greek Mythology
Good visual resources and excellent encyclopedia entries referenced against primary sources.
2. SCHOLARLY LITERATURE
2.1. Collections
archive.org
Huge collection of out-of-copyright books, mostly pre-c. 1900.
JSTOR
Large collection of articles from scholarly journals.
2.2. Bibliography
Bibliography of Irish Linguistics and Literature
Bibliographies by Charles D. Wright
Large and very useful collection on medieval studies.
Brepolis databases
Access to the Bibliography of British and Irish History and the International Medieval Bibliography (IMB).
TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
3. ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Arachne
Database and image library for the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne.
Beazley Archive
Image library for an extensive collection of art from ancient Greece and Rome.
Bridgeman Art Library
Excellent source for images, requiring (free) sign-in.
British Museum: Explore (Ancient) Cultures
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Corpus of Ancient Vases.
Web Gallery of Art
Good first port of call for studying any artist.
4. TEXTS
Bibliotheca Augustana
Excellent collection of ancient and medieval texts.
Brepolis databases
Access to the Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACCL), Library of Latin Texts (LLT-A), Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH). The Cross-Database Searchtool allows for searching across all of these.
CELT
Many medieval Irish texts, also in translation.
Digital Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH)
Early Church Fathers
Useful collection of hard-to-find texts in translation, including the
Chronicle of Jerome.
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL)
Excellent scholarly corpus of Sumerian texts. Browse the translations.
LacusCurtius: Intro to the Roman World
The Latin Library
Plain texts, easy to cut-and-paste into your own files as you wish. There are some misprints.
The Medieval Bestiary
Texts and images for the bestiary tradition
New Northvegr Center
Wide range of texts of Northern origins, with convenient translations.
Perseus
Digital library of Classical texts. The same material can be accessed on a
mirror site using the Philologic interface.
PHI (Packard Humanities Institute) Latin Texts
Major collection of Classical Latin texts (many from the Bibliotheca Tuebneriana series).
Polyglot Bible
Parallel Hebrew, Greek, Latin texts.
Rabanus Maurus,
De rerum naturis
A work-in-progress edition of this remarkable Carolingian encyclopedia.
St Patrick's
Confessio
A digital edition of St Patrick's
Confessio and
Epistola, with many supplementary resources, launched by the Royal Irish Academy in 2011.
Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae
Growing collection of Irish texts, including lesser-known works otherwise hard to access.
Vindolanda Tablets Online
Writing tablets excavated from the Roman fort at Vindolanda in northern England.
5. LANGUAGE RESOURCES
Brepolis databases
See Database of Latin dictionaries.
Celtic Personal Names of Roman Britain
Dictionary of the Irish Language (DIL)
Based mainly on Old and Middle Irish sources.
Indo-European Dictionary (IEED)
Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
Orbis Latinus online
Latin place names.
Perseus
Lexicographical resources include Lewis & Short's
Latin dictionary, Liddell & Scott's
Greek–English Lexicon, and a Latin/Greek
morphology study tool.
6. MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
6.1. Individual libraries
Aberystwyth (National Library of Wales)
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College
London, British Library
General catalogue of manuscripts, with links to images online and catalogue of illuminated manuscripts.
6.2. Collections
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
General catalogue of digitised manuscripts, with links.
Centre for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
7. ASSOCIATIONS AND INSTITUTES
Archaeological Institute of America
See also info on the
2011 AIA and APA Joint Annual Meeting.
Classical and Near Eastern Studies Committee, Royal Irish Academy
Classical Association of Ireland
Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens
Institute of Classical Studies (London)
The Undergraduate Awards of Ireland and Northern Ireland
8. PROJECTS
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Woman and Gender in the Ancient World
Harvard Classics Prose and Poetry Recital Page
Papyrology at Oxford
Includes database of Oxyrhynchus papyri.
National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.
Phone: +353 (0)91 524411
E-mail: Classics
This page was last updated Monday, October 03, 2011