Links to Resources Online

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.

(Links may stop working when external websites are changed. Last checked 7 Jan 2013.)

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 It can also be very uneven, and some articles are inaccurate and/or badly outdated.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.
• Dictionary of Irish Biography
• Greek Mythology Link
  Various resources on Greek myth.
• Méditeranées
  An excellent collection of resources relating to the Mediterranean in ancient and medieval times, in French.
• Myth Index
  Dictionary of Greek (and Roman) mythology, with references to sources, illustrated with modern European paintings.
• 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.
• ArtLex: Mesopotamian Art
• 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.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Web Gallery of Art
  Good first port of call for studying any artist.

4. TEXTS

• Bibliotheca Augustana
  Excellent collection of ancient and medieval texts.
• Bibliotheca Latina IntraText
• 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.
• Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum
• Corpus Inscriptionum Latinorum
• 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.
• Patrologia Latina
• 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 Teubneriana 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.
• Theoi E-Texts Library
  Collection of referenced translations (many from Loeb editions).
• 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.
• 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

(See also below for broader collections.)

• Aberystwyth (National Library of Wales)
• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College
• Cambridge, University Library
• Cologne, Erzbischöflichen Diözesan- und Dombibliothek
• Copenhagen, National Library of Denmark/University Library
• Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek/Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
• Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek
• Laon, Bibliothèque municipale
• Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek
• London, British Library
• Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
• Oxford, Bodleian and other libraries
• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale
• St Gall
• Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale
• Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
  Mostly Palatine 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
• Irish Script on Screen

7. ASSOCIATIONS AND INSTITUTES

• Accordia Research Institute
• Archaeological Institute of America
  See also info on the 2011 AIA and APA Joint Annual Meeting.
• The British School at Athens
• 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

• Digital Classicist
• Digital Medievalist
• 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.
• Pompeii Forum Project

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