NEW ENGLAND CLASSICAL JOURNAL

Classical Computing




Selected Classics Resources on the World Wide Web

by
Maria C. Pantelia
University of New Hampshire



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  1. Abzu is the title of a guide to resources for the study of the ancient Near East available at URL: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/oi/ dept/ra/abzu/abzu. html. The project is sponsored by the Oriental Institute, which is part of the University of Chicago.

  2. Academic Presses On-Line Catalogues, offered by the Association of American University Presses (AAUP), can be found at: URL: http://aaup.pupress. princeton.edu. The site allows you to search the combined AAUP Catalogue or individual university press catalogues. It also contains links to other online resources relevant to scholarly publishing.

  3. American Classical League announcements are available at the URL address: http://www.umich.edu/ ~knudsvig/acl.html. The ACL Home Page provides links to useful Internet resources such as e-texts, journals, exhibits, pedagogical tools and the like.

  4. The Ancient History Bulletin publishes articles related to ancient history, epigraphy, papyrology and numismatics. Its 1994 issues are now available electronically at URL: http://137.122.12.15/Docs/Directories/AHB/AHB.html

  5. The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) has a Home Page which provides access to the directory of ABAA Booksellers, on-line Bookseller catalogues, information about the ABAA and upcoming book fairs, and the new on-line Newsletter of the ABAA. The ABAA Home Page is still under development but in the future it will be possible to connect to the Home Pages of individual dealers. The URL is: http://www.clark.net/pub/rmharris/booknet1.html.

  6. Arachnion is a refereed electronic journal for Classical Studies. Its purpose is to become an "electronic voice" for European classical scholarship. It can be accessed at URL: http://www.cisi.unito.it/arachne/arachne.html.

  7. Augustine and Boethius On-Line Seminars texts, bibliographies and other materials used by James O'Donnell (Pennsylvania) in his online seminars on Augustine and Boethius can be accessed at URL: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine.html (Augustine) or http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/boethius.html (Boethius).

  8. The e-mail directory of CAMWS (the Classical Association of the Middle West and South) is available electronically at URL: http://www.umich.edu/~knudsvig/camwsdirectory.html. The site was put together by Ariel Loftus (Univ. of Michigan) with information supplied by Oliver Phillips (Univ. of Kansas).

  9. Canadian Classical Bulletin is a monthly/bimonthly newsletter distributed free of charge in both English and French via listserver. It can be accessed electronically at URL: http://137.122.12.15/humcanada.html.

  10. The Canadian Federation for the Humanities offers an Electronic Information Service with links to Hu- manities Resources. Its section on Classical Studies contains links to many resources, including the Classical Association of Canada Home Page, the Canadian Classical Bulletin and the Ancient History Bulletin. Access at URL: http://137.122.12.15/humcanada.html.

  11. Canadian University Teachers in Classical Studies, a list of e-mail addresses of Canadian University teachers in classical studies (including part-time teachers) is available at URL: http://137.122.12.15/Docs/Societies/ClassAc/ClassicsAddresses.html. The list is searchable and messages can be sent directly from the list.

  12. The CETH Directory of Electronic Text Centers, provided by the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, maintains listings of, and WWW links to, centers in universities and research facilities that hold collections of electronic texts. To access, connect to URL: http://cethmac.princeton.edu.

  13. The Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology Server is at URL: http://rome.classics.lsa.umich.edu/welcome.html. This server, maintained by Sebastian Heath (Michigan), contains the most up-to-date list available of electronic resources for Classics and Archaeology.

  14. A list of Classics Department Gophers in the U.S. and Canada has been compiled by Sebastian Heath (Michigan). The list can be accessed via the Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology server (see above) or directly at URL: gopher://rome.classics.lsa.umich. edu:70+/11/Departmental%20Descriptions.

  15. CLASSICS List Home Page contains a daily digest of postings to this popular discussion group maintained by Linda Wright, the listowner, together with other useful information at URL: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~lwright/classics. html. A list of Summer Intensive Greek Programs can be found at URL: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~lwright/summergreek.html.

  16. Classics Subject Guide was created by two graduate students, Lyle Ford and Joan Martin, in partial fulfilment of their Master of Library and Information Studies degrees at the University of Alberta, Canada. It has an excellent and very nicely organized collection of Classics and Archaeology resources at URL: http://www.ualberta.ca/~slis/guides/classics/home.htm.

  17. The De Re Militari Information Server contains texts (primary and secondary), bibliographies, book reviews, announcements, grant and job announcements, and other information useful to classical and medieval historians. URL: http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/history/ deremil/deremain.html.

  18. Didaskalia is an electronic publication on ancient Greek and Roman drama, dance and music as they are performed today. It can be accessed at URL: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/didaskalia/didaskalia.html.

  19. Diotima is a site developed by Ross Scaife (Kentucky) and Suzanne Bonefas (Miami University, Ohio). It contains materials (course syllabi, essays, reviews, bibliographies, etc.) for the study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World. It can be accessed at URL: http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/gender.html.

  20. Dissertation Abstracts are available on-line at URL: http://www.umi.com.

  21. The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of papyri from Egypt. It is available on line at URL: http://odyssey.lib.duke. edu/papyrus.

  22. Egyptian Project, a preliminary report on the December 1993 field season of the University of Michigan/University of Asiut project in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, is available at URL: http://rome.classics.lsa.umich.edu/projects/coptos/desert.html.

  23. The Egyptology Page is an excellent guide to resources related to Egyptology. It can be accessed at URL: http://www/newton.cam.ac.uk/egypt. A similar collection of resources can be found in a Home Page entitled Egypt Interactive Internet Resources at URL: http://www.channel1.com/users/mansoorm/eir.html.

  24. Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation, the list of Internet resources published in the February 1995 issue of NECN&J, is now available electronically via the UPenn server thanks to James O'Donnell. The URL is: http://ccat.upenn.edu/jod/ texts/pantelia.html.

  25. Elvis in Latin is a site with Frequently Asked Questions/Answers about the recently released CD of Elvis Presley in Latin. It can be found at URL: http:// www.cs.uoregon.edu/~bhelm/misc/elvis.html.

  26. The Getty Art History Information Program offers information about the various initiatives and images of the Getty Art History Program. It can be accessed at URL: http://www/ahip.getty.edu/ahip/ Text_home.html.

  27. Greek Language and Archaeology at the University of Indiana is a site with images and information about the monuments of Athens. URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~kglowack/Athens/Athens.html.

  28. The Greek Manuscript Database from Bates College can be accessed at URL: http://abacus.bates. edu/~rallison/.

  29. Hellas, the WWW page of the Hellas Discussion Group, contains information about the HELLAS listserver and much information about Greece, including maps, current weather, daily radio news in text and audio, tourist information, etc. There is also a link to the Cyprus Home Page. It will be found at URL: http://velox.standard.edu/hellas.

  30. The Hellenistic Greek Reference Grammar Project includes information and links related to the study of Hellenistic (including New Testament) Greek linguis- tics. The Web pages include bibliographies and an electronic archive of papers. It will be found at URL: http://styx.uwa.edu.au/hgrk/.

  31. A Humanities Home Page, including Classics, entitled "Voice of the Shuttle" can be found at URL: http://humanitas.ucsb.edu. It contains an enormous amount of information and extensive links to Internet resources for the Humanities.

  32. Imperium Romanorum is a Web page, still under construction, created by Clifton Fox (History, Tompall College, TX). It contains lists of names and dates of Roman emperors, consuls and censors. It can be accessed at URL: http://www.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/home/ cfox/rome.html.

  33. Information about the International Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, abstracts and proceedings can be found at URL: http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/history/conf/purpose_page.html.

  34. An extensive list of Internet Resources (not limited to Classics or Archaeology) can be found at URL: http://www.eit.com/web/netservices.html. This list contains links to all kinds of information servers, including electronic texts, educational services, software archives and computer reference tools.

  35. InterNIC Information Services offers a directory with links to many Internet resources of interest to educators and researchers. It can be accessed at URL:http://www/internic.net.ds.dsdirofdirs.html. InterNIC offers a weekly electronic publication called The Scout Report (found at URL: http://www.internic.net/ infoguide.html) which lists online resources and announcements seen during the preceding week. The Scout Report is also available via Gopher and FTP.

  36. The IndoEuropean Home Page provides access to resources of relevance to comparativists, Indo-Europeanists and other interested scholars. It is located at URL: http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/home/ftp/pub/titus/public_html.

  37. The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the Uni- versity of Michigan provides access to its collections and current documents through the Internet. Materials including selections of glass, sculpture, coins and wall-paintings from Karanis, Egypt, and some other objects from the Museum's galleries and collections are available at the URL: http://classics.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/ outreach.html.

  38. Less Commonly Taught Languages is a project sponsored by the Center for Advanced Reasearch on Language Acquisition at the University of Minessota (CARLA). It includes information about languages less commonly taught in North American colleges and universities. The server can be accessed via gopher or the Web at: lctl.acad.umn.edu.

  39. Literacy and Orality, containing images of writing from Greek art (mostly fifth-century red-figure pottery) that include representations of literacy and orality in the same frame, is available at URL: http://ccat.sas. upenn.edu/awiesner/oralit.html.

  40. Information and links to information related to mythology are found at URL: http://www.the-wire. com/culture/mythology /mythtext.html.

  41. Mythology Images, a large collection of art images of mythological characters can be found at URL: http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/Mythology_westart. html. Images of the main deities from various periods of Western art have been scanned and stored in GIF format. This project is being developed by the University of Haifa Library for the survey course "Mythology in Western Art" given by Sonia Klinger (Art History,Haifa).

  42. The Ohio State Excavations at Isthmia Web site provides an overview of the work being carried on at Isthmia, Greece. The address for the Home Page is URL: http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/history/isthmia/ isthmia.html.

  43. Through the Ovid Project the University of Vermont has made available an extensive collection of seventeenth-century engravings inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses by the German artist Johann Wilhelm Baur. In the future the Project will be expanded to include other Ovid holdings, including related texts and articles. URL: http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/ovid/index.html.

  44. The Oxford Faculty Classics Home Page, provided by the Faculty of Literae Humaniores of Oxford, contains information about the Classics Program at Oxford and links to Classics Resources. It can be accessed at URL: http://info.ox.ac.uk/~classics/.

  45. The Papyrus Digitization Project from the University of Michigan can be found at URL: http://www.lib. umich.edu/pap/digitization.html.

  46. The Papyrology Home Page is a central Web site for access to resources of interest to papyrologists and other interested scholars. It is located at URL: http:// www.umich.edu/~jmucci/papyrology/home.html. Questions may be addressed to John Muccigrosso at jmucci@umich.edu.

  47. Useful information about the Perseus project and overviews of Perseus 1.0 and 2.0 can be found at URL: http://www.tufts.edu/.

  48. The Pompeii Forum Project, a collaborative venture to study the urban center of Pompeii, includes three components: documentation of the site, data anal- ysis and study of Pompeii's urban history. The Home Page of the project includes links to several site plans and information about the site and the progress of the project, at URL: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ pompeii/page-1.html.

  49. The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project provides a detailed report of the history and findings of the project to date at URL: http://rome.classics.lsa. umich prap.html. The report can also be accessed via the Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology gopher or WWW Home Page.

  50. Repositories of Classical Texts or Publications, James Ruebel's list of electronic resources for Classics which was previously posted to the sci.classics newsgroup at the beginning of each month, is now also available via the Web at URL: http://alf2.tcd.ie/ ~rcwoods/classics.html. The list includes information and links to texts, databases, mailing lists and other resources.

  51. The Roman Law Project provides texts and information about Roman Law. All texts are in Latin. The URL is http://www.jura.unisb.de/Rechtsgeschichte/Ius.Romanum/english.html. The Home Page is also available in German and Latin.

  52. ROMARCH is a discussion group sponsored by the Interdepartmental Program of Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan. Its Home Page offers resources for the art and archaeology of ancient Italy and the Roman provinces. It can be accessed at URL: http://www/umich.edu/~pfoss/ROMARCH.html.

  53. The Museum of Cagliari has a document on the Web with pictures related to Sardinia at URL: http: //www.crs4.it/HTML/ruggiero/museo/mus_ind.html.

  54. Scholars Press in Atlanta maintains a Home Page entitled TELA (The Electronically Linked Academy), whose purpose is to draw together resources and information in the areas of Religion, Biblical Studies, Near Eastern Archaeology and Ancient History. TELA also includes a searchable catalogue and information about the American Philological Association. It can be accessed at URL: http://scholar.cc.emory.edu.

  55. The Silver Mountain Software Web Page can be accessed at URL: http://rampages.onramp.net/~jbaima/. It includes a new version of John Baima's shareware Greek, Hebrew, Coptic and Latin fonts as well as information about Bible Windows, TLG Workplace, PHI Workplace and the Coptic Workplace.

  56. The Tech-Classics Archive is an archive of almost two hundred works of ancient authors in translation. It can be accessed at: http://the-tech.mit.edu/Classics/ index.html.

  57. TOCS-IN, the on-line bibliographical index, has a WWW file which allows keyword searches. It can be accessed at URL: ftp://ftp.epas.utoronto.ca/pub/tocs-in/Search.html.

  58. Tools for Teaching, James O'Donnell's WWW pages, describe and demonstrate how networked technology can help the teaching of Humanities. Most of the material can be seen with Lynx, but graphical material will require use of a Mosaic or Netscape-type of browser. The URL is http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ teachdemo.

  59. The University of Kentucky Classics Department Home Page contains links to a large number of Internet resources for Classicists and articles on the use of technology. It can be accessed at URL: http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/.

  60. The Vatican Museum Collection of Images, more than five hundred images from the Vatican Museums can be seen at URL: http://www.christusrex.org/ www1/vaticano/0-Musei.html.

  61. The Whole Internet Catalog by O'Reilly and Associates contains links to all sorts of resources such as the Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology Gopher, the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition, Bryn Mawr Classical and Medieval Reviews, electronic publications and many other resources. It is found at URL: http://nearnt. gnn.com/gnn-ora.html.

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