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Perseus Project, The - (dead link)
An Evolving Digital Library
"Perseus is a continually growing digital library of resources for studying the ancient world. The library's materials include ancient texts and translations, philological tools, maps, extensively illustrated art catalogs, and secondary essays on topics like vase painting. A collaborative team from a number of academic institutions has worked together to amass Perseus materials. Over 70 museums have shared pictures of their art objects."
Tufts University
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
"The Ancient and Modern Sourcebooks have a different role: since there are already ample online repositories of texts for these periods, the goal here is to provide and organize texts for use in classroom situations. Links to the larger online collections are provided for those who want to explore further."
By Paul Halsall, Fordham University
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Advanced Papyrological Information System
University of Michigan
Ancien-L
Ancient History Discussion List
"A forum for debate, discussion, and the exchange of information by students and scholars of the history of the Ancient Mediterranean."
Includes the archives from 1994-
Ancient Bible History
E-mail discussion list.
"Scholarly debate. Students welcome. Personal opinions, contributions, topic suggestions, resources and other materials are invited...This is a Historical Forum and absolutely -NOT INTENDED- for church promotion or religious bias. Absolutely non-denominational. No proselytizing."
Ancient Greek World Index
Topic include Land and Time, Daily Life, Economy, and Death & Religion
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Ancient World Mapping Center (AWMC)
"The Ancient World Mapping Center exists to promote cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies."
- Davis Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL)
"This major scholarly reference work will cover all dialects and periods of ancient Aramaic, one of the principal languages of antiquity, with a literature of central importance for history and civilization, and especially for the Jewish and Christian religions."
Edited by Prof. Stephen A. Kaufamn, Hebrew Union College and Prof. Joseph A. Fitzmyer, Catholic University of America.
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) - (dead link)
A joint project of the University of California at Los Angeles and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
"...represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3200 B.C., until the end of the third millennium...The CDLI data set will consist of text and image, combining document transliterations, text glossaries and digitized originals and photo archives of early cuneiform."
Discussion Groups on Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Dr. J's Illustrated Guide to the Classical World
"...an extensive on-line collection of illustrated lectures on Greek archaeological sites, literature and history."
By Prof. Janice Siegel, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
"Its aim is to make accessible, via the World Wide Web, over 400 literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) during the late third and early second millennia BCE...The corpus comprises Sumerian text, English prose translation and bibliographical information for each composition.
- The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
Ephesus
"...devoted to the ancient city of Ephesus with 360 degrees panoramic pictures of the archaeological site."
By Berta Lledo
Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives.
"This is the first time that library science, computer science, and Near Eastern archaeology have worked in such a close relationship. When developed, the digital library will make both the primary data and secondary studies of participating projects immediately available online and accessible world-wide."
The George Ortiz Collection
"...works of art from Greece, as well as from some of its forerunners, Mesopotamia and Egypt, and its peripheral cultures spanning a period of time from the Neolithic to the Byzantine Empire; also sculptures from Africa, Pre-Columbian America and the Pacific...this web site offers the full corpus of the Collection [280 pieces], with 20 key works presented in a 3-D format for your understanding and enjoyment. "Fully-searchable" catalogue entries are available for each object, as well as glossaries. Additionally, there are news about exhibitions and information about the printed versions of The George Ortiz Collection catalogue, the standard reference on the Collection."
Gnomon Online
A searchable bibliographic database. Also includes a searchable Latin and Greek inscription database
Herodotus on the Web
"...a guide and web directory to Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the famous Greek historian ... On this site you will find over 200 links to resources about Herodotus and his age. These includes texts and translations, books about Herodotus, essays and articles, and so forth..."
By Tim Spalding
Internet Classics Archive
"Collection of 435 classical Greek and Latin texts, as well as select Chinese, Persian, and other classical works (all in English translation) by 50 different authors, with user-provided commentary and trivia sections."
Jewish National and University Library, Hebrew University
- Ketubbot Database
"The whole collection of the Jewish National and University Library 1200 Ketubbot with full bibliographic details."
"The Collection of Ketubbot (marriage contracts) in the Jewish National and University Library numbers 1212 items (as of October 2000). It includes original ketubbot from Jewish communities around the world, handwritten as well as printed (among them blank forms)...the Collection includes ketubbot from many Jewish communities. Sometimes a ketubbah provides the only sure evidence for the existence of a Jewish community. And, inasmuch as the ketubbah is a legal document in every regard, financial agreements included, it also offers historical evidence of the Jewsí socio-economic status in various times and places.
Lantern Slides of Classical Antiquity
By Harrison Eiteljorg, II, Center for the Study of Architecture (CSA), Bryn Mawr College
- Online Coin Catalog - (dead link) "The Perseus Project and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston are pleased to announce the second illustrated Web catalog of ancient art from the MFA. Over 775 ancient coins from the MFA's celebrated collection are now illustrated, with 1,500 pictures, in the Perseus coin catalog."
Online Medieval and Classical Library
"A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization."
Part of the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE.
Oriental Institute Philology Projects
Resources for Greek and Latin Classics
Sacred-Texts
"This site is a freely available non-profit archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language."
- Texts of Judaism
Sections include: Tanakh ; Talmud ; Haggada ; Kabbalah ; Midrash ; Ancient/Medieval ; Modern ; Links.
Some Thoughts on Teaching Ancient History
An essay by Kurt A. Raaflaub
Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project
"...the test site for exploring the Forma Urbis Romae, or Severan Marble Plan of Rome. This enormous map, measuring ca. 18.10 x 13 meters (ca. 60 x 43 feet), was carved between 203-211 CE and covered an entire wall inside the Templum Pacis in Rome. It depicted the groundplan of every architectural feature in the ancient city, from large public monuments to small shops, rooms, and even staircases."
Sections include: Project ; Map ; Database ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; People ; Links.
The Tom and Nan Riley Collection of Roman Portrait Sculptures
"The Riley Collection, dating to the period when Rome was at its greatest prosperity--the first century B.C. to the third century A.D.--is especially good at introducing students and those interested in ancient Rome to the diversity of the Roman world. Ranging from patricians to plebeians, the collection includes not only emperors and senators, but also men, women, and children from all walks of life. Finally, the collection provides a unique opportunity for people to get to know Romans as individual human beings who were concerned about many of the same issues that we are: identity, status, leadership, and gender ... The Riley website is designed to be useful to students, grade six through university, their teachers, and anyone interested in the Roman empire ... The site also features Teaching Materials designed to help teachers come up with ideas for integrating the site into their own pre-existingcourses."
Maintained by John Gruber-Miller, Prof. of Classics, Cornell College
Trajan's Column
"This is a site for exploring the Column of Trajan as a sculptural monument. The core of the site is a searchable database of over 500 images focusing on various aspects of the design and execution of the column's sculptural decoration. These images (slides and drawings) were generated by and for sculptor Peter Rockwell."
By The McMaster Trajan Project, 1999
University of Chicago - Digital Library Projects
- Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World
"The project focused on materials published between 1850 - 1950, drawn from two of the Library's complimentary collections, the Ancient Near East and Classics Collections. Preserved materials relate to the study of the ancient Near East and cover such topics as the archaeology, art, history, language, law, and religions of Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, Egypt, Nubia, Persia, and other ancient peoples of Anatolia and the Fertile Crescent. Classics materials span the time from the rise of Bronze Age Aegean culture through the period in the Middle Ages and include volumes relating to the history, art and archaeology of the classical world"
[Dead Sea Scrolls] University of Chicago - The Oriental Institute
- The Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Hebrew MSS Project
Sections include: Introduction ; Articles ; Annual Reports.- The De Rossi Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts at the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma and Its Importance for Jewish History - (dead link) (2002)
University of Oxford - The Ashmolean Museum
Britain's oldest public museum
- The Beazley Archive
"...has more than 2000 HTML pages with more than 5000 images, an illustrated dictionary of more than 300 pages, bibliographies for classical archaeology and history of collections and illustrated programs for students about pottery, sculpture and engraved gems. All of these programs are on-going."
Vindolanda Tablets Online
"This online edition of the Vindolanda writing tablets, excavated from the Roman fort at Vindolanda in northern England...The website is part of the Script, Image and the Culture of Writing in the Ancient World programme."
- Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford University.
VRoma
A Virtual Community for Teaching and Learning Classics
"VRoma is first and foremost a community of scholars, both teachers and students, who help to create on-line resources for teaching Latin and ancient Roman culture and who use these resources in their courses...an on-line 'place,' modeled upon the ancient city of Rome, where students and instructors can interact live, hold courses and lectures, and share resources for the study of the ancient world...These extendible and customizable resources will include texts, commentaries, images, maps and other materials."
A wonderful resource and teaching tool.
Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt
"This is an online version of a Kelsey Museum exhibition curated by Terry G. Wilfong."
Online Periodicals/Serials
TOCS-IN
Tables of Contents of Journals on Interest to Classicists
"It makes available -- for searching, browsing, or downloading -- the tables of contents of over 150 journals of interest to classicists...The data files are both WWW-searchable and available by ftp, formatted with SGML-style codes."
Arachnion
Journal of Literature and Ancient History on the Web
Athena Review: Journal of Archaeology, History, and Exploration
ARION: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics
Bryn Mawr Electronic Resources Review
"...is an on-line journal for reviews of electronic resources having to do with the ancient world. Electronic resources are here taken to include Web sites and CDs. The ancient world is taken to mean primarily ancient Greece and Rome, but to describe the subject matter thus is to provide a center, not a boundary."
Bryn Mawr Reviews
Book reviews from Classical Review and Medieval Review
Centrefor the Study of Ancient Documents Newsletter.
Digressus (ejournal)
"The Internet Journal for the Classical World"
ERAS: Monash School of Historical Studies On-Line Journal
Histos: The New Electronic Journal of Ancient Historiography.
Journal of the American Oriental Society
Maintained by Mike Madin.
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