Ancient and Classical
History & Literature

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS)

If ancient history is your thing, this is a site for you. See what a power of attorney document looked like in ancient Egypt. A fun, extensive, and amazing site to browse.

Beazley Archive

This archive is located at Oxford University and offers access to archives on classical archaeology and art.

Cassiodorus

Read the works and learn about the life of the Sixth Century statesman and monk, Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 490 - d. 585). This site also offers digital images of pages from medieval manuscripts of Cassiodorus' work.

Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS)

CHS is a research institute affiliated with Harvard University. Access the journal, Classics@ and Homer and the Papyri first created by Professor Dana Sutton of the University of California, Irvine, with a fully searchable relational database.

Diotima

Use this site to access resources regarding women and gender in the ancient world, including bibliographies, images, publications, and more.

Electronic Resources for Classicists

This is a directory of resources for the classics including databases, gateways, publications, bibliographic indices, and much more.

Epic of Gilgamesh

This ancient Sumarien story may be the oldest written story known. Written on twelve tablets in cuneform script, the story is the adventures of the King of Uruk and takes place roughly during the period between 2750 and 2500 BCE. This translation by Maureen Gallery Kovacs is based on the "standard" Akkadian "edition", but is filled in with excerpts from the Old Babylonian where necessary.

ETANA

The Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives is a consortium of scholarly societies and universities formed to develop and maintain a comprehensive Internet portal for scholarly knowledge such as archaeological excavation reports, editions of ancient and modern texts, core early monographs, dictionaries, journals, and reports in the public domain related to the Ancient Near East.

Encyclopedia of Egyptology

This is a peer reviewed University of California, Los Angeles project dedicated to the study of Egyptology revising and reconfiguring the entries in the classic German text, Lexikon der Ägyptologie (LÄ, edited by Wolfgang Helck, Eberhard Otto, and Wolfhart Westendorf).

Forum Romanum

This site provides a listing of Roman texts and available online translations of the texts. It also provides a digital library of Latin literature searchable by author, title, genre, or date.

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook

This page from Paul Halsall of Fordham University provides links to resources on ancient an classic periods including Greek civilizations, the Hellenistic world, Rome, late antiquity, and Christian origins.

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This museum associated with the University of Michigan contains over 100,000 objects related to civilizations existing around the Mediterranean. Access the museums online exhibits, publications and databases from this site, including databases relating to archaeological sites.

Louisiana State University Libraries Subject Guides to Classics Resources

This page provides access to Roman resources, Greek resources, online Greek and Roman images, online Greek and Latin texts, and dictionaries and language sites. This is a good place to begin a search on classics subjects.

Textkit

This site provides free and downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers. Use the site to learn classical languages or check on grammar.