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General Sources

Catalogues of electronic texts on the Internet can be found at ALEX and at Pierre Perroud's Athena: Authors and Texts.

The Bartleby Library at Columbia University houses a fine collection of electronic texts, accessible through Bartleby.com: Great Books Online.

MIT maintains a full selection of classical texts in older translations (Internet Classics Archive).

Perseus has a library of Greek texts: consult the Primary Text Index: English Translations or Primary Text Index: Greek (the page is outdated but instructs you via the Table of Contents).

Libellus stores Latin texts obtainable through ftp. Latin texts and fragments are also available at Urich Harsch's beautifully presented Bibliotheca Augustana.

The Online Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania lists free books on the web and allows you to search by Library of Congress classification: check PA Classical Languages and Literature.

The Sunsite server at Berkeley hosts The Online Medieval and Classical Library. The Online Books Page and Malaspina Great Books also provide many links worth following up.

The best source for classics bibliography is Gnomon Online. TOCS-IN is still worth a try. Other sources of bibligraphy are Bibliotheca Classica Selecta, a guide to general bibliography on classical topics, and FRANTIQ, Fichier de Recherche de l'Antiquité, a searchable WAIS Index maintained by a cooperative of France's CNRS, universities and Ministry of Culture. The University of Kentucky Classics Department provides useful Bibliographical Assistance, as does Diotima.

Many bookshops are now online. Amazon.Com has a very large inventory, offers good prices, and is fast. There is also a British site: Amazon.co.uk. Blackwell's Classics List is worth a browse. For books on archaeology, Archaeology on the Net is also worth a look.

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Particular Sources

More particular texts and bibliographies are listed below in roughly alphabetical order by ancient author and/or subject.

Aesop's Fables
A Penn State Electronic Classics Series publication.

Ancient Law by Henry Maine (1861)
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School.

Apollodorus' Library
Summary from the Perseus Project.

Apollonius Rhodius
Part of A Hellenistic Bibliography, on post-classical Greek poetry and its influence, from the University of Leiden.

Apuleius
A site by Luca Graverini, including a bibliography.
Also check out Ulrich Schmitzer's bibliography on the Amor and Psyche scene.

Apuleius' Apologia
Jim O'Donnell's "Web-seminar", Spring 1996.

Armarium Labyrinthi: Labyrinth Latin Bookcase
An excellent source of biblical, liturgical, late antique and medieval texts.

Ausonius
'Pagina Ausonii', a multilingual Ausonius page.

Bibliography on Women in Byzantium
From Dumbarton Oaks. Editor: Alice-Mary Talbot; Founding Editor: Thalia Gouma-Paterson.

Bulfinch's Mythology

Callimachus' Hymn III: To Artemis
From Jean Alvares, Montclair State University, New Jersey.

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Catullus
Carmina Catulli, text and concordance.
Another, nicely presented, text of Catullus is available from the White Trash Scriptorium.

Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
From Oxford University, with links to images of Greek inscriptions, and information on a new edition of Hesychius.

Children's Books on the Ancient World
A selective bibliography from the University of Kentucky.

Cicero's De Amicitia
From the White Trash Scriptorium.

Cicero's Somnium Scipionis
From the White Trash Scriptorium.

Cicero on the Genres of Rhetoric
Translation by John Tinkler.

The Desert Speaks: The World of Papyrus
Promotes Peter Arzt's video/DVD on papyrology.

Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Euclid's Elements
By D.E. Joyce, Clark University.

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Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The "best of" Edward Gibbons, by Mark Zimmermann.

A Glossary of Literary Terms
By Robert Harris.

Greek and Roman Drama
Bibliography by John Porter, University of Saskatchewan.

Greek Rhetoric and Prose Style
A bibliography by Hardy Hansen, CUNY.

A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
By Robert Harris.

Heraclitus
Biography and fragments of works, by Giannis Stamatellos et al.

Herodotus
The George Rawlinson translation, from MIT's Internet Classics Archive.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
The Loeb translations.

Hippocrates
Francis Adams' translations, from MIT's Internet Classics Archive.

Homer and the Papyri
Originally created by Dana Sutton, this new edition is a fully searchable relational database of Homeric papyri.

Homer's Odyssey
George Chapman's translation from Bartleby.com: Great Books Online.

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Latin Vulgate Bible
From the ARTFL project. Search or browse Jerome's Latin Vulgate Bible.

Literary Resources on the Net
By Jack Lynch of Rutgers.

Loeb Classical Library
From Harvard University Press.

Lucan's Pharsalia
English translation by Sir Edward Ridley, 1896.

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
The George Long translation, from MIT's Internet Classics Archive.

Nepos
Fragments of works of Nepos available at the Bibliotheca Augustana.

Oral Formulaic Theory and Research: An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography
By John Miles Foley.

Ovid
A bibliography by Sean Redmond, previously of NYU.

The Ovid Project: Metamorphosing the Metamorphoses
Images by Baur et al; a project by Hope Greenberg from the Rare Book Department of the University of Vermont.

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Papyrology Home Page
From the University of Michigan, with links to many other internet sites on papyrology.

Phaedrus' Fabulae
Latin text of Liber I and Liber II courtesy of the White Trash Scriptorium.

Pindar
Commentaries on Individual Odes of Pindar by Lowell Edmunds of Rutgers.

Pre-Socratic Philosophers

Priapea
Latin text, from the White Trash Scriptorium.

Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy
The Posthomerica in the A.S. Way translation.

Res Gestae Divi Augusti

The Romulus Project
An electronic library of Latin literature with virtual commentary.

Sappho
The poetry of Sappho, one part of a private site on art and culture for women-oriented women.

Statius
Via Stazio: Bibliography of Statian Studies by Harald Anderson.

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Tacitus Homepage
By Steven Rutledge of the University of Maryland.

"Thales and the Origins of Theoretical Reasoning"
By Dmitri Panchenko. On Project Muse - access by subscription only.

Thucydides
Sources for Thucydides from the Perseus Project, including F.M. Cornford's Thucydides Mythistoricus and John Finley's Three Essays on Thucydides.
Short bibliography on Thucydides by Lowell Edmunds.

Tools of the Trade for the Study of Roman Literature
By Lowell Edmunds and Shirley Werner.

The Vergil Project
From the University of Pennsylvania. Includes:
Vergilius: Bibliography of Vergilian Scholarship;
Vergil's Home Page with links to other Vergil sites.
Index of Images from Vergil MSS Vat. lat. 3225 and 3867.

Vergil's Eclogues
From the White Trash Scriptorium.

       
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