Library

For ancient or classical Greek and Roman research, primary sources are often the classical texts such as Themistocles by Plutach, Metamorphoses by Ovid or the Poetry of Sappho.  Most of the original sources are either not available to us, or written in Greek or Latin, so modern translations of critical editions are acceptable as primary sources.  Also acceptable as primary sources are ancient art, architecture, and artefacts, as well as archaeological reports and diaries.

• Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopedia of the Ancient World: Antiquity

REF DE5.N4813 2002

• Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopedia of the Ancient World: Classical Tradition

REF DE5.N4913 2006

• The Internet Classics Archive

Over 400 full-text works, mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.

• Internet History Sourcebooks Project: Ancient History (Fordham University)
• Perseus Digital Library

Wide variety of resources on the ancient world. Full-text in original Greek or Latin as well as English translations; integrated Atlas; art and archaeology images and descriptions etc.

• The Latin Library at the Classics Page

Provides access to public domain Latin texts. The texts are not intended for research purposes nor as substitutes for critical editions. There are no translations at the site.

• British Library Digitised Manuscripts

The 'Digitised Manuscripts' section of The British Library website provides access to fully digitised manuscripts held at the Library and their descriptions, including many Greek manuscripts.

• PHI Latin Texts

Website contains essentially all Latin literary texts written before A.D. 200, as well as some texts selected from later antiquity.

• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Abridged)

Provides access to a number of works from authors such as Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Aristotle, the Greek tragedians and orators that have traditionally been used in university and college level instruction of Greek.

To find print and electronic editions and translations of primary texts available in the library:

• Library Catalogue

Search by author or title.

For image and artifact sources for Greek and Roman Art, Architecture and Archaeology see the following:

• ARTstor

A digital library of art images. Includes approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.  ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

• Art and Archaeology Artifact Browser (via Perseus Digital Library)

A massive library of art objects (coins, vases, gems), sites, and buildings. Each entry has a description of the object and its context; most have images. Produced in collaboration with many museums, institutions, and scholars.

• CLAROS: Classical Art Research Online Research Services

Built on the art of ancient Greece and Rome, CLAROS is an international research collaboration, which enables simultaneous searching of major collections in university research institutes and museums.

• Classical Art Research Centre: The Beazley Archive

Includes databases of images and documentation of classical pottery, gems, and sculpture. Databases can be searched separately, or simultaneously.

• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum

An illustrated catalogue of more than 100,000 ancient vases.

• American Numismatic Society Collection

The ANS collections database contains information on more than 600,000 objects which include, coins, paper money, tokens, ‘primitive’ money, medals and decorations, from all parts of the world, and all periods in which such objects have been produced.