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the Top 21 Classical Websites

(updated & checked 10 February 2006)

This list is regularly updated, and is also accessible from the JACT website [http://www.jact.org]
The top three are universally recognised as the best: the rest are in no particular order.

1. Diotima - materials for the study of women and gender in the ancient world. This is a superb resource. [http://www.stoa.org/diotima/]
2. Internet Classics Archive - offers 375 works by 30 classical authors, in English translation, browsable and supported by a search engine. Recent technical problems have affected the search facilites, although the texts are still accessible. [http://webatomics.com/Classics/]
3. Perseus Project, The - detailed searchable library of texts, translations, art and archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome. Better than the CD ROM version in many ways - it includes most Latin authors, and special projects, such as Hercules, and the Olympics. Many of the vase images, however aren't available online. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/]

4. About.com - Latin language - an amazing portal to all manner of sites dealing with latin, updated daily. Magnificent! [http://latin.about.com/homework/latin/mbody.htm]
5. Bryn Mawr Classical Review Index for all articles published in this journal over the last ten or so years. Amazing resource. [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/]
6. Classics Page at Ad Fontes Academy - library of texts in Latin from Cicero to Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Save time and effort in typing out passages - it's all here. [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/classics]
7. Dr J's Illustrated Guide to the Classical World - Dr Janice Siegel's superb collection of her photographs of Greece and Italy (including some less-visited sites), together with scholarly text. Especially good on Greek theatre and drama. [http://lilt.ilstu.edu/drjclassics]
8. Loebs online. Every Loeb you've ever wanted is here (353 at last count). [http://www.powells.com/subsection/ClassicsLoebClassics.html]
9. Biliotheca Augustana - collectio textuum electronicorum. Texts in Latin, Greek (beta text) and other languages, in a very classily-designed site entirely in Latin. "Cave Exploratorem et Gatem" - he's a Mac fanatic, but seems to work fine on my PC. [http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/augustana.html]
10. FAQ - Classical Studies (sci.classics). A fascinating list of questions and answers. Not updated this millennium [http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/classics-faq/faq.html]
11. Online dictionaries for more languages than you could shake a stick at, and some excellent linguistic resources. [http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html]
12. The Bulfinch Mythology Site My personal favourite, run by Bob Fisher. It all grew out of a project to publicise a musical version of Medea in 1996! [http://www.bulfinch.org/]
13. Maecenas A fine collection of images, free to be used for any non-commercial purpose [http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/]
14. Oxford's comprehensive list of resources for Classics. Better than Cambridge, it has to be said! [http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/resources/www/index.asp; http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk]
15. The Cambridge School Classics Project revamped: now includes material for independent study from the Cambridge Online Latin Project [http://www.cambridgescp.com]
16. The Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Much more to it than you could imagine. The frontline resource. [http://www.britannica.com]
17. The Beazley Pottery Archive. Access is now free to anyone who registers. [http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/Vases/ASP/default.asp]
18. The Philodemus Project. Not an amazing site - but an amazing project! (Reading the 2000 year old carbonised rain-sodden scrolls from Philodemus' Library in Herculaneum) [http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/philodemus/philhome.htm]
19. Lacus Curtius. Bill Thayer's amazing illustrated gazetteer of the Mediterranean: redefines "labour of love". [http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/index.html]
20. Pinax Online - An Annotated List of Web Bibliographies on the Ancient Greek World. [http://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~u0013314/pinaxonline.html] This is a very serious site which no researcher could afford to ignore.
21. Nuntii Latini - The News in Latin, and other goodies.

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