Subject page for Greek and Latin

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Dictionaries

• Logeion – groups in one site both Greek (LSJ, DGE, m.fl.) and Latin (Lewis & Short m.fl.) standard dictionaries. Logeion gives also access to the Latin-Dutch dictionary, which is the most accurate in marking long and short vowels.
• Alpheios – plug-in for Firefox, Chrome and Safari: analyses (translation, grammatical form) Latin and Greek words in a webpage (HTML).
• Searchable list of the 1000 most common words in respectively Ancient Greek and Latin (Dickinson College)

Ancient Greek

• LSJ – Liddell, Scott & John's Greek-English Lexicon includes material from the last edition (1996). Words are linked to passages in the TLG (to get access to the whole corpus use this link).
• The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek, the newest Greek-English dictionary - access only for UiO users (if your not connected to the UiO-network, use the link in Oria).
• LSJ – Ancient Greek dictionaries wiki-version of LSJ, which also allows text searches and reversed searches (English translation > Ancient Greek lemma). LSJ is her also connected to other Ancient Greek (and some Latin) dictionaries in different languages (e.g. Modern Greek, French, Russian, Chinese), including Woodhouse's English-Greek Dictionary og Frisk's etymological dictionary. This is, therefore, the best place where to search an Ancient Greek word starting from its equivalent in another language.
• DGE: Diccionario Griego-Español (the most comprehensive Ancient Greek dictionary, but at the moment only the lemmas α - ἔξαυος have been published)
• Words in progress (ongoing supplement to the major dictionaries of Ancient and Byzantine Greek, adding new words, sources or interpretations)
• Gresk-Dansk Ordbog
• Svenskt-grekiskt lexikon
• Woodhouses English-Greek Dictionary
• Myria "is a treebank-based vocabulary tool. It contains about 6000 entries, all of which have a frequency of at least 50 occurrences in a large automatically analyzed corpus"
• Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Beekes) – access only for UiO users (if your not connected to the UiO-network, use the link in Oria).
• Dictionnaire Étymologique de la langue grecque (Chantraine, 1968 edition)
• A Patristic Greek Lexicon (Lampe)
• Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität (Trapp) – Byzantine Greek Dictionary
• TLG Lexica: combined search in Ancient (LSJ), patristic (Lampe), Byzantine (Trapp), medieval, and Modern Greek dicitionaries (+ others)
• Koumanoúdis' Synagoge – Lexicon of post 1453-Ancient Greek
• Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN)
• HoDeL – Homeric Dependency Lexikon – list all Homeric verbs with their arguments
• Wiktionary
• Thesaurus Lexicorum Graecorum: a useful page collecting open access Ancient Greek dictionaries

Latin

• Thesaururs Linguae Latinae – access only for UiO users (if your not connected to the UiO-network, use the link in Oria)
• Thesaururs Linguae Latinae – open acces (searchable pdf files)
• Digital Forcellini – digital version of Lexicon totius Latinitatis
• Lewis & Short's Latin-English dictionary
• Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary: Latin-English – access only for UiO users (if your not connected to the UiO-network, use the link in Oria)
• Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary: English-Latin – access only for UiO users (if your not connected to the UiO-network, use the link in Oria)
• English-Latin dictionary (Smith & Hall) – the largest English-Latin dictionary, combined with two synonym dictionaries (Döderleins Hand-book of Latin Synonymes and Ogilvies Horae Latinae: Studies in Synonyms and Syntax) and Lewis & Short.
• Latin-Danish dictionary
• Swedish-Latin dictionary
• A Latin Macronizer (Johan Winge) – finner og viser de lange vokalene i en limt inn tekst. Den tar hensyn til forskjellene i prosa og poesi og i forksjellige metre.
• DuCange A Medieval Latin Lexicon
• Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (De Vaan) – access only for UiO users
• Lateinisches Etymologisches Woerterbuch (Walde-Hoffmann)
• Thesaurus Lexicorum Latinorum: a useful page collecting open access Latin dictionaries
• Whitaker's Words – online parser of latin morphology
• A Latin Macronizer (Johan Winge) – allows you to paste a text to find and mark long vowels. Has options to distinguish between prose and verse and among a number of metres.
• Wiktionary

Indo-European

• Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online – access only for UiO users
• Proto-Indo-European Lexikon (Helsinki)

Text Collections

• Perseus
• Scaife Viewer (new Perseus interface, still not complete collection of texts uploaded)
• LOEB Classical Library Online – access only for UiO users.
• Loebolus (public domain, downloadable, LOEB volumes).
• Bibliotheca Augustana
• PhiloLogic 4 – Advanced word searches i Perseus corpus
• Bibliotheca polyglotta graeca et latina
• Syntacticus – a treebank of early Indo-European languages

Greek

• First1KGreek Project – "The goal of this project is to collect at least one edition of every Greek work composed between Homer and 250CE with a focus on texts that do not already exist in the Perseus Digital Library" (Open Access)
• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae – access to "Full Corpus" only for UiO users (if your not connected to the UiO-network, use the link in Oria). You also have to create a web account - you can do it directly from TLG's website.
• Anthologia Graeca – digital, plurilingual edition of the Anthologia Palatina.
• Ancient Philosophy Source – digital, annotatable edition of:
  • Diels-Kranz' Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker
  • Diogenes Laertiu's Vitae Philosophorum
  • Sextus Empiricu's collected works
  • Giannantoni's Socratis et Socraticorum Reliquiae
• Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum
• DiGreC:  treebank that contains selected sentences from Greek texts ranging from the 8th century BC to the 17th century
  AD, with detailed morphosyntactic and semantic annotation.

Latin

• Library of Latin Texts (Brepols) – access only for UiO users.
• Digital Latin Library publishes new critical editions of Latin texts, of all types and facilitates the finding and, where openly available and accessible online, the reading of all texts written in Latin.
• The Latin Library "A collection of Latin texts: classical, Christian, medieval, and modern, including such classics as Lewis Carroll's Gabrobocchia"
• Classical Latin Texts (all the Latin texts up to 200 CE)
• DigilibLT - Digital library of late-antique latin texts
• Patrologia Latina
• Musisque Deoque – A digital archive of Latin poetry

Grammars

Greek

• Thomas Dwight Goodell / A School Grammar of Attic Greek (digital version, Dickinson College)
• Goodwins "A Greek Grammar" på nettet
• Smyths "A Greek Grammar for Colleges" på nettet
• Kühner's Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (seneste utgave, 1890–1904)
• Goodwins "Syntax of the moods and tenses of the Greek verb" på nettet
• Grammar-charts from the The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek

Latin

• Allen and Greenoughs "New Latin grammar for schools and colleges":
  • Dickinson College (digital)
  • Downloadable versions from the Internet Achive
• Kühner's Ausführliche Grammatik der lateinischen Sprache (most recent edition 1912–14)
• The Oxford Latin Syntax (Pinkster) vol. 1
• The Oxford Latin Syntax (Pinkster) vol. 2

Indo-European

• Karl Brugmanns "Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen" (2. utgave, flere bind) på nettet
• Berthold Delbrücks "Vergleichende Syntax der indogermanischen Sprachen (3 bind)" på nettet
• Glottothèque: Ancient Indo-European Grammars online (open access video introductions to the main Indo-European languages)

Encyclopedias, Handbooks and Atlases

• Oxford Classical Dictionary – access only for UiO users
• Cambridge Companion to Classical Studies – access only for UiO users
• Brill's New Pauly (English version) / Der neue Pauly  (German version) – access only for UiO users
• New Paulys supplements part I and part II, comprising, inter alias, reception studies, history of Classical Philology, an author lexicon (English/German) – access only for UiO users
• Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Pauly-Wissowa) digitalisert i Wikisource (work in progress; some parts missing because of copyright).
• Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines (Daremberg & Saglio)
• The Suda On Line – 10th century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world (Greek, Roman, Biblical and Christian material)
• Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics – access only for UiO users
• PURA - Digital Encyclopedia of Atticism – on Atticism (etries on grammarians, their texts, the individual words and expressions they address)
• Pleiades online gazeteer of the ancient world.
• ToposTexts "an indexed collection of ancient texts and mapped places relevant the the history and mythology of the ancient Greeks"
• The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites at Perseus
• Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
• ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
• Brill’s New Pauly's Historical Atlas of the Ancient World
• The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature – access only for UiO users
• Oxford Handbooks Online - Classical Studies – access only for UiO users
• Oxford Reference: Classical Studies – access only for UiO users

Bibliographical databases & abbreviations

• L'Année philologique (APh): the basic and indispensable tool for research in classical studies. Articles and books. Coverage starts from 1924.
• Oxford Bibliographies: Classics
• Bibliotheca Classica Selecta
• TOCS-IN: the most updated, basic information on the last journal publications.
• Gnomon:  All aspects of classical studies. While less complete than the APh, it has some items (e.g. a large collection of German and British dissertatons) not covered there. Articles and books.
• New surveys in the Classics
• Oldtidens Anciente and Medieval litterature in  oversættelser – a database about  translations of ancient and medieval texts into Scandinavian languages.
• Zenodo: Digital Classics: "A community to share open access publications about the use of digital methods and technologies to study the ancient world at large."
• Abbreviations commonly used in dicitionaries, bibliographies and citations:
  • Logeion's dictionaries
  • LSJ - Liddell, Scott & John's Greek-English Lexicon
  • Oxford Latin Dictionary
  • Oxford Classical Dictionary
  • Année Philologique
  • Dictionary of Bibliographic Abbreviations Found in the Scholarship of Classical Studies and Related Disciplines

Portals about Electronic Resources for Classics

Portals

• The Digital Classicist Wiki
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: searchabler blog about (mostly) open access material on Antiquity, updated daily.
• Electronic Resources for Classicists (Maria Pantelia, University of California, Irvine)
• AgoraClass (in French)

E-mail lists

• Classicists (University of Liverpool) e-mail list where most Classics events, conferences, etc., are announced.
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review – to stay updated on the most recent (open acces) reviews of the most important publications in the field,
• Digital Classicist – e-mail list of the international Digital Classics community.

Inscriptions, Papyri and Mycenaean documents

• Trismegistos ("an interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources, formerly Egypt and the Nile valley (800 BC–AD 800), now expanding to the Ancient World in general")

Epigraphy

• PHI (Packard Humanities institute)-Serchable Greek inscriptions
• Inscriptiones Graecae – Digital Edition
• Attic Inscriptions Online (AIO)
• EDCS (Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby) (latin)
• The Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions project
• EAGLE (Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy)
• Ancient Graffiti Project
• L'Année Épigraphique

Papyrologi

• Papyri.info
• PapyGreek

Mycenology

• Diccionario Micénico (online indexes of the printed Diccionario Micénico)
• DĀMOS - Database of Mycenaean at Oslo (all Mycenaean documents in transliteration)
• CaLiBRA – a searchable database of photographs of the Linear B tablets from Pylos
• LiBER – Linear B Electronic Resources (images and transliterations of the documents from Knossos, Thebes, Mycenae, Tiryns and Midea)
• Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos vol.1 (CoMyK 1)