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Main Online Resources
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).
- Abbreviations commonly used in dicitionaries and bibliographies:
Greek
- LSJ - Liddell, Scott & John's Greek-English Lexicon
- The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek (the newest Greek-English dictionary) - access only for UiO users
- 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 searcha an Ancient Greek word starting from its equivalent in another language.
- 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"
- 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)
- A Patristic Greek Lexicon (Lampe)
- Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität - Byzantine Greek Dictionary
- Koumanoúdis' Synagoge - Lexicon of post 1453-Ancient Greek
- HoDeL - Homeric Dependency Lexikon - list all Homeric verbs with their arguments
- Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Beekes) - access only for UiO users
- Dictionnaire Étymologique de la langue grecque (Chantraine, 1968 edition)
- Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN)
- Thesaurus Lexicorum Graecorum: a useful page collecting open access Ancient Greek dictionaries
Latin
- Thesaururs Linguae Latinae - access only for UiO users
- 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 and English-Latin - access only for UiO users
- 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
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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.
Indo-European
- Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online - access only for UiO users
- Proto-Indo-European Lexikon (Helsinki)
Text Collections
- Perseus
- Open Greek and Latin Perseus Digital Library Scaife Viewer (new Perseus interface, still not complete collection of texts uploaded)
- Open Greek and Latin
- LOEB Classical Library Online - access only for UiO users.
- Loebolus (public domain, downloadable, LOEB volumes).
- Bibliotheca Augustana
- Bibliotheca polyglotta graeca et latina
- Syntacticus - a treebank of early Indo-European languages
Greek
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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)
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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae - access to "Full Corpus" only for UiO users. You also have to create a web account - you can do it directly from TLG's website
NB: if you use a laptop, you need to connect through UiO's Program Kiosk
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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"
- Patrologia Latina
- Classical Latin Texts
- Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum
Grammars
Greek
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Kühner's Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (most recent edition 1890-1904)
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Goodwins "Syntax of the moods and tenses of the Greek verb" på nettet
Latin
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Allen and Greenoughs "New Latin grammar for schools and colleges"
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Kühner's Ausführliche Grammatik der lateinischen Sprache (most recent edition 1912-14)
Indo-European
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 - comprising, inter alias, reception studies, history of Classical Philology, an author lexicon (Englishk/German) - access only for UiO users
- Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines (Daremberg & Saglio)
- Etymological Dictionary of Greek Mythology (University of Trieste)
- 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
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ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman 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
- 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."
Portals about Electronic Resources for Classics
- 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)
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)
Papyrologi
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)
Resources and Tools for Learning
UiO's Blogs on Classics
Mathildes antikkblogg
(by Mathilde Skoie, in Norwegian):
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Classics for you
(by Silvio Bär, in English, external pages)
University of Oslo Library Papyrus Collection
General Literature Search
UB
- Oria - the Norwegian University Libraries' catalogue: books, journals and article search.
Subject search
- GreLat - Greek and Latin name standard forms as used in Oria.
- HUMORD-tesaurus (Norwegian terms)
- HUMORD - page to look up books through reserved searchwords for the humanities (Norwegian terms)
- Dewey subject register for Oria (Norwegian terms)
- Norwegian Web-Dewey
- Dewey numbers:
- for Greek language and Litterature
- for Latin Language and Litterature
- HKI - UB's old main catalogue. Some foreign literature published before 1966 is registered only here.
General databases for the Humanities
- ProQuest - Litteratur og språk - Indexed database of research publications within the Humanities. Contains 320 journals, magazines and newspapers published in the UK and in the USA. Covers publication from 1962 onward
- Humanities Abstracts(Ebsco) Indexed database of articles form more than 570 journals. Indexing from 1984, article abstracts from 1994.
- Historical Abstracts (Ebsco) - offers also access to more Ebsco Humaniora databases.
- Science Direct (Elsevier) - database of journals and e-books from Elsevier (NB: more than 10 000 matches return an error message).
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