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Reference Works
Dictionaries
- Logeion - groups in one site both Greek (LSJ, DGE, m.fl.) and Latin (Lewis & Short m.fl.) standard dictionaries
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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
- DGE: Diccionario Griego-Español (the most comprehensive Ancient Greek dictionary, but at the moment only the lemmas α - ἔξαυος have been published)
- Woodhouses English-Greek Dictionary
- Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Beekes) - access only for UiO users
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Latin
- Thesaururs Linguae Latinae - access only for UiO users
- Lewis & Shorts' Latin-English dictionary
- DuCange A Medieval Latin Lexicon
- Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (De Vaan) - access only for UiO users
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Indo-European
- Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online - access only for UiO users
- Proto-Indo-European Lexikon (Helsinki)
Encyclopedias
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Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics - access only for UiO users
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Oxford Classical Dictionary - access only for UiO users
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Brill's New Pauly (English version) / Der neue Pauly (German version) - access only for UiO users
Handbooks
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Oxford Hanbooks Online - 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. At the moment it covers the years 1924-2014
- 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.
Portals about Electronic Resources for Classics
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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: searchabler blog about (mostly) open access material on Antiquity, updated daily.
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Electronic Resources for Classicists (Maria Pantelia, University of California, Irvine)
The Texts
Text Collections
- Perseus
- LOEB Classical Library Online - access only for UiO users.
- Loebolus (public domain, downloadable, LOEB volumes).
- Bibliotheca Augustana
- Bibliotheca polyglotta graeca et latina
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Gresk
- 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
- 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
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Latin
- The Latin Library "A collection of Latin texts: classical, Christian, medieval, and modern, including such classics as Lewis Carroll's Gabrobocchia"
Inscriptions, Papyri & Mycenaean documents
Common resources
- 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
- EDCS (Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby) (latin)
- The Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions project
- EAGLE (Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy)
Papyrologi
- Papyri.info
- Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri (literary and paraliterary papyri)
- Catalogue of Paraliterary Papyri
- MP³ (Mertens-Pack³)-Database (literary papyri)
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 Thebes, Mycenae, Tiryns and Midea)
- Deaditerranean (transliterations of most of the documents from Knossos, Pylos, Thebes, Mycenae, Tiryns, Khania, with translations of a number of words)
Book Search
UB
- Oria - the Norwegian University Libraries' catalogue: books, journals and article search.
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Subject search
- HUMORD - reserved searchwords for the humanities (Norwegian terms)
- GreLat - Greek and Latin name standard forms as used in Oria.
- Dewey subject register for Oria (Norwegian terms)
- 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.
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) - Interdisciplinary international database. Allows subject search for articles and citation search for books and articles. Journals ranged by so called "impact factor" (how often a journal is cited within a given period).
- Science Direct (Elsevier) - database of journals and e-books from Elsevier (NB: more than 10 000 matches return an error message).
Other Catalogues
- URBS - catalogue of a number of resaerch libraries in Rome. Here you can find the catalogue of the Norwegian Institute in Rome
- NIA - catalogue of the library of the norske institutt i Athen Norwegian Institute in Athens
- NorLib - catalogue of the Nordic Library in Athens
- LIBRIS - the Swedish Libraries' catalogue
- REX - database of the Danish Royal Library, Copenhagen
- BSZ - bibliographic database references of more than 1200 libraries in South Germany
- WorldCat
The most important Classics journals at UB
- Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Acta Classica
- Der altsprachliche Unterricht
- American Journal of Archaeology (elektronisk: JSTOR, 1897-2004)
- American Journal of Philology (elektronisk: 1880-)
- Ancient narrative (også elektronisk)
- Antichthon (elektronisk: 2007-)
- Antiquity (elektronisk: 1927-)
- Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft
- Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete (elektronisk: 1998 -)
- Arethusa (elektronisk: 1996-)
- Arion (elektronisk: 1962-2006)
- BASP - The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (elektronisk: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/basp/)
- Bryn Mawr Classical Review (elektronisk)
- Byzantinische Zeitschrift (elektronisk: 1998-)
- Byzantion
- Chiron
- Classical Antiquity (elektronisk: JSTOR: 1982-2006, 2010-)
- Classica et mediaevalia
- Classical Journal (elektronisk: 1905-)
- Classical Philology (elektronisk: 1906-)
- Classical Quarterly (elektronisk: 1907-)
- Classical Review (elektronisk: 1887-)
- Classical World (elektronisk: 1957-)
- Eirene
- Eranos
- Les Études Classiques
- Glotta (elektronisk: 1909-)
- Gnomon (elektronisk: 1925-)
- Grazer Beiträge
- Greece and Rome (elektronisk: 1931-)
- Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, (elektronisk: 2004-)
- Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (elektronisk: JSTOR: 1890-2004)
- Helios (elektronisk 2001-)
- Helikon
- Hermes (elektronisk: 1866-)
- Hesperia (elektronisk: 1932-2006)
- Historia (elektronisk: 1950-2005, 2008-)
- Humanistica Lovaniensia
- Illinois Classical Studies
- JACT Review
- Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum
- Journal of Hellenic Studies (elektronisk: 1880-)
- Journal of Roman Studies (elektronisk: 1911-2006)
- Kadmos (elektronisk 1998-)
- Klio (elektronisk: 2008-)
- Latomus
- Maia
- Minos
- Mnemosyne (elektronisk: 1852-)
- Museum Helveticum
- Omnibus
- Past and Present (elektronisk: 1952-)
- Philologus (elektronisk: 1920-1939, 2007:2-)
- Phoenix (elektronisk: 1946- , ikke de tre siste år)
- Ramus
- Revue Belge de Philologie et d´Histoire
- Revue de Philologie, de Litterature et d´Histoire Anciennes (online: 2002-)
- Revue des Études Anciennes
- Revue des Études Grecques
- Revue des Études Latines
- Rheinisches Museum (elektronisk: 1950- , ikke de siste tre år)
- Sfinx
- Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici
- Symbolae Osloenses (elektronisk: 2000-)
- Transactions of the American Philological Association (TAPA) (elektronisk: 1869-)
- Vigiliae Christianae (elektronisk: 1947-)
- Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft
- Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (elektronisk tilgang: 1988-2000)
Learning and teaching
Learning
Latinitium podcasts and videoes in Latin (and links to many more audio and video resources)
Akropolis World News (World news in Ancient Greek)
Rouses "A Greek boy at home, a story written in Greek"
Morices "Stories in Attic Greek, forming a Greek reading book"
Teaching
Annotated Bibliography: Selected Resources for Teaching Greek and Latin (Cornell College, USA) – Exhaustive and regularly updated
Teaching Classical Languages – peer-reviewed online journal supported by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS)
Resources for Latin and Greek Teachers (Cornell College, USA)
Latinteach (collection of articles and resources)
Thamyris, new series (journal for the teaching of classical culture, Greek and Latin, in Spanish)
Other useful resources
- Daremberg-Saglio- (Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines)
- Johan Graesse, Orbis latinus (Dictionary of latin place names in the Middle Ages and the Modern times)
- Forum Romanum
- Database of Nordic Neo-Latin literature
- Altertumswissenschaft im Internet
- Kirke - Katalog der Internetressourcen für die Klassische Philologie
- Rassegna degli strumenti informatici per lo studio dell'antichità classica
Events
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Mathilde Skoie's Antikkblog (in Norwegian)
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Catilinaria IV: Imperium på scenen
Robert Harris bestselgende Cicero-trilogi har blitt til seks teaterstykker fordelt på to forestillinger. Første trippelforestilling bruker Catilina som omdreiningspunkt og har fått navnet Conspirator.
University of Oslo Library Papyrus Collection
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