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Contact

Photo of Federico AuroraFederico Aurora

Subject specialist in Greek and Latin
HumSam-biblioteket


Book an appointment with the subject specialist or take directly contact via e-mail: federico.aurora@ub.uio.no

Main Online Resources

Dictionaries

Greek

Latin

Indo-European

Text Collections

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. 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

  • 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

Grammars

Greek

Latin

Indo-European

Encyclopedias, Handbooks and Atlases

Bibliographical databases

Portals about Electronic Resources for Classics

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

Papyrologi

Mycenology

Resources and Tools for Learning

Textbooks, readers, grammar exercises, flashcards, videoes, podcsts and comics in Greek and Latin m.m. (pages in Norwegian)

Gresk   -    Latin

Ancient Greek and Latin Reading Groups at UiO (on campus and/or online)

Events

UiO's Blogs on Classics

Mathildes antikkblogg
(by Mathilde Skoie, in Norwegian):

  • Caligula Feb. 29, 2024 3:18 PM

    Den aller galeste av de gale keiserne er sceneaktuell på Det norske teateret. Hva skjer når Caligula møter Camus på en norsk scene i 2024?

Classics for you
(by Silvio Bär, in English, external pages)

General Literature Search

UB

  • Oria - the Norwegian University Libraries' catalogue: books, journals and article search.

Subject search

  • 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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or send your proposal directly to the subject librarian: federico.aurora@ub.uio.no

Remote access

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