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Subject specialist in Greek and Latin
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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
- Alpheios - plug-in for Firefox, Chrome and Safari: analyses (translation, grammatical form) Latin and Greek words in a webpage (HTML).
- Chiron - plug-in for Firefox, Chrome and Safari: analyses (translation, grammatical form) Latin and Greek words in a webpage (HTML).
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
- 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"
- Words in progress (ongoing supplement to the major dictionaries of Ancient and Byzantine Greek, adding new words, sources or interpretations)
- 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
- HoDeL - Homeric Dependency Lexikon - list all Homeric verbs with their arguments
- Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Beekes) - access only for UiO users
- Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN)
Latin
- Thesaururs Linguae Latinae - access only for UiO users
- Thesaururs Linguae Latinae - open acces (searchable pdf files)
- 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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Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary: Latin-English and English-Latin - access only for UiO users
- Thesaurus Lexicorum Latinorum: a useful page collecting open access Latin dictionaries
Indo-European
- Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online - access only for UiO users
- Proto-Indo-European Lexikon (Helsinki)
Text Collections
- Perseus
- Open Greek and Latin
- LOEB Classical Library Online - access only for UiO users.
- Library of Latin Texts (Brepols) - 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
- 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.
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
Latin
- 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"
Grammars
Greek
Latin
Indo-European
Encyclopedias, Handbooks and Atlases
- Etymological Dictionary of Greek Mythology (University of Trieste)
- The Suda On Line
- Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics - access only for UiO users
- Oxford Classical Dictionary - access only for UiO users
- The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature - access only for UiO users
- Cambridge Companions to Classical Studies - access only for UiO users
- Brill's New Pauly (English version) / Der neue Pauly (German version) - 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.
- 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.
- Oldtidens Anciente and Medieval litterature in oversættelser - a database about translations of ancient and medieval texts into Scandinavian languages.
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
- 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)
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)
Resources and Tools for Learning
UiO's Blogs on Classics
Mathildes antikkblogg
(by Mathilde Skoie, in Norwegian):
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Gammel gips i nytt museum
June 24, 2022 7:05 PM
I det nyåpnede Nasjonalmuseet har et lite stykke viktig antikkresepsjon fått en prominent plass, nemlig gipsavstøpningene fra det gamle Nasjonalgalleriet.
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
- 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).
Newest Books
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The Crimes of Elagabalus : the life and legacy of Rome's decadent boy emperor
Icks, Martijn (2011)
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Individuals and materials in the Greco-Roman cults of Isis : agents, images, and practices
Colloque international sur les études isiaques Erfurt, Germany ; Liege, Belgium), :. (6th : (2018)
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Controlling desires : sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome
Ormand, Kirk (Revised edition, 2018)
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