Classics and Ancient History Internet Resources

Full Text Sites

CDLI: Cuneiform Digital Library
An international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science have made available the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3200 B.C., until the end of the third millennium.
url: http://early-cuneiform.humnet.ucla.edu/

Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
The Centre, based Oxford, provides online images of Greek inscriptions and a link to Oxyrhynchus Papyri.
url: http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/CSAD/

ERP: Online Encyclopedia of the Roman Provinces
Scholarly articles with bibliographies on the history, administration, economics, politics and culture of the provinces. At the moment, Lycia, Judea/Palestine and Sardinia have been completed.
url: http://www.usd.edu/erp/

De Imperatoribus Romanis
This site contains short biographical essays of all the Roman emperors from Augustus to Constantine XI Palaeologus. Each essay is peer reviewed and accompanied by a bibliography, illustrations, and footnotes.
url: http://www.roman-emperors.org/

Etruscan Texts Project
ETP is an online edition of Etruscan manuscripts under the auspices of the Classics Department and the Center for Etruscan Studies at the University of Massachussetts Amherst. Updated monthly, the database includes inscriptions that have been recovered since 1988.
url: http://etp.classics.umass.edu//

Internet Classics Archive
A list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.
url: http://classics.mit.edu/

Duke Papyrus Archive
Electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt. The target audience includes: papyrologists, ancient historians, archaeologists, biblical scholars, classicists, Coptologists, Egyptologists, students of literature and religion and all others interested in ancient Egypt.
url: http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/texts/homepage.html

Grove Dictionary of Art
A comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day.
NB Access is restricted to the Library, campus network and users with the University of Sydney as their Internet Service Provider. No userid and password available.
url: http://www.groveart.com/index.html

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Compiled by Paul Halsall at Fordham University, this site provides the full text of primary sources from Ancient Greece, the Near East, the Roman Empire, and early Christianity.
url: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html

Perseus Digital Library
Primary and secondary sources for the study of Ancient Greece and Rome and Papyri. The entire CD-Rom is available in SETIS.
url:http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Vindolanda Tablets Online
An online edition of the tablets excavated from the Roman fort at Vindolanda in northern England. It contains the text of the tablets and an exhibition of the artifacts.
url:http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/