Classics Department
Marshall University

Classics Internet Resources

On this page you will find a selection of the many resources available to you for research and learning in the field of Classical Studies. Please consider the listing below not as a complete list of all important classical internet sites, but as a connecting list of sites, starting points, that will enable you to discover what the field of Classical Studies is all about, to do research on classical subjects, or to enjoy interesting internet resources. If you know of a useful site which ought to be added to this page, please provide the URL to the department via email (classical-studies@marshall.edu) so that this page can be updated.

If you want to learn about how to construct internet searches, please use the site below which provides a tutorial. The Tutorial includes an introduction to the Internet, a glossary of terms, things to know before searching the World Wide Web, how to create search strategies, and how to refine your topic and identify the search tools to fit your needs. There are also well designed pages on how to construct and refine searches for Infoseek, Hotbot, and AltaVista. For tutorial, click on this title:

Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial (The Teaching Library Internet Workshops of the University of California, Berkeley)

Useful Classics Resource Links

• Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation. This site, created and regularly updated by Maria C. Pantelia, provides an extremely helpful array of internet sites plus many other kinds of electronic resources: databases, electronic publications, publishers and classics journals home pages, bibliographies (general and author specific), images, e-text archives, fonts and software resources, professional organizations, on-line seminars, and classics discussions groups.
   
• Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists.  TOCS-IN, currently managed by PMW Matheson (Toronto, Canada) and Jacques Poucet (Louvain, Belgium), provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both in text format and through a Web search program. Where possible, links are given with articles of which the full text or an abstract is available online (about 15%).  The project began to archive current tables of contents in 1992, and now contains ca 185 journals, and over 45,000 articles, in a database at Toronto. In addition, the Louvain mirror site archives much additional material for some of the journals before 1992. Searches of all data can be made at both sites.
   
• The Perseus Project. This site, maintained by Gregory Crane of the Tufts University Classics Department, contains interconnected, interrelated electronic texts (Greek/English), lexica (Greek), images (classical art, archaeology, mythology), and information on how to teach using the Perseus Project.
   
• DIOTIMA: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World. Maintained by Ross Scaife and Suzanne Bonefas of the University of Kentucky, Diotima provides course materials (of interest for both Classics students and instructors), extensive bibliographies, links to museums and other electronic classical image archives, anthologies of passages translated from classical texts available electronically, useful tools for studying the Bible, an anthology of texts in Latin with commentaries, and several search engines.
   
• MYTHMEDIA: Mythology in Western Art. Mythmedia was prepared in the Library of the University of Haifa by Ora Zehavi and also by Sonia Klinger from the Department of Art History. Note the important links provided to other classical mythology research sites which appear at the bottom of the home page.

• Exploring Ancient World Cultures. Exploring Ancient World Cultures, provided by Evansville University, "is an introductory, on-line, college-level 'textbook' of ancient world cultures, constructed around a series of cultural pages consisting of: The Ancient Near East, Ancient India, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Early Islam, and Medieval Europe." Each home page may contain essays by subject specialists, an anthology of readings from the period, a chronology, bibliographic resources, hypertext links to related sites, and computer graded quizzes. Interested users can also navigate the site by topic across cultures. A highlight of the site is the ability it gives the user to view the entire chronology, or to click on a year and culture and then another culture, in order to compare cross-cultural developments at the same time period.
   
• The Cambridge Classics External Gateway to Humanities Resources. Edited by Bruce Fraser (University of Cambridge), Cambridge Classics provides access to internet resources of general interest to classical scholars, including links to materials on philosophy, ancient science, linguistics, drama, and art.
   
• Romarch: Roman Art and Archeology. Edited by Pedar Foss (University of Cincinnati) and supported by the University of Michigan, Romarch is a wide-ranging index of resources on ancient Italy and the Roman world.

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