Marshall University Department of Classical
Studies
Classical Studies 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.
- 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.
- The
Library of Congress Classics Links of Broad Scope
and Library
of Congress Classics Pages Directory Tree. These sites and others accessible
from them provide a very extensive listing of research and general classics
sites, including those located at major US institutions of higher learning
and resource/research sites located all over the world. The Directory Tree
provides lists of sites relating to various areas of study/interest included
in Classical Studies, for example, numismatics, law, medicine, games, literature,
history, archaeology, sports, music, mythology, resources for classics
professionals, and Greek and Latin classics texts.
- 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.
- ARGOS: A Limited Area
Search Engine of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds.
A test version of an experimental search engine dedicated to the ancient
and medieval portions of the internet, Argos is a cooperative effort from
the editors of ABZU (Charles Jones), Byzantium (Paul Halsall), Diotima
(Ross Scaife and Suzanne Bonefas), Exploring Ancient World Cultures (Anthony
Beavers), Kirke (Ulrich Schmitzer), Perseus (Gregory Crane) and Romarch
(Pedar Foss) and may be the first peer-reviewed search engine on the internet.
As such, it attempts to filter out portions of the internet irrelevant
to ancient and medieval interests. To learn more about how Argos works
and what "peer-review" means in this context, please see the
"about" page accessible from any Argos page.
- 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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