Research Guides: Classics & Classical Studies: Primary AND Backgrournd Resources in Classics

Primary and Reference Resources in Classics

Primary Resources

Digital Loeb Classical Library This link opens in a new window
Use this database to find Ancient Greek and Latin Literature with English translations.
Including epic and lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, history, travel, philosophy, oratory, medical writers, mathematicians, and Church Fathers.
Language: Ancient Greek, Latin, English
Keywords: classics ancient
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae This link opens in a new window
Why search here? For detailed examination of Greek literature 8 BCE to the Fall of Byzantium in 1453 CE, explore full text with word analysis of individuals phrases and words (lemma).
Content type: Primary Sources with annotations
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Includes links to English translations.
Language: English, Ancient Greek, Medieval Greek
New Jacoby Online This link opens in a new window
Why search here? To search and browse fragments of works by ancient Greek historians and other authors from texts that no longer survive in whole form.
Content type: Primary Sources
Primarily in Ancient Greek with English editions for some fragments. This database provides the electronic edition of Felix Jacoby's "Die Fragemente der Griechishen Historiker" (English: Fragments of the Greek Historians)
Language: English, Ancient Greek
Patrologia Latina This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Main database for full Latin text of the Church Fathers from Tertullian (200 AD) to Pope Innocent III's death (1216).
Content type: Primary sources
Coverage dates: 200-1216
Online access to 1st ed. of Jacques-Paul Migne's text (1844-1855) and indexes (1862-1865).
Language: Latin
Keywords: Christianity Classics
Past Masters Full Text Humanities This link opens in a new window
A database of primary resources in philosophy, theology and literature, this database includes the complete works of Plato and Aristotle in English, as well as English and Latin editions of Augustine, Aquinas and Anselm.
Language: English

Ostia Ancient Texts
A website that has selected ancient authors in the original Latin and Greek.
Epigraphy Project (at Brown University)
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
PHI (Packard Humanities Institute) Latin Texts
Full text classical Latin texts.
Perseus Digital Library (Project Perseus)
A website hosted at Tufts University collecting historical materials from ancient, medieval and modern periods, but including Greek and Latin classics, some in English, some in Greek and Latin -- as well as Papyri. Includes many supplementary, secondary texts.

Reference Resources

Brill's New Pauly Online This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Major academic reference source for the Greco-Roman ancient world.
Content type: Encyclopedia articles, bibliographies
From the German Neue Pauly. For display issues in Chrome, please clear the cache.
Language: English
Greek-English Lexicon This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Good for ancient Greek research with this standard Ancient Greek-English dictionary.
Content type: Dictionary
Includes two important Greek-English dictionaries: "Lidell and Scott" and "Lewis and Short".
Language: Ancient Greek, English

Mapping Past Societies (formerly The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations