Digital Rwsources and Tools for Archaeology and Classics Students
This page is meant as a resource for students in Classical Archaeology, Greek, Latin, and Ancient History interested in learning more about both digital tools and classical antiquity within the wider realm of digital humanities. This site includes links to journals, awards and fellowship opportunities, conferences, online archives and databases, as well as other programs, tools, and resources one may need to become more involved in digital scholarship and humanities.
This is a resource for students in Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies interested in both classics and digital tools within the wider realm of digital humanities. This site includes links to journals, awards and fellowship opportunities, conferences, online archives and databases, as well as other programs, tools, and resources one may need to become more involved in these communities.
The following sites contain collections of Ancient Greek and Classical Latin works. Regarding themselves as digital libraries, these sites provide digital editions to works from the Classical Antiquity.
Perseus Digital Library: A corpus of the majority of ancient Latin and Greek works, which provides vocabulary and grammar tools for students. The site also provides resources for the study of ancient history, art, and archaeology
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TGL Digital Library): The TLG Digital Library currently contains an extensive number of ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century BCE) and the fall of Byzantium (1453 CE) in excess of 80 million words. It covers a wide range of disciplines such as classics, archaeology, history, art, history, philosophy, linguistics, and theology/religious studies.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL): The TLL is the largest and most detailed Latin dictionary in the world. It covers all extant Latin texts from antiquity to approximately 600 CE. It includes the etymology of each Latin word and its development in the romance languages.
The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series: The Open Fragmentary Text series is a new effort by the University of Leipzig to establish open editions of ancient works that survive only through quotations or fragments or text re-uses in later written works.
The Tesserae Project: The Tesserae project aims to provide students and scholars a flexible and robust web interface that allows them to explore intertextual parallels in Greek and Latin texts.
Digital Latin Library: The DLL Catalog provides an organized, curated online system for finding Latin texts that are available digitally. Currently, it contains nearly 3,000 authors and 5,000 works, with many more to come. It also contains individual item records for hundreds of texts available in a variety of formats through many different resources such as the Perseus Digital Library, the Packard Humanities Institute, DigilibLT, the HathiTrust Digital Library, and others.
DYABOLA: An online collection of books, book reviews, and journal articles in the disciplines of classics, prehistory and ancient history, archaeology, numismatics, epigraphy, and philology are indexed, including subject access based on the Realkatalog of the German Archaeological Institute. Contains several databases, the largest of which is the Archäologische Bibliographie, or “Realkatalog des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Rom,” the most comprehensive database for classical archaeology. Most of the citations are to works not in English.
Loeb classical library: The complete digital Loeb Classical Library is fully accessible via a Bryn Mawr College subscription. More than 520 volumes of Latin and Greek texts with English translation are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content.
Lacus Curtius: An online catologue of websites that provide Greek and Latin texts, inscriptions, and secondary sources such as A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. The sources are translated into English.
Homer MultiText: The Homer Multitext project aims to offer users free access to a library of texts and images and tools to allow readers to discover and engage with the Homeric tradition.
ToposText: ToposText is an indexed collection of ancient texts and mapped places relevant the history and mythology of the ancient Greeks from the Neolithic period up through the 2nd century CE.
The following websites provide maps and cartographic tools relating to the mapping of Classical sites, routes, connections, and people of the ancient world.
Hestia: The Hestia project takes up the Greek historian Herodotus’ enquiry through the digital medias and technologies, and involves a collaborative team of researchers from Classical Studies, Geography and Digital Humanities. Using a digital text of Herodotus’ Histories, from which the project extracted all place-names, it uses web-mapping technologies such as GIS, Google Earth and Narrative TimeMap to investigate the cultural geography of the ancient world through the eyes of one of its first witnesses.
Pleiades: Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places. It publishes authoritative information about ancient places and spaces, providing unique services for finding, displaying, and reusing that information under open license.
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World reconstructs the time cost and financial expense associated with a wide range of different types of travel in antiquity. The model is based on a simplified version of the giant network of cities, roads, rivers and sea lanes that framed movement across the Roman Empire. It broadly reflects conditions around 200 CE but also covers a few sites and roads created in late antiquity. (Note, ORBIS is designed for modern browsers and uses technology that works best in Chrome or Safari.)
The following websites are databases that contain further resources for those interested in Classical languages and history.
The following website is concerned with further educational tools necessary for the creation of Digital Scholarship.
This is a resource for archaeology students interested in digital archaeology and archaeology within digital humanities. This document includes links to journals, awards and fellowship opportunities, conferences, online archives and databases, as well as other programs, tools, and resources one may need to become further involved in these communities.
The following are peer-reviewed journals concerned with digital methods and research in the field of archaeology.
The following is an award offered by the Archaeological Institute for America, which recognizes the value of digital scholarship, and aims to encourage its practice. The AIA offers this award to honor individuals, projects, and groups that deploy digital technology in innovative ways in the realms of excavation, research, teaching, publishing, or outreach.
The following sites are digital databases and repositories for archaeological data. They support research, data management, digital data archiving, and collaboration. They offer a wide range of databases that vary in size and cost. Explore each site to learn which one would suit your needs.
The following resources provide tools, software, and digital programs that allow users to create maps, 3D models, storymaps, and more.