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Cambridge University Library offers a full list of online databases of interest to Classicists. Here are the most commonly-used online databases for Classics research. To access each resource within the Cam domain, click on the title link. If off-campus access is not listed, then please access the resource via the UL list above.
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Essential bibliographic resource for all Classical disciplines. Useful for finding books and articles on specific subjects or on particular ancient authors. It can be searched using a range of criteria, e.g. modern author, ancient author, keyword, subject, date, etc. Useful for decoding abbreviations used for journal titles. For a tutorial on how to use Année Philologique, click here. Access: Cam domain [for off-campus access, please use the link via the UL] Download Instructions: word format (basic instructions)/ pdf format (detailed instructions) |
 Aristoteles Latinus DatabaseAn integrated database of the medieval translations of Aristotle's works. |
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An online resource containing more than one million digital images relating to the arts, architecture, humanities and sciences. Off campus access via the UL's eresources list. |
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The Cambridge Companions is a fully-searchable online resource. It can be searched by theme or subject. The sub-collections of the Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics, and the Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion and Culture will be of particular interest to Classicists. Access: For off-campus access, search the Newton catalogue for a Cambridge Companion title and then click on the full-text access link. This will open a Raven/Shibboleth box for logging in. Accessing the Cambridge Companion site direct and clicking on login will not open the Raven/Shibboleth box, and you will not be able to login. |
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The complete Cambridge Histories are available online, and are quick and easy to search, by subject, by series or by keyword. Series that may interest Classicists include: The Cambridge Ancient Histories, The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire and The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy. Access: Cam domain/Raven password |
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Corpus Medicorum Graecorum/Latinorum online Earlier publications of its series CMG, CML, CMG Supplementum and CMG Supplementum Orientale. Access: Free |
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Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum Allows access to the collection of squeezes, photographs and bibliographical references maintained by the CIL research centre, sorted by inscription-number. |
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A searchable database of personal names from Roman Britain which are thought to contain Celtic elements.
Access: Cam domain |
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An illustrated catalogue of more than 100,000 ancient vases. Access: Unrestricted |
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Digital Dissertations (Proquest) The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is a database for documenting graduate research, with over 2.3 million dissertations and theses from around the world. Access: Cam domain/Raven password |
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Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri An online version of the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri covering nearly 500 papyrus volumes. The site is hosted by Perseus and has browse and search options. Access: Unrestricted |
 DyabolaDatabase of references to books, conference papers and journal articles produced by the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, 1956 — current year. |
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English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language A facsimile of S.C. Woodhouse's English-Greek Dictionary (1910) with a keyword search for terms. Hosted by the University of Chicago. |
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EThOS: Electronic Theses Online Service from the British Library. Search across 300,000+ UK theses for free and order full text quickly and easily. EThOS can only offer the theses of participating institutions. While we expect a large number of institutions to take part, we cannot supply from an institutions which chooses not to. In this case, you should approach the institution's library directly to gain access to a thesis. |
 Database of Latin DictionariesA selection of Latin dictionaries that links to the Library of Latin texts, also hosted by Brepolis. |
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John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation The John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation aims to initiate and support public benefit activities in Greece and abroad, in various areas such as education, science, culture, the arts, social welfare and environmental protection. The Foundation has produced several publications, available in their free e-library, which are dedicated to archaeological museums in Greece and include photographs of exhibits of archaeological museums , as well as photographs of archaeological sites and monuments. Access: Free |
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Lectrix - OFF CAMPUS [Raven login required] Lectrix is an innovative online resource which integrates selected works of Greek and Latin literature with commentaries from the world-renowned Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series for word-by-word, click-by-click access. Lectrix includes a basic linguistic commentary, an electronic dictionary and parser, an English translation, and a library of web pages providing background information on grammar and context. The texts available are: Lysias Orations selection, Plato Ion, Sophocles Antigone, Euripides Medea, Cicero Catilinarians I—II, Virgil Aeneid IX, Ovid Heroides selection, Apuleius The Tale of Cupid and Psyche. |
 Library of Latin TextsTool for searching Latin texts from 240 BC to the present day. Click on the link and scroll down to Full Text databases. CLCLT covers nearly all Latin texts, including those of Classical antiquity. This is probably the best search tool for Latin available. Replaces the CETEDOC BTL CD ROM. Access: Cam domain/Raven password Download Instructions: word format / pdf format |
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It is due to be completed by 2013. Access: Cam domain |
 New Pauly OnlineThe New Pauly provides comprehensive coverage of the ancient world from the prehistory of the Aegean (2nd millennium BCE) to Late Antiquity (600-800 CE). A special section of the encyclopedia is devoted to reception of the ancient world up to the present day and the history of Classical scholarship. The scholarship of the New Pauly reflects both traditional and new areas and approaches presented by internationally-recognised experts. The articles cover all aspects of the ancient world: persons, places, institutions, events, artifacts, technical terms, ideas and concepts etc. The subject goes beyond the traditional paradigm by giving special attention to the interaction between Greek and Roman culture and the neighbouring Semitic, Celtic, Germanic cultures etc. Many articles are illustrated with maps, site plans, genealogical tables and black-and-white photographs. Some sections German-language only. Access: Cam domain |
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Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove) Offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and other Oxford art reference resources in one location. Access: Cam domain/Raven password |
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Available as part of Oxford Reference Online Premium which brings together many of OUP's most popular reference titles into a single, cross-searchable, collection. It includes the Oxford Classical Dictionary, the Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, Who's Who in the Classical World and the Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary. |
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55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002. Access: Cam domain/Raven password |
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It offers a comprehensive overview of the major cultures of the classical Mediterranean world—Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman—from the Bronze Age to the fifth century CE. Access: Cam domain/Raven password |
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Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Contains the definitions, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. OED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. Access: Cam domain/Raven password |
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Oxford Reference Online Premium Oxford Reference Online brings together many of OUP's most popular reference titles into a single, cross-searchable, collection. It includes the Oxford Classical Dictionary, the Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, Who's who in the Classical World and the Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary. Access: Cam domain/Raven password |
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Provides access to the full text of over 2500 books published by Oxford University Press, including Classical Studies. Access: Cam domain/Raven password |
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Comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian (c. 200 A.D.) to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. Access: Cam domain/Raven password |
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Digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond. Includes texts and translations of many core ancient authors. Provides online Greek and Latin lexica (Liddell & Scott, and Lewis & Short). Also morphological analyses, English to Greek and Latin word searches, vocabulary tools, and context searches. The TLG links to the Perseus LSJ and Greek morphological analysis tool. Also includes documentary papyri database. Access: Unrestricted |
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PHI Searchable Greek Inscriptions An online searchable database of Greek Inscriptions based on the Packard Humanities Institute PHI7 CD-ROM. This is a site still under development, and allows searching or browsing by region. Access: Unrestricted |
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Fully searchable and extensively cross-referenced web version of the multi-volume encyclopedia. More than 2000 articles, from Aristotle to Nominalism, and from Personal Identity to Zeno of Elea. Access: Cam domain/Raven password Download instructions: UL guide (PDF) |
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systematically collects newly published Greek inscriptions as well as publications on previously known documents. Access: Cam domain/Raven password |
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Tacitus hypertext with linked parser and dictionary. Access: Unrestricted |
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[Off campus access to TLG ] Database for searching virtually all ancient Greek literary texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and 600 A.D., and a large number of texts deriving from the period between 600 A.D. and 1453. In excess of 80 million words. Also includes the Canon of Greek Authors and Works, a comprehensive database of all known ancient Greek and Byzantine authors, together with bibliographies of existing critical editions of their extant works. Access: Cam domain/Raven password Download Instructions: word format / pdf format |
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(and Biblioteca Teubnariana Latina) The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae is an ongoing attempt to create the first comprehensive scholarly dictionary of ancient Latin from the earliest times down to AD 600. The project began in 1894, and is not scheduled for completion until around 2050. It is published online by De Gruyter, and is complemented by the Biblioteca Teubneriana Latina online database, which provides access to all Latin editions of the Teubner series of De Gruyter’s subsidiary K.G. Saur. Access: Cam domain Download Instructions: pdf format |
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Table of Contents of interest to Classicists. Freely available internet database based in
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Online resource for visual arts. Image catalogue of some important collections. Interesting for Classical themes in Modern Art. Access: Unrestricted |
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