KEY ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FOR CLASSICAL GREEK AND ROMAN STUDIES AT COLUMBIA


Full Text Resources

Greek

APIS: Advanced Papyrological Information System (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/apis.html).
links together in a single environment various sources of information about texts written on papyrus and the society that produced them. It contains descriptions of the papyri and other written materials in the collections of the participating institutions, digital images of many of these texts, and connections to databases with the texts themselves in their original languages and with bibliography about the texts. Includes many languages in addition to Greek.

Duke Databank of Papyri (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=DDBDP).
Searchable database of the published collection of Greek papyri, with a variety of lexical and analysis tools.

Packard Humanities Institute Demonstration Disk 7 (CD-ROM in Reference and ETS).
Comprehensive, searchable collections of published corpus of Greek papyrus and epigraphy. While papyrus collection less comprehensive than online Duke databank, local software sometimes provides a preferable means of searching.

Perseus Online Classics Collection (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=Greco-Roman).
Multimedia collection of resources for the study of classical literature, art, and history, with a collection of Greek and Latin texts in the original and translation, and a suite of lexicological and morphological tools.

Perseus CD-ROM (CD-ROM in ETS).
Multimedia collection of resources for the study of Greek literature, art, and history, an earlier version of the Perseus project, with some unique material.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/thes-lin-graecae.html and Reference and ETS CD-ROM).
Comprehensive, searchable collection of Greek writing from the earliest times to the 15th century.

Latin

Bibliotheca luris Antiqui (CD-ROM in ETS).
Texts of the major collections of ancient and late-antique law, including bibliographic database and glossary.

Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (CD ROM in Reference and ETS).
Searchable corpus of some 300 Classical Latin authors of all periods, based on the editions of the Teubner Latin series.

Library of Latin Texts (CD-ROM in Reference and ETS).
Entire Corpus Christianorum (Series Latin and Continuatio Medievalia). Selected works from the Patrologia Latina & other collections.

Epigraph. A Database of Roman Inscriptions (CD-ROM in ETS). An electronic version of the volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinorum for the city of Rome.

Packard Humanities Institute Demonstration Disk 5.3 (CD-ROM in Reference and ETS).
A very comprehensive, searchable database of Latin texts from to the second century A.D.

Patrologia Latina (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/patrologia-lat.html).
Collection of patristic and medieval Latin ecclesiastical authors, based on the 221-volume Migne collection.

Perseus Online Classics Collection (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=Greco-Roman).
Multimedia collection of resources for the study of classical literature, art, and history, with a collection of Greek and Latin texts in the original and translation, and a suite of lexicological and morphological tools.


Coptic

Packard Humanities Institute Demonstration Disk 6 (CD-ROM in Reference and ETS).
Largely superseded by PHI 7 (see above under Greek) except for a small searchable collection of Coptic texts.

Bibliographic and Reference Tools:

L'Anée Philologique (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/lannee-phil.html)
The major bibliographic source for Classics. Online version Covers the years 1969 to 2000.

Bibliotheca Iuris Antiqui (CD-ROM in ETS )
Includes a bibliography of literature on Roman law and administration

Dyabola (CD LAN).
Three bibliographic databases on classical archaeology and material culture from the Deutsche Archaeologische Institut. To be replaced soon by a Web version.

Gnomon (http://www.gnomon.ku-eichstaett.de/Gnomon/Gnomon.html and CD-ROM in ETS).
General bibliography of classical studies. Current on web, retrospective on CD-ROM (expected imminently at Columbia Libraries as of August 2000) .

Leuven Database of Ancient Books (CD-ROM in ETS).
Searchable bibliographic database of all Latin and Greek literary papyri, with tools for displaying results in graphic as well as written format.

Thesaurus Formarum Totius Latinitatis (CD-ROM in Reference and ETS).
Database indicating the occurence of specific Latin words and forms thereof, with an indication of their chronological frequency and the authors who used them.