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Classics at UCI

General Classics Resources

Dictionaries

• Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. (OCD)
• Brill's Neuer Pauly (German and English)
• Oxford Reference Premium Online
• LSJ online
• Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary
• Slater, Lexicon to Pindar
• Bennet's New Latin Grammar online
• Frisk's Griechisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch online
• Another site for Frisk
• Pokorny's Indogermanishes Etymologisches Wörterbuch online
• Whittaker's Words
• Online Etymological Dictionary
• Indoeuropean Word Roots Index (sort of a reverse etymological dictionary; to use, either click on the roots provided or type in a transliterated Greek or other IE term or root)
• Pons Foreign Language Dictionary Page
• Dict.cc German-English Dictionary
• Wordreference.com

Texts

• TLG
• PHI Greek Inscriptions Database; PHI's online abbreviations and other information
• APIS (Papyrological Database)
• POxy
• Center for the Study of Ancient Documents links (papyri and epigraphic texts—very complete)
• Internet Archive Search (archive.org)
• Another useful site (Sacred Texts; don't be put off by the label)

Abbreviations

• LSJ Abbreviations
• DICCIONARIO GRIEGO-ESPAÑOL (DGE) Abbreviations (more detailed than LSJ)
• Journals Abbreviations
• AJA Abbreviations
• some editorial sigla and abbreviations
• Abbreviations of all kinds

Reviews

• BMCR Archives; BMCR Blog
• Classical Review (CR) [recent vols. (some) here; past vols. under JSTOR]
• L'Année philologique

Articles/Reviews

• JSTOR
• Periodicals Index Online (for Hermes, of all things)
• RhM (1990 - ) online

Digital Resources

• Electronic Resources for Classicists
• Google Scholar
• Google Books
• reference tools kept up by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
• Online book search tool (from UPenn Library)
• WorldCat (the most extensive online source for books in libraries)
• DAI (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut)
• Indo-European Resources Site

Conventional Resources (still good!)

• A. Lesky, History of Greek Literature
• Cambridge History of Greek and Latin Literature
• Cambridge History of Literary Criticism
• RE  = Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft: Neue Bearbeitung. Reihe I: 47 vols. in 48. Reihe II: 19 vols.August Friedrich von Pauly, Georg Wissowa, et al., eds. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1894–1972.
• RE Suppl. = Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Supplement. August Friedrich von Pauly, Georg Wissowa, Wilhelm Kroll, and K. Witte, eds. 16 vols. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1903–78.

Art and Myth

• Beazley Archive
• Art History and Mythology links
• LIMC 
• ARTstor

Encyclopedias

• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Papyrology and Epigraphy

• Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyruskunden Ägyptens
• Griechische Papyri der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung
• Duke Papyrus Collection
• Cologne Papyrus Collection
• Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
• American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (ASGLE)
• Papyrology Home Page (John D. Muccigrosso) [very rich site]
• Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
• Internal Concordance to the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
• Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (H. Immerwahr, UNC)
• Columbia Payrology and Epigraphy Reading Room
• CLAROS (epigraphical concordance at DGE)
• OSU Digital Squeeze Collection
• Aphrodisias Inscriptions
• Eichstätt (Roman)

APA site

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