Classical Websites

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	The Classics Pages were last updated on February 12 2006 Home   What's New - latest updates and changes on the site   The Oracle of Loxias - questions answered on anything to do with the ancient world of Greece and Rome   About Loxias - my credentials - and how to cite the Classics Pages in your work   Search - find anything on the site with this powerful search engine   Bookshop - buy Classics books (or anything) through Barnes & Noble or Amazon.   Classics news - news and gossip from the world of Classics.   Acknowledgments - what I've used in creating and developing this site.   Email - contact me by email (your address is safe with me)   Top 22 sites - my evolving personal selection of the best classical websites   Letters - a small selection of the more entertaining emails I've dealt with Entertainment   Games & Quizzes - how to access all the games on the website: and the new "Really Hard Classics Quiz".   Fun with Latin - games, puzzles and more, originally written for the Cambridge Latin course website.   Words - derivations and etymology: entertaining words.   Maths & Classics - a project showing how Maths is indebted to Classics. Numerals, Greek alphabet, calendar, golden section.   Rude Latin - a selection of insulting terms used in Plautus' comedies   Classic Cars - why do so many cars have pseudo-classical names?   Legal Latin - the Latin that lawyers used to know!   Sporting Quotes - sports writers can never resist airing their classical erudition.   The uses of a Classical education - some of the famous and notorious who have had the benefit.   Classical clichés - a list of tags for politicians and others who need to impress!   The Great Books - who were North and Hillard? Philosophy   Plato's Republic - a reading guide to the Republic Art   Greek Pottery - pages on shapes, manufacture, decoration and use of Athenian vases.   Sculpture - discussion of selected Greek sculpture   Greek Architecture - how to study it in your home town. Greek Mythology   Guide to myths - where to find information about myths on the site. Harry Potter   Greek Harry Potter - news and updates about my ancient Greek translation. Published in October 2004.   Greek - English Lexicon - vocabulary for Greek Harry Potter.   Notes & Commentary - notes and commentary on the ancient Greek translation. Greek Literature   Iliad - introduction to the Iliad, and an interactive game to test your knowledge   Odyssey - play the Odyssey Game as Odysseus, Penelope or Telemachus. Also: the truth about the Cyclops.   Sappho - poet of fire from the island of Lesbos. Includes samples read in Greek.   Aeschylus - discussion of important issues raised in Agamemnon.   Oedipus - several pages discussing Sophocles' Oedipus, and its importance. Includes the challenging Oedipus Game.   Antigone - pages examining the play, and an intriguing game.   Euripides - my translations of Helen, Phoenissae and Orestes (performed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival)   Bacchae - discussion of the controversial drama, and a web game based on it.   Medea - discussion of the play and its issues, and the Medea Game.   Lysistrata - a light-hearted interactive game based on Aristophanes' notorious comedy.   Aristophanes' Peace - Reading Guide, Production Notes, War & Peace   Lucians 'True Story' - a translation of the first ever science fiction, by the Greek Douglas Adams.   Greek Drama reviews - my assessment of productions I have seen. Latin Literature   Catullus - read - and listen to - two of Catullus' poems to Lesbia.   Sulpicia - a Roman girl's voice   Virgil - Translations, notes and commentary on selected books of the Aeneid. New translation of Book 1 Feb 2005   Horace - the Pyrrha ode.   Propertius - Cynthia.   The Golden Ass - an illustrated re-telling of Apuleius' famous story   Quintilian - some modern-sounding ideas form the great work on education Social History   Women - pages on women's status. Pages on women in myth - Atalanta, Cassandra, Echo, Diana, Pandora and more.   The Symposium - drinking parties: men behaving badly   Technology - the silver mines at Laurium   Seapower - Trireme - the deadly Athenian warship - and why did they all have girls' names?   Eros - aspects of Love.   Olympic Games - fact and fiction about the ancient games.   Oracles - How the ancient world tried to find answers to life, the universe and everything. Archaeology & Travel   Greece - the Athenian agora, Nemea, Sparta   Sicily - a site within a site: a tour of Sicily and its wonders - natural, historical, artistic, gastronomic ... Education   Teachers' Pages - links to sites, software, organisations.

Top 22 sites - my evolving personal selection of the best classical websites

This list is regularly updated, and is also accessible from the JACT website [http://www.jact.org]
The top three are universally recognised as the best: the rest are in no particular order.

1. Diotima - materials for the study of women and gender in the ancient world. This is a superb resource. [http://www.stoa.org/diotima/]
2. Internet Classics Archive - offers 375 works by 30 classical authors, in English translation, browsable and supported by a search engine. Recent technical problems have affected the search facilites, although the texts are still accessible. [http://webatomics.com/Classics/]
3. Perseus Project, The - detailed searchable library of texts, translations, art and archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome. Better than the CD ROM version in many ways - it includes most Latin authors, and special projects, such as Hercules, and the Olympics. Many of the vase images, however aren't available online. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/]
4. About.com - Latin language - an amazing portal to all manner of sites dealing with latin, updated daily. Magnificent! [http://latin.about.com/homework/latin/mbody.htm]
5. Bryn Mawr Classical Review Index for all articles published in this journal over the last ten or so years. Amazing resource. [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/]
6. Classics Page at Ad Fontes Academy - library of texts in Latin from Cicero to Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Save time and effort in typing out passages - it's all here. [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/classics]
7. Dr J's Illustrated Guide to the Classical World - Dr Janice Siegel's superb collection of her photographs of Greece and Italy (including some less-visited sites), together with scholarly text. Especially good on Greek theatre and drama. [http://lilt.ilstu.edu/drjclassics]
8. Loebs online. Every Loeb you've ever wanted is here (353 at last count). [http://www.powells.com/subsection/ClassicsLoebClassics.html]
9. Biliotheca Augustana - collectio textuum electronicorum. Texts in Latin, Greek (beta text) and other languages, in a very classily-designed site entirely in Latin. "Cave Exploratorem et Gatem" - he's a Mac fanatic, but seems to work fine on my PC. [http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/augustana.html]
10. FAQ - Classical Studies (sci.classics). A fascinating list of questions and answers. Not updated this millennium [http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/classics-faq/faq.html]
11. Online dictionaries for more languages than you could shake a stick at, and some excellent linguistic resources. [http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html]
12. The Bulfinch Mythology Site My personal favourite, run by Bob Fisher. It all grew out of a project to publicise a musical version of Medea in 1996! [http://www.bulfinch.org/]
13. Maecenas A fine collection of images, free to be used for any non-commercial purpose [http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/]
14. Oxford's comprehensive list of resources for Classics. Better than Cambridge, it has to be said! [http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/resources/www/index.asp; http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk]
15. The Cambridge School Classics Project revamped: now includes material for independent study from the Cambridge Online Latin Project [http://www.cambridgescp.com]
16. The Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Much more to it than you could imagine. The frontline resource. [http://www.britannica.com]
17. The Beazley Pottery Archive. Access is now free to anyone who registers. [http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/Vases/ASP/default.asp]
18. The Philodemus Project. Not an amazing site - but an amazing project! (Reading the 2000 year old carbonised rain-sodden scrolls from Philodemus' Library in Herculaneum) [http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/philodemus/philhome.htm]
19. Lacus Curtius. Bill Thayer's amazing illustrated gazetteer of the Mediterranean: redefines "labour of love". [http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/index.html]
20. Pinax Online - An Annotated List of Web Bibliographies on the Ancient Greek World. [http://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~u0013314/pinaxonline.html] This is a very serious site which no researcher could afford to ignore.
21. Nuntii Latini - The News in Latin, and other goodies.
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