Classical Philology: Online Resources
Overview
On this page, you can find an overview of the best online resources for classical philology, both on the open web and for UB library users only.
Consult individual pages on this guide for online resources tailored to each subdiscipline or area.
UB-only Resources
- L'Annee Philologique This link opens in a new windowL’Année philologique, published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, is a specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. The bibliography is published in print and online and includes all volumes of the annual index. APh covers a wide array of subjects, including Greek and Latin literature and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, science, and scholarly subspecialties such as numismatics, papyrology, and epigraphy.More InfoUB ONLY
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowFull-text journals in the humanities & social sciences. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowOne-pass searching of Web of Science citation indexes, BIOSIS Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, MEDLINE and more. More InfoPartial Full-Text UB ONLY
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new windowAs a part of Web of Science, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database indexing more than 1,100 arts and humanities journals, as well as relevant references from over 6,800 science and social sciences periodicals. It is international in scope. More InfoPartial Full-Text UB ONLY
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowLiterature, language, linguistics & folklore-related research. More InfoPartial Full-Text UB ONLY
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae This link opens in a new windowA virtual library of ancient Greek texts. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive, ongoing scholarly dictionary of ancient Latin from the earliest times through AD 600. More InfoUB ONLY
- Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL) This link opens in a new windowProvides access to Latin texts of antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. More InfoUB ONLY
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Web Resources: Alphabetical Index
- Abbreviationes Abbreviationes™, historically the first database of medieval Latin abbreviations, having been published on the web in 1993, is a great tool for deciphering and transcribing medieval Latin manuscripts. It is a standard reference work and reflects the state of contemporary scholarship.
- AgoraClass Une liste de discussion dont l'objet est le monde grec et romain et qui s'adresse à un public très large. Elle accueille aussi bien les enseignants et les étudiants du secondaire et de l'université, que toute personne intéressée par l'antiquité classique. Elle ne pose aucune limite géographique, mais elle privilégie, dans les échanges, la langue française. En un mot, elle se veut une Agora, c'est-à-dire un lieu de rencontre pour les personnes qui ne considèrent pas Rome et la Grèce comme des mondes morts et dépassés.
- Alcove 9: Classical and Medieval History at the Library of Congress The Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress has eight alcoves. This ninth "virtual alcove" is a collection of websites selected and annotated by Humanities and Social Sciences Division subject specialists. All of these websites have components that are free and available to the public; some might require user registration, or may have links to fee-based services.
- American Academy in Rome The American Academy in Rome supports innovative artists, writers, and scholars living and working together in a dynamic international community. The Academy awards the Rome Prize to a select group of artists and scholars, after an application process that begins in the fall of each year. The winners, announced in the spring, are invited to Rome to pursue their work in an atmosphere conducive to intellectual and artistic freedom, interdisciplinary exchange, and innovation. The encounter with Rome represents now, as it has done since the Academy’s inception, something unique: a chance for American artists and scholars to spend significant time interacting and working in one of the oldest, most cosmopolitan cities in the world.
- American School of Classical Studies at Athens The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) strives to maintain and enhance its position as the preeminent center for the study of the Greek world from antiquity to the present day. The ASCSA advances knowledge of Greece in all periods, as well as other areas of the classical world, by training young scholars, sponsoring and promoting archaeological fieldwork, providing resources for scholarly work, and disseminating research. The ASCSA is also charged by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism with primary responsibility for all American archaeological research, and seeks to support the investigation, preservation, and presentation of Greece’s cultural heritage.
- Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Project The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project has since 1987 published over 100 volumes of translations of late ancient philosophical texts into English, usually for the first time. Based at King’s College London for over 25 years, the project now also has collaborating editors located in multiple institutions.
- AWOL: The Ancient World Online. Open Access Journals in Classics AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University. The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available. AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
- Bibliotheca Classica Selecta La Bibliotheca Classica Selecta (BCS) se veut une introduction aux études classiques, destinée prioritairement aux étudiants de lettres classiques et d'histoire ancienne, accessoirement à tous ceux qui s'intéressent au monde gréco-romain antique et aux civilisations qui l'entourent. Le noyau le plus ancien est constitué par une bibliographie d'orientation (BCS-BOR), intégrant aussi bien les ouvrages imprimés (les livres seulement, pas les articles de périodiques) que les ressources disponibles sur la Toile. Elle entend couvrir aussi largement que possible l'ensemble du secteur des études classiques. C'est dans ce sens surtout qu'elle est une introduction bibliographique au monde grec et romain.
- British School at Athens The British School at Athens exists to promote research of international excellence in all disciplines pertaining to Greek lands, from fine art to archaeometry and in all periods to modern times. It does so through: an academic programme of seminars, lectures, and conferences; a programme of research undertaken both alone and in collaboration with UK-based and other overseas institutions; its internationally renowned library; the work of the Fitch Laboratory in science-based archaeological research across the Mediterranean; supporting the work of individual researchers from the UK and elsewhere; including applications for study and fieldwork permits; advice on the development of research programmes; accommodation and facilities in Athens and Knossos; and provision of online services; making their work known through the publication of its journals and monograph series; promoting the use of its archival, laboratory, and museum collections by the scholarly community worldwide; providing funding (including studentships and visiting fellowships) for research in Greece, and to enable Greek researchers to visit the UK; providing internships and training courses for undergraduates, postgraduates, and schoolteachers.
- British School at Rome Welcome to one of the most prestigious research academies in Rome. For over 100 years world-class researchers of the art, history and culture of the western Mediterranean and the best contemporary artists in the Commonwealth have been nurtured at the BSR. We are the bridge between the intellectual and cultural heart of Rome and Italy, and creative and academic researchers from Britain and the Commonwealth. We celebrate these achievements, and welcome you to begin to explore what the BSR can offer you, and how you can be a part of a very special place.
- Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents at Oxford University The Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents was established in 1995 under the auspices of Oxford University's Faculty of Literae Humaniores to provide a focus for the study of ancient documents within Oxford. Over the last six years it has developed into a research centre of national and international importance. The Centre provides a home for Oxford University's epigraphical archive, which includes one of the largest collections of squeezes (paper impressions) of Greek inscriptions in the world, together with the Haverfield archive of Roman inscriptions from Britain, and a substantial photographic collection. The strengths of the epigraphical archive lie in its broad coverage of early Greek inscriptions, Attic epigraphy and the Hellenistic world. Individual sites well represented in the archive include Chios, Samos, Priene, Rhodes, and Samothrace. The material in the archive is currently being reorganised and catalogued.
- Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca, and Tablets The primary purpose of the Checklist of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets is to provide for scholars and librarians a ready bibliography of all monographic volumes, both current and out-of-print, of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic documentary texts on papyrus, parchment, ostraca or wood tablets. Texts published in periodicals as journal articles are mainly excluded, but with a number of exceptions based on the extent of the edition or the presence of full indexes. Greek texts published separately are regularly republished (but without translation or commentary) in successive volumes of Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten (SB), the volumes of which are included here. A separate Sammelbuch has now begun the republication of Coptic texts (SB Kopt.). Many volumes containing documentary texts publish literary and subliterary texts as well, and such volumes are of course included, together with volumes of the same series that are exclusively literary.
- Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Colonensis (CEEC) Das Projekt CEEC wird von der DFG im Programm "Retrospektive Digitalisierung von Bibliotheksbeständen" gefördert. Dieses Programm gehört zu dem Förderbereich "Verteilte Digitale Forschungsbibliothek". Im Rahmen des Projektes CEEC werden die mittelalterlichen Kodizes der Erzbischöflichen Diözesan- und Dombibliothek Köln (DDB) digitalisiert. Die DDB ist damit weltweit die erste Bibliothek, die ihre mittelalterlichen Handschriftenbestände komplett digitalisieren lässt und als "Digitale Bibliothek" der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich macht.
- Digital Scriptorium Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a growing consortium of American institutions with collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. As an online image repository, the DS website allows users to verify descriptive metadata with visual evidence of the manuscripts described. As an online union catalog, DS unites scattered rare materials, including dispersed manuscript leaves from dismembered books, into a national digital platform for cross-collection teaching and scholarly research. DS records not only include recognized touchstone materials, such as manuscripts signed and dated by their scribes or illuminators, but also unidentified manuscripts that are traditionally unlikely candidates for exhibition or reproduction in print.
- Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World Diotima serves as an interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean and as a forum for collaboration among instructors who teach courses about women and gender in the ancient world. This site includes course materials, the beginnings of a systematic and searchable bibliography, and links to many on-line resources, including articles, book reviews, databases, and images.
- EAGLE: Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy EAGLE (Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) rappresenta il punto di arrivo dei lavori per la creazione di una banca dati generale dell'epigrafia antica avviati nel 1997 dall'Association Internationale d'Épigraphie Grecque et Latine (AIEGL) con la costituzione di una Commissione ad hoc. La delibera di cercar di pervenire al risultato di un archivio generale virtuale dell'epigrafia greca e latina del mondo antico, non creando una banca unica (come si era in origine pensato), ma attraverso una federazione di più banche sotto un unico portale, denominata EAGLE, è stata presa, con altre, dalla Commissione, tenendo conto dell'esperienza maturata nel frattempo, nel corso di una riunione conclusiva della stessa tenutasi ad Aquileia ed a Trieste nei giorni 14-16 novembre 2003. EAGLE si propone la registrazione di tutte le iscrizioni greche e latine anteriori al VII sec. d.C. secondo la miglior edizione esistente (eventualmente con ulteriori controlli ed emendamenti) corredate da alcuni altri dati fondamentali e, ove possibile, da una loro immagine. In prima istanza, le banche federate sono state le seguenti tre: Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH), Epigraphic Database Roma (EDR), Epigraphic Database Bari (EDB).
- École française d’Athènes Fondée en 1846, premier institut étranger à s’établir en Grèce, l’École française d’Athènes est un centre de recherches de pointe dont la mission fondamentale est d’étudier la Grèce dans son contexte balkanique et méditerranéen, de la préhistoire à nos jours. À cette mission s’ajoute celle de former la relève universitaire, en facilitant pour de jeunes chercheurs l’accès au terrain et à la culture grecque et en favorisant leur insertion dans un milieu professionnel international de haut niveau.
- École française de Rome Fondée en 1875, l’École française de Rome est un établissement public à caractère scientifique, culturel et professionnel, placé sous la tutelle du ministère de l’éducation nationale, de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche. L’Ecole française de Rome a pour mission fondamentale la recherche et la formation à la recherche dans le champ de l’archéologie, de l’histoire et des autres sciences humaines et sociales, de la Préhistoire à nos jours. Son domaine d’intervention privilégié couvre un espace comprenant Rome, l’Italie, le Maghreb et les pays du Sud-Est européen proches de la mer Adriatique. Elle collabore à des programmes de recherche internationaux à travers des chantiers archéologiques et des rencontres scientifiques.
- Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation It's been more than 20 years since Electronic Resources first appeared. The web was still in its infancy and the gopher was the state of the art in technology. The first version of this survey was published in the February 1994 issue of the New England Classical Journal. [NECJ XXI.3 (1993-94) 117-21]. One year later the number of web sites and internet resources had grown so much that a revision of the list was necessary. The second survey was published in the February 1995 issue of the same journal (NECJ XXII.3 (February 1995). In the summer of 1995 the survey was converted to HTML with links to the various resources and made available online. At the time, it was the largest list of Classics resources (or "mega-site" as it came to be called). In 1996 when I moved to California to assume the directorship of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae® (TLG®) at UC Irvine the site moved with me. Over the years I have tried to keep up with tools and resources of interest to Classicists but web resources are now endless and no "mega-site" can be complete. (Maria Pantelia, UC Irvine)
- Epigraphic Database Bari The Epigraphic Database Bari project (EDB), started in 1988, specializes in the epigraphic documents by Christians of Rome between III-rd and VIII-th cent. CE in the framework of the Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE), to whom it participates as founding-member - with EDH and EDR - since 2004. Most of these epigraphic documents were published in the Inscriptiones Christianae Vrbis Romae, nova series, voll. I-X, Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, in civitate Vaticana 1922-1992 (ICVR). EDB plains to update ICVR and to collect also the other Christian inscriptions from Rome and its suburbium published elsewhere. The total amount of Christian inscriptions from Late Ancient Rome is estimated to be around 40,000, although this number is increasing continually. Currently, EDB has 40845 items (online: 40635; awaiting approval: 210) and 7494 images. Every epigraphic document is accompanied by data about bibliographical informations, contexts, material, graphical and linguistic elements. The transcription of texts is obviously offered as well, and the entire document is accompanied by its estimated date of production (if possible) and short comments, when necessary. Based an agreement established between the EDB and the Papal Commission of Sacred Archeology (PCAS), a dynamic link to the Archive of the PCAS allows the visualization of pictures - if existing - of the documents.
- Epigraphic Database for Ancient Asia Minor (in English) The EDAK (Epigraphische Datenbank zum antiken Kleinasien) project of the Department for Ancient History at the University of Hamburg aims to collect the widespread published Greek and Latin inscriptions of the regions of modern Turkey and to present them in a database with a short description and a commentary. Currently the database contains more than 6000 inscriptions of ancient Lydia, Galatia, Paphlagonia, Phrygia and Proseilemmene. The work for adding further regions is in progress.
- Epigraphic Database Roma (in English) The Epigraphic Database Rome (EDR) is part of the international federation of Epigraphic Databases called Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE). As part of the federation, it is possible to look through EDR both as a single database or together with its partner databases accessing EAGLE’s portal. In addition to EDR, the federation currently includes the Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH), the Epigraphic Database Bari (EDB) and Hispania Epigraphica (HE). Further to the deliberations approved in Rome in 1999 by the Commission "Épigraphie et Informatique" of the Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine (AIEGL), EDR was launched as an experimental project aimed at creating a unified database for ancient epigraphy. In 2003 EDR became an independent structure following up AIEGL’s decision to gather under the same portal a number of single databases, all having common features, instead of creating just one extensive base. This resolution marked the birth of EDR as an independent databank.
- Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss-Slaby Sie finden hier eine Datenbank, in der weitgehend alle lateinischen Inschriften erfasst sind. Die Texte sind aufgelöst und ergänzt. Die Präsentation der Texte ist so einfach wie möglich gestaltet. Neben den allgemein üblichen Angaben von Auflösungen, Ergänzungen und Tilgungen sind die verwendeten Sonderzeichen auf ein Minimum beschränkt. Die Abkürzungen geben die verwendeten Publikationen an.
- Gallica at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France A portal to the vast collections of digitized, primary-source books and documents at the Bibliothèque Nationale (National Library of France), with nearly 5 million items online.
- Gnomon Online: The Eichstätt Information System for Classical Studies The foundation of this edition of the »Gnomon Bibliographic Database«, as with the earlier editions, is »Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft« (1, 1925, bis 77, 2005). This collection of data comprises not only all the reviews, but also the »Personalnachrichten« („personal notes“) and the obituaries. The collection is augmented by the inclusion of the quarterly bibliographic appendix to »Gnomon« from 1990 onwards. Thus a considerable portion of the scholarly new publications in the areas of Classical Philology, Ancient History, and Archaeology have been taken into account. The »Gnomon Bibliographic Database« offers, apart from the continuous collection of new bibliographical data, much information which is not accessible using (e. g.) »Année Philologique« or »Dyabola«. Worth mentioning are the more than 8.000 German dissertations (unpublished, or only privately published), the abstracts of English dissertations since 1985, and holdings of the Library of Eichstätt University and of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich with its special collection of books published in Classical Studies („Sondersammelgebiet 6, 12“). Last but not least the Thesaurus of the »Gnomon Bibliographic Database« with its more than 9.000 entries has to be mentioned. This Thesaurus allows for searches which go far beyond the possibilities of a simple search of keywords.
- KIRKE: Katalog der Internetressourcen für die klassische Philologie KIRKE ist seit 1995 online, von 1996 bis April 2003 als "Katalog der Internetressourcen für die Klassische Philologie aus Erlangen" am Lehrstuhl Latinistik. Da sich der Name seit damals national und international etabliert hat, ist er auch nach dem Umzug der Seiten an die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin beibehalten und ist nunmehr als "Katalog der Internetressourcen für die Klassische Philologie aus Berlin" aufzulösen.
- The Latin Library These texts have been drawn from different sources. Many were originally scanned and formatted from texts in the Public Domain. Others have been downloaded from various sites on the Internet (many of which have long since disappeared). Most of the recent texts have been submitted by contributors around the world. Occasionally texts are submitted by contributors or discovered on the Internet without indication of the edition from which they derive. If I am unable to identify the edition (which is often the case), I have attempted, if feasible, to conform the text to an out–of–copyright edition. The texts are not intended for research purposes nor as substitutes for critical editions. Despite constant effort to remove “scanner artifacts” and other typographical errors, many such errors remain. The texts are presented merely for ease of on–line reading or for downloading for personal or educational use. No morphological or vocabulary aid is presented with the texts. Many sites exist for various texts and, most comprehensively, the outstanding Perseus site, where the texts are presented section by section with morphological links.
- Organa Papyrologica This site unites all the digital tools that are taken care of in Leipzig. Among them is the Papyrus Portal, which searches the digitized papyrological databases in Germany and in its neighbouring countries and displays the results in a homogeneous way. Part of it is also the Papyrus and Ostraca Project Halle-Jena-Leipzig. The data of the collections Basel, Bremen, Erlangen, Cologne, Marburg, Wuerzburg as well as those of Giessen are made available, too. A newcomer is the "multilingual online dictionary of the technical administrative language of Graeco-Roman-Byzantine Egypt" (in short new Fachwörterbuch). The aim of the site Organa Papyrologica is to create an international portal to all the papyrological online tools according to the motto nomen est omen.
- Packard Humanities Institute: Classical Latin Texts This website contains essentially all Latin literary texts written before A.D. 200, as well as some texts selected from later antiquity. These texts were previously available on The Packard Humanities Institute's CD ROM 5.3.
- Papyri.info Papyri.info has two primary components. The Papyrological Navigator (PN) supports searching, browsing, and aggregation of ancient papyrological documents and related materials; the Papyrological Editor (PE) enables multi-author, version controlled, peer reviewed scholarly curation of papyrological texts, translations, commentary, scholarly metadata, institutional catalog records, bibliography, and images. Papyri.info aggregates material from the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP), Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV), Bibliographie Papyrologique (BP), and depends on close collaboration with Trismegistos, for rigorous maintenance of relationship mapping and unique identifiers. Work is in progress to incorporate content from the Arabic Papyrological Database (APD) as well.
- Parker Library on the Web Corpus Christi College and the Stanford University Libraries welcome you to Parker Library on the Web, a digital exhibit designed to support use and study of the manuscripts in the historic Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The Parker Library is a treasure trove of rare medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, as well as early printed books. Almost all manuscripts in the Parker Library collection have been fully digitised and are available in this exhibit, along with associated bibliographic references and annotations made by scholars from around the world.
- Persée Persée is a portal that grants online access to entire back runs of French journals in the social and human sciences. It consists of full-text research journals published in France. Articles are in French, and the language of the search interface is French. Subject matters include classical studies, political science, history, economics, archaeology, psychology, African studies, art, and law.
- Perseus Digital Library Since planning began in 1985, the Perseus Digital Library Project has explored what happens when libraries move online. Two decades later, as new forms of publication emerge and millions of books become digital, this question is more pressing than ever. Perseus is a practical experiment in which we explore possibilities and challenges of digital collections in a networked world. Our flagship collection, under development since 1987, covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. We are applying what we have learned from Classics to other subjects within the humanities and beyond. We have studied many problems over the past two decades, but our current research centers on personalization: organizing what you see to meet your needs.
- POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online A guide and online database for the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.
- Pyle Pyle is a collaborative tool for teaching and scholarly research in the field of Greek palaeography and codicology; it aims to collect scattered resources from various individuals and institutions, gradually adding new information, materials and services. Pyle also aims to promote interaction among scholars, students and all other persons interested in ancient and medieval Greek manuscript books, providing a place to share knowledge, ideas, projects and news.
- Suda Online: Byzantine Lexicography The Suda (or Stronghold) is a massive 10th century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, covering the whole of Greek and Roman antiquity and also including Biblical and Christian material. Preserved in several medieval manuscripts, it has been edited and published several times since the end of the 14th century in traditional hard-copy scholarly editions, most recently that of Ada Adler (Teubner, 5 volumes: 1928-1938, reprinted 1971). The Suda Online (SOL) project, begun in 1998 as part of the Stoa Consortium, opens up this stronghold of information by means of a freely accessible, keyword-searchable database, with English translations, notes, bibliography, and links to other electronic resources.
- Tesserae The Tesserae project aims to provide a flexible and robust web interface for exploring intertextual parallels. Select two poems to see a list of lines sharing two or more words (regardless of inflectional changes).
- TextKit Textkit began in late 2001 as a project to develop free of charge downloads of Greek and Latin grammars, readers and answer keys. We offer a large library of over 180 of the very best Greek and Latin textkbooks on our Ancient Greek and Latin Learning pages. Since that time we have distributed millions of PDF textbook free of charge world-wide. Our grammars, readers and keys are public domain textkbooks which Textkit has converted. Many of the very best public domain Greek and Latin grammars, such as D’Oogle’s Latin For Beginners, Smyth’s Greek Grammar and John Wiliams White’s First Greek Book were first posted to the Internet here at Textkit.
- Trismegistos An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources formerly Egypt and the Nile valley (800 BC-AD 800), now expanding to the Ancient World in general.
- U.S. Epigraphy Project The goal of the U.S. Epigraphy Project (USEP) is to collect and share information about ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions preserved in the United States of America. The Project currently provides access to a database of some 750 Greek and 1,700 Latin inscriptions in the USA through browsing by collection and publication and by searching various categories of metadata (language, date, origin, type, material) and bibliographic information. A growing digital corpus of the collection registers some 400 EpiDoc editions of Latin texts and provides some 1,000 images of the inscriptions registered by the Project, each of which is identified by a unique USEP number based upon its location.
- The Vatican Library The Vatican Library preserves over 180,000 manuscripts (including 80,000 archival units), 1,600,000 printed books, over 8,600 incunabula, over 300,000 coins and medals, 150,000 prints, drawings and engravings and over 150,000 photographs.
- VROMA: A Virtual Community for Teaching and Learning Classics The VRoma Project is first and foremost a community of awesome scholars, both teachers and students, who create online resources for teaching about the Latin language and ancient Roman culture. The project was initially funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching with Technology grant in 1997. The two major components of the project are its online learning environment (MUVE, Multi-User Virtual Environment), which has received several favorable external reviews, and its collection of internet resources. The VRoma MUVE requires logging on as a guest or through your personal character and password, but all the web resources are freely accessible on the internet.