Classics: useful websites

This page lists useful, free internet resources for classics. See databases for classics for a list of key online sources purchased by the University to help you find information in this subject.

Key sites

  • The University of Reading Department of Classics - Gateway
    This site is a valuable resource. There are subject sections providing links for areas of Classical Studies taught at Reading. These include gender studies, reception of antiquity (including film) and late antiquity and medieval studies. There is information about conferences. Links are provided to on-line texts, papyri and manuscripts. There are also links to sites supporting the study of classical languages and classical authors. The site was put together by members of the University's Classics department. It is maintained regularly and is highly recommended.

  • BUBL Catalogue of Internet resources
    BUBL provides a limited number of carefully selected resources covering all academic subject areas. Access to links is provided through subject menus and Dewey Decimal categories. The Language (400), Philosophy (100), Literature (800) and History (900) sections provide relevant links to Classics sites.
    Please note: Updates to BUBL ceased in April 2011. Links on the website will no longer be checked.

  • Intute: Classics
    Provides links to articles and features about Classics, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources.
    Please note: Updates to Intute ceased in July 2011. Links on the website will no longer be checked.

  • Voice of the Shuttle: Classical Studies
    A gateway of sites prepared and maintained by the University of California.

  • ABZU: a guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East on the Web
    Abzu, hosted by the library of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, is a searchable database of open access material (journals, articles, books, Websites) relevant to the study of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world.

  • John Rylands University Library Image Collections
    Digitised versions of selected texts from the University of Manchester John Rylands Library's collections. Of particular interest to Classics is the Papyri collection.

  • Perseus collection : Greek and Roman materials
    Perseus is a not-for-profit organisation located in the Department of the Classics, Tufts University, USA. The Perseus Digital Library provides digitised access to a range of out of copyright books, mainly dating from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included in the Greek and Roman Materials Collection are full-text English translations of many classical Greek and Roman texts.

Guides and tutorials

  • Internet for Historians
    One of a series of tutorials written for the Intute Virtual Training Suite. This tutorial aims to improve Internet information skills, knowledge of key Internet sites, Internet search skills and critical thinking skills. The links basket option provides a useful listing of sites relevant to history, which includes ancient/classical history and historiography. Another tutorial is available for philosophy and has information relevant to the study of ancient philosophy.

  • Evaluating websites: a guide
    Hints on assessing the reliability of information you find on the Internet.

  • The web
    A brief guide to finding information which includes links to the main search engines.

Organisations & institutions

Reading Classics Gateway:

Please note: our site descriptions are based on information available on the site described at the time it was evaluated.

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