Classical Languages & Civilizations: Websites + Digital Projects

Digital collection covering the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.

ORBIS allows us to express Roman communication costs in terms of both time and expense. By simulating movement along the principal routes of the Roman road network, the main navigable rivers, and hundreds of sea routes in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and coastal Atlantic, this interactive model reconstructs the duration and financial cost of travel in antiquity. --from the website

Pleiades is a historical gazetteer and more. It gives scholars, students and enthusiasts worldwide the ability to use, create, share, and map historical geographic information about the ancient world. It associates names and locations in time and provides structured information about the quality and provenance of these entities. --from the website

Images from the ancient world from the Beazley archive with images of pottery and carved gems.

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. Hosted at Duke. --from the website

Offers free access to a library of texts and images and tools to allow readers to discover and engage with the Homeric tradition. Hosted at Harvard. --from the website

The Tesserae project aims to provide a flexible and robust web interface for exploring intertextual parallels. Search and compare the language in a number of Latin texts.

Latin and Greek texts for reading, with explanatory notes, vocabulary, and graphic, video, and audio elements. --from the website

A web-based GIS interface and interactive digital atlas of the ancient world, featuring accurate historical, cultural, and geographical data produced by the Ancient World Mapping Center at UNC. The map is completely searchable with customizable features, allowing for the creation of any map covering Archaic Greece to Late Antiquity and beyond. --from the website