George Fox Honors Program Research Guide: Web Resources

Maps are arranged according to rough geographic regions. These maples are freely available for educational use (under the CC BY-NC 3.0 license).

Maps covering 5,000+ years of world history, beginning with a map of the ancient world (3,500 B.C.), and the first civilizations.

Hosted by Columbia University Libraries Digital Program, APIS is a collaborative online catalog and library of digitized images of papyri and ostraca (potsherds with incriptions) dating from the period 400 BCE to 800 CE.

Hosted by Fordham University, this website provides a large collection of translated primary sources on the history of the ancient world from Mesopotamia through Late Antiquity and Christian Origins.

Formerly, the American Philological Association.

A virtual community dedicated to using internet technology to foster the teaching and learning of the Latin language and Roman culture.

Hosted by Cardiff University, this website promotes and supports the study of late antique religion and culture from the late Hellenistic Period to the early Middle Ages, and in particular Classical Antiquity and the modern world.

Lists “concise information on projects applying computing technologies to Classical/Ancient Historical research.”

Materials for the study of women and gender in the ancient world. Includes course materials and visual images.

Hosted by the University of Chicago, this is a gateway to selected full-text sources, research tools, and commentary on the study of Roman civilization.

Hosted by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL . It is devoted to the study of medicine in the Graeco-Roman world.

A list of scholarly societies that focus on various areas of classical studies. International in scope with links to the society websites.

Compiled at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Aims to be the internet's most thorough catalogue of online copies of ancient Greek texts, both in Greek and in translation. Handy source for direct links to public domain editions.

A large database of searchable classical Latin texts maintained by the Packard Humanities Institute.

Searchable Greek text with English translation of Homer, Hesiod, and the Homeric Hymns; produced at Northwestern.

Handy and searchable collection of primary Roman law texts.

Database to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world. Also, follow developments related to the digital humanities at ABZU's blog.

Full-text book reviews covering all aspects of classical scholarship.

Online encyclopedia of Roman emperors containing short, peer reviewed biographical essays, accompanied by bibliography and illustrations.

A well organized introduction to classics resources on the Internet, grouped by type of resource.

Hosted by Fordham University, find here many resources for the research and study of ancient civilizations

A gazetteer of ancient places with links to background information, and links between various maps.