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A work in progress, this website provides an English translation of Andreas Vesalius' Renaissance atlas of the human body, De humani corporis fabrica (1543, 1555), linked to his celebrated woodcut illustrations and annotation by NU professors Daniel Garrison (Classics) and Malcolm Hast (Feinberg School of Medicine). A Humanist anatomist who taught at Padua, Vesalius based his work on the Greek medical tradition.
Multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek. In addition to all the texts of ancient Greek epic in the original Greek, the Chicago Homer includes English and German translations, in particular Lattimore's translation of the Iliad, Daryl Hine's translations of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, and the German translations of the Iliad and Odyssey by Johan Heinrich Voss. Through the associated web site Eumaios, users of the Chicago Homer can also from each line of the poem access pertinent Iliad Scholia and papyrus readings. Developed by Martin Mueller, Northwestern University.
Classical Antiquity and American popular culture. "A Teagle Forum on the Classics and Popular Culture was also held at Northwestern, organized by Sara Monoson and Reg Gibbons, with participation by faculty from several colleges and universities in the region. The principal speakers, Danielle Allen and Daniel Mendelsohn, and the respondent, Kirk Ormand, of Oberlin College, made a powerful case that this is a crucial and promising moment for classics. We need to take full advantage of it."
APA April 2006 Newsletter, 3
Provides reviews of current scholarly works in the field of classical studies. Online access from 1990 to present, as well as reviews of electronic resources from 2002 through the present.
NetID and password required for access. Type in "Brill's New Pauly" and press GO, then press "New Pauly Online." Access restricted to the Northwestern Community. This encyclopedia of the Ancient World is based upon a multi-volume German encyclopedia published in the 19th20th centuries, an abridged version, Der kleine Pauly (196475), and a modern successor, Der neue Pauly (19962003). Brill's New Pauly is the English version, many times larger than the one-volume Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd edition 1996, 1,640 pages).
e-classics' Ancient Greek Links
A database published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, under the direction of Éric Rebillard, with the American Philological Association and the Database of Classical Bibliography, Dee L. Clayman, General Editor, with the support of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) et du National Endowment for Humanities (USA). Provides access to over 375,000 bibliographic records pertaining to classics, for the years 1969 to 2001, with 12,500 new records added each year. Use restricted to Northwestern University Community.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
"JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines."
A Dual-Source Database of Word Frequencies in Latin
A merging of two older (printed) word-frequency counts: Lodge's Vocabulary of High School Latin (1912), from passages in Caesar, Cicero, and Vergil, and Diederich's Frequency of Latin Words (1939), from anthologies of prose, poetry, and medieval texts. The two corpora contain 202,158 words of classical and 77,142 of medieval text. The database has 5498 records (one for each lexical word), and sixteen fields providing various lexical, etymological, and statistical information.
Translations of many classical texts
NetID and password may be required for access. The on-line version of the historic multi-volume English dictionary, this constantly updated version is the authoritative resource for any word written in English.
Scriptorum Graecorum et Latinorum Catalogus ONLINE
Lists provide a synopsis of most of the surviving extended literary texts written in Greek and Latin before the end of the Second Century AD. Authors and titles listed in rough chronological order within centuries, subdivided by types of content. Virtually all names and titles for works in Greek given in original Greek form, unlike Canon of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, which Latinizes almost without exception. Also, a summary of the principal collections of fragments.
Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
"Founded in 1881, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens provides graduate students and scholars from some 168 affiliated North American colleges and universities a base for research and study in the history and monuments of Hellenic civilization."
American Numismatic Association
"The American Numismatic Association is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to educating and encouraging people to study and collect money and related items. With nearly 33,000 members, the Association serves the academic community, collectors, and the general public with an interest in numismatics."
A multi-purpose site for knowledge of the ancient world, texts of ancient authors, translations, pictures, and much more.
This site lets you search words or phrases in ancient Greek. The web version currently provides access to 3,700 authors and 12,000 works, approximately 95 million words. It is updated quarterly with new authors and works. To view the texts in Greek, a polytonic Greek font must be installed on your computer.
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Vroma: A Virtual Community for Teaching and Learning Classics
Provides a variety of resources for both learning Latin and exploring ancient Roman culture, including links to a "Virtual Roma."
"'Rome Reborn 1.0' is the continuation of five centuries of research by scholars, architects and artists since the Renaissance who have attempted to restore the ruins of the ancient city with words, maps and images."
WorldCat : Enter via "Catalogues from other libraries" on the NU Library website. NetID and password may be required for access. More than 76 million bibliographic records from more than 41,555 libraries worldwide.
Access to over 100,000 works of contemporary art. Search by medium, subject matter, price, and theme.
Classics Resources at the NU Library
Classics bibliographer William McHugh's links to on-line resources, including the American Heritage Dictionary, Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary (via Perseus), WorldCat, the Columbia Encyclopedia, and much more.
Additional Links
The Classical Association of the Middle West and South maintains a large catalogue of links which will take you anywhere you might want to go in Classics and beyond.
American Philological Association
Archaeological Institute of America
Among the many other resources at this site is the ACL Software Directory: Instructional Software, Productivity Tools (includes classical fonts), and online Reference Materials.
Classical Association of the Middle West & South
American Society of Papyrologists
