Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion

Ancient Texts and Epigraphy

• Perseus Greek and Latin texts in the original language and translated into English.
  
• LATO: Library of Ancient Texts Online - database of Greek texts and translations available on the web.
  
• Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum - database of Latin texts and translations available on the web.
  
• Bibliotheca Augustana - Latin and Greek texts, in the original and in translation, and other resources.
  
• PHI Latin Texts - comprehensive collection of Classical Latin texts, from the Packard Humanities Institute.
  
• Project Gutenberg - collection of texts and translations of both Greek and Latin works. The content is taken from books that are out of copyright, so the translations tend to be rather dated.
  
• Lacus Curtius - well-designed site with Greek and Latin texts and translations (many from Loeb editions).
  
• The Chicago Homer - Greek texts of the Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, with translations and an extensive set of tools for analysing vocabulary, word frequency and formulae.
  
• Hodoi Elektronikai - large collection of Greek texts, with French translations and word study tools.
  
• The Latin Library - an extensive collection of Latin texts.
  
• Sources for Late Antiquity - links to almost all the available English translations of Late Antique literature, from the Society for Late Antiquity.
  
• Labyrinth Latin Bookcase - links to medieval Latin texts, including the Bible.
  
• The Suda Online - search a Byzantine encyclopedia.
  
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook - good collection of links to translations available online; some texts are available on the site itself, and there are also links to art and archaeology resources.
  
• Women's Life in Greece and Rome - selections from the sourcebook by Lefkowitz and Fant.
  

Epigraphy

• Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents - a growing collection of resources for epigraphy, including images of inscriptions and writing-tablets.
  
• Packard Humanities Institute database of Greek inscriptions - very extensive collection, browseable by region and by publication, including much of Inscriptiones Graecae and other major epigraphic collections.
  
• Attic Inscriptions Online - collection of inscriptions from Athens and Attica, in English translation, searchable and cross-referenced to the standard epigraphic publications.
  
• Epigraphic Database at Heidelberg - huge database of inscriptions from the Roman Empire, mainly in Latin, along with a searchable bibliography and photographs.
  
• Epigraphic Database at Frankfurt - another database of Latin inscriptions, searchable by word, province and provenance (but the site is entirely in German).
  
• Inscripta - an e-learning resource aimed at teaching students to transcribe, transliterate and translate Romano-British inscriptions, using examples from the Great North Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne.
  

Papyri and other documents

• APIS: Advanced Papyrological Information Online - information about papyrological material in collections across the world, and a great section on papyrological tools and resources.
  
• papyri.info - links to papyrological resources, and a search engine which aggregates and displays information from several major databases of papyri.
  
• Select Bibliography of Papyrology - good bibliography for anyone wanting to work on papyri.
  
• Oxyrhynchus Papyri - online database with images and links to texts where available; also a virtual exhibition about Oxyrhynchus and the papyri.
  
• Vindolanda Tablets online - the complete texts, in Latin and English, in a searchable database.