ELECTRONIC RESOURCES IN CLASSICS, CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY ETC.

(Compiled by Naomi J. Norman)

Even in a field as traditional as Classics, computers and other technologies are revolutionizing the discipline and changing both the way we study the ancient world and the way we teach. A variety of resources are currently available and more appear every day as existing technologies become more affordable and new ones are developed. Some of these new tools are already extremely useful, others may become so later on, while still others strike me as simply irrelevant. But you should familiarize yourself with what's available and experiment with it and strike your own balance.

There are currently four important areas for Classics:
1) computerization (and therefore computer access) of ancient source material,
2) internet resources,
3) computer discussion groups, and
4) on-line journals.

The first comprises not only programs like Ibycus and Perseus which allow users to sort through scores of ancient sources (both written and visual) on a personal or networked computer, but also:
a) lexical and archaeological databases and geographical information systems which allow users to sort and analyze millions of bytes of primary data in archaeology,
b) animation programs which bring ancient sites "to life," and
c) online tutorials for some of our favorite (and least favorite) authors.

The second, the Internet (including the World Wide Web) allows users to do a variety of things electronically across the globe, from communicating with scholars about Classics, to accessing catalogues in libraries and other kinds of institutions, to participating in courses in cyberspace. The WWW includes pictures and sounds and is fast becoming an incredible tool for disseminating texts, images of those texts, maps, plans etc. about antiquity. The Web also contains games, bibliographies, on-line issues of journals, slide collections for courses in ancient art and archaeology, critical editions of texts, fonts for printing Greek on Mac or IBM platforms, and reports of on-going archaeological excavation.

This information does not attempt to describe any of the computer software programs which are currently available for Classics; for that information, see reviews of new software in journals, bulletins from the APA and ACL etc. Instead I have concentrated on Internet resources. To access resources on the WWW, you need some kind of Web browser, like Netscape or Internet Explorer. Most browsers have powerful search engines on them, but also useful for Classicist is a new search engine designed specifically for our field; it's called ARGOS and can be accessed at http://argos.evansville.edu.

Attached is a list of addresses for some of these internet resources. This list is not meant to be exhaustive–simply a sample of what's out there. Particularly good sites are marked with an *. Happy hunting!

INTERNET DISCUSSION GROUPS:

AIA List
Discussion group for anyone interested in classical archaeology
majordomo@brynmawr.edu
message should be: subscribe AIA-L your name

* CLASSICS-L
Discussion group for anyone interested in Classics and related fields. There is also a moderated list available.
listproc@u.washington.edu
message should be: SUB CLASSICS YOUR NAME

Vergil List
Discussion group for anyone interested in Vergil
mjd@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
message should be:
subscribe vergil-list your name < your internet address>

* ROMARCH
Discussion group for anyone interested in history of Italy from 1000 BCE to 600 CE and of all Roman provinces.
majordomo@rome.classics.lsa.umich.edu
message should be:
subscribe romarch

Latin List
Discussion group for anyone interested in Latin, especially teaching
listserv@psuvm.psu.edu
message should be:
subscribe latin-l your name

ACL Moderated Bulletin Board
A bulletin board and discussion group for members of ACL. Since the list is moderated, someone will review all messages before they are sent to the list. Only available to ACL members.
Majordomo@rome.classics.lsa.umich.edu/ACL

OTHER RESOURCES AND WEB SITES:

*ARGOS Search Engine
a valuable new tool for finding ancient stuff on the Web
http://argos.evansville.edu

* ROMARCH
This is the best, most comprehensive WWW resource to date for Roman archaeology, both in Italy and the provinces. It is directed by Dr. Pedar Foss of DePauw University and contains a large number of valuable cross links with Web pages at other institutions across the world; an extremely useful feature is the weekly announcement of new resources on the server.
http://acad.depauw.edu/romarch/

*LacusCurtius
Bill Thayer's site on Roman antiquity, including a photogazetteer of Roman and Etruscan cities and monuments, and the repository for the RomanSites archives — "an insane attempt at cataloguing, and even partly indexing, all Roman-related sites on the Web..." (Bill Thayer's own words).
http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/home.html

* Index of Resources
Sebastian Heath's WWW page for resources for classicists and classical archaeologists
http://rome.classics.lsa.umich.edu/welcome.html

* Computing Resources
Maria Pantelia's index of valuable computing resources for classicists
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~tlg/index/about.html

Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Extensive and systematic bibliography as well as links to relevant course materials, on-line articles, reviews, and images. http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/gender.html

Antiquity in Modern Fiction
http://www.stockton.edu/~roman/fiction/

*Pompeii Forum Project
A description of current archaeological research at Pompeii conducted by the University of Virginia
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pompeii/page-1.html

Web Languages Resources Site
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides.html

**Perseus Project Home Page
will take you to most parts of the Perseus project
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Classics on TV
David Meadows' listing of television programs about the ancient world
http://web.idirect.com/~atrium/awotv.html

Commentarium
A monthly journal providing coverage of the ancient world as seen in the popular (and not-so-popular) press, also from David Meadows. http://web.idirect.com/~atrium/commentarium.html

Cicero Homepage
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/Cic.html

* Tom Martin's Overview of Greek History
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Secondary/TRM_Overview/

*Plan of Rome
http://www.unicaen.fr/rome/index2.html

Ancient Medicine
http://web1.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us/medant/

Salt in Antiquity
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2707/prod.html

Bryn Mawr Electronic Resources Review
http://csa.brynmawr.edu/bmerr.html

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