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Graeco-Roman Background to the Bible

Perseus Site: - a site with many hard-to-find treasures: (Try the experimental Tyndale mirror - Classical + Papyri)
If Tufts University is down, try a mirror: (1) USA: Chicago, (2) Germany, Berlin or (3) UK, Oxford. Mirrors
Greek & Latin texts, mostly with translations (1) (2) (3)
Greek & Latin papyri (1) (2) (3)
- with powerful search facilities (1) (2) (3)
Lexical tools for Greek & Latin, plus morphological analysis and more, including: (1) (2) (3)
- Greek lexicon: full & shorter Liddell-Scott-Jones, with synonym and context analysis (1) (2) (3)
- Greek morphological analysis of inflected forms (1) (2) (3)
- Latin lexicon: full Lewis & Short, with synonym & context analysis (1) (2) (3)
- Latin morphological analysis of inflected forms (1) (2) (3)
Font display help (1) (2) (3)
Art and archaeology with a huge image collection (1) (2) (3)
Topgraphical Dictionary of Ancient Rome by Platner & Ashby (1) (2) (3)
Subject lookup for everything else (1) (2) (3)
New Pauly (Tyndale access via Cambridge University)
Dictionary of Graeco-Roman background. An update and English version of Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
Learning Latin
Latin Dictionary & Grammar Aids or Digital Latin Lexicon (free program to download)
Learning Greek
Greek Conjugator Program - free download. Makes charts and conjugates verbs.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Info about the TLG project, and a huge list of Ancient Authors included in the latest update
Suda On Line: Byzantine Lexicography
Massive 10th century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, derived from the scholia to critical editions of canonical works and from compilations by yet earlier authors
Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis - Egyptian Greek Papyri database
Covers roughly the same papyri as Perseus, but the indexing is better. It is in German, with English help.
Duke Papyrus Archive
Collection of 1373 Egyptian Papyri, with background articles
Papyri at Michegan
A large collection, almost all with notes and translation as well as images of the papyri
Papyri from Oxyrhynchus
Summaries and images from the latest volumes of this huge printed collection.
Marriage & Divorce Papyri
All Greek, Latin & Aramiaic marriage & divorce documents from 500 BCE to 500 CE
Papyrus Collections Worldwide
Catalogue of 'all' edited and yet-to-be-edited papyri
Wordlist for recently published Papyri
All the Greek words in papyri and ostraca and that are not yet included in Perseus.
Latin & Greek Inscriptions
Inscriptions collected from the various paper publications, on many sites. See esp. Malitz's collection
Greek inscriptions are nicely searchable at the Packard Humanities Institute (search tools are at the bottom of the page)
Oxford Text Archive
Mostly English Literature texts, but this massive archive also has many ancient Greek and Latin texts
Ancient World Mapping Center
Maps illustrating the classical world of Europe and the Med, but not Palestine.
Based on the scholarship of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Just starting: good maps, but few descriptions.
Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization (DARMC)
Roman sites on an interactive base, showing different time zones, roads, physical features and even shipwrecks. Zoom in for more details.
LacusCurtius
Roman maps, gazetteer, links and two encyclopaedias on Roman life and Roman architecture.
Corinth Computer Project
History and archaeology of Corinth. Very informative, but the map isn't as pretty as ours.
John Porter's University of Saskatchewan course on the archaeology of daily life
Covers the Greek and Roman world. Well organised, with links to other sites.
Orbis Latina
Latin place names
RomanSites
A HUGE body of works, links and pictures for Roman background. Incl. an index to inscriptions.
Ancient Rome Resource Database
More useful links to web and paper resources.
Classics Resources, university of Florida
Resources and links for the study of Classical texts, incl. a list of etexts.
Archaeology of Thessalonica
Gene Green's slides and anotations, with a fast search engine.
Cassius Dio: Roman History
Complete text of Earnest Cary's Loeb translation.
Electronic Resources for Classicists
Well organised links to texts, tools, bibliographies, online journals, discussion groups etc
Bibliographical Repertorium of Greek Lexicography
Bibliography of articles on Greek, organised by words and Greek authors
Hellenistic Greek Linguistics Pages
Biblical Greek grammar. Discussion, texts, links.
One Thousend and One Object From the Syrian Land
Archaeology mainly from Roman times. Lots of pictures. Scroll past the Arabic to the French version.


LacusCurtius
Roman maps, gazetteer, links and two encyclopaedias on Roman life and Roman architecture.