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Classics

We designed this research guide to introduce you to the field of classics. You'll find the materials, search tools, and other resources you need to start your research.

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Source documents

Talmud Text Database
Find all of the surviving manuscripts of the Babylonian Talmud and first printed editions.
Responsa Project
Find Jewish texts in Hebrew, which embody thousands of years of Jewish learning.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
Find extensive and detailed dictionary entries of the Latin language covering the classical period up to about 600 A.D.in the largest Latin dictionary in the world.
Tutorial

Loeb Classical Library

Find the classics of Greek and Latin literature represented here with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations.

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Tutorial
Step-by-step guide on using the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae.
Thesaurus linguae Graecae
Note you must register for access.
The TLG is a compilation of the canon of Greek authors and works, a comprehensive database of all known ancient Greek and Byzantine authors, together with bibliographies of existing critical editions of their extant works

Thesaurus linguæ latinæ compendiarius by Ainsworth, Robert, 1660-1743.
Otherwise known as a compendious dictionary of the Latin tongue: designed for the use of the British nation.
Supplementum epigraphicum graecum
Access newly published Greek inscriptions as well as publications on previously known documents. Physical journals through 2012.

Encyclopedias & handbooks

The Oxford Classical Dictionary
Brill's New Pauly
Encyclopaedia of the ancient world
The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
Spans every art form, medium, and civilization from Cycladic, Minoan, Helladic, and Etruscan to the fall of the Roman Empire.
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium by Alexander P. Kazhdan
Find information on all aspects of Byzantine history and civilization from the 4th through the 15th centuries.

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