LibGuides: History: Primary Sources by Era or Topic: Ancient World

Ancient World Primary Sources

Loeb Classical Library
Good for: Reading classical Greek and Latin works with English translations.
Contains: Classical works with translations.

Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama (APGRD)
Database of all known performances of Greek and Roman drama from antiquity to the present day
Attalus
Database of translated primary sources for the Hellenistic Period, including inscriptions
Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic Online
Database of Roman Republican coin hoards mainly from the period 155 BC to AD 2.
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic
Searchable database of Roman elites during the Republic
Diotima
Database with information on "women, gender, sex, sexualities, race, ethnicity, class, status, masculinity, enslavement, disability, and the intersections among them in the ancient Mediterranean world"
Ius Civile
Database on Roman law
Lacus Curtius
Website hosting translations of Greek literature related to Roman history

Loeb Classical Library
Good for: Reading classical Greek and Latin works with English translations.
Contains: Classical works with translations.

Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE)
ORBIS: The Standard Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
"By simulating movement along the principal routes of the Roman road network, the main navigable rivers, and hundreds of sea routes in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and coastal Atlantic, this interactive model reconstructs the duration and financial cost of travel in antiquity."
Paizomen
Database of video games set in Greek and Roman antiquity
Perseus Project
Database of open-access translations of Greek and Latin literature
Pleiades
Gazetteer of ancient places that includes GPS locations, references to ancient sources, and some modern bibliography
Roman Provincial Coinage
Database of coins from around the Roman Empire
ToposText
Interactive map linking all textual references to places in the Greek and Roman worlds to ancient literary sources
Vedute di Roma
Photographs of known ancient monuments in the city of Rome, including occasional early modern drawings.

Oxford Classical Dictionary
Good for: Learning about history, myth, philosophy, art, and architecture in the ancient Greek and Roman world.
Contains: Encyclopedia entries drawing on classical primary sources.

Oxford Bibliographies
Good for: Creating reading lists or consulting overviews of topics to identify significant scholarship.
Contains: Annotated bibliographies focused on areas of study within a discipline.

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