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Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish

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Propércio e o Amor.

Sexti Properti Elegi.

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Resources for the Internet Classicist

I've been meaning to make a new pinned post for this blog with a few resources etc. for a million years and now I'm procrastinating so here it is.

Link to old pinned post (articles about racism and white supremacy in classics) here. I highly recommend checking it out.

Under the cut you will find a list of resources that I have found invaluable. Please put your own in the replies and reblogs!

Dickinson College Commentaries: Latin and Greek grammars, word lists, and intermediate level commentaries on ancient texts.

Perseus Digital Library and Scaife viewer: absolute classic. Ancient texts and dictionaries. You can click a word in the text and see its potential functions and its definition in a few different dictionaries. also will let you view some texts side by side with an English translation.

philolog.us: literally just Lewis and Short, LSJ, and Slater dictionaries imported from Perseus, but with a really simple interface that makes it the easiest online dictionary to use if you just want to look up a word.

Logeion and Morpho: Logeion lets you look up a word in Latin or Greek and see it in a ton of different dictionaries at once. Morpho will tell you all the possible forms for any given word.

Diogenes Viewer: app that basically does what Perseus does except you can download it. There's a web version with open source texts but to get the full benefit you need to have both the app and the TLG and PHI Greek and Latin text databases downloaded. Send an ask off anon if you want more information about those.

Haverford Bridge: vocab lists for selected texts. There's also a page with the tools they use to generate the lists so you can make your own.

johnstoniatexts: texts that Ian Johnston has translated and put online for free. It doesn't have everything but it has kind of a mind-boggling amount considering everything on here is translated by one person. The translations tend to be a little wordier than I prefer but it's still my first stop when I'm looking for easily accessible translations to recommend to people because I know they're fairly recent and reasonably well-done.

Geoffrey Steadman: free early intermediate level commentaries in Latin and Greek. If you use them and have the means please consider giving him a couple dollars!

PHI Latin Texts: lots of Latin with word + author search functions.

theoi.com: theoi has source material in translation for a number of gods and mythical figures. They don't have everything but if you're looking for every story with x god it's usually a decent place to start.

Intermediate Ancient Greek Language: free open source Greek textbook covering Greek in more detail than your intro textbook/course.

This list is not comprehensive and I will probably keep adding to it!

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Not exactly classics, but if you’re interested in earlier Greek stuff, the Corpus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals has an online catalog that has loads of great images. It’s only in German, but still fairly straightforward to navigate even if you aren’t fluent in the language.

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thank you, that's definitely in the realm of what i was hoping people would add! i tried to stick to general resources in the original post but i was hoping people would get a little nicher and into other fields/subfields in the notes

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i'd also like to add, if it's not too archaeological, some corpora of ancient inscriptions! all of these are open access, no university logins needed

PHI.pakhum.org has nearly all ancient Greek inscriptions that have been published before 2005ish- it's constantly updating but not super fast. It has lists of bibliographies and accordances of the inscriptions as well and the most basic metadata like findspot date etc. Largely based on the Inscriptiones Graecae corpora. the inscriptions are grouped per region and then per corpus.

attic inscriptions online has a huge collection of inscriptions from Athens and Attica with a wealth of metadata and a short overview of the scholarship/debate for every inscription. It also publishes regularly on inscriptions in private and public collections in the UK. All inscriptions are both in greek and translation and it has several toggles for interpretation like where words have been inferred where other symbols occur on the stone etc etc.

CGRN is the collection of greek ritual norms, a database of inscriptions that list cultic regulations, including sacrificial calenders, religious laws, festival procedures and so forth. provides commentary, bibliography and translation.

also a personal favourite, but iconographic rather than epigraphic: the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), a lexicon of all artworks depicting mythological figures, ordered per character in alphabetical order. Each lexicon volume (so for example the volume that treats everyone from eros to herakles) comes in two books, one with the listings, data and commentary and one with pictures (not every listing is depicted, but many are). the print versions (that i prefer for flipping through) can be found alltogether on archive and there's also a digitized service platform, DASCH, though it's interface is a bit tricky and still faulty. DASCH however links the LIMC to other databases like the ancient monument database (i think?) and the beazley archive for pottery depictions.

i find the LIMC invaluable in citing ancient objects/depictions since they have ordered it per mythological figure and then per theme/scene and also chronological as much as possible, so it gives your readers a ready overview of iconographic patterns, it lists museum locations and numbers as well as findspot/context, and so it makes you less dependable on museum online collection/museum serial numbers that change overtime/are updated. plus, often it also provides a description or even image where for many objects in collections there are no digital images.

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si quis, iudices, forte nunc adsit ignarus legum, iudiciorum, consuetudinis nostrae, miretur profecto, quae sit tanta atrocitas huiusce causae, quod diebus festis ludisque publicis, omnibus forensibus negotiis intermissis unum hoc iudicium exerceatur, nec dubitet, quin tanti facinoris reus arguatur, ut eo neglecto civitas stare non possit; idem cum audiat esse legem, quae de seditiosis consceleratisque civibus, qui armati senatum obsederint, magistratibus vim attulerint, rem publicam oppugnarint, cotidie quaeri iubeat: legem non improbet, crimen quod versetur in iudicio, requirat; cum audiat nullum facinus, nullam audaciam, nullam vim in iudicium vocari, sed adulescentem illustri ingenio, industria, gratia accusari ab eius filio, quem ipse in iudicium et vocet et vocarit, oppugnari autem opibus meretriciis: [Atratini] illius pietatem non reprehendat, muliebrem libidinem comprimendam putet, vos laboriosos existimet, quibus otiosis ne in communi quidem otio liceat esse~ 😈😈😈

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my brain fever: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called "the trial of dmitri fyodorovich karamazov" 😳 you'll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever. i don't feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude i swear i just saw the devil under the table with the material evidence

my brother alyosha pacing: smerdyakov was lying to us

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please please please let me into the scriptorium i would be such a good little monk please i will not eat the parchment or anything i promise

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look at this wonderful gif of scallops getting scared and scattering like a flock pigeons

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whatever. go my scallops

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but if i gave up on being silly i wouldn't know how to be alive

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all the moons of 2024

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George Catlin Bear portraits 1846-1848 oil on canvas

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