Research Tools

Greek Tools
Liddell, Scott, and Jones Lexicon, aka LSJ – This is the lexicon for serious work in Greek. You should always consult the printed edition as your final point of reference, but there is a very well done digital version courtesy of the TLG project (on which, see below).
Thesaurus Lingua Graeca (off-campus link) – The TLG is an interactive database housing an electronic version of nearly all available Greek texts from Homer to the fall of Constantinople in AD 1453.
The Perseus Project – The Perseus Project contains most of the commonly read Greek texts. The site also contains online versions of major lexica, reference grammars, and some very useful parsing and analysis tools.
The Chicago Homer Project – A wonderful tool for the study of early Greek epic. Algorithms help identify potential poetic formulae and all the texts are linked to parsing information and lexical information via Perseus.
S.C. Woodhouse’s English to Greek Lexicon – Sometimes you need to look up things in the opposite direction.

Latin Tools
Lewis & Short Latin Lexicon – Although now superseded by the Oxford Latin Dictionary, Lewis & Short remains a highly useful lexicon and has the benefit of being out of copyright and,thus, widely available in electronic format.
PHI Latin Texts – The Packard Humanities Institute digitized a large body of Latin materials. This material has been available for decades on CD-ROM, but is now freely available on the web. It’s search features are not as robust as the TLG, but it is easier to use than Perseus.

Patristics Resources
Patrologia Graeca (off-campus link) – Access to an online repository of page images for J.P. Migne’s collection of Greek church fathers.
Early Church Fathers – On online edition of Schaff’s Ante-Nicene, Nicene, and Post-Nicene Fathers in English translation.

General Resources
L’Année philologique (off-campus link) – L’Année should be your first stop for serious bibliographical research.
J-STOR (off-campus link) – One of the premiere databases for back issues of journals in a wide variety of fields. Caveat: do not confuse keyword searches in J-STOR with real bibliographic research. L’Année philologique (see above) is the tool for that.

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