Research Databases & Digital Collections

The collection of some 18,000 German dissertations and school bulletins in the John Miller Burnam Classics Library at the University of Cincinnati is unique, both for its size and for its long time span from the 17th to the early 20th century. The material is not only of exceeding importance for present day research in classics, it also represents an irreplaceable set of documents for western intellectual history.

Some websites and databases on the Northwest Provinces of the Roman Empire, such as Gallia or Germania : AGER (Association du Monde Gallo-Romain) : [...]

FragTrag1 is a database on the life and fragmentary works of 45 Greek tragedians of the 6th and 5th centuries BC (University of Patras, Greece ; open access). 

LAREGRE : Latin relics in a Greek east [...]

Includes the National Museum of Damascus, the National Museum of Palmyra, the National Museum of Aleppo, the National Museum of as-suwayda, the National Museum of Deir ez-Zor, the National Museum of Tartus, the National Museum of Hama, the National Museum of Idlib, and the National Museum of Homs.

AFS informs about news in the field of ancient fable studies (events, conferences, workshops ; bibliographies, research projects, else).

Research on various aspects of North Africa in Greek and Roman times (issued by various institutions) : BAAA (Bibliographie analytique de l’Afrique antique, issued by the EFR) ; the BILNAS (British Institute for Libyan & Northern African Studies) provides access to numerous ebooks ; EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa) ; IGCyr (Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica) and GVCyr (Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica) ; InsLib (Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania) ; IRCyr (Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica) ; Rus Africum: Thugga Survey ; SIRAR (Sylloge inscriptionum religionis Africae Romanae) [...].

Several resources on writing and writing systems in the ancient world : CREWS : Contexts and relations between early writing systems ; lexicity : an index for ancient language resources on the internet ; MNAMON : Ancient writing systems in the Mediterranean ; VIEWS project : visual interactions in early writing systems (on the visual properties of writing systems, on interaction of visual and linguistic features ; on the ways in which people encounter and interact dynamically with writing) ; [...]

Covering the time span from 586 BCE to 650 CE, aims to construct an interactive mapping of the archaeological findings and the literary evidence about Jews around the world.

A database for music scores, recordings, composers, searchable for instruments, composers, epochs, performers and many more.