Research Databases & Digital Collections

An online encyclopedia on mythology (Greek, Roman, Etruscan, but also Norse and more), folklore and legends. Open access. 

CoReMa : Cooking recipes of the Middle Ages provides, first, a collection of cookery manuscripts written from the 12th to 16th century, in German, French or Latin (approx. 80 volumes and about 8000 recipes), secondly, the critical edition (plus digital editing with digital enrichment) of these Medieval Latin, Middle French, and Early New High German recipes, making them accessible for scholarly use, allowing thus, thirdly, comparative and interdisciplinary study from various points of views (food history ; diets and medicine ; the migration of recipes, food items, or eating habits ; the historical and cultural development of national food habits and many more). 

The BRCP's (Bosch Research and Conservation Project) site allows to explore Jheronimus Bosch's paintings in intimate detail and presents the research work of the BRCP. 

CSAD Squeeze collection ; e-stampages : the squeezes from various excavation sites of the EFA ; Krateros : the squeeze collection at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton ; McGregor Squeeze Collection (University of British Columbia) ; Venice Squeeze Project : squeeze collection of the Laboratorio di Epigrafia Greca dell'Università Ca' Foscari, Venice.

Ure Museum at the University of Reading. For the museum collections and further information, click here. For the searchable database click here. 

Database of images of Roman monuments. More than 32,479 objects, all areas of the Roman Empire. 

On Greek mythology and the gods in classical literature and art. Provides comprehensive information on the gods, spirits, fabulous creatures and heroes. 

CARMEN (communal art — reconceptualising metrical epigraphy network) : on carmina latina epigraphica, the Latin poetry in the epigraphic tradition ; Greek song network : on archaic and classical lyric, elegiac, iambic poetry ; Hellenica : a digital archive of Greek poetry ; MAPPOLA : Mapping out the poetic landscape(s) of the Roman Empire ; Musisque Deoque : a digital archive of Latin poetry ; Pedecerto : digital Latin metre, a program for analysing of Latin verses ; [...]

On Greek mytthology, a collaboration between researchers and students in Australia and the United States. 

... Médailles et Antiques.