Free resources

Classicists can find a lot of websites on the www with useful materials for Latin and ancient Greek teaching. We have selected only some of these sites as essential resources but we are happy to hear your views and add to this list where appropriate.

Texts – Latin

A.L.I.M. (Medieval Italian Latinitas Archive) is a university consortium which maintains a library in which there are Latin works from XI to XIII century.
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana is one of the most important libraries in the world with a huge number of resources.
Biblioteca Augustana is a library of writers and anonymous works, directly on-line or with access through web links.
Epigraphic Datab ase Roma (EDR) is a database of epigraphic texts.
FORUM ROMANUM includes a corpus of Latin texts, also in translation.
The Gutenberg Project has since 1971 sought to provide a free distribution of texts, including those from classical authors such as Virgil, Lucretius and Apuleius.
INTRATEXT DI GITAL LIBRARY is a project from Eulogos (www.eulogos.net) which contains about 700 authors and 4,000 works.
Poeti d’Italia in lingua latina tra Medioevo e Rinascimento is a site dedicated to Italian works in Latin from the XIII and XVI century.
Progetto Manuzio is an important library in which you can find and download the most important Italian translations of the Iliad of V. Monti, the Odyssey of I. Pindemonte and the Aeneid of A. Caro.
The Latin Library is a very good source of Latin texts online.
Read Me is an Italian site which presents over 4000 texts in which you can find a good selection of classical works.
Calendario Romano is an interestinga and usefull website with information on the Roman Calendar and on festivities in Roman antiquety.
The Perseus Project is a very important source of Latin texts online. If you are looking for a Latin text, need a translation or a dictionary, or want to have words morphologically analysed, visit the site at either the link above or at this link.

Translations – Latin

FORUM RO MANUM is a project which distributes Latin texts, also in translation, and various resources about Roman culture.
Progetto Manuzio is an important library in which you can find and download the most important Italian translations of the Iliad of V. Monti, the Odyssey of I. Pindemonte and the Aeneid of A. Caro.

Latin language learning tools (vocabulary, morphology and syntax)

Correct pronunciations of ancient languages

Ostraca is written by Luisa Cocci, a teacher in the Lyceum, Convitto Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II, Napoli), who has written about Latin pronunciation .

Grammar and Syntax

ARISTARC HUS is a project of the Dipartimento di Archeologia e Filologia Classica dell’Università di Genova, which offers users a lot of useful tools about Classics.
Cibernautica dell'antico is edited by Luciano Stupazzini as an exhaustive guide in the Italian language to classical sites on the world wide web.
CYBERLATINUS SITUS is an grammar project based on hypertext links with clear and complete schemes in Latin learning.
Ciberteca is an electronic archive for classical languages, a virtual institute from 1999: the aim of the site is to preserve and promote Latin and Greek (members only, registration required – at http://members.it.tripod.de/latinogreco).
Engramma was born as a project of University Ca' Foscari in Venice. Not only is this a double version, in Italian and English, but there is also a Latin version!
The Grammatica Project is very useful in the didactic field, making materials for Latin and Greek available online. There are online sections about phonetics and morphology (members only, registration required – at h ttp://members.it.t ripod.de/latinogreco/grammati ca.html ).
Latinonline hosts a lot of materials, very useful for both students and teachers. In addition, a site for students, created by students can be found at http://www.latine.net/home/default.asp.
Latino Vivo is edited by Enrica Ciabatti and contains many exercises on Latin and Greek. It also has a final testing section, called Ariadne's thread, at http://www.latinovivo.com/arianna1.htm.
Nuntius prolingua latina is a site for all enthusiasts of speaking Latin! There is a very interesting Lexicon section and an online dictionary for the Latin language.
Telemaco presents a complete list of classical research, tools, courses, software, etc, in various sections. The work online of Bologna University Classics Department with the European project "Telemachus" seeks to consider wide-ranging matters of our classical heritage. It has been edited and constructed by Alessandro Cristofori, as a most important site dedicated to ICT and Classics. Also http://www.economia.unibo.it/dipartim/stoant/rassegna1/intro.html.
Verbum considers didactic problems in introducing technology into teaching and contains various materials such as tests, examples, guides in analysis and translations of original texts for Latin and Greek.
www- latino provides information about Latin morphology and syntax. There are integral didactic units and a good selection of original texts by authors such as Caesar, Catullus and Phaedrus with Italian translations, also downloadable in Word format.

Image databases – Roman  

Google images is a good place to find images of all kinds of subjects. Watch out for copyright issues, however!

Internet Guides –Latin

Guida alla civiltà latina su Internet provides a full set of details about Internet resources for classicists in 2 guides, published in 2002 by IRRE Emilia Romagna, downloadable in .pdf format. The guides are:

Guida alla civiltà latina su Internet (edited by Fabia Zanasi) 5.34 MB
Guida al greco antico su Internet (edited by Luciano Stupazzini) 4.11 MB

These guides, a great mine of information, are the most complete and accurate available: divided in chapters they discuss what the Internet and the WWW are, how to use the Internet in teaching, what are the most useful URLs, how to prepare thematic paths in Latin and Greek teaching (eg, historical, epigraphical), lists of museums and libraries, everything teachers need! 

Online magazines - Latin

Aquileia Nostra carries epigraphic news, an online version of "Aquileia Nostra", edited by the University of Trieste. It is very important for discoveries of Latin inscriptions, recent and not so recent.
Arachnion has been online from 1995, edited at the University of Torino by Italo Lana and Emanuele Narducci, giving details about the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae project and software for Latin and Greek.
Docere is the didactic magazine of Vivarium Novum Accademy & Centrum Latinitatis .
Notes carries archaeological news, edited by Antonio Guerreschi of Ferrara University. Various sections include palaeolithic, mesolithic and neolithic and successive periods, providing studies and details about new publications.
Pomoerium is the magazine of “ Studia et commentarii ad orbem classicum spectantia”.
Zetesis has separate sections on classical texts, materials and themes. Very useful for teachers is the Sevenpoints (Settepunti) section. This lists points of Greek and Latin syntax in which the most difficult things for students are made clear. Readers can contribute with personal contributions to this magazine, concerning matters of interest connected with the ancient world.

Roman Archaeology (museums and sites)

Capitolium offers a good photo gallery, three-dimensional reconstructions of Rome and interesting texts about daily life in ancient Rome. In English and Italian.
Edscuola Resources has a list of archaelogical and historical resources in Italy.
Pompei is the site of Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, with a good photo gallery about the archaeology of the Vesuvius area. In English and Italian.

Texts – ancient Greek

Biblioteca Augustana is a library of writers and anonymous works, directly on-line or with access through Web links.
Read Me is an Italian site which presents over 4000 texts in which you can find a good selection of classical works.
Thesaurus Lin guae Graecae is hosted by the University of California, Irvine and allows for research of Greek texts. Short passages can be taken from the site for students to analyse and translate. In order to gain access to the free database, click on Try out the Online TLG®. The abridged version offers the same opportunities of research as the complete one; it allows students to work on a representative selection of texts.
The Perseus Project is a very important source of Greek texts online. If you are looking for a Greek text, need a translation or a dictionary, or want to have words morphologically analysed, visit the site at either the link above or at this link.

Translations – ancient Greek

Progetto Manuzio is an important library in which you can find and download the most important Italian translations of the Iliad of V. Monti, the Odyssey of I. Pindemonte and the Aeneid of A. Caro.

Ancient Greek language learning tools (vocabulary, morphology and syntax)

Correct pronunciations of ancient languages

Ostraca is written by Luisa Cocci, a teacher in the Lyceum, Convitto Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II, Napoli), who has written about ancient Greek pronunciation .

Grammar and Syntax

ARISTARCHUS is a project of the Dipartimento di Archeologia e Filologia Classica dell’Università di Genova, which offers users a lot of useful tools about Classics.
Cibernautica dell'antico is edited by Luciano Stupazzini as an exhaustive guide in the Italian language to classical sites on the world wide web.
Ciberteca is an electronic archive for classical languages, a virtual institute from 1999: the aim of the site is to preserve and promote Latin and Greek (members only, registration required – at http://members.it.tripod.de/latinogreco).
The Grammatica Project is very useful in the didactic field, making materials for Latin and Greek available online. There are online sections about phonetics and morphology (members only, registration required – at http://members.it.tripod.de/latinogreco/grammatica.html ).
Greek grammar is a website still under construction, dedicated to Greek grammar: at present this work contains only sections on phonetics and morphology. (members only, registration required – at http://members.it.tripod.de/latinogreco/grammgr/grammgr.html)
Telemaco presents a complete list of classical research, tools, courses, software, etc, in various sections. The work online of Bologna University Classics Department with the European project "Telemachus" seeks to consider wide-ranging matters of our classical heritage. It has been edited and constructed by Alessandro Cristofori, as a most important site dedicated to ICT and Classics. Also http://www.economia.unibo.it/dipartim/stoant/rassegna1/intro.html.
Verbum considers didactic problems in introducing technology into teaching and contains various materials such as tests, examples, guides in analysis and translations of original texts for Latin and Greek.

Image databases – Greek

Google images is a good place to find images of all kinds of subjects. Watch out for copyright issues, however!
The Perseus Project is a very important image database online. If you are looking for pictures of Greek sites or artefacts, visit the site at either the link above or at this link.

Internet Guides – Greek

Guida alla civiltà latina su Internet provides a full set of details about Internet resources for classicists in 2 guides, published in 2002 by IRRE Emilia Romagna, downloadable in .pdf format. The guides are:

Guida alla civiltà latina su Internet (edited by Fabia Zanasi) 5.34 MB
Guida al greco antico su Internet (edited by Luciano Stupazzini) 4.11 MB

These guides, a great mine of information, are the most complete and accurate available: divided in chapters they discuss what the Internet and the WWW are, how to use the Internet in teaching, what are the most useful URLs, how to prepare thematic paths in Latin and Greek teaching (eg, historical, epigraphical), lists of museums and libraries, everything teachers need!

Online magazines – Greek

Arachnion has been online from 1995, edited at the University of Torino by Italo Lana and Emanuele Narducci, giving details about the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae project and software for Latin and Greek.
ocere is the didactic magazine of Vivarium Novum Accademy & Centrum Latinitatis .
Notes carries archaeological news, edited by Antonio Guerreschi of Ferrara University. Various sections include palaeolithic, mesolithic and neolithic and successive periods, providing studies and details about new publications.
omoerium is the magazine of “ Studia et commentarii ad orbem classicum spectantia”.
Zetesis has separate sections on classical texts, materials and themes. Very useful for teachers is the Sevenpoints (Settepunti) section. This lists points of Greek and Latin syntax in which the most difficult things for students are made clear. Readers can contribute with personal contributions to this magazine, concerning matters of interest connected with the ancient world.

Greek Archaeology (museums and sites)

Edscuola Resources has a list of archaelogical and historical resources.
The Metis Project offers a photo gallery about the Acropolis in Athens and the most important archaeological sites in Greece.

Civilisation

ARISTARCHUS is a project of the Dipartimento di Archeologia e Filologia Classica dell’Università di Genova, which offers users a lot of useful tools about Classics.

Commercial resources

Internet Guides – Latin and Greek  

http://www.guaraldi.it/
On this editorial house website, two new guides are found (not for free download but as commercial products), published in 2003/2004, edited by Guaraldi. These guides offer an ICT and Classics updated panorama with a selected list of resources open to technical systems in Latin and ancient Greek teaching.

Weni Widi Wici, tra Volumen e byte, (by R. Danese), paper guide and floppy disk (the editor can supply in .pdf format by email).

Kubernetes, il Greco classico in rete,(by R. Danese), paper guide and floppy disk (the editor can supply in .pdf format by email).

Teaching Classics

Associations for classical teachers

CLILC , Coordinamento Ligure Insegnanti di Lingue Classiche, Genova
Classics Teachers Association in Liguria. Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Rassegna Associazioni is an important list of Classics Associations all over the world, published by A. Cristofori.
AICC (Associazione Italiana Cultura Classica):
Delegazione di Arezzo
Delegazione di Como
Delegazione di Sassari
Delegazione di Torino

CLE, Centrum Latinitatis Europae. An organisation founded in Aquileia (UD) in 1999 as a research centre aimed at safecarding the work of prof. Franz Weissengruber, Latinist and ancient greek specialst who died in 1998. Rainer Weissengruber, sun of the famous professor, is the coördinator of the centre. In Italy there are some twenty local CLE contact points.  But the organisation is also active on a European level: Athens (Greece), Berlin (Germany), Linz (Austria) en Lódź (Poland). More information (statutes, materials, didactic studies en Latin texts) on: http://www.centrumlatinitatis.org/

Teachers’ pages

Emanuele Narducci is a professor of Latin Literature in Florence University. The site focuses on ICT and Humanistic studies.
Licia Landi is a Classics teacher in Verona. Her site ‘Tecnologie didattiche ed educative (per gli insegnamenti linguistici e letterari)’ focuses on ICT and Humanistic studies.

University pages

A.L.I.M. (Medieval Italian Latinitas Archive) is a university consortium which maintains a library in which there are Latin works from XI to XIII century.
ARISTARCHUS is a project of the Dipartimento di Archeologia e Filologia Classica dell’Università di Genova, which offers users a lot of useful tools about Classics.
Centro Ricerche Informatiche per i Beni Culturali is a site dedicated to ICT, as applied to humanistic disciplines, especially ancient languages.
Epigraphic Database Roma(EDR) is a database of epigraphic texts.
Poeti d’Italia in lingua latina tra Medioevo e Rinascimento is a site dedicated to Italian works in Latin from the XIII and XVI century.

Discussion groups, fora, newsletter, mailinglist, chat

Certamen Ciceronianum Locu torium is a chat group for Latin language & culture.
Circulus Latinus Panormitanus Locut orium is a chat group exclusively in Latin.
Grex latine loquen tium is a Latin only mailing-list (email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
it.cultura .classica is a newsgroup moderated by M.Manca (email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )
Italian Perseus Project is a discussion group about Perseus. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it '; document.write( '' ); document.write( addy_text70429 ); document.write( '<\/a>' ); //-->\n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Latin chat-L is a Latin Chat group.
Latinhelp is a help mailing-list for Latin beginners.
LatinitasViva is a discussion group and mailing-list moderated by S. Rocca. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Latino_ontheNet is a mailing-list moderated by V.Todisco (Latin teacher).

Training for Classics teachers

ICT for Classics course (from 2002) – SSIS Cagliari http://www.ssiscagliari.it/

Government bodies and Examination Boards

About becoming a classics teacher in Italy

MIUR (Ministero dell’Istruzione e della Ricerca): http://www.istruzione.it/