6 Computer Readable Materials (Classical Studies)
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This article is from the Classical Studies FAQ, by Richard M. Alderson III alderson@netcom2.netcom.com with numerous contributions by others.
6 Computer Readable Materials (Classical Studies)
There are several institutions that offer electronic versions of classics works
and texts. They have varying quality and varying restrictions on their use.
Those known of are listed here.
Freely redistributable versions of various Latin texts, including all of
Vergil, Catullus, and Tibullus, and selections from Cicero, Caesar, Horace, and
others, are available from the Project Libellus archive at the University of
Washington, Seattle. These can be had, in TeX form, by anonymous FTP from host
ftp.u.washington.edu, directory /public/libellus/texts; some commentaries and
other support files (including a TeX-to-ASCII converter for the texts) are
contained in the other subdirectories of /public/libellus. These texts and
support files are also available, in a variety of formats (TeX, ASCII, RTF,
PostScript) through an experimental E-mail server, for those who do not have
Internet access; for more information about this service, send mail to
libellus@u.washington.edu with "help" in the message body. Send comments,
questions, etc. to perseant@u.washington.edu.
The Georgetown Catalogue Project for Electronic Texts have a directory of
electronic text projects in the humanities. The catalogues are available by
language and subject, and are available for anonymous FTP from
guvax.georgetown.edu:cpet_projects_in_electronic_text.
The Library at Dartmouth have a huge database containing and concerning "La
Commedia". To use it, telnet to
library.dartmouth.edu
and type
connect dante
Lectures by Robert Hollander on Dante are available for anonymous FTP in
ccat.sas.upenn.edu:/pub/recentiores named BARLOW.README, BARLOW.1, BARLOW.2 and
BARLOW.3.
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