From: abosse@reed.edu
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Classics available?
Keywords: classics
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:09:42 GMT
Reply-To: abosse@reed.edu

In article <1992Sep3.211754.12789@cs.cornell.edu> allan@cs.cornell.edu  
(James Allan) writes:
> Does anyone know of any internet facilities that would be useful to
> someone studying classics (greek and latin)?  I'm trying to convince a
> friend that there is advantage to using the net, and something like
> that would be an added incentive (she's a classics prof).  I suppose
> that would include mailing lists, newsgroups, or on-line texts.
> 
> Thanks.

There are a number of interesting resources - typically databases and  
listervs/mailing lists. A few 'Greek' related mailing lists are mentioned  
below (by no means an exhaustive catalogue!):

IOUDAIOS	IOUDAIOS@YORKVM1.BITNET	LISTSERV@YORKVM1.BITNET	First  
Century Judaism Discussion Forum	
Veronica Timm <VERONICA@YORKVM1.BITNET>	

IOUDAIOS (Greek for"Jew") is an electronic seminar devoted to the  
exploration of first-century Judaism; its special interest is in the  
writings of Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus. The list began as an  
informal discussion of two papers by Robert A. Kraft (Pennsylvania) but  
quickly blossomed into an international forum.

Greek	NT-GREEK@VIRGINIA.EDU	NT-GREEK-REQUEST@VIRGINIA.EDU 
New Testament Greek Studies Conference	
David John Marotta <djm5g@virginia.edu>	

NT-GREEK is an electronic conference designed to foster communication  
concerning the scholarly study of the Greek New Testament.  Anyone  
interested in New Testament Studies is invited to subscribe, but the list  
will assume at least a working knowledge of Biblical Greek. The list is  
sponsored by the the Center for Christian Study, an independent Christian  
ministry at the University of Virginia.

Greek Tex	ELLHNIKA@DHDURZ1.BITNET	LISTSERV@DHDURZ1.BITNET
Yannis Haralambous <YANNIS@FRCITL81.BITNET>	

Languages of the list are English and Greek (Modern please!!). It would be  
appreciated if you use Silvio Levy's transliteration for Greek, as long as  
no other transliteration has been fixed. If you have to use a different  
one, please precise the correspondences at top of the message. The list is  
intended for  linguists of any origin having to typeset ancient Greek, as  
well as for people using Greek as their everyday's language.

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etc etc..

(A good trick is to request a REVIEW command from the listserver for that  
group - that way you can see if your colleagues or other 'stars in the  
academic firmanent!' are already subscribed...)

Another excellent mailing list (if you only subscribe to one, then to this  
one) is HUMANIST...

HUMANIST@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU LISTSERV@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
HUMANIST Discussion		

HUMANIST is an international electronic discussion group for computing
Humanists and for those who support the application of computers to  
scholarship in the humanities.  It currently consists of nearly 300  
members in 13 countries in North America, Europe, and the Near East.   
Relevant topics are technical questions about hardware and software...

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Other useful internet resources include online libraries access (from the  
Library of Congress to the University of California) and etext sites, such  
as the Oxford Text Archive, which has electronic text compilations of, for  
instance, the Septuagint or the Vulgate.. and many many more titels..

There are also true online resources such as the Bryn Mawr Classical  
Review mentioned by Jonathan Magid in an earlier posting.

If people are sufficiently interested in getting more help & references, I  
can dump some files onto the newsgroup...I used to be an avid collector of  
all such information, but then I graduated and got a job! Sigh...how I  
wish I was working on my undergraduate thesis again...

best regards,

Arno Bosse
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