I ve added content to it at some point I don t know whether it would survive an AfD these days There is a Bryn Mawr review to which one could point as a secondary source Many of our articles link to the site A deletion would to me show a deficiency in our notability guidelines but other than stamping my feet I don t know how I would wikilawyer for its defense As a place where classics meets the public it was for many years almost unique and certainly pioneering I often find myself thinking how extraordinary it was for Bill Thayer who wasn t born of the cyber generation to have seized so early on the concept that the internet could make these kinds of resources available to the public and to assume a public existed for them I benefitted so much from it when my daughter was little and I was home with her and even though other resources have appeared if I want a Loeb translation I ll always prefer LacusCurtius if it s available there in the hope of some Thayer s Notes I used his texts to create my own annotated editions at a time when he was just about the only source for something like Pliny whose chapter on gemstones I may have confessed under torture before I once spent a week perusing So I have a completely addled and non neutral appreciation of LacusCurtius as if it were an astonishingly generous gift for me personally I suppose what I m saying is that there should be some historian of scholarship out there who recognizes these content pioneers Roger Pearse s Tertullian site is another who almost singlehandedly put up masses of texts when Google was a brand new toy for the masses and who understood instinctively how to add functionality online in ways we take for granted now and if nobody s bothered to write up this kind of history of the web for traditional humanities yet then it needs to be done They re like Cahill s Irish monks saving civilization or at least helping morph it along Incidentally our article History of Google strangely lacks a sociological component almost entirely as if one were describing the growth of a widget maker instead of a revolution in how information is sought and acquired I shall begin loin girding to defend LacusCurtius at once should the need arise This site regards it as one of the best loved and most heavily used online resources for Classics research along with Perseus which I ll do almost anything to avoid using though it doesn t load as slowly as it used to and sometimes I can even coax it to offer up text by the book instead of paragraph Now you ll be looking for things just to get me to ramble dodderingly rather than writing about the legal status of various humans under the Roman Empire as I am sworn to