Collections

Open Greek and Latin Project by various (CC BY-SA).

The ultimate goal is to represent every source text produced in Classical Greek or Latin from antiquity through the present, including texts preserved in manuscript tradition as well as on inscriptions, papyri, ostraca and other written artefacts.

Textbooks

Euripides Scholia: Scholia on Orestes 1–500  by Donald J. Mastronarde (CC BY-NC-SA).

A web and PDF version of the online edition of scholia at euripidesscholia.org, covering Release 1(2020) of the annotations on Euripides, Orestes 1–500. This version is intended for digital preservation purposes. Updates and greater functionality are available at the online site.

It’s All Greek to Me by by Charity Davenport.  (CC BY-NC-SA).

This book focuses on reading and writing. The goal of this textbook is to teach advanced students of English as a second language about American and Western culture and English vocabulary and idioms, as well as critical thinking skills. Thus, I advise not spending much effort in remembering characters’ names, place names, or irrelevant story events. Focus on how the characters and the stories have affected culture and what language we use from the characters and their stories. You may go to the instructor’s guide to find instructor-only lesson plans and materials, or find tests, answer keys, presentation topics, and upload your own materials to contribute to the site by going to the instructor companion site. [Published in 2018.]

Mythology Unbound: An Online Textbook for Classical Mythology by Jessica Mellenthin and Susan O. Shapiro (CC BY-NC-SA).

Today people often use the word “myth” to mean an untrue story or false rumor. For example, if one person asked, “Is Friday the 13th an unlucky day?” another person might answer, “No, that is just a myth.” But the ancient Greeks did not use the word mythos (μῦθος) in this way. For the Greeks, a mythos was simply a story. It was not important whether the story was true or false; what was important was the fact that the mode of speech was that of a story. The Greek word logos (λόγος), on the other hand, means a rational explanation or analytical statement. These two words, mythos and logos, point to two different kinds of speech, corresponding to two different ways of thinking. One was not considered more important than the other; they were just different. If you put the two words together: mythos + logos = mythology. And “mythology” is the explanation or the analytical study of myths.

Spectacles in the Roman World [Word File]  by Siobhán McElduff  (CC BY-NC-SA).

Spectacles in the Roman World: A Sourcebook by Siobhán McElduff (CC BY-SA)

This is a collection of primary sources on Roman games and spectacles in some of their various forms, created for a second-year undergraduate class on spectacles in Greece and Rome (this book covers the Roman section of that course) at the University of British Columbia.