Collections

Open Greek and Latin Project (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 (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.

Greek and Latin Roots: Part I – Latin (CC BY 4.0)

This book, originally published as a course manual by author Dr. Peter Smith in 1998, was published open-access in digital format in 2016. Dr. Brendan Burke writes in the forward of the digital textbook that, “The open-access publication of this book in digital format, freely available, follows very much in character with Peter’s efforts to enrich the educational life of students of British Columbia. This book serves as a lasting memorial to one of the University of Victoria’s most revered teachers and friends.” Part I of the book covers Latin material.

Greek and Latin Roots: Part II – Greek (CC BY 4.0)

Part II – shorter in length, but no less challenging – deals with Greek.

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

Spectacles in the Roman World: A Sourcebook (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.