Is there any easy way to find out what your choices are for a particular text (with or without commentary)?
You usually know you can get a Loeb, but what else can you get? Right now I’m looking for a text of Polybius but I’m not sure how to establish what the possibilities are. Is there any quick way? Even if you search on amazon, it is not clear what to search for. Polybius alone gives too many results. Polybius Greek leaves out some stuff. Yada yada yada. And to make matters worse, I’d almost prefer non English commentaries.
I’ve linked to this a couple times, suppose I should propose it for the resources thread as it’s helpful and most people don’t seem to know about it.
The Joint Association of Classical Teachers in the UK has a “good text guide” here: http://www.jact.org/publications/goodtext/goodtextguide.php
The idea is to provide a comprehensive list of available texts & commentaries of classical authors, oriented towards the needs of students rather than already experienced scholars. I’m not sure how complete it is (I didn’t see Polybius right off hand), and I think it’s limited to English-language commentaries, but it’s the only “go to” site for multiple authors that I know of.