I notice too that we are listed there because of the downloadable books not for the forum. It is likely that new members initially find us because of the books even if they may stay because of the forum.
@Daivid: In a representative survey of one new user (me), it turned out that a hundred percent of respondents searched for a Forum, not the books. Am I old-fashioned to prefer my books on paper?
The forum is probably now the most important thing that textkit provides. I was merely suggesting that the role of downloadable books should not be totally disregarded. For one thing, if people link to the books then we go up in the search engines and that helps people looking for the forum too.
A cutting-edge resource that will be of interest to many now and to many more in the future is the Classical Language Toolkit, cltk.org.
It’s a big project, with its goals described as:
compile analysis-friendly corpora in a variety of Classical languages (currently available for Chinese, Coptic, Greek, Latin, and Pali);
gather, improve, and generate linguistic data required for NLP (Greek and Latin are in progress, with more in the pipeline);
develop a free and open platform for generating reproducible, scientific research that advances the study of the languages and literatures of the ancient world.
I spent over a year searching for Latin and Greek texts to create a syllabus of contemporary Greek and Latin writers for a piece I was doing on Ephesians 1:3-14 (showing how Paul METERS his text). My focus was historical stuff like Tacitus, Pliny, A.Victor, etc. (even though we all have the Annals, carrying it around is cumbersome). The FASTI is really important, too.
Unfortunately, as a nubie to this forum I am not yet allowed to provide you a link to that syllabus, but if you search on my name and “Ephesians 1:3-14” and “ChronoChart” you’ll find it. The ChronoChart 1st page IS the syllabus, a bunch of links all over the web. For particular Emperors and writers, links are interspersed thereafter.
In short, it’s not the ‘classics’ in literature, but in history. The thing is 150 pages long, and I made videos showing it. You will be bored watching them, so just use the ‘ChronoChart’ links instead. NONE of that stuff is related to me. Most are links at universities or well-respected sites.
As for Greek classics, Perseus at Tufts is bar-none the easiest to use. I forget the name of the central Latin one, but it will be in the above syllabus. These are comprehensive collections, btw.
Hope this helps, yell at me if it doesn’t. Studying Ancient Rome is CRUCIAL. Bible can’t be understood, else.