For those who haven’t found it already, Perseus is a great site.
Here is their table of contents http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html
They have one of the biggest, if not the biggest collection of Greek and Latin texts on the web in the original and in translation.
One option is to use the SP Ionic font we use for Greek here on textkit. Choose it in the third box on the left on this page.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/dispconf?url=morphindex%3Flang%3Dgreek<br />
The texts come broken up into bite-sized pieces, very handy if the thought of a whole book is too daunting. If you want longer pieces you can change the size of the chunks – just look about half way down the left hand column.
If you get stuck on a word, you can usually click it and a pop up window will analyse the form for you and give the basic dictionary meaning.
From this page, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform , you can look up words in the dictionary. Just enter the dictionary form and choose whether you want to look it up in the Latin or Greek dictionary.
If you are translating into Greek or Latin, you can search the dictionaries for entries containing the English word you want:
Greek: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/enggreek?lang=greek<br />Latin: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/enggreek?lang=la<br />
Another very useful feature is the morphological analysers for those times when you can’t work out just what grammatical form you’ve got in front of you.
Greek: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/morphindex?lang=greek<br />Latin: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/morphindex?lang=la<br />
There are lots of other useful features. Try them all out.
Wow, that is a neat site! I had never really visited it before, although I’m vaguely familiar with the name…I’m not sure from where.
Keesa
Thanks, Bingley, I’m finally getting the hang of Perseus.
Perseus has been my primary source for greek literatures.
The home site gets sometimes unavailable due to some kind of maintenance and it’s handy to know a couple of mirror sites, too:
http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
http://perseus.uchicago.edu
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk
Perseus is the Rome of online classics - great site with an unmatched collection of text and very impressive tools.