Newsgroups: alt.etext From: dell@wiretap.spies.com (Thomas Dell) Subject: [sci.classics] Classics FTP sites Message-ID: Organization: The Internet Wiretap Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 21:56:31 GMT Newsgroups: sci.classics From: jsruebel@iastate.edu (James S Ruebel) Subject: Classics FTP Sites Message-ID: Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 23:40:56 GMT Lines: 150 Anonymous FTP Sites November 1, 1993 From J. Ruebel Repositories of Classical Texts or Publications ---------------------------------- NO CHANGES FROM OCTOBER 1 INTRODUCTION The number of electronically available texts or journals available in Classics is growing exponentially. A list of "anonymous FTP" sites and resources should be part of the developing Classics_FAQ file; until that file is updated, I offer this modest repository of individual knowledge. I will update this file regularly, and post it to this newsgroup during the first week of each month unless someone tells me to shut up or to stand aside for a better list. I would be grateful for additional information or updated information about these. Please e-mail me directly, and redundancy is no detriment. I will confine initial publications of this list to information about "core" Classics: texts and/or journals relating to Greek and Roman antiquity, and authors who wrote in Greek or Latin. All sources listed here have been tested and "work". See end of file for false trails. SITE ADDRESSES The Classics FAQ Itself: ftp rtfm.mit.edu under pub/usenet/news.answers/classics-faq The most recent edition is September 8, 1993 Latin Texts: ftp ftp.u.washington.edu under pub/user-supported/libellus/texts Under /libellus/commentaries, there are plans for annotations (some are now available) ftp wiretap.spies.com under Library/Classic may be found Dryden's translation of the Aeneid. (soon, Jowett's _Republic_ [Plato].) It also mirrors the Latin texts of Vergil from the U of Washington (above) under /Library/Classic/Vergil. This site has a very large number of e-texts in English: retrieve or read the file FEATURES in the /About directory. Also accessible via gopher. Classical Journals: * American Journal of Philology * Arethusa (and all other Johns Hopkins journals): -- indexes and lists of forthcoming articles ftp jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu under pub/JHU_Press/zjournals * Bryn Mawr Classical Review: ftp gopher.lib.virginia.edu under pub/alpha/bmcr An updated index is maintained in this directory; individual volumes are kept in directories labeled v1, v2, v3, etc. * Electronic Antiquity (a.k.a The Electronic Agora) ftp ftp.utas.edu.au under departments/classics/antiquity This repository is also available by gopher, at info.utas.edu.au: open Publications, then open Electronic Antiquity * TAPA (Transactions of the American Philological Association): ftp ccat.sas.upenn.edu under pub/TAPA This site also has slide images, but it not clear how to get them or whether in fact the general public is allowed to get them. (pub/slides) !! WARNING: some of the files in this archive had for a while contained upper-ASCII or non-ASCII characters, which had a nasty effect on a PC screen. Some of these may now have been "fixed", i.e., had ASCII transcriptions substituted. I have not yet checked this. Journal Index / Tables of Contents: TOCS-IN Current tables of contents of over 70 journals of interest to classicists. Indexed files are grouped by philology (CLA), archaeology (ARCH), miscellaneous (MISC) and religious and Near Eastern Studies] (RLNE). ftp epas.utoronto.ca under pub/tocs-in Retrieve the file inform.toc for description of how to use this lovely resource. (See also APA Newsletter, June 1993, p.5) The Georgetown Catalogue Project for Electronic Texts has a directory of electronic text projects in the humanities. The catalogs are available by language and subject. ... Anonymous FTP as follows: ftp guvax.georgetown.edu under /cpet_projects_in_electronic_text NOTE!! : This database is also accessible via TELNET, by which the archive is *much* more straightforward, and *much* simpler to use. Access by: TELNET guvax3.georgetown.edu and enter CPET when prompted for your user name. The Oxford Text Archive (Greek and Latin texts and a few translations, with restrictions on redistribution) ftp black.ox.ac.uk under /ota This archive is neither simple nor straightforward to use, and in many cases will also not be free of charge. Retrieve the README file and the file "textar- chives.information". A catalog can be retrieved as well, "textarchives.list", but you need the .information file to interpret it. FOOTNOTE: On TELNET, there is now a central information server for historians: a full text document archive, access to worldwide gophers, etc. This server is called HNSOURCE and may be reached by using TELNET (not FTP) to hnsource.cc.ukans.edu. Log on to the system as "history"; no password is required. See also above, under ftp for the Georgetown Catalogue Project for Electronic Texts. FALSE TRAILS: The Classics_FAQ lists nic.funet.fi as an anonymous FTP source for the (Latin) shortwave broadcasts of Radio Finland, in the directory pub/dx. But I have found just one unpromising file in the whole archive, and that one is rather old. It is: pub/dx/text/schedules/old/rfinland.latin.txt The FUNET archive will allow a keyword search using either FIND or QUOTE FIND (depending on your FTP server). (There are also a few files that appear to be "latin" *fonts* or character sets for their emacs editor, i.e., false trails.) -- J. Ruebel jsruebel@iastate.edu