For years, the best collection of searchable texts from Latin antiquity was the Packard Humanities Institute PHI CD-ROM #5.3, available in the Digital Humanities Center in 305 Butler. Getting these texts available online was the Holy Grail of digital classics research. But now the Grail is at hand, as the Latin texts from PHI 3.5 […]
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Magna vis veritas
Inscribed atop the arched marble doorway inside the Butler Reference Room are the words MAGNA VIS VERITAS. The phrase is taken from chapter 26 of a work by the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Pro Caelio Rufo (sometimes rendered merely, Pro Caelio). This speech was delivered in 56 BCE, on behalf of a life-long friend, a […]
New resources: Brill’s Jacoby and the SEG
The Libraries have added two new items to our collection of resources for Classics and Ancient History: Brill’s New Jacoby Online and the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Brill’s New Jacoby Online is a new edition of the 856 fragmentary histories that comprise F. Jacoby’s monumental Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker Parts I-III, but with significant additions. […]