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Digital collections of Greek National Library include:
(Greek)
Online Collection of the Greek General State Archives.
(facsimiles; English)
In addition to a 30.000 book lending library, the Foundation boasts a Historical Library with some 350.000 titles, including large numbers of incunabula and ancient texts. Works are translated online, with a map pointing to their origin, and can be searched via title, place or author.
(English interface)
Online database of ancient sources
Compiled by LacusCurtius
(original texts with some English and Italian translation)
Online collection of ancient Greek inscriptions, categorized by region
From the Packard Humanities Institute
(Greek transcriptions)
Major collections through Fordham University.
(Transcriptions)
"Now it gives us great pleasure to welcome you ... to the digital Loeb Classical Library, and to invite you to enjoy its Greek and Latin texts alongside English translations, in the familiar ways and in surprisingly new ones."
(Greek, Latin and English)
The FHG consists of a survey of excerpts from many different sources pertaining to 636 ancient Greek fragmentary historians. Excluding the first volume, authors are chronologically distributed... Almost every Greek fragment is translated or summarized into Latin.
(6th century BC-7th century AD)
100 handwritten Greek manuscripts, including a papyrus scroll from 2000 BC
From the SLUB Dresden Collection
(pre-15th century; German interface with Greek facsimiles)
An overview of Greek life in ancient Athens and Sparta.
An online project of the British Museum.
(Antiquity; facsimiles of artifacts along with commentaries and teaching tools)
Including fragments of Anaxagoras, Anaximader, Empedocles, and other Presocratics.
From the Hanover Historical Texts Collection
(about 5th century BC)
Karl Müller's compilation of Greek geographical works.
See also, Claudii Ptolemaei geographia
(Latin; eBook)
Collection of ancient Greek historians.
(Latin; facsimile)
From Suda Online
(English translations included)
Ancient, Greek and Roman history in translation.
(English-language transcriptions)
Greek page of the World Documents Library.
(photos; facsimiles)
Found on the The Perseus Digital Library
Including translated text, secondary sources and museum photography.
(Greek and Latin transcriptions and English translations)
(641-867; Relational databases of personal data)
(1025-1150; Relational databases of personal data)
The premier portal for electronic resources on Greek Studies
More than 250,000 pages representing over 150 years of research from over 1,000 scholars of ancient and modern Greece
(Mainly French-language facsimiles)
Database of interviews with Jewish people from Greece.
Includes facsimiles of official documents.
Explore the database by family name, city.
Advanced search here.
(photos, English transcriptions, Greek, Spanish, German, and French facsimiles)
Greek-to-German translations of ancient inscriptions.
The collection of Occidental manuscripts of the time from the 6th to the 20th century includes around 38,000 codices, among them predominantly 17,000 Latin and 13,000 German manuscripts, but also more than 1,000 French ones, 950 Italian ones, 650 Greek ones, 145 Spanish and Portuguese ones and 124 Slavic ones.
From Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
(6-20th century; facsimiles; English interface)
Map of the Balkans as they were newly organized at the end of World War I, after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
(1918; zoomable map)
Collection of historical maps of Greece.
(facsimiles)
Collection of historical maps of Europe.
(facsimiles; Hungarian)
Includes honorary inscriptions, letters, statue dedications and epitaphs
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(photographs; Greek with English translation

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