The Database of Classical and Christian Literature offers a collection of references to editions, translations and commentaries of ancient Greek and Latin literature between the eighth century BC and the sixth century AD. In addition to critical editions of the ancient texts, translations and commentaries in the most common modern languages (English, German, Italian, Spanish, etc.) are listed. The database collects both printed publications and those available online, guiding the user as quickly as possible to the printed publication on the library shelf via WorldCat or to the online medium. This database, named after Gaius Asinius Pollio (76 BC – AD 5), considered to be the founder of the first public library in Rome, is available open access and aims to provide an easy-to-use and widely linked tool for classical studies. By this, we would like to support study and research in Ancient history, Classics, Archaeology and Patristics in their daily work with ancient literature.
So far, over 500 authors and 2500 ancient works have been catalogued. The scope of the database is continually being expanded and the services it provides improved. At present, the collection is limited to Greek and Latin literature, but will be expanded to include ancient Christian literature in Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, etc. The collection of references to editions, translations and commentaries is an own compilation, using bibliographic data from k10plus and the Hellenic and Roman Library London as well as the GND (Integrated Authority File Germany) and Wikidata. As we are dealing with a lot of bibliographic data from various library catalogues, the data is not entirely checked by hand. We welcome all suggestions and ideas for further improvement. For contact use the formula on the right side of this page.