Haverford Digital Commentary Library
An Aggregator of Open-Access Classical Commentaries
View Commentaries an open network for the crowd-sourcing of ancient text commentaries. This β version web application enables users to ‘crowd-source’ commentaries on ancient texts. You can construct your own… Continue reading "De Commentariis"
View Commentary A PDF of an unrevised draft of Herodotus’ Histories Book 7: Greek Text with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary by Geoffrey Steadman.
View Commentary A PDF of Herodotus Book I: Greek Text with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary by Geoffrey Steadman.
View Commentary Cyrus’ Paradise is a colloborative commentary of Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus or Cyropaedia with comments, multimedia (pictures, audio, video), bibliography, and grammatical and syntactical instruction from authorized users.
View Commentary This commentary represents an online version of the book Cicero, On Pompey’s Command (De Imperio), 27-49 by Ingo Gildenhard, Louise Hodgson, et al., published by Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, UK,… Continue reading "Cicero, On Pompey’s Command (De Imperio), 27-49"
View Commentary This commentary represents an online version of the book Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53-86. Latin Text with Introduction, Study Questions, Commentary and English Translation by Ingo Gildenhard, published by Open Book Publishers, Cambridge,… Continue reading "Cicero Against Verres 2.1.53–86"
View Commentary This commentary contains Latin text, notes, vocabulary, and media for selections from The Gallic War by Julius Caesar, intended for readers of Latin. The selections are those included on the syllabus… Continue reading "Julius Caesar, Selections from the Gallic War"
View Commentary This commentary represents an online version of the book Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary by Mathew Owen and Ingo Gildenhard, published by Open Book Publishers,… Continue reading "Tacitus, Annals 15.20-23, 33-45"
View Commentary This commentary contains a Latin text, notes, vocabulary, and media for Cornelius Nepos’ Life of Hannibal. It also includes the Prologus (preface) to Nepos’ biographies of foreign commanders.
View Commentary These brief commentariola were created for the third-semester Latin course at Haverford College, “Enemies of Rome” (LATN101), in the fall of 2016.