Haverford Digital Commentary Library
An Aggregator of Open-Access Classical Commentaries
These commentaries contain a Latin text, introductory essay, notes, and vocabulary for two poems by John Parke: “On Colonel John Haselet, Who Fell at Princeton” and “Praise of Horace”. It was… Continue reading "Two Poems by John Parke"
This commentary contains a Latin text, introductory essay, notes, and vocabulary for James Ross’ “Three Poets in Three Ages, Interpretatio Latina.” It was created by S. Chu in Haverford’s Postclassical Latin… Continue reading "James Ross’ “Three Poets in Three Ages, Interpretatio Latina”"
These intermediate-level commentaries contains a Latin text, notes and vocabulary for two poems by Philadelphia-area poet John Carey: “I have found out a gift for my fair…” and “On the Fifteen… Continue reading "Two Latin Poems by John Carey"
This intermediate-level commentary includes an introduction to the author and the work, the Latin text, vocabulary, and notes for John Lawrence’s “Oratio” delivered in Philadelphia in 1768. It was created… Continue reading "John Lawrence, Oratio, sive Sermo Academicus"
This intermediate-level Latin commentary contains the Latin text of two sections of Thomas Makin’s poem (1-28 and 211–236) , English notes and a non-core vocabulary list, along with an introductory essays placing… Continue reading "Thomas Makin, Descriptio Pennsylvaniae"
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 the 1st edition of Euripides’ Medea: Greek Text with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary by Geoffrey Steadman.
View Commentary A PDF of Sophocles’ Oedipus : Greek Text with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary by Geoffrey Steadman.
View Commentary A PDF of Sophocles’ Antigone: Greek Text with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary by Geoffrey Steadman.
View Commentary A PDF of Odyssey 9-12 Commentary, 2nd edition by Geoffrey Steadman.