EAGLE: Europeana Network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Making the Ancient Inscriptions Accessible

Abstract

EAGLE is a project whose principal aim is to bring together the most prominent European institutions and archives in the field of Classical Latin and Greek epigraphy in order to provide a single free user-friendly portal to the inscriptions of the Ancient World. Financed by the European Commission, EAGLE was born to endow Europeana, the European digital library, with a comprehensive collection of unique historical sources. EAGLE will thus provide access to the majority of the surviving inscriptions of the ancient Greco-Roman world – a massive resource and a veritable pillar of European culture, made accessible for the first time to everyone, from the curious to the scholar.