The Oxford Classical Dictionary (electronic edition)

All those years ago sitting in the school library and consulting the volume of The Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD). I could hardly, even in my wildest science-fiction dreams (not that I would ever daydream in the school library of course), have imagined some kind of system whereby the pushing of various buttons would bring up the text on a screen. What has actually transpired today, of course – and heaven knows where it will all end – is in some ways even more extraordinary: not just the one standard reference book on a screen but countless others in...