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Essentials for Your Studies

Online

  • Oxford Classical Dictionary Online
    Continuously updated encyclopaedia on all aspects of classical antiquity. 5th ed. 2016. See here for its list of abbreviations of both scholarly journals and classical works (or download this PDF).
  • L’ Année Philologique
    Main index to the scholarship of classical studies published in all languages in both books and journals since 1924. This is an essential tool for finding further reading in Classics & Archaeology.
  • Gnomon Bibliographische Datenbank
    Similar in function to L’Année Philologique, the online Gnomon database is an important index of classical studies in books, journals, chapters and so forth. It is in German but can be switched to English at the top-right of the homepage. Enter keywords into the ‘general search’ function to find suggested reading relating to the topic of your search.
  • Oxford Bibliographies: Classics
    Annotated bibliographies of the most recent and authoritative classical scholarship.
  • Loeb Classical Library
    Online access to all the in-print volumes of this major series of Greek and Latin texts with facing translations.
  • Handbook for Classical Research. By David M. Schaps, 2010.
  • Oxford Companion to Archaeology. Edited by Brian M. Fagan, 1996.
  • Cambridge Companions: Classics
    Collections of essays by leading scholars on major topics in Classics presented in downloadable PDF chapters.(Ideally this link would take you to a separate page that linked to each of the volumes of the Cambridge Companions relevant to Classics; for the time being, Classics remains group with Literature in general)
  • Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece & Rome
    Or in Library at Classmark: DE 59 BIS
  • Who’s Who in the Classical World
  • Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)
  • Archaeology in Greece Online (Chronique des fouilles en ligne)
    Topographical database with a mapping feature to locate field projects within sites and regions. It provides information about the latest archaeological discoveries in Greece and Cyprus.
  • Perseus Digital Library
    Texts of the major Greek and Latin authors linked to dictionaries, English translations and commentaries. Also includes an Art & Archaeology Artefact Browser. Try the Scaife Viewer, Perseus’ new text interface.
  • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
    Texts of Greek literature from Homer (8th century BCE) to the fall of Constantinople (1453 CE). Sign in via Kent and then register (top right) using non-Kent details.
  • Library of Latin Texts – Series A & B
    Series A: Texts of Latin literature spanning the Classical, Patristic, Medieval, and Neo-Latin periods.
    Series B: Includes primarily additional medieval sources, but some classical and late antique as well (e.g., the Institutiones and Digesta of the Corpus Iuris Civilis). For a database of the classical texts with a simpler interface see Classical Latin Texts, the online version of the PHI CD-ROM.
  • Logeion
    Quick look-up of Greek and Latin words in a number of major dictionaries and across all of the texts in Perseus.

In Print

  • Brill’s New Pauly. Edited by Hubert Cancik and Helmut Schneider. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2002-.
    English edition of Der Neue Pauly, an updated and abridged version of the monumental Pauly-Wissowa. It covers the Near East and Egypt as precursors to Greece and Rome, the influence exerted on the Celts, Germans, and Arabs as well as Byzantine Studies.
  • Encyclopedia of the Ancient World: Antiquity. Brill’s New Pauly. Vols. 1-15
    Classmark: LRG DE 5 CAN INDEX
    Covers the late Bronze Age through the seventh century CE., extending to all Mediterranean civilizations, including the Near East and Egypt.
  • Encyclopedia of the Ancient World: Classical Tradition. Brill’s New Pauly. Vols. I-V
    Classmark: LRG DE 5 LAN INDEX
    Covers the reception of classics in the modern world.
  • Chronologies of the ancient world: names, dates and dynasties. Brill’s New Pauly Supplement 1. Edited by Walter Eder and Johannes Renger; translated and edited by Wouter F.M. Henkelman; assistant editor, Robert Chenault.
    Classmark LRG D 101.7 EDE
    Who were the ones in power in the ancient world? When did the Ptolemies rule? Which dynasties ruled the Iranian empire and which Asia Minor and its neighbours? Who controlled the fates of the cities and provinces of Greece and Rome? This volume offers a comprehensive collection of geographically and chronologically ordered lists of the rulers and public officers from 3000 BC to around 800 AD, from the Pharaos of Egypt to the Christian bishops.
  • Dictionary of Greek and Latin authors and texts. Brill’s New Pauly Supplement 2. Edited by Manfred Landfester in collaboration with Brigitte Egger; translated and edited by Tina Jerke and Volker Dallman.
    Classmark: LRG PA 31 LAN
    Overview of the major authors and then lists all significant papyri, manuscripts, scholia, early and contemporary authoritative editions, translations and commentaries. The most comprehensive source for the textual bibliography of the classical authors.
  • Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Zürich: Artemis, 1981-. 7 vols.; 14 parts.
    Classmark: N 7760 V.8II
    This multivolume set “is designed to give account of the present state of knowledge about the iconography of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman mythology from after the Mycenaean period to the beginning of the early Christian.” Each volume is issued in two parts, one of text, the other of plates. It is the most comprehensive source of information about the depiction of classical myths in ancient art.
  • Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (ANRW)
    Handbook of “Roman Studies in the broadest sense, and includes the history of the reception and influence of Roman Culture up to the present time.” Online index  from the University of Kentucky.
  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology. Edited by Andrew Sherrat. New York: Crown Publishers/Cambridge University Press, 1980.
    Classmark: CC 165 SHE
  • Archaeology: An Introduction. By Kevin Greene. Routledge, 2010.
    Classmark: CC 75
  • Archaeological Method & Theory: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Linda Ellis, 2000.
    Classmark: CC 75 ELL
  • Classical Studies: A Guide to the Reference Literature. By Fred W. Jenkins. Westport, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2006.
    Classmark: Z 7016 JEN
    A bibliographic guide to all aspects of Classical Studies with critical annotations.