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Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias

Online

  • Oxford Classical Dictionary
    Continuously updated encyclopedia to all aspects of classical antiquity. 5th ed. 2016.
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology. Darvill, T. 2008. Oxford University Press.
    Brief and basic terms for archaeological work, including people, places, monuments and equipment. Online version can be cross-referenced with the entire Oxford Reference Online database.
  • Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)
  • Niermeyer’sMediaelatinitatis lexicon minus
    This lexicon provides researchers, teaching staff and students in the field of Medieval History with concise, essential information.
  • Brill’s Original “Big” Pauly aka (Realencyclopädie der classischenAltertumswissenschaft)
    This is a very important encyclopaedia of the ancient world in German (see Print Resources for the “New Pauly” in English), which is being digitized at Wikisource.. Topics are from one of two sections: Antiquity, which covers the ancient world of Greece and Rome, and the Classical Tradition, which covers the history of classical scholarship.
  • Cambridge Ancient History
    Authoritative history of the ancient world presented in downloadable PDF chapters. CAH is the most comprehensive survey of ancient history available. It covers the prehistoric Mediterranean era (Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenaean periods to 324 C.E. when Constantine the Great became sole ruler of the Roman empire). CAH counts among its contributors the leading British classical and Near Eastern scholars of several generations, along with a number of notable American and European scholars. Political, social, economic, cultural history. Maps and genealogical table. Extensive bibliographies. Plates appear in separate volumes. It is somewhat difficult to use because of numerous revisions. As a result its parts are now in various editions.
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  • Cambridge Histories – Ancient History & Classics
    Cambridge Histories offers an essential reference collection on the ancient world across a span of Cambridge University Press Publications. Available as downloadable PDF chapters.
  • Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
  • Encyclopedia of Archaeology: History and Discoveries. Murray, Tim. ABC-CLIO, 2001.

In Print

  • Brill’s New Pauly. Cancik, Hubert, and Helmut Schneider, eds. 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. Vol. 1
    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 Reception. Brill’s New Pauly. Vol. 2
    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
  • 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.>
  • Historical atlas of the ancient world. New Pauly Supplement 3. Edited by Anne-Maria Wittke, Eckart Olshausen, and Richard Szydlak ; in collaboration with Vera Sauer and other specialists ; English edition by Christine F. Salazar, with Dieter Prankel, Duncan Smart (translation), and Corinna Vermeulen (editing). 2010.
    Classmark: LRG DE 5 WIT
  • The reception of myth and mythology. New Pauly Supplement 4. Edited by Maria Moog-Grünewald ; translated and edited by Duncan Smart, David van Eijndhoven, Christine Salazar and Francis G. Gentry.
    Classmark: LRG PN 56.M95 MOO
  • The reception of classical literature. New Pauly Supplement 5. Edited by Christine Walde in collaboration with Brigitte Egger; translated and edited by Duncan Smart and Matthijs H. Wibier.
    Classmark: LRG PA 3013
  • History of classical scholarship: a biographical dictionary. New Pauly Supplement 6. Edited by Peter Kuhlmann and Helmuth Schneider ; translated and edited by Duncan Smart and Chad M. Schroeder.
    Classmark: PA 83 KUH
  • Figures of antiquity and their reception in art, literature and music. New Pauly Supplement 7. Edited by Peter von Mollendorff, Annette Simonis, and Linda Simonis; translated and edited by Duncan Smart and Cad M. Schroede. 2016.
    Classmark: LRG DE 7 MOL
  • The reception of antiquity in Renaissance humanism. New Pauly Supplement 8. Edited by Manfred Landfester. 2017.
    Classmark: LRG D 900 LAN
  • The early Mediterranean world, 1200-600 BC. Brill’s New Pauly Supplement 9. Edited by Anne-Maria Wittke. 2018.
  • Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (ANRW)
    Classmark: DG 209 TEM
    >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.>
  • Who Was Who in the Roman World: 753 B.C.-A.D. 476. Bowder, Diana, ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980.
    Classmark: DG 203 BOW.
  • A Dictionary of Ancient History. Speake, Graham. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
    Classmark: DE 5 SPE
  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology. Sherrat, Andrew, ed. New York: Crown Publishers/Cambridge University Press, 1980.
    Classmark: CC 165 SHE
  • A Dictionary of Archaeology. edited by Ian Shaw and Robert Jameson, 1999.
    Classmark: CC 70 JAM
  • Archaeological Method & Theory: An Encyclopedia. Editor, Linda Ellis, 2000.
    Classmark: CC 75 ELL
  • The Penguin Encyclopedia of Classical Civilizations. Cotterell, Arthur, ed. New York: Viking, 1993.
    Classmark: CB 9 COT