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In-Depth Research Guide: Classical Studies

Librarians for Classical Studies:

Jacqueline Fitzpatrick, Research & Instruction, x3497
Brooke Henderson, Collections, x3258

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Academic Search Premier
The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database. Dates of coverage vary by title.

L'Annee Philologique
Major ongoing international bibliography covering all aspects of classical studies from prehistory to the Middle Ages, written from 1969-2001 (volumes 40-72).

ArticleFirst
Articles &/or abstracts in all scholarly fields, as well as popular culture (1990 +).

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Articles on architecture, archaeology, planning, interior design, and historic preservation. From 1977 to the present.

JSTOR
A full-text collection of journal articles from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. First issues are in the collection but not those from the latest five years.

Literature Resource Center
Biographies, bibliographies and full-text critical analysis of authors from all genres and eras, including the contents of Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.

MLA International Bibliography (via CSA)
has articles &/or abstracts on literature, linguistics, film, and folklore (1963+).

Periodicals Index Online
An index to articles published in over 4,500 periodicals, in as many as 40 languages, and covering topics in the humanities and social sciences.

Project Muse
A full-text source for academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. (Latest 5 years)

Sociological Abstracts
Articles on all aspects of sociology and other social science articles. From 1963 to the present.
 
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Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World, Vols 1-7, edited by Hubert Cancik & Helmut Schneider. Clapp Ref DE5 .N4813 2002.

Classical Scholarship: A Biographical Encyclopedia, edited by Ward W. Briggs and William Calder III. Clapp Ref PA83 .C58 1990.

Classical Women Poets, translated & introduced by Josephine Balmer. Clapp Lib PA3625 .C57 1996.

Encyclopedia of Classical Mythology by Andreas Van Aken.. Clapp Ref BL715 .A413 (1965).

Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy, edited by Donald J. Zeyl. Clapp Ref B163 .E53 1997.

Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, edited by Shona Grimbly. Clapp Ref CB311 .E535 2000.

Gnomon: A German quarterly bibliography with periodical information on classical philology, archelology, books, and reviews. Clapp Lib - PA3 .G6

Perseus 2.0 [interactive multimedia] is a set of 4 disks in the Knapp Media Center (# DF78 .P47 2000) " ... designed to facilitate the study of archaic & classical Greece." The disks contain an extensive archeological catalog with about 25,000 accompanying images. Please, check the system requirements in the Note section of the Catalog record for proper usage.

Religion in the Ancient Greek City by Louise Bruit Zaidman & Pauline Schmitt Pantel. Clapp Lib BL785 .Z3513 1992.

Religions of Rome, Vol. 1: History & Vol. 2: Sources by Mary Beard, John North, & Simon Price. Clapp Lib BL802 B43 1998.

Sources for the Study of Greek Religion by David G. Rice & John E. Stambaugh. Clapp Lib BL782 .S7.

Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors, & Warfare in the Ancient Civiliations of Greece & Rome by John G. Warry. Clapp Ref U33 .W37 (1980).

Women in Greek Myth by Mary R. Lefkowitz. Clapp Lib BL795 .W6 L44 1986.

Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary by Robert E. Bell. Clapp Ref BL715 .B445 1991.

Women Poets in Ancient Greece & Rome edited by Ellen Greene. Clapp Lib PA3067 .W66 2005.

Women's Life in Greece and Rome: [A Sourcebook in Translation], compiled by Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant. Clapp Lib HQ1134 .W64 1992.

Literature & Religion at Rome: Cultures, Contexts, & Beliefs by Denis Feeney. Clapp Lib PA6029 .R4 F44 1998.

Lives of the Greek Poets by Mary R. Lefkowitz. Clapp Lib PA3064 .L44 (1981).

[Der] Neue Pauly: Enzyklopadie der Antike, Vols. 1-13. A German Classical Dictionary. Clapp Ref DE5 .N48 1996.

New Century Classical Handbook, edited by Catherine B. Avery. Art & Clapp Ref DE5 .N4 (1962).

New Century Handbook of Classical Geography, edited by Catherine B. Avery. Clapp Ref DE25 .N48 (1972).

Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd Edition, edited by Simon Hornblower & Antony Spawforth. Art & Clapp Ref DE5 .O9 1996.

Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, edited by Simon Hornblower & Antony Spawforth. Clapp Ref DE5 .O92 1998.

Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by Elizabeth Knowles. Clapp Ref PN43 .O94 2005.

Oxford Latin Dictionary - A standard reference for classical Latin. Clapp Ref PA2365 .E5 O9 (1968-1982).

Related Topics: Art and Archeology

Art of Greece & Rome by Susan Woodford. Art Lib N5610 .W6 2004.

Classical Art: From Greece to Rome by Mary Beard & John Henderson. Art LibN5610 .B295 2001.

Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archeology, edited by Nancy Thomson de Grummond. Clapp Ref DE5 .E5 1996.

Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality, and Gender in Classical Art and Archeology, edited by Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow & Claire L. Lyons. Art Lib N7630 .N36 1997.

Oxford History of Classical Art, edited by John Boardman. Art Lib N5610 .O84 1993.

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, edited by Richard Stillwell. Art Ref DE59 .P7 (1976).

In the Shadow of the Acropolis: Popular and Private Art of 4th Century Athens by John J. Herrmann. Art Lib N5650 .H47 1984.

Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome by John Onians. Art Lib N5610 .O5 1999.

Pictorial Narrative in Ancient Greek Art by Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell. Art Lib N5633 .S72 1999.

Art of the Greek World, Prehistoric Through Perikles: From the Late Stone Age and the Early Age of Bronze to the Peloponnesian Wars by Cornelius C. Vermeule. Art Lib N5605 .A6 Vol.2:1.

Roman Art: Early Republic to Late Empire by Cornelius C. Vermeule. Art Lib N5605 .A6 Vol. 3.

Key Scholarly Websites 
 

Britannica Online - This provides broad coverage, plus articles and weblinks.

Bulfinch's Mythology has the tales from Greek & Norse myths, as well as the English King Arthur & Robin Hood adventures.

Chicago Homer is a "multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek. In addition to all the texts of ancient Greek epic in the original Greek the Chicago Homer includes English and German translations, in particular Lattimore's translation of the Iliad, Daryl Hyne's translations of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, and the translations of the Iliad and Odyssey by Johan Heinrich Voss."

Classics Collections is a site maintained by the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries. It is organized by topic.

Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature has been edited by Margaret Howatson & Ian Chilvers. There are biographies on many classical authors plus character and plot summaries of their major works. The comedic and tragic literary forms are examined, as well as coverage of the historical, political, social, and artistic background of this rich literary period.

Diotima is an online resource of information on women and gender in the ancient world.

Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation - This is an Electronic -Texts & E-Text Archives.

Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples is maintianed by the Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures, & Culture at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Greek & Latin Language Resources provides links to some general Classical topics plus ancient Greek and Latin sites.

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook has sections on Greece, the Hellenistic World, Rome, and the Late Antiquity period.

Introduction to Egyptology has brief biographies of the Egyptian gods.

Latin Phrases & Quotes has legal phrases, as well as Latin phrases covering a variety of other subjects.

Online Medieval & Classical Library (OMACL) "is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical & Medeival civilizations

Perseus Greek and Latin Vocabulary Tool is intended to help users of texts in the Perseus Digital Library build word lists based on those texts. There is a pop-up window for each vocabulary word, containing the definition, part of speech, & word gender, plus links. Check the help page before using this vocabulary tool.

TOCS-IN (Table of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists). This index is compiled and updated by a volunteer group at the University of Toronto. There are over 100 journals included in the database, searchable by keywords (1992 +).

Voice of the Shuttle: Classical Studies Page. Organized and maintained by Alan Liu at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Who's Who in the Classical World is an electronic title covering Greek & Roman history, politics, literature, philosophy, science, and art. The longer essays center around individuals as varied as Herodotus, Socrates, Plato, Alexander the Great, and Augustus. The print version, also edited by Simon Hornblower & Tony Spawforth, is available in Clapp Ref (Call #DE7 .W48 2000).

Art & Archeology Sites

Ancient City of Athens is a photographic archive of the archelogical and architectural remains of ancient Athens and provides a source of imagesfor use in term papers, projects, and presentations.

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archeology WC by Timothy C. Darvill is an Oxford Reference Online title with over 4000 entries. It covers essential vocabulary for archeological work and focuses especially on Europe, the Old World, and the Americas.

Metis: A QTVR Interface for Ancient Greek Archeological Sites (Requires a QuickTime 3.0 site or higher). Metis was designed by Bruce Hartzler, Dept. of Classics, University of Texas at Austin. It is a collection of QuickTime movies that allow users to explore the ruins of nineteen ancient Greek sites, with site plans and some links to Tufts' Perseus Project.

Oxford Companion to Archeology WC by Editor-in-Chief, Brian Fagan, features 700 articles. Topics include biographies of figures in this field, methods used in archeological research, and essays on human evolution, as well as the general facets of culture.

Perseus Digital Library is an evolving digital program maintained by Gregory Crane at Tufts University. It is an interactive multimedia project containing sources and studies on ancient Greece. Its archeological catalog has over 25,000 accompanying images.

Pompeii Forum Project is a collaborative venture that focuses on the urban center of Pompeii. There are three components to the project: documentation of standing remains, archeological analysis, and urban study.

Find books 

Wellesley College Library catalog

WorldCat to find books, journals, video recordings not listed in the Wellesley Online Catalog.

Professional development: Organizations

American Philological Association (APA) is the principal learned society for Classical Studies in North America.

Classical Association of New England (CANE) for local Classical Studies Association news about meetings, fellowships, institutes, etc.

Contact the departmental Library liaison

For help with your research or to schedule a library research session for your class, contact Jacqueline B. Fitzpatrick, library research liaison for Classical Studies.

To discuss acquiring particular resources, contact Brooke Henderson, our Art Librarian & library liaison for Classical Studies.

Go to related Wellesley College academic departments

Information about the Classical Studies major, courses, etc.

Also check courses offered by the Art Department


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