Classical Studies Subject Guide

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This Subject Guide contains links to a few key indexes in Classical Studies plus significant online resources and print materials housed in the Library’s first floor reference section. Web Resources below contains links to sites with substantial academic content. These may assist you on research papers and other class assignments as well as lead to additional useful sites. Look at the Library's Databases for many other valuable scholarly databases in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. For more web resources, try a Google Scholar search with appropriate keywords for your specific needs.

Liaison

Liaison in charge: Paul Showalter

Database/Article Indexes

• Research: Getting Started @ Swem
• L'Annee Philologique
• Arts & Humanities Search
• InfoTrac OneFile
• JSTOR
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
• Periodicals Contents Index
• Philosopher's Index
• Project Muse
• TOCS-IN (Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists),

Print Resources

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• The New Century Classical Handbook
• Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome
• The Oxford Classical Dictionary

History

• Chronology of the Ancient World
• The Cambridge Ancient History
• A Dictionary of Ancient History

Literature

• Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Greek and Latin Authors, 800 B.C.-A.D. 1000
• A Handbook of Classical Drama
• Crowell's Handbook of Classical Drama
• The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
• Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome

Atlases & Geography

• Atlas of the Roman World
• Atlas of the Greek and Roman World in Antiquity
• A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome
• The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
• Atlas of Classical History
• Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

Biography

• Who Was Who in the Greek World, 776 BC-30 BC
• Who Was Who in the Roman World, 753 BC-AD 476
• Who's Who in the Ancient World

Mythology

• The Dictionary of Classical Mythology
• Who's Who in Classical Mythology
• Room's Classical Dictionary: the Origins of the Names of Characters in Classical Mythology
• Dictionary of Classical Mythology

Research Guides

• The Classical Review
• Greek and Roman Authors: A Checklist of Criticism
• Classical Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography
• Classical Studies: a Guide to the Reference Literature

Web Resources

• Electronic Resources for Classical Studies.
  Small selection of sites compiled and maintained by W. E. Hutton at the Department of Classical Studies, College of William and Mary.


• Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation.
  Well organized introduction to Classical Studies sources available on the Internet. Items are grouped by resource type: gateways, e-text archives, professional organizations, etc. Site maintained by Maria C. Pantelia of the University of California, Irvine.


• Voice of the Shuttle: Classical Studies Page.
  Part of the larger Web site entitled "Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research." Categories used for the Classical Studies page include General Classics Resources, Language Resources, Archaeology & Art, History & Culture, Literature, Mythology, Philosophy, Journals, and Conferences. Compiled by Alan Liu of the University of California, Santa Barbara.