Research

Subject Guide: Classics

The Library's Subject Guides help you find resources that are specialized for certain areas of study. There are many other resources available which provide generalized information--not specific to one topic or area. To see more of these general resources, see the Subject Guide: General page.

Reference Books

Reference books provide background information on a people, terms and concepts.

Dictionaries:

Oxford Latin Dictionary / DEN Ref PA2365.E5 O9 1982
Cassell's New Latin Dictionary / DEN Ref PA2365.E52 C3 1968
The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Greek / DEN Ref PA1139.E5 P76 1982
New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin / DEN Ref PA111 .S54 1995
Oxford Reference Books Online: Bilingual Dictionaries
The online version; search many dictionaries at once, or choose to search only Latin/English books.

Other Reference Works:

Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World / DEN Ref DF16 .S23 1995
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World : Map-by-Map Directory / DEN Ref Atlas Case #2 G1033 .B3 2000 Suppl
Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities / DEN Ref BL782 .C67 2000
Living Greek Theatre : A Handbook of Classical Performance and Modern Production / PA3201 .W36 1987
Oxford Reference Books Online: Classics Collection
Search five online classics-related reference works.

Databases

Databases provide information about journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

Art Abstracts
Humanities Abstracts
Humanities International Index
MLA International Bibliography
Philosopher's Index
L'Année Philologique [print: 1924 - ] / DEN Ref Z7016 .M35A5 Latest 10 years ONLY!

Web Resources

Here are a few web sites we think you might find useful:

The Internet Classics Archive:
An online resource from MIT for classical antiquity, including a collection of Greek and Roman texts in translation, arranged by author.
Latin Place Names:
Vernacular equivalents of Latin place names. From Brigham Young University.
Pomoerium.com: Classics Resources
An extensive collection of links to classics texts, archaeology, ancient law, theater, philosophy, religion, etc. (multi-lingual).
Roman Numeral and Date Conversion:
Online calculators for converting dates from the Julian or Gregorian calendars into Roman equivalents, and Roman numerals into Arabic numerals (or vice versa). There is also an online Roman numeral calculator.
Voice of the Shuttle: Classical Studies Resources
A vast collection of links to webpages on language, archaeology, literature, philosophy, etc. From the University of California, Santa Barbara.
TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
TOCS-IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both in text format and through a Web search program. From the University of Toronto.