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.

Humanities Liaison Librarian - Joshua Finnell

Classics Department Homepage

Databases

Databases provide information about journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

• Art Full Text 1929-present
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index (ISI Web of Knowledge)
• ArtSTOR - search for visual representations of Greek & Roman culture.
• Greek and Latin Inscriptions - primary sources of information from Greece, Italy, and Macedonia.
• Humanities International Complete
• MLA International Bibliography
• Philosopher's Index
• Saskia Art History Images - contextual images of the Classics.

Reference Books

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

Dictionaries:
• Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary
• Cassell's New Latin Dictionary  PA2365.E52 C3 1968
• The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Greek  PA1139.E5 P76 1982
• New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin  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  DF16 .S23 1995
• Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World : Map-by-Map Directory  G1033 .B3 2000 Suppl (Atlas Case #2)
• Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities  BL782 .C67 2000
• Living Greek Theatre : A Handbook of Classical Performance and Modern Production  PA3201 .W36 1987
• Oxford Reference Books Online: Classics
  Search five online classics-related reference works.
• Folklore, Mythology, Literature: e-reference books
• L'Année Philologique, 1924 -2003  Z7016 .M35A5 (Annex Floor 1A) - 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.
• 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, archeology, 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.
• Internet Resources for Classics
  From the Classics Department of the University of Florida.
• Perseus Digital Library
• APIS Advanced Papyrological Information System
• The Latin Library
• The Classics Page