Classics
Classical Art, Literature, Philosophy & History Research Guide
LOCATING BOOKS - access to catalog
Library of Congress Numbers: TIER (multiple locations)
Art History N 5300-7418, Greek and Latin language and literature PA,
Comparative mythology BL 300-325 Classical religions BL 700-820,
History, Greco-Roman World DE Philosophy, Ancient B108-708
LOCATING ARTICLES and IMAGES
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Updated on a daily basis. It includes Classical Antiquity, Classical Review, and Journal of Roman Studies.
Art Full Text
Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Coverage begins in 1994; full-text coverage begins in 1997. Coverage includes yearbooks and museum bulletins. Art Full Text also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Search scholarly journals on subjects such as: Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Pottery, and Sculpture.
ARTstor
Artstor is a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data with the tools to use those images for teaching and presentations.
JSTOR journal list (Link to advanced search)
http://www.jstor.org/search/AdvancedSearch
JSTOR provides the full text of scholarly journals from volume one, number one. Scroll down to select your subject area.
Project Muse
Project MUSE provides full-text access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age, culture, and literary discipline. Click on Additional Sources for related web sites or use the Literary-Historical Timeline. Includes access to Dictionary of Literary Biography, Encyclopedia of Literature and the MLA International Bibliography.
MLA International Bibliography
Provides 1.4 million citations on world literature in all languages from journals, books and papers, some available in full text. Includes a Literary-Historical Timeline and a Guide to Conducting Literary Research.
Philosopher's Index
The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic, as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
REFERENCE SOURCES
Classical Literature and History
http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/SUBJECT_SEARCH.html?subject=s3
Search the following texts:
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
The Oxford Classical Dictionary
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
Who's Who in the Classical World
A Dictionary of World Mythology
http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t73&subject=s17
This Oxford collection presents hundreds of myths from Greece, Rome, Scandinavia, India, Africa and America.
Latin
The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (English-Latin)
The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (Latin-English)
Art and Architecture
http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/SUBJECT_SEARCH.html?subject=s1
Search the following texts:
The Oxford Dictionary of Art
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
A Dictionary of Architecture
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
Grove Art Online
This comprehensive and authoritative source combines the full text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 volumes) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001). It includes 45,000 articles of varying length with bibliographies and provides coverage of all aspects of the visual arts worldwide. The links to searchable image databases offer over 40,000 art images on museum and gallery web sites around the world.
Philosophy
Oxford Companion to Philosophy
http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t116&subject=s22
"249 distinguished philosophers ...[provide] guidance to all areas of philosophy and to the ideas of all notable philosophers from antiquity to the present day." 2000 entries of varying length treat personalities, branches, schools, concepts, and terms in theology and philosophy. Brief bibliographies, timelines, and Internet links are included.
Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t98
Simon Blackburn's 2,500 entries are aimed at the less sophisticated user and are generally briefer than those in the Companion. "Ranging from Aristotle to Zen, the entries cover the entire span of philosophy," including modern thinkers and current topics such as euthanasia and abortion. Timelines and Internet links are included.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This definitive work covers all of philosophy in 2,000 articles by more than 1,300 scholars. Entries range from 500 words to extensive survey articles. Features include suggestions for refining your search, related articles, Internet links, and bibliographies. Lengthy articles are outlined. World Religions and World Philosophies are well-represented.
INTERNET RESOURCES
ABZU
http://www.etana.org/abzu/
Abzu is a guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East on the Web.
It provides links to Websites, Blogs, and eBooks.
Beazley Archive Dictionary
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/dictionary/default.htm
This online dictionary provides illustrated explanations of names, technical terms, and other vocabulary relating to Greek history, myth, geography, art and architecture; updated and expanded regularly.
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
http://www.stoa.org/diotima/
Diotima includes a bibliography, images, and links.
The Glory that Was Greece: History and Culture in Ancient Athens
http://www.watson.org/%7Eleigh/athens.html
This site provides overviews and biographical information on Ancient Greek drama, history, mythology, and philosophy. There are also links and a bibliography.
Perseus Digital Library
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
This Tufts site features resources for studying Greek and Roman literature, history, and culture and includes the full texts of most of the ancient writers with commentary. This comprehensive and scholarly site can be slow and complicated, but it is considered to be the premier classic site.
Plato - The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.iep.utm.edu/p/plato.htm
This detailed and readable examination of Plato's life and works is organized by major themes and topics and includes an extensive bibliography.
WEB GATEWAYS
Ancient Greek Myth
http://www.greekmyth.org/
This UC Berkeley site provides resources on ancient Greek mythology and a collection of links organized by topic.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Philological Association
http://www.apaclassics.org/
The APA, founded in 1869 by "professors, friends, and patrons of linguistic science," is now the principal learned society in North America for the study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and civilizations.
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