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Research Guides: Classical Studies



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Articles in Journals/Magazines

Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications.

ATLA Religion Database Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues and contains more than one million bibliographic records. ATLA serials which is also included in our subscription provides links to 100,000 full text articles.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Bryn Mawr Classical Review publishes timely reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies (including archaeology). This site is the authoritative archive of BMCR’s publication, from 1990 to the present.

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Latin Texts Online Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
A centralized resource for locating Latin literature on the internet.

Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women & Gender in the Ancient World Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
A collection of materials related to the study of women and gender in the ancient world, including bibliographies, images, and some full-text.

Gnomon Online: the Eichstatt information system for classical studies Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
This online index provides access to a selection of the material in the print periodical (Gnomon: kritische Zeitschrift fur die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft) and to the CD-ROM (Gnomon Bibliographische Datenbank) which it supplements, particularly for the years since 1998. The online verison also indexes the holdings of Eichstatt University Library and recent acquisitions of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in classics and classical studies.

Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Index to journal articles (and some material in books) pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

JSTOR Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Full-text back runs of major academic journals. The Arts & Sciences I Collection, to which Millsaps subscribes, includes the complete back runs of 117 titles in 15 disciplines. Established in 1997, it is JSTOR's first collection and includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.

LacusCurtius Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
A resource for the study of Ancient Rome.

MLA Bibliography Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Modern Language Association's International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations.

Perseus Project Unrestricted Resource
Online reference source for classical literature, art, and more with access to 10,000 additional images.

Project Muse Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Index and full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Project MUSE offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
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. Where possible, links are given with articles of which the full text or an abstract is available online (about 15%).

Web Sites

Aesopica.net Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Aesopica.net brings together Aesop's Fables or, more accurately, those fables that since ancient times have been attributed to Aesop. Provides 1,418 full-text English translations of the fables and 646 Latin translations and 780 original Greek texts

APIS: Advanced Papyrological Information System. Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
APIS provides easy access to Greek and Roman documents housed at research collections worldwide; many have been scanned and can now be viewed by any classics student with Internet access. APIS is a collections-based repository hosting information about and images of papyrological materials (e.g. papyri, ostraca, wood tablets, etc) located in collections around the world.

Didaskalia Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Didaskalia is an electronic journal and resource dedicated to the study of ancient Greek and Roman drama in performance.

Greek Mythology Link Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
The Greek Mythology Link is a collection of the Greek myths written on line by Carlos Parada, author of the book Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology, published in 1993. The Greek Mythology Link is concerned with the creative, artistic, literary and inspiring aspects of the Greek myths. The network created by genealogy has been given particular attention, as well as some structural aspects partly derived from it. The information provided in this site is based on original sources.

Bibliographies: Greek and Latin literature by Author

Latin and Greek Authors on the Web Unrestricted Resource
Relevant on-line resources for individual Latin and Greek authors.

Bibliographies: Hellenistic Greek literature

Hellenistic Bibliography Unrestricted Resource
Provides access to a series of bibliographies on post-classical Greek poetry and its influence.

Bibliographies: Roman Literature by Author

Appendix Vergiliana Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 2003.

Apuleius: Cupid und Psyche Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 2002

Carmina Priapea Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 2003.

Catullus Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 1999.

Horace Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 2006.

Horace - Odes I-III Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 1999.

Martial Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 2001.

Petronius: Cena Trimalchionis Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 2003.

Ps.-Seneca: Epigrams Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 2002.

Ps.-Vergil: Catalepton Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 2002.

Vergil: Aeneid Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 2005.

Vergil: Eclogues Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 2002.

Vergil: Georgics Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 2003.

Bibliographies: Roman Literature by Genre

Ancient Novel Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 2000.

Roman Biography Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 1999.

Roman Epistolary Literature Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 1999.

Roman Love Elegy Unrestricted Resource
Latest Entry 2004.

Comprehensive lists of online bibliographies for all aspects of the Greek world

PINAX ONLINE Unrestricted Resource
An Annotated List of Web Bibliographies on the Ancient Greek World

Dictionaries

Oxford Reference Online -- Classics Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, The Oxford Classical Dictionary, The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, Who's Who in the Classical World, The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (English-Latin), The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (Latin-English), Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World

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Pollux: Archimedes Project Dictionary Access Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
A collection of dictionaries in the Classics, including Greek, Latin and other dictionaries.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopaedia Britannica Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Full text, online version of EB.

Images & Artifacts

ARTstor On campus use only Some full text available Resource contains images
ARTstor offers collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library’s content includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor’s software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

The Beazley Archive Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Classical Art Research Centre

Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women & Gender in the Ancient World Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
A collection of materials related to the study of women and gender in the ancient world, including bibliographies, images, and some full-text.

LacusCurtius Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
A resource for the study of Ancient Rome.

Metis Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
A QTVR Interface for Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites

Perseus Project Unrestricted Resource
Online reference source for classical literature, art, and more with access to 10,000 additional images.

Maps of the Ancient World

Ancient World Mapping Center Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Maps for Students

CMGA - MAGIS Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Regional survey projects in the greater Mediterranean region

Roma Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
City Map of Ancient Rome