Classics
Online Reference Sources
Classics Reference Sources
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome by Call Number: ebookPublication Date: 2010This is an accessible guide and a comprehensive overview of the major cultures of the classical Mediterranean world from the Bronze Age to the fifth century CE. It also covers the legacy of the classical world and its interpretation and influence in subsequentical world centuries.
The Oxford classical dictionary by Call Number: ebookPublication Date: 2012This established dictionary of antiquity offers over 6,700 entries on all aspects of the classical world, with reception and anthropology as new focus areas. Additional subject areas are politics, government, and the economy; religion and mythology; law and philosophy; science and geography; languages, literature, art, and architecture; archaeology and historical writing; military history; social history, sex, and gender; and neighbors, adversaries, and influences.
- Cambridge Histories Online - The Cambridge Ancient History
Online full-text edition of this major 14 volume historical survey.
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A collection of over 3,000 reference works, covering all disciplines. - Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
An online collection of over 600 full-text reference works, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and more. - Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
This online source provides access to subject and language reference works from Oxford University Press. In addition to text, access is provided to maps and illustrations, timelines, web sites, and bibliographies.
Print Reference Sources
Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology by Call Number: Ref BL715 .D56 1998Publication Date: 1998-12-01
Dictionary of Classical Mythology by Call Number: Ref BL715 .M38 2014Publication Date: 2014-05-31Available in electronic and print formats.
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History by Call Number: Ref D54 .E53 2013
Brill's New Pauly: encyclopaedia of the ancient world: Antiquity by Call Number: Ref DE5 .N4813 2002 v. 1-16The history of classical scholarship. Brill's New Pauly presents the current state of traditional and new areas of research and brings together specialist knowledge from leading scholars from all over the world.
Who's Who in the Greek World by Call Number: Ref DE7 .H39 2000Available in electronic and print formats.
Profiles of important people in the Greek world up to 100 BCE.
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature by Available in electronic and print formats.
2nd edition in print. Ref PA 31 .O9 1989
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