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Humanities International IndexIndexes and abstracts over 2,000 journals, books, and other internationally published works on a variety of topics in the humanities. Provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works, including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings, and illustrations. Note: Absorbed American Humanities Index, effective December 2005.
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JSTORProvides full image access to a comprehensive archive of over 2,000 scholarly journals over 200 of which have complete backfiles. Nearly 40 subject areas are represented in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. New subjects and titles are added regularly. Links to the most recent issues of some journals are available through Project MUSE.
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L'Annee Philologique (Brepols)L'Annee philologique is a specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, covering a wide array of subjects, including Greek and Latin literature and linguistics, which includes early Christian texts and patristics, Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, science, and scholarly subspecialties such as numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy. Abstracts of journal articles are in English, German, Spanish, French or Italian. Books entries often include tables of contents and book review information.
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MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)Indexes critical scholarship on literature, criticism, language, linguistics, and folklore. Includes over 4,400 titles including journals, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings, and other materials.
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Project MUSEProvides the searchable full text and full images of e-book collections from university presses and approximately 380 journals published by scholarly presses, including Johns Hopkins University Press. Subject areas include math, science, humanities, and social sciences. Provides links to back issues of 29 journals archived in the JSTOR collection.
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The Oxford Classical Dictionary
Call Number: DE5 .O9 2012An indispensable reference work for classical studies. -
Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World : Antiquity
Call Number: DE5 .N3513 2002A fifteen-volume set set "devoted to Greco-Roman antiquity and covering more than two thousand years of history, ranging from the second millennium BC to early medieval Europe" --from the publisher's description -
Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World : Classical Tradition
Call Number: DE5 .N3513 2006A five-volume set "concerned with the long and influential aftermath of antiquity and the process of continuous reinterpretation and revaluation of the ancient heritage, including the history of classical scholarship." ---from the publisher's description
Daily Life in the Ancient World
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Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks by Robert Garland
Call Number: DF78 .G276 2009Describes what life was like for the ancient Greeks, including their concepts of space and time, aspects about their language, how they lived publicly and privately, and their leisure activities. -
Daily Life of the Ancient Romans by David Matz
Call Number: DG78 .M385 2008Similar to Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks, but for the ancient Romans.
Historical Atlases
Atlases are an oft forgotten source for information you might not find easily elsewhere. An atlas may include maps, illustrations, photographs, graphs, charts, and boxed features. Atlases are available in print or online versions.
An historical atlas is different from a geographical atlas. While the focus of a geographical atlas is on the maps, providing a singular ‘snapshot’ of a region at one particular moment in time, an historical atlas integrates maps with an informative narrative that summarizes important data, trends, or statistics about the historical time period.
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Historical Atlas of the Ancient World
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Atlas of the Greek World by Peter Levi
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Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome by Angus Konstam; Nick Constable
Call Number: DG209 .C6645 2003