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BIBLIOGRAPHIES and GUIDES
Fred W. Jenkins, Classical Studies: A Guide to the Reference Literature.
Englewood, Colorado, Libraries Unlimited, 1996. (Ref PA91.Z99 J36 1996)
Thomas P. Halton, Stella O'Leary, Classical Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography.
White Plains, N.Y., Kraus International, 1986. (Ref DE59.H3 1986)
Martin R. P. McGuire, Introduction to Classical Scholarship: A Syllabus and Bibliographical Guide. Washington, D.C., Catholic University of America, 1961.
(Ref Z7016.M25 1961)
Heizer, Robert Fleming, Archaeology, a Bibliographical Guide to the Basic Literature. New York, Garland, 1980 (Ref Z5131. H44 1980)
Robert Balay, et.al., eds. Guide to Reference Books. 11th edition. Chicago, American Library Association, 1996. (Ref Desk Z1035.1.G89 1996)
J. Marouzeau et al, eds., L'Année Philologique. Paris, 1928 – (repr. 1957-1969) <covers 1924 ff.> (Ref Z7016.A5) **precursor: J. Marouzeau, ed., Dix Années de Bibliographie Classique. Paris, 1927-28 (repr.1957-1969) <covers 1914-1924>. (Ref Z7016.M35)
Bibliographic Guide to Anthropology and Archaeology. Boston, G.K.Hall, c.1988-2003.
(Ref Z5111.B.47)
J. H. Dee, "A Survey of Recent Bibliographies of Classical Literature," Classical World, 73 (1980), 275-290. (Bound Periodicals, PA1.C8)
Keith Hopwood, Ancient Greece and Rome: A Bibliographical Guide. Manchester and New York, 1995. (Ref DE59.Z99 H67 1995)
Graham Whitaker, A Bibliographical Guide to Classical Studies. Hildeshein: Olms-Weidmann, 1997-<2003>. (Ref PA91.Z99 W48 1997)
L'ANNÉE PHILOLOGIQUE
Online edition of the annual bibliography of classical studies, containing, as of January 2007, entries from 1949-2005. (Updates continue to add entries at both ends of the time span.)
GNOMON BIBLIOGRAPHISCHE DATENBANK: Internationales Informationssystem für die klassische Altertumswissenschaft. Verlag, C.H. Beck, 1994- Database covering all areas of classical studies; good index for reviews (Reference Desk PA3 .G62 CD-ROM)
Go to http://www.gnomon.ku-eichstaett.de/ to access entries from 1997 to the present— but note this is only a small portion of what is available on the CD-ROM!
TOCS-IN
Provides searchable tables of contents of 160 journals in Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion. Complete coverage from 1992 to present, with earlier contents from some journals.
GENERAL REFERENCE
Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, eds., The Oxford Classical Dictionary.
3rd edition. Oxford, 2003. (Ref DE5.O9 2003) Also online via Oxford Reference Online
P. E. Easterling and B. M. W. Knox, eds., Greek Literature: volume 1 of the Cambridge History of Classical Literature. Cambridge, 1985. (Ref PA3052.G73 1985)
Circulating copy also available in stacks.
E. J. Kenney and W. V. Clausen, eds., Latin Literature: volume 2 of the Cambridge History of Classical Literature. Cambridge, 1982. (Ref PA6003.L3)
Circulating copy also available in stacks.
The Cambridge Ancient History. 14 vols. 3rd edition (some volumes 2nd edition).
1970, 2000. (D57.C252)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. Zurich, Artemis, 1981-c.1997
(Ref N7760.L49 1981)
Wilhelm Roscher, ED., Ausführliches Lexikon der Griechischen und Romischen Mythologie. Leipzig, 1844-1937. (Tisch Book Stacks BL715.R7)
Donald Zeyl, ed., Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy. Westport, Conn., Greenwood, 1997.
(Ref B163.E53 1997)
| The "Pauly" family |
- Paulys Realencyclopaedie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Neue Bearbeitung begonnen v. G. Wissowa, fortgefuhrt v. Kroll und K. Mittelhaus, hrsg. v. K. Ziegler. Bd. lff. Stuttgart, 1893ff. <RE> (Ref DE5.P33)
- Der Kleine Pauly, hrsg. V. K. Ziegler, W. Sontheimer, und H. Gartner. Bd. 1ff. Munchen, 1964ff. <Kl.P> (Ref DE5.K5 1979)
- Der Neue Pauly: Enzyklopädie der Antike. Stuttgart, Metzler, c1996-<c.1999>
(Ref DE5 .N38 1996)
- Paulys Realencyclopaedie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft .... Register der Nachträge und Supplemente.
(DE5 .P33 Suppl. Index, 1980b)
- Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World: Antiquity. Hubert Cancik et al., editors. English edition. Leiden; Boston, Brill, 2002- (Ref DE5 381 .N3813 2002)
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OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE
Provides web access to 100 major Oxford University Press dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other
reference works. Includes the Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd edition).
Classics Titles Include:
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
New Pauly Online: Encyclopedia of the Ancient World
Providing coverage of the ancient world from Aegean prehistory (2nd millennium BCE) to late antiquity (600 800 CE), this encyclopedia includes the entire text of Metzler's Der Neue Pauly and also all volumes of the English language Brill's New Pauly now in print.
CREDO
Provides access to 162 online reference resources from numerous publishers, including:
Who's Who in the Roman World
A Guide to the Ancient World
Who's Who in Classical Mythology
DICTIONARIES
H. Liddell, R. Scott, eds., A Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford, 1940. <Revised by Sir Henry Stuart Jones>; supplementum (1968). (Ref PA445.E5 L6 1968)
C. T. Lewis, C. Short, ed., A Latin Dictionary. Oxford, 1879. (Ref PA2365.E5 A7 1955)
P. G. W. Glare, ed., Oxford Latin Dictionary. Oxford, 1968-1982. (Ref PA2365.E5 O9 1982)
Egidio Forcellini, Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Patavii, Gregoriana, 1965. 6 vols.
(Ref PA 2361.F7 1965)
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. Lipsae, 1900-- (Ref PA2361.T4)
Perseus Digital Library: Tools & Lexica
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (CD-ROM)
Munich: K.G. Saur Electronic Publishing: Horsham, PA: Thomas Technology Solutions, c.2002.
(Circulation Desk PA 2361.T44 2002 CD-ROM)
FULL TEXT COLLECTIONS
Budé Collection of Greek and Latin Texts (Tisch Book Stacks)
Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (CD-ROM)
Stuttgart: B.G. Teubner; Turnhout: Brepols, 1991-<2002>
A database comprising all the Latin texts which have appeared in the Bibliotheca
Teubneriana since its foundation. The database contains over 600 works from almost 300
authors, providing access to all the Latin texts of Antiquity from the beginning until the
end of the second century A.D. (Reference Desk PA6101.C48 CD-ROM and Guide)
CETEDOC Libraria of Christian Latin Texts, or CLCLT (CD-ROM)
Universitas Catholica Lovaniensis Lovanii Novi.
Full-text database of Christian Latin texts, covering the late second century to the fifteenth century. (Reference Desk BR60 .C4 CD-ROM)
IntraText Digital Library
An online digital library of over 700+ Latin texts.
Patrologiae Graecae
The most comprehensive record of Greek patristic material in existence, comprising digital images of more than 160 book volumes.
Patrologia Latina
An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of texts from the period between A.D. 600 and 1453. Log-in requires searchers to set up personal accounts, in part to save researchers' font preferences for later searches.
Perseus Project
Academic site contains a selection of Greek and Latin texts with translations, dictionaries and morphological tools for word analyses.
GRAMMARS
J. B. Greenough, ed., Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar. Boston/New York, c.1931. (Tisch Book Stacks PA2087.A525)
Basil L. Gildersleeve, G. Lodge, eds., Latin Grammar. London, Macmillan, 1960
(3rd edition, rev.) (Tisch Book Stacks PA2087.G5 1960)
W. G. Hale, C. D. Buck, eds., A Latin Grammar. University of Alabama, 1966. Tisch Book Stacks (PA2087.H168 1966)
GEOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
Richard J.A. Talbert, ed., Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2000.
(Ref Folio G1033.B2000; Suppl. Disc, CD-ROM, at Circulation Desk)
Lawrence Richardson, A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c.1992. (Tisch Book Stacks DG68.R5 1992)
Michael Grant, Atlas of Classical History. New York, 1994. (Ref G1033 .G65 1994)
Nicholas G.L. Hammond, Atlas of the Greek and Roman World in Antiquity. Park Ridge, N.J., 1981.( Tisch FOLIO, G1033 .A84 1981)
William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 2 volumes. Boston,
1854-57. (Ref DE25.S662)
Related to ARCHAEOLOGY:
Richard Stillwell, et.al., The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton, 1976.
(Ref DE59.P7)
M. I. Finley, Atlas of Classical Archaeology. 2 volumes. New York, 1977
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TRANSMISSION
L. D. Reynolds, N. G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature. 2nd edition, revised. Oxford, 1974. (Tisch Book Stacks Z40.R4 1974)
L. D. Reynolds, ed., Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics. Oxford, 1983. (Tisch Book Stacks PA 6004.T49 1983)
JOURNALS
Click here for a sample list of Classical Studies periodical titles Tisch Library owns in print and/or available on-line.
SELECTED ONLINE RESOURCES
PERSEUS DIGITAL LIBRARY
Evolving collection of integrated materials—including primary and secondary texts, art and photographic images, maps, and site plans—maintained by Tufts Professor Gregory Crane and freely available on the web.
ARTS & HUMANITIES CITATION INDEX (1975-PRESENT)
(Part of Web of Science.) Provides author, subject and citation access to journal articles and book reviews in the arts and humanities.
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
(Useful for studies concerning the transmission of classical texts)
An index of interdisciplinary journal literature on the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes citations for articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts, and discographies.
ARTSTOR
Image database of architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, and archaeological and anthropological objects—with associated catalog data—from many major collections.
BHA: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF ART
Covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present, the Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals.
ACADEMIC ONEFILE (1980-present)
Both popular and scholarly articles in humanities, social sciences, biological and earth sciences.
LEXIS-NEXIS
Full-text resource including articles from major American newspapers, in addition to many periodicals and regional papers, among other sources.
DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS (1861-present)
Selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe.
CURRENT RESEARCH @ TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Full-text access to all the Tufts University dissertations and theses published in the Dissertation Abstracts database from 1996 forward.
DISSERTATIONS and THESES: FULL TEXT
A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world offering over 2 million titles, more than 930,000 of which are available in PDF format for immediate download. New full-text titles are added weekly. Only a few dissertations of the Sackler School are included. TUSDM theses are not included.
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AREA LIBRARY RESOURCES BEYOND TUFTS
Boston Library Consortium
See information at http://www.library.tufts.edu/tisch/blc_policies.htm
Countway Library
10 Shattuck St., Boston
(Countway Library allows non-Harvard students to use the library for a daily fee of $35.)
PHONE NUMBERS OF INTEREST
Tisch Reference Desk 7-3460 (from on-campus) 617-627-3460 (from off-campus)
tischref@tufts.edu
Abigail Cross, Reference Librarian 7-2092 (from on-campus) 617-627-2092 (from off-campus)
abigail.cross@tufts.edu
Tufts Hirsh Health Sciences Library
Reference Desk 6-6705 (from on-campus) 617-636-6705 (from off-campus)
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