Guides: Subject Guide ~ Classics and Ancient Civilizations: Background Information

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Database of Latin Dictionaries This link opens in a new window
A collection of 23 dictionaries for the study of the Latin language, ancient, medieval and modern.
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Oxford Dictionaries This link opens in a new window
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Fully searchable bilingual dictionaries and study materials for six languages: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) This link opens in a new window
Documents the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words. Trace the historical evolution of a word using quotations found in sources ranging from classic literature to cookbooks.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae This link opens in a new window
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Full text of virtually all Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.), and A.D. 600 and the majority of surviving works up the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453.
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Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL)
The Thesaurus linguae Latinae is the first comprehensive dictionary of ancient Latin; it puts our knowledge of Latin antiquity on an entirely new footing. It is compiled on the basis of all Latin texts surviving from antiquity (until AD 600), both literary and non-literary

Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome by T. James Luce (Editor)
Call Number: PA 3002 .A5 1982
ISBN: 0684165953
Publication Date: 1982-09-01
v. 1. Homer to Caesar
v. 2. Lucretius to Ammianus Marcellinus.
Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, Antiquity by Hubert Cancik (Editor); Helmut Schneider (Editor); Manfred Landfester (Editor); Christine F. Salazar (Editor)
Call Number: DE 5 .N3913 2002
ISBN: 9004122591
Publication Date: 2011
Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, Classical Tradition by Hubert Cancik (Editor); Helmut Schneider (Editor); Manfred Landfester (Editor); Christine F. Salazar (Editor)
Call Number: DE 5 .P33213 2006
ISBN: 9004122591
Publication Date: 2011
A Global History of Architecture by Francis D. K. Ching (Consultant Editor); Mark M. Jarzombek; Vikramaditya Prakash
Call Number: NA 200 .C493 2011
ISBN: 9780470402573
Publication Date: 2010

Grove Art Online This link opens in a new window
Scholarly encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art with more than 45,000 articles, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 citations, and 40,000 image links.

Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture by Gordon Campbell
ISBN: 9780195300826
Publication Date: 2007-06-18
v. 1. Abacus to Lyson and Kallikles tomb
v. 2. Macedonia to Zygouries.
Ancient Greece and Rome by Michael Gagarin (Editor)
ISBN: 9780195170726
Publication Date: 2009-12-31
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.
Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization by Simon Hornblower and Anthony Spawforth
ISBN: 9780191727368
Publication Date: 2003
Oxford Companion to Classical Literature by Margaret Howatson
ISBN: 0198661215
Publication Date: 1989

Artstor on JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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An image library for the arts and sciences. A rich collection of more than one million high-resolution images and tools for teaching and research. Subjects include architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, as well as archeological and anthropological objects. Coverage: prehistory to present.
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Atlas of the Greek World by Peter Levi
Call Number: DF 77 .L39 1980b
ISBN: 0871964481
Publication Date: 1981
Atlas of the Roman World by Tim Cornell; John R. Matthews
Call Number: DG 77 .C597 1982
ISBN: 0871966522
Publication Date: 1982