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This guide provides links to some of the most important resources available for Classical Studies.

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Books & Articles

University of Chicago Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
Find items in all campus libraries, including books, periodicals, sound recordings, videos, DVDs and more.
WorldCat (OCLC) This link opens in a new window
WorldCat is a database that allows researchers to search the combined catalogs of hundreds of libraries around the world. It contains more than 52 million records for books, journals, audiovisual materials and more. This source can help researchers find items, verify citations, and identify which libraries hold a particular title.
L'Année philologique This link opens in a new window
Indexes all aspects of classical studies, including authors and texts, literature, linguistics, archaeology, epigraphy and numismatics, history, philosophy, science, and technology.
ZENON DAI: Zentraler Online-Katalog des Deutschen Archologischen Instituts This link opens in a new window
Zentraler Online-Katalog des Deutschen Archologischen Instituts. ZENON indexes books and articles based on the subject catalogues of the offices of the German Archaeological Institute.
Guide to Zenon DAI is available from the Clark Art Institute.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A database of back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. All issues of each journal are included in full-text except for the most recent 2-to-5 years.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics This link opens in a new window
Regularly updated annotated bibliography addressing themes and topics in Classics.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
With citation linking
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
For citation linking. Uncheck the Science Index.
Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 10,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage available to 1900. Includes the Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Web of Science is especially useful for its citation linking.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses This link opens in a new window
Includes citations for materials from the first U.S. dissertation (1861) to those accepted as recently as last semester. Starting in 1997 full-text is often available. If full-text is not available information about ordering the document is provided.

E-Journals

UChicago E-Journals This link opens in a new window
The Electronic Journals Database provides access to the majority of the electronic journal titles available through the University of Chicago Library. Browse by journal title or conduct a title keyword or ISSN search.
Serial Guide: Classics, Ancient Near East, Medieval Latin & Byzantine Studies This link opens in a new window

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Encyclopedia of Ancient History This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of twenty-first century scholarship available on the entire ancient Mediterranean world. Our board of experienced and internationally diverse editors has collected over 5,000 original entries spanning the late Bronze Age through the seventh century CE. Entries extend to all Mediterranean civilizations, including the Near East and Egypt, and represent an unprecedented level of coverage of the ancient world.
From their Website
New Pauly Online This link opens in a new window
The entire text of Metzler's Der neue Pauly, which was published in 18 volumes (13 on Antiquity, 5 on the Classical Tradition) and one index volume, is available here together with all volumes of Brill's New Pauly now in print, with regular updates when new translations become available. Advanced search functions, complimented by keyword and subject indices, enable the user to search and combine data efficiently from a vast corpus of over 27,000 entries and sub-entries. The guiding principle in developing the online version of the New Pauly was to supply its users with exactly the same information the book itself would provide, while improving their ability to search and, consequently, use the information.
Oxford Classical Dictionary This link opens in a new window
For almost half a century, The Oxford Classical Dictionary has been regarded as the unrivalled one-volume reference work on all aspects of the Graeco-Roman world. It provides both scholars and non-specialists with a comprehensive source of reference which aims to answer all their questions about the classical world. Written by the very best of classical scholars from all over the world, the Dictionary provides coverage of Greek and Roman history, literature, myth, religion, linguistics, philosophy, law, science, art and archaeology, and topics in near eastern studies and late antiquity. (Description from Oxford website.)
Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture This link opens in a new window
The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture edited by Gordon Campbell (Oxford, 2007) is a comprehensive reference resource for the visual arts of the Classical period.
Logeion This link opens in a new window
Logeion was developed to provide simultaneous lookup of entries in many Greek and Latin dictionaries. Dictionaries include the Perseus Classical collection (Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (1940); Liddell and Scott's Intermediate Greek Lexicon (1889); Autenrieth's Homeric Dictionary (1891); Lewis and Short's Latin-English Lexicon (1879); Lewis's Elementary Latin Dictionary (1890)) as well as The Diccionario Griego-Espaol Project, Du Cange, et al., Glossarium medi et infim latinitatis (1883-1887), Basiswoordenlijst Latijn (1975), and Pinksters Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands (2011).
Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, 1940 This link opens in a new window
Henry George Liddell & Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon. Revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1940.
Cambridge Greek Lexicon This link opens in a new window
Entries are organised according to meaning, with a view to showing the developing senses of words and the relationships between those senses. Other contextual and explanatory information, all expressed in contemporary English, is included, such as the typical circumstances in which a word may be used.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) This link opens in a new window
Also available Open access PDFs (not searchable)
Kommission fr die Herausgabe des Thesaurus linguae Latinae :The TLL, when complete, will be the first comprehensive scholarly dictionary of ancient Latin from the earliest times down to AD 600.

Greek & Latin Texts

TLG: Thesaurus Linguae Graecae This link opens in a new window
The full database is currently not available to UChicago users. In the meantime, if the open access TLG texts are not sufficient, please use Perseus under PhiloLogic or, perhaps, the Digital Loeb Classical Library.
An increasingly comprehensive collection of all the surviving texts of Greek literature from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453.
Library of Latin Texts (BTL & CLCLT) This link opens in a new window
Available within the Cross Database Searchtool
Database contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council. Covers all the works from the classical period up to the 2nd century C.E./A.D; the most important patristic works starting around 200 C.E./A.D. with Tertullian, ending with the death of Venerable Bede in 735; a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas - texts taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions; and, Neo-Latin literature (1501-1962) including decrees from the modern ecumenical Church councils up to Vatican II, and translations into Latin of important sixteenth-century works.
Digital Loeb Classical Library This link opens in a new window
Loeb Classical Library in electronic form, which includes more than 520 volumes of Classical Greek and Latin literature.
Cross Database Searchtool This link opens in a new window
Including Library of Latin Texts (A & B), Monument Germaniae Historica, Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature, and Aristoteles Latinus Database.
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to over 1,700 editions covering over 2000 years of history, showcasing their authoritative editorial notes directly alongside the text and enabling advanced search within and between editions.
Perseus under PhiloLogic This link opens in a new window
Including Greek texts, Latin texts, commentaries, encyclopedias, dictionaries, grammars and grammar lookup, dictionary lookup, commentary finder, and parser.
Papyrological Navigator This link opens in a new window
The Papyrological Navigator currently retrieves and displays information from the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP) and the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis (HGV).

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Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, & General Humanities and interim Linguistics
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Subjects: Ancient Near East, Classics, General Humanities, Humanities, Linguistics, Medieval and Byzantine Studies

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