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Guide to Selected Greek and Roman Studies Resources

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Literature - General
Literature - Early Greek and Roman Philosophy
Literature - Gender In The Ancient World
Indexes to the World Wide Web 
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Scholarly
A & H Search  Arts & Humanities Citation Index -1980 to present.
Essay and General Literature Index (Print)  AI3 .E752 - 1900 to 1992 
Essay and General Literature  1985 to present.
Historical Abstracts 1972 to present. 
Humanities Abstracts  1984 to present.
Humanities Index (Print)  AI3 .H85 - 1974 to 1993.
JSTOR  Offers full-text electronic access to a back file of core scholarly journals (currently 150), many of which reach back to the 1800s.
MLA Bibliography Modern Languages Association bibliography of literature, languages, linguistics and folklore from journals and series published worldwide. 1963 to present.
Project Muse Offers full-text electronic access to over 160 scholarly journals. 1993 to present.
TOCS-IN Provides tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals

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Popular 
Academic Search Premier  1990 to present. Provides full text for over 4,600 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, and education.
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. AI21.C45C47 - 1905 to present

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Greek and Roman Studies Call Numbers Ranges:

History: General and Old World
DE 1-100 The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World
DF 10-951 Greece
DF 10-289 Ancient Greece
DF 501-649 Medieval Greece. Byzantine Empire
DG 11-999 Italy
DG 11-365 Ancient Italy. Rome to 476
DG 401-583 Medieval and Modern Italy Languages and Literature
PA 1-8595 Classical languages and literature
PA 227-1179 Greek philology and language
PA 2001-2915 Latin philology and language
PA 3051-4500 Greek Literature - Ancient to 600 A.D.
PA 4505 Medieval and modern authors writing in classical Greek
PA 5000-5660 Greek Literature - Byzantine and modern
PA 6001-6971 Latin Literature - Ancient Roman PA 8001-8595 Latin Literature - Medieval and modern

The Ames Library uses Library of Congress Classification.

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Reference & Web Sources
Encyclopedias & General Information Resources
Barrington Atlas of the Greek & Roman World Ref. G1033.B3 2000
Chronicle of the Roman Emperors Ref. DG274.S28 1995
Classical Studies: A Guide to the Reference Literature  Ref. PA91.J46 2006
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece Ref. DF16.E52 2006
Greek Too! Resource promoting the study of Greek.
Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art & Architecture Ref. N5610.G76 2007
New Century Classical Handbook Ref. DE5.N4
New Topological Dictionary of Ancient Rome Ref. DG68.R5 1992
Place Names in Classical Mythology: Greece  Ref. DF16.B45 1989
Oxford Classical Dictionary Ref. DE5.O9 2003
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium  Ref. DF521.O93 1991
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt  Ref. DT58.O94 2001

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Biography

Biographical Dictionary 

CT163.C41997 
European Historical Biography   CT759.R441992
 Women in World History HQ1115.W61999
Women of Classical Mythology: a Biographical Dictionary   BL715.B445 1991

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General Handbooks & Style Guides
Chicago Manual of Style  Ref. Z253.U69 2003
Basic CGOS Style - Columbia University Press  Part of the Columbia Guide to Online Style, this site features simultaneous guidelines for using both humanities (MLA) and scientific (APA) citation styles.
Glossary of Literary terms (Abrams)  Ref. PN41.A184 1988 
Handbook to Literature (Holman)  Ref. PN41.H6 1986
OWL-Online Writing Lab  MLA Format - Purdue's Online Writing Workshop
Literature Research Guide Ref. PR83.H376 2008
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers  Ref. PE 1478.M57
 IWU Writing Center Style Guide Brochures

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Dictionaries

Greek-English Lexicon (Liddle & Scott)

Ref. PA445.E5L6 1996   
Greek-English Lexicon (Liddell & Scott) Online edition of core resource first published in 1925.
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early Christian Literature  Ref. PA831.B38 2001
Greek Grammar for College Students (H. W. Smyth) Part of the Perseus Project at Tufts University.
Latin Dictionary (Lewis & Short) Ref. PA2365.E5A7 1996
New College Latin-English Dictionary Ref. PA2365.E5T7 1994
Oxford Latin Dictionary  Ref. PA 2365.E5 09 1996

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Literature - General
Crowell's Handbook to Classical Drama Ref. PA3024.H35
Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities Ref. D5.P36 1898
Oxford Companion to Classical Literature Ref. DE5.H32 1989
Bryn Mawr Classical Review Searchable database of book reviews on all topics of Greco-Roman antiquity.
The Internet Classics Archive  Search over 400 classic works of literature on the Internet - sponsored by the MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization provided by the Berkeley Digital Library.
Electronic Text Collection in Western European Literature Western European Studies Section/ACRL.
The Virgil Home Page Online texts, readings, essays and bibliographies.

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Literature- Early Greek and Roman Philosophy
The Last Days of Socrates

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Literature - Gender in the Ancient World
Diotima Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the ancient world.

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Indexes to the World Wide Web
The Ancient World Web
Greek Scripts Collection of visual examples of Greek written in its pre-alphabetic form (Linear B) and on a variety of Papyri.
Perseus Digital Library  An evolving digital library containing a wide range of source materials in Classical Studies
WESSWeb  Classics Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Classics Studies. The geographical coverage includes the Mediterranean (particularly Greece and Rome) during the Classical and Hellenistic periods.

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Professional Associations
The American Philological Association
Modern Languages Association (MLA)

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