Research Guides: Classics: Getting Started

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Welcome to the Classics research guide, a starting point for your research!

Highlighted Resources

Oxford Classical Dictionary
The full text of the Oxford Classical Dictionary, edited by Simon Hornblower et al. (4th ed.; Oxford, 2012). Part of Oxford Reference.

Brill's New Pauly
Publication Date: 2010
A twelve-volume encyclopedia of the classical world, with five supplementary volumes including a Historical Atlas of the Ancient World. Also includes two helpful lists of abbreviations used by scholars, one of ancient authors and titles and the other of modern journals and books.

Oxford Reference
Davidson’s subscription to Oxford Reference lets you search all of the following at once:
The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture (2007)
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd edition, 2005)
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4th edition, 2012). A single volume with more than 6,700 entries, briefer than those in Brill’s New Pauly.
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3rd ed., 2011)
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (2010)

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History
The only comprehensive collection of twenty-first century scholarship available on the entire ancient Mediterranean world, with over 5,700 original entries published since November 2012.

Oxford Bibliographies
A growing collection of online, annotated bibliographies, including both print and online resources, compiled by experts in the field and providing descriptions of the key literature on a topic. The library subscribes to the classics module, among others.