University Libraries

• L'Année philologique : bibliographie critique et analytique de l'antiquité gréco-latine. - Paris : Société d'édition "Les Belles Lettres"
• Archäologische Bibliographie (Projekt Dyabola)
• Gnomon Online On-line access to a portion of the Gnonom bibliographic CD-Rom, with a complete entries from 1997 and onwards. Indexes books and dissertations as well as journal articles.
• International Medieval Bibliography
• TOCS-IN (Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists)
• ZENON-DAI The Central On-line Catalog of the Deutsches Archäologische Institut

Electronic Journals

(see also the E-Journals Page in the "Reference Sources" portion of the Library web site)

• Arethusa - The print journal is published at SUNY Buffalo; the online version comes via Project Muse, at Johns Hopkins University. Olin Library subscribes to the print version
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Classical Antiquity [print version]
• Classical Quarterly [print version]
• Classical Review [print version]
• Didaskalia
• Greece and Rome [print version]
• Mnemosyne [print version]
• The Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics
• Scholia
• Zeitschrift fuer Papyrologie und Epigraphik - Volumes 110 through 123 now available online. Site is in German; Acrobat 4.0 or better is required to view the articles.

Full-Text Electronic Books

• University of California Press, "E-Editions" - Full text of selected UC Press books in a variety of subjects, including classics.

The list of reference sources below focuses on printed material. For electronic sources, see "Related Web Sites".

A couple of cautions: First, many of the essential classics research tools are available only in print. Second, some classics tools will require language skills (ancient languages, German, French, or some combination of these). In the lists below, I've separated English-language sources from foreign-language sources. I'm happy to help locate English language sources for research on classics-related subjects (But bear in mind that, depending on your topic, an English language source may not be available).

Here are some good "all purpose" reference sources. All of these are in English.

• Cambridge History of Classical Literature,, ed. E.J. Kenney.
  v.1 - Greek Literature (PA3052.G73 1985)
  v.2 - Latin Literature (PA6003 L3)
• Pierre Grimal, Dictionary of Classical Mythology, tr. A.R. Maxwell-Hyslop. Excellent resource for any topic in classical mythology. (Olin Reference BL715 G713 1986)
• Oxford Classical Dictionary (DE5 O9 1970) - The best place to start for information and references in English.
• Oxford History of the Classical World, ed. John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray (DE59 O94 1986)

Here are some introductory works for the study of Latin Paleography (study of letter forms and transmission of ancient texts). Be sure to also check out the The Philip Mills Arnold Semeiology Collection, housed in Special Collections. The Arnold Collection is an internationally recognized resource for the study of signs and symbols, decipherment of ancient languages, cryptography, and similar subjects.

• Bernhard Bischoff, Latin Paleography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages - The standard beginning textbook for the study of ancient scripts, by the longtime master of the field. (Special Collections/Arnold: Z114 B5713 1990)
• Edward Maunde Thompson, Introduction to Greek and Latin Paleography. (Z114 T472 1965)
• Graduate students, or those who have taken paleography courses, will want to know about: Leonard Boyle, Medieval Latin Paleography: A Bibliographical Introduction, tr. Daibhi o Croinin and David Ganz. (Special Collections/Arnold: Z114 B5713 1990)
  L.D. Reynolds and N.G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (PA47 R4 1991)
  L.D. Reynolds, et.al., Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics (PA 6004 T49 1983)
• Another source for graduate students is: E.A. Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores. The standard collection of pre-Carolingian manuscripts. Reading knowledge of Latin is essential. (Z114 C677 4o - NOTE This is oversize)

Here are some introductory works for the study of Roman Law, all in English.

• W.W. Buckland, Elementary Principles of Roman Private Law (Law LC Collection: KJA2190 .B83 1912a)
• W.W. Buckland, Textbook of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian (K R853 B82 1966)
• J.A. Crook, Law and Life of Rome (DC78 C7; Law LC Collection: KJA147 .C76 1967)
• Wolfgang Kunkel, An Introduction to Roman Legal and Constitutional History, tr. J.M. Kelley (DC88 K852; also in the Law LC Collection: KJA147 .K86 1966)

The works below will require reading knowledge of foreign languages and are best suited to graduate students and faculty.

• Aufstieg und Niedergang der Romischen Welt (also known as simply "ANRW") - Bibliographic articles concerning a wide range of topics in Classical Studies. Some articles are in English, some are not. (DG209 T36)
• L'Annee Philologique - Articles from every major classics journal will be indexed here, organized along topical lines. An excellent starting point for research on almost any topic in Classics. The introductory material is in French; citations are in a variety of languages, including English. (Reference: Z7016 .M35A)
• Paulys Real-encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft - Also known as "Pauly-Wissowa". Strong reading knowledge of German required. Pauly-Wissowa, originally published in 1894, is currently undergoing revision. This revision is known as "Der Neue Pauly" and the Libraries have purchased it.
  Pauly Wissowa: Reference: DE5 P33
  Der Neue Pauly: DE5 .N48

Teaching Aids

• Online Survey of Audio Visual Resources in Classics - Looking for a video on Pompeii? An interactive CD-ROM game set in ancient Rome or Greece? Slides of Crete, Delphi, or Roman Britain? Scholarly databases on CD-ROM? A performance of an Aristophanes play in English or a Plautus play in Latin? Find all of this and more right here. Created and maintained by Dr. Janice Siegel, assistant professor of classics at Hampden-Sydney College.

Collections of Resources

• Bibliography of Neo-Latin Texts - From Dana Sutton, University of California, Irvine.
• Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation - From Professor Maria Pantelia, of the University of California, Irvine
• Greek and Latin Classics - From the Library of Congress
• Labyrinth - From Georgetown University. Primarily a Medieval Studies resource, but contains many links which are valuable for classicists.
• Perseus Project - Digital library from Tufts University
• Voice of the Shuttle - Classical Studies Page. From the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Art and Archaeology

• Perseus Project - Classical Art and Archaeology Page
• Trajan Project - Database of 500 images depicting the Column of Trajan. From McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Greek and Latin Languages

• Perseus Project - Text, Tools, and Lexica - Includes online/searchable versions of the Liddell-Scott Greek Lexicon (aka "Great Scott"), the Intermediate Liddell-Scott Greek Lexicon (aka "Middle Liddell"), and the Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary.

Late Antiquity

• James O'Donnell Page - This very informative site comes from a professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Includes pages on Augustine, Boethius, Cassiodorus, Donatus, Jerome, and Gregory the Great; a nice introductory page on paleography, and much information on book culture and literacy in Late Antiquity.

Roman Law

• Roman Law - Part of the Law-Related Internet Project at the Univesity of Saarbrucken, Germany. Contains portions of the Corpus Iuris Civilis, with corresponding glosses by Accursius (the most important of the medieval commentators on Roman Law). The introdutory material is in English, but the legal texts themselves are in Latin.

Greek and Latin Literature

• The Latin Library - Formerly at George Mason University, now housed at Ad Fontes Academy, in Virginia. Includes works by Apuleius, Augustine, Augustus, Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Juvenal, Livy, Lucretius, Nepos Ovid, Persius, Plautus, Propertius, Prudentius, Sallust, Seneca, Suetonius, Tacitus, Terence, Tibullus, and Virgil
  Note: These texts are in Latin
• Labyrinth Latin Library - From Georgetown University. Especially useful for patristic and liturgical texts (Tertullian, Boethius, Latin Vulgate) and grammatical commentaries (Donatus)
• Internet Classics Archive - From MIT. A searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts in English translation with user-provided commentary.

Ancient Medicine

• Ancient Greek Medicine - From the National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division
• Medicina Antiqua - Hosted by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL.

Paleography (study of ancient scripts)

• Manuscripts, Paleography, and Codicology Resources - From the Georgetown University "Labyrinth". Includes references to online manuscript catalogs, research libraries with medieval manuscript collections, and digitized images of important medieval manuscripts.

Papyrology (study of ancient papyri)

• Papyrology Home Page - By John D. Muccigrosso, assistant professor of classics at Drew University.
• Duke University Papyrus Collection
• Princeton University Papyrus Collection
• Tebtunis Papyrus Collection, University of California, Berkeley
• University of Michigan Papyrus Collection
• Yale University Papyrus Collection

Women's Studies/Gender Studies

• Diotima - Developed by Suzanne Bonefas (University of Kentucky) and Ross Scaife (Miami University). A collection of materials related to the study of women and gender in the ancient world, including: syllabi of recent courses offered on women in antiquity, links to essays on women in antiquity; electronic reviews and bibliographies.

• Visit the Classics Department at Washington University - Be sure to check out their list of links to Classics sites on the Internet.