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Featured Reference Source
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The Oxford Classical Dictionary. (Online)Fourth edition / general editors, Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth assistant editor, Esther Eidinow. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. Online.
Find Background Info: Use Reference Sources
Reference sources such as encyclopedias and dictionaries can be useful for background information or an overview of a topic, definitions of specialized terminology, verification of historical facts, biographical information, and identification of references to other sources through bibliographies. In the boxes below are some examples of reference sources in the Libraries' collections.
The list below shows the call number ranges for the history and literature of Ancient Greece. You can browse these areas on Memorial Library's second floor, South Stacks, or the Greek and Latin Reading Room (Room 424), for print reference sources.
- D 51-90 - Ancient History
- DE - History of the Greco-Roman World
- DF 10-289 - History of Ancient Greece.
- PA - Classical Philology, Greek, Roman, Classical Literature
Selected Classical Studies Reference Sources
Below is a list of selected Classical Studies reference sources. The title link goes to the Library Catalog record for the source. Some of these sources on print only, some are online only, and some are online and in print. Also see Online Reference Collections for the ability to search across some of these sources.
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Brill's New Pauly : Encyclopaedia of the Ancient WorldCancik, Hubert, et al. Brill's New Pauly : Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Print.
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The Oxford Classical Dictionary. (Online)Fourth edition / general editors, Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth assistant editor, Esther Eidinow. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. Online.
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The Oxford Classical DictionaryFourth edition / general editors, Hornblower, Simon, Antony Spawforth, and Esther Eidinow. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Fourth edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. Print.
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The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (Online)Edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth ; assistant editor, Esther Eidinow. Second edition. New York : Oxford University Press, 2014. Online.
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The Oxford Companion to Classical CivilizationSecond edition. New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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The Oxford Companion to Classical CivilizationHornblower, Simon, and Antony Spawforth. The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and ReligionKearns, Emily, and S. R. F Price. The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Online)Gagarin, Michael, and Elaine Fantham. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Online.
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and RomeGagarin, Michael, and Elaine Fantham. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
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The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical CivilizationShipley, Graham. The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Dictionary of Ancient HistorySpeake, Graham. Dictionary of Ancient History. [Oxford, England, UK]: Blackwell Publishers, 1994.
Online Reference Collections
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Cambridge Companions OnlineThis Collection offers more than 450 of the Cambridge Companions for searching and browsing. These are detailed guides to authors, composers, philosophers, genres, various literatures and other fields of study, providing context and analysis for a thorough introduction. The Companions Online include the Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics and the Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion and Culture and the Companions in Music. Titles are cataloged individually in the library catalog. (Updates ongoing)
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Oxford Reference OnlineOxford Reference online: Premium Collection combines rich and scholarly resources with authoritative, quick-reference coverage of the full subject spectrum. Over 130 subject dictionaries, plus the World Encyclopedia, offer unrivalled coverage of everything from art to accountancy, politics to physics, and computing to classics. It includes English dictionaries, and bilingual dictionaries of French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Over 900,000 entries across 25 subjects, including an expanding range of Oxford Companions, and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Please NOTE: Once you do a search on a topic, you can limit your results to only the materials which we license by clicking the checkbox on the left labelled "Show full text results only". If you do not check this Full Text limiting box, your search results will likely contain articles where you can only see the Abstract and Keywords and you are asked to Subscribe or Login to access full text content. Any content with a small "lock" icon next to it is not licensed.