Research Guides: Ancient Studies: Getting Started

Background Reading and Topic Development

Take a look at Library's guides on choosing a topic and the research process to help you get started. Explore a topic in the resources below.

New Pauly Online This link opens in a new window
Coverage: Full Text
Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopedia of the Ancient World Online features the complete sets of Brill's New Pauly (in English) and Metzler's Der Neue Pauly (in German). The online version includes both sets of the print edition: Antiquity (factual articles on topics of ancient Greece, Rome and the greater Mediterranean world) and Classical Tradition (historical and contemporary scholarship on the influence of the Classical world).
Oxford Bibliographies Online - Classics This link opens in a new window
Coverage: Index Only
Provides overviews, definitions, and citations to works on classical topics.

Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art & Architecture
The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture is a comprehensive resource for the visual arts of the Classical period. It contains articles ranging from biographies to thematic entries on architecture, ceramics, metalwork, mosaics, painting and sculpture.
Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd rev. ed)
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.