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.
Also available in print: REFERENCE N5610 .G76 2007
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.
Call number: online and in print Reference DE5 .O9 2003

Ancient Greece and Rome by Michael Gagarin (Editor)
Call Number: Reference DE5 .O95 2010
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome classical antiquity is a comprehensive overview of the major cultures of the classical Mediterranean world--Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman--from the Bronze Age to the fifth century CE. It also covers the legacy of the classical world and its interpretation and influence in subsequent centuries.
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World by Richard J. A. Talbert (Editor)
Call Number: Reference - Atlases G1033 .B3 2000
In 102 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the Barrington Atlas re-creates the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from the British Isles to the Indian subcontinent and deep into North Africa.