Classics

Facts and Background Information
Selected print and electronic encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, etc.
Books
Locate items in the library catalog and other libraries.
Articles
Use indexes to search for articles in journals, proceedings, etc.
Primary Sources
Websites
Recommended academic, professional, and learned societies sites, and more.
Contact a Librarian

Below are a few major, frequently used sources for the study of Classics. See also the brief guide to Humanities, Art and Architecture, and Philosophy.

Please consult with a reference librarian for directions to many more sources in your topic. Internet resources require a Tufts I.D. number for off-campus access (authorized users statement).

 

Facts and Background Information     [back to top]

New Pauly Online
The standard encyclopedia of the ancient world. Includes the entire text of Metzler's Der neue Pauly, together with Brill's New Pauly.

The Cambridge Ancient History
[PRINT. Tisch Book Stacks D57 .C25]

English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language
An online edition of a standard reference work by S.C. Woodhouse.

In Principio
A collection of approximately 1,000,000 incipits covering all known Latin texts, in manuscript form, from the start of Latin literature to around 1500 A.D.

The Oxford Classical Dictionary
[PRINT. Tisch Reference DE5 .O9]

Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PA31 .H69]

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
[PRINT. Tisch Reference DE59 .P7]

Dictionaries and Grammars

A Greek-English Lexicon
[PRINT. Tisch Book Stacks PA445 .E5]

A Latin Grammar
[PRINT. Tisch Book Stacks PA2087 .H168]

Lexicon Totius Latinitatis
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PA 2361 .F7]

Oxford Latin Dictionary
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PA2365 .E5 O9]

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PA2361 .T4]

For more on how to find facts and background information, click here.

Find Books     [back to top]

These databases use Library of Congress subject headings:

Library Catalog How To Use

Boston Library Consortium Catalogs How To Use

Worldcat How To Use
Catalog records from thousands of North American libraries.

For more on how to find books, click here.

Find Articles     [back to top]

L'Ann�e Philologique
Online edition of the annual bibliography of classical studies, containing, as of January 2003, entries from 1969-1999. Future updates will add both more recent entries as well as earlier volumes. Use in conjunction with printed volumes covering earlier years.

L'Annee Philologique: Bibliographie Critique et Analytique de l'Antiquite Greco-Latin. Paris, Societe d'edition "Les Belles Lettres," 1928- (repr. 1957-1969)
[PRINT. Tisch Reference Z7016 .A5]
Annual bibliography for all areas of classical studies, from 1924 forward (publication lags three or four years behind current year). Contains citations of all known scholarly work published in any language on ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy, in the period from the second millennium B.C. to 500-800 A.D.

Dix Annees de Bibliographie Classique. Paris, Societe d'edition "Les Belles Lettres," 1927-28 (repr.1957-1969)
[PRINT. Tisch Reference Z7016 .M35]
Predecessor of L'Annee Philologique, covering 1914-1924.

Expanded Academic ASAP How To Use
Articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade, and general-interest publications, including national news and commentary. Coverage is from 1980 to current and is updated daily. Some full text is available.

Electronic journals

All periodicals held by Tufts are listed in the library catalog. Holdings in all formats are unified in one record, and most entries for journals held in digital format contain a hyperlink to the source; searches in the web-based catalog enable one to follow these links directly. A supplementary list of electronic journals is on the Tisch homepage under Electronic Journals.

Many humanities journals held in digital format are parts of Project Muse or JSTOR. Although these databases include search engines for the journals they contain, the indexes listed above are the most comprehensive and authoritative sources for the literature of the discipline, and frequently link directly to our electronic journals.

For more on how to find articles, see Database Searching Tips (also available in PDF).

Primary Sources     [back to top]

CETEDOC. Brepols, 1991 -
[CD-ROM - Request at Tisch reference desk]
Full-text database of Christian Latin texts, covering the late Second Century BCE to the Fifteenth Century.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of texts from the period between A.D. 600 and 1453. Log-in requires searchers to set up personal accounts, in part to save researchers' font preferences for later searches.

Patrologiae Graecae
The most comprehensive record of Greek patristic material in existence, comprising digital images of more than 160 book volumes.

Websites     [back to top]

Tufts Department of Classics

Perseus Project
An evolving digital library of texts, images, and reference works for the study of the ancient world and beyond.

Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua

Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology Diotima

Materials for the study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World.

Electronic Resources for Classicists

Literary Resources on the Net -- Classical and Biblical

MedHist
A gateway to internet resources on the history of medicine and allied sciences, developed and managed by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.

TOCS-IN
Provides searchable tables of contents of 160 journals in Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion. Complete coverage from 1992 to present, with earlier contents from some journals.

Voice of the Shuttle: Classical Studies Page

For more on how to find and evaluate websites, see How to Evaluate Web Sources.

Contact a Librarian     [back to top]

Christopher Barbour. Contact for questions about library collections.
Chris Strauber. Contact for reference questions and instruction requests.

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