Research by Subject: Classics

ENCYCLOPEDIAS & DICTIONARIES

Oxford Classical Dictionary Wheaton Faculty, Staff, & Students only ArticleLinker enabled
The electronic version of the 3rd ed. Covers all aspects of the Greco-Roman world, from politics and economics to religion and philosophy to literature and art to social history and gender.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome Wheaton Faculty, Staff, & Students only ArticleLinker enabled
Offers 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.

Brill's New Pauly
Call Number: Ref DE5 .P332
Wheaton Faculty, Staff, & Students only
Encyclopedia of the ancient world. Divided into three sets: Antiquity, Classical Tradition, and Chronologies of the Ancient World - Names, Dates, and Dynasties.

LIBRARY CATALOG - BOOKS & MORE

HELIN Library Catalog Wheaton Faculty, Staff, & Students only
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World Library Catalog Wheaton Faculty, Staff, & Students only ArticleLinker enabled
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CORE - ARTICLE INDEXES

L' Annee Philologique Wheaton Faculty, Staff, & Students only ArticleLinker enabled
Indexes journal articles, essays and conference proceedings in the field of classical studies. International coverage; 1924 - present.

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JSTOR Wheaton Faculty, Staff, & Students only ArticleLinker enabled
Full text backfiles of over 1,200 core scholarly journals in humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes over 60 current titles, including all University of Chicago Press journals. For all other titles, JSTOR does not contain the most recent 1-7 years of content. Many of these titles are continued in Project Muse or in the Library's print and/or electronic subscriptions. Use the yellow arrow, then the ArticleLinker button to link to content on an external site or check Journal Finder for complete holdings information.

ADDITIONAL - ARTICLE INDEXES

Project Muse Wheaton Faculty, Staff, & Students only
Full text collection of over 500 scholarly journals from the Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses. Earlier years may be in JSTOR. Check Journal Finder for complete holdings information.  

Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson) Wheaton Faculty, Staff, & Students only ArticleLinker enabled
Indexes journals in the disciplines of archaeology and classical studies, art, folklore, history, language and literature, literary criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion; includes over 310 full text journals; 1984 - present.

BOOK REVIEWS

Bryn Mawr Classical Review Free Resource
Bryn Mawr Classical Review publishes timely reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies (including archaeology). This site is the authoritative archive of BMCR's publication, from 1990 to the present.

LINGUISTICS

OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary) Wheaton Faculty, Staff, & Students only
Full text of the 20 volumes of the OED, the 3 volume Additions Series, as well as at least 1,000 new and revised entries added quarterly. The OED is the leading authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millenium, providing information on the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words. 

Classical Language Instruction Project Free Resource
Interesting recordings of some sample spoken Greek and Latin texts. As there is still debate about certain aspects of pronunciation, pitch, and meter - several different variations of the same passages are presented. From Princeton University.

Wordnik Free Resource
An interesting new dictionary/etymology site with many of the same features as the OED - pulling context examples from public domain works in Project Gutenberg and live examples from Twitter, as well as example images from Flickr, and a letter-by-letter pronunciation guide.

PRIMARY SOURCES

Perseus Digital Library Free Resource
Searchable database of more than 1 million links to texts, images, datasets, encyclopedias, maps, grammars, dictionaries, reference works, and other primary materials in the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. Includes texts in Latin and/or Greek. From the Department of Classics, Tufts University.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae - Abridged Database Free Resource
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG has already collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era. The freely available abridged database offers a portion of the entire TLG on the web.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics Wheaton Faculty, Staff, & Students only ArticleLinker enabled
Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on specific topics in a specific subject area. Includes guides to introductory works, textbooks, guidebooks, journals, reference works, etc., and links to useful websites. Contains a "My OBO" function that allows users to create personalized bibliographies of individual citations from different bibliographies.