Greek and Roman Studies
Background Information for Ancient Greek and Roman Literature
Brill's New Pauly - excellent lengthy articles - see for example article for Apuleius . Alternate link from campus
Cambridge History of Classical Literature - v.1 Greek v.2 Latin
Ancient Writers Greece and Rome (2 vols) - Location
A Companion to the Ancient Novel by Edmund P. Cueva; Shannon N. Byrne
ISBN: 9781118350577Publication Date: 2014-01-09
See also Background Sources for Ancient Greece and Rome
NOTE: Credo Reference and Oxford Reference Online can be used to locate online encyclopedias and dictionaries covering your topic
Find Books On Greek and Roman Literature
Use the Library Search Box to locate books on ancient Greek and Roman literature.
Other useful sources for locating book material include:
Google Books - great source for identifying books of potential interest
ProQuest Ebook Central - over 100,000 digital books
Find Articles on Ancient Greek and Roman Literature
- JSTORfulltext scholarly journals
- Literature Onlinelinks to articles, texts and background information and identifies poetry and later literature with classical references
- Literature Resource CenterContains articles as well as overviews of author's and their works. For example see article on Satyricon
- Project Musefulltext scholarly journals with focus on the humanities
- TOCS-INsearchable tables of contents for Classics journals
Works by Classical Authors
Use the Library search box to locate specific texts held by the library. (Hint: Select advanced search and limit search to author field)
In our collection we have a number of digital collection of classical texts:
Loeb Classical Library - Greek and Latin texts with English translation
Library of Latin Texts - Series A has over 3,00 Latin works from Antiquity to the twentieth century and Series B has 300 texts.
Migne's Patrologia Graeca (Greek and Latin) - see also Complete listing of volumes in this series - includes many links to full text
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae - Greek and some English translation - this tool has "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." (note need to register first). Can also see a listing of works without signing in.
We also hold print copies of Collections des universites de France (Bude) and Sources chretiennes which provide French translation of classical texts.
Freely available collections of classical texts include:
Ancient Greek and Latin Texts digitized by Google
Chicago Homer - English and Greek translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum - Latin texts and links to translations
Greek and Latin Texts with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary by Geoffrey Steadman - includes works by Plato (Symposium, Republic I, Crito, Phaedo) Herodotus (I and 7), Homer (Iliad 6 and 22, Odyssey 6-8 and 9-12) , Lysias (I), Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus), Euripides (Medea), Caesar (Gallic War 1 and Vergil's Aeneid) , Cicero (1st Catilinarian, Sallust), and Xenophon (Anabasis Book 1,3,4)
Internet Classics Archives(created by Daniel Stevenson) - English translations of selected texts and some links to other sources of the text.
Internet Archive - Over 15 million public domain texts including the works of many classical authors. Search classical author name and then limit results to the name in the "creator" field . Remember to use variant forms of name (Homer and Homerus).
Loebolus - pdf's of public domain volumes in the Loeb Classical Library Series. Loeb has the Greek or Latin text with English translation
Lexundria - digital library of classical texts in English translation. When there is more than one edition can see comparison of each translation.
PHI Classical Latin Texts - Latin text
Perseus Digital Library - Greek or Latin text with English translation
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