Greek and Roman Studies
Background Information
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Major Tools:
Brill's New Pauly - 15 volumes plus supplements . Note we also hold the German version Ner Neue Pauly. Selected volumes of the original German version - Pauly-Wissowa Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft are available free online. Complete list of volumes with links to available fulltext. The University of Calgary Library has a complete copy of the print version of the first German edition
Cambridge Ancient History (14 volumes)
Cambridge History of Classical Literature - v.1 Greek v.2 Latin
Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome - 3 vols.
Oxford Classical Dictionary - search all of the Classical resources in Oxford Reference
Other Useful Dictionaries/Encyclopedias:
Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome
Database of Latin Dictionaries - Includes dictionaries from Antiquity (Forcellini, Lewis and Short, Gaffiot), Patristic Period (Blaise, Souter), Middle Ages (Blaise, Du Cange etc) and Medieval Dictionaries (Firminus Verris, Anon. Montepessul., Nebrija, Le Talleur)
De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and Their Families
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
Encyclopedia of Ancient History - 12 volumes - location
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law
Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World - 4 volumes - location
Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome - 7 volumes - location
Thesaurus cultus et rituum antiquorum - 8 volumes - location
- Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman rituals
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae - Location - covers the Latin texts from the classical period to the 7th century A.D.
Database of Latin Dictionaries - Includes dictionaries from Antiquity (Forcellini, Lewis and Short, Gaffiot), Patristic Period (Blaise, Souter), Middle Ages (Blaise, Du Cange etc) and Medieval Dictionaries (Firminus Verris, Anon. Montepessul., Nebrija, Le Talleur)
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources - important national dictionary for medieval Latin
Latin Place Names - database of Latin place names linked to their vernacular name
LBG (Lexicon zur byzantinischen Gräzität)
"The LBG is the foremost lexicographical resource in Byzantine Studies mainly covering the period from the 4th to the 15th century A.D. taken from more than 3,000 texts. Seven fascicles have appeared to date, with one more scheduled to appear in 2016. When completed the dictionary will consist of more than 2,000 printed pages, containing approx. 80,000 lemmata."
LSJ: The Onine Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon
Vergil l Aeneid Vocabulary
- Can search in Latin and English and display word frequency
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