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Roman Satire Professor Drinkwater Spring 2005 Reference Works Finding Books Finding Articles Starting Points Indexes for Classics Electronic Journal Collections Tips & Further Help Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston (704.894.2494). Reference Works Ancient Roman Writers. Ed. Ward W. Briggs. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1999. [Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 211] Reference R 928.1 D554 v.211 Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome. Ed. T. James Luce. 2 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1982. Reference R 880.9 A541 Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Ed. Richard J.A. Talbert. 2 vols. and atlas. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2000. Map-by-Map Director: Reference R 912.38 B276d Atlas: Reference Atlas Area R 912.38 B276 Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- . Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopedia of the Ancient World. Ed. Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider. Leiden: Brill, 2002- . The New Pauly is in two parts: Antiquity Reference R 913.38 P33k-T Volumes 1-12 (A-Sar) have been published to date. Classical Tradition Reference R 913.38 P33kc-T Volumes I-III (A-Ode) have been published to date. This is the English edition of Der Neue Pauly (1996- ; Reference R 913.38 P33k 1996), a comprehensive encyclopedia of the classical world. Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome. Ed. Michael Grant and Rachel Kitzinger. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1988. Reference R 938 C582 Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1988- . Reference R 809 C614 To locate relevant entries in this set, consult Gale's Literary Index. The Classical World Bibliography of Roman Drama and Poetry and Ancient Fiction. Walter Donlan. New York: Garland, 1978. Reference R 016.87 C614 A Concordance to the Works of Horace. Lane Cooper. Cambridge: W. Heffer, [1961]. Reference R 874 H811c Dictionary of Bibliographic Abbreviations found in the Scholarship of Classical Studies and Related Disciplines. Jean Susorney Wellington. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Reference R 480 W452d Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Pierre Grimal. Trans. A.R. Maxwell-Hyslop. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986. Reference R 292 G861d-T Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy. Ed. Donald J. Zeyl. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. Reference R 180.3 E56 Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire. Ed. Matthew Bunson. Rev. ed. New York: Facts on File, 2003. Reference R 937.06 B942e Greek and Latin Authors, 800 B.C. - A.D. 1000. Michael Grant. [Bronx, NY]: H.W. Wilson, 1980. Reference R 928.8 G762g Available online as part of Biography Reference Bank. Guide to the Ancient World: A Dictionary of Classical Place Names. Michael Grant. [Bronx, NY]: H.W. Wilson, 1986. Reference R 913.8 G762g Handbook of Classical Mythology. William Hansen. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004. Reference R 292.13 H249h Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome. Lesley Adkins and Roy A. Adkins. New York: Facts on File, 1994. Reference R 937 A236h Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities. Harry Thurston Peck. New York: Cooper Square, 1962. Reference R 913.38 P36h1 Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Classical World. Michael Avi Yonah and Israel Shatzman. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. Reference R 913.38 I29 Index Verborum Iuvenalis. Lucile Kelling and Albert Suskin. Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1951. Reference R 877 J97k Lemprière's Classical Dictionary of Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors. Ed. F.A. Wright. New ed. London: Routledge, 1958. Reference R 913.38 L56c Names in Roman Verse: A Lexicon and Reverse Index of all Proper Names of History, Mythology, and Geography Found in the Classical Roman Poets. Donald C. Swanson. Madison, WI: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1967. Reference R 871.03 S972n Oxford Classical Dictionary. Ed. Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. 3rd. ed. rev. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Reference R 913.38 O982 2003 Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. Ed. Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Reference R 938.003 O98 Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. Ed. M.C. Howatson. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989. Reference R 913.38 H43o2 Perseus. Perseus: Interactive Sources & Studies on Ancient Greece [CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk] A collection of primary and secondary sources on ancient Greece. Includes full-text, images, and references. Perseus Digital Library Contains more texts and images than the CD-ROM product but sometimes has a slow response time. For faster searching, use the CD-ROM. Reference Guide to World Literature. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2003. Reference R 809 R332 Who was Who in the Roman World, 753 BC - AD 476. Ed. Diana Bowder. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1980. Reference R 920.037 W628 Finding Books Library Catalogue Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library. Note: To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records. To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first). To locate bibliographies on a person or topic, do a keyword search and add the following: su bibliography.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use a dollar sign $.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. WorldCat Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan. Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war").     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Finding Articles Starting Points | Indexes for Classics | Electronic Journal Collections Starting Points Academic Search Elite (1984 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. InfoTrac OneFile (1980 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also included citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use an exclamation point !. OmniFile Full Text Mega (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals.    Search Syntax     Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".     Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. PCI: Periodical Contents Index (c. 1770-1995 [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic. Indexes for Classics L'Année Philologique (500 B.C.E. to 800 C.E. [historical time period covered] ; 1969 to present [publication date of articles and books indexed]) Includes citations to scholarly articles, books, conference proceedings, and essays; also includes book reviews. Covers all aspects of the Greco-Latin world, including literature, history, art, philosophy, religion, and archaeology. Note: To locate citations to articles and books from earlier years, consult L'Année Philologique in the Little Library Reference Collection (R 016.88 A613). For tips on searching L'Année Philologique, see A Guide to L'Année Philologique.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *. Humanities Abstracts (1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.    Search Syntax     Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".     Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. TOCS-IN (1992 to present) Lists the tables of contents from 185 journals in the field of Classics. Particularly useful for locating recent articles. Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) (1973 to present) Includes citations to journal articles, books, conference proceedings, essays, exhibition catalogues, and other materials on the history of art in Europe and North America from antiquity to the present. BHA covers both the fine and the decorative arts. Contains records from RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) and RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie). Note: BHA uses Library of Congress Subject Headings.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use a question mark ?.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Essay & General Literature Index Indexes essays published in books and edited collections. Covers the fields of art, economics, education, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion, among others. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences.    Search Syntax     Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".     Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Electronic Journal Collections JSTOR Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note: JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use a plus sign +.     Phrase searching: automatic. Project Muse Includes pdf and HTML copies of journal articles published by university and scholarly presses.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Tips & Further Help A Guide to L'Année Philologique How to Find Book Reviews How to Search the Web: Tools & Tips How to Evaluate Web Resources Research Planner (pdf document) Research Log (pdf document)

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