Classics Research Guide	Francis Frith, Greek Tablets at Wady Kardassy-Nubia, 1859 Albumen print, GEH Collection
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Finding Books  |  Major Reference Works  |  Major Databases  |  Web Resources 

Finding Books

• Use CLIO to find books, journals, links to online journals, and other materials, in the Columbia or Barnard libraries.
• Barnard Library has a large collection of books and videos serving courses offered by the Barnard Classics Department.

Useful call numbers:

• B  Ancient Philosophy

• CB  History of Civilization

• DF  Ancient Greek History

• PA   Classical Literature

Useful subject headings in CLIO:

• Civilization, Classical

• Classical antiquities

• Classical literature

• Greek literature

• Latin literature

Major Reference Works
available in Barnard Library Reference Area

Title	Call Number
Classical scholarship:  a biographical encyclopedia	PA83 .C58 1990
Encyclopedia of classical philosophy	B163 .E53 1997
Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic tradition	DF757 .E53 2000
Greek and Latin authors, 800 B.C. - A.D. 1000	PA31 .G7
Oxford companion to classical literature	PA31 .H69 1989
Penguin encyclopedia of classical civilizations	PCB9 .P46 1993g

Major Databases
available with Columbia ID

L'annee philologique : APh.
citations for publications related to Greco-Roman antiquity;  the key bibliographic resource for classicists.

Arts & humanities citation index : AHCI.
Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.

Humanities Full Text
Citations and abstracts for articles in the humanities, 1984-present.

The Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism
full-text encyclopedia of literary theory and criticism from Plato to modern times.

JSTOR : the scholarly journal archive
(also known as: Journal storage)
full-text articles from more than 600 scholarly journals.

Library of Latin Texts : CLCLT
(also known as: CLCLT, CETEDOC, Database Latin texts, DE, CLCLT--online)
contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).

MLA Bibliography
(also known as: MLA)
citations for articles in literature, linguistics, language, and folklore periodicals and other publications.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
(also known as: TLG, Treasury of the Greek language)
full-text of the surviving texts of Greek literature from the Homeric age to the middle ages.

Project Muse
Full-text articles from more than 100 scholarly journals published by university presses in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. 

 

Web Resources

• Diotoma  Materials for the study of women and gender in the ancient world
• Classical Mythology Temple University. Covers Greek and Roman mythology. 
• Perseus Digital Library includes full texts of classical sources in Greek, Latin and English translation  
• Internet Classics Archive: Greek and Latin texts of "popular Greek and Latin literature" in translation from MIT
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
• HUMBUL Gateway: Classics (Oxford)
• Library of Congress Classical and Medieval History Reference Websites 
• Voice of the Shuttle: Classical Studies Page

 Links to Related Barnard and Columbia Sites

• Barnard College Department of Ancient Studies and Classics
• Columbia University Department of Classics

 

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Heidi Martin Winston, Reference Librarian 
09/02/2005