Ancient Greek History - HIS 1250 / HIS 3011 - Eliza Gettel

This edition began with all of the articles from the fourth edition, but is regularly expanded with new articles and updated with revisions to previously published articles. It includes images, maps of the ancient world, links, and audiovisual clips.

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.

Covers all civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean world including the Near East and Egypt.

Provides encyclopedic coverage of people, places, works and subjects related to Greco-Roman antiquity and history from the second millennium BC to early medieval Europe, the classical tradition, the aftermath of antiquity, the process of continuous reinterpretation and revaluation of the ancient heritage, and the field of classical studies scholarship. Source is published English edition of the authoritative Der Neue Pauly (periodically updated). Online access via Brill Online.

A revised and enlarged edition of Brill’s New Jacoby. New additions include an apparatus criticus and a discussion of the provenance of each fragment where relevant, as well as revised commentaries on the ancient historians in BNJ and updated bibliographies, all of which set BNJ2 significantly apart from the previous edition. Like Brill’s New Jacoby, this revised edition has texts and historians not included in Jacoby’s Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker I-III. It provides English translations to all testimonia and fragments, critical commentaries, and a brief encyclopedia-style entry about the historian’s life and works, with a select bibliography. Brill's New Jacoby, Second Edition is a work-in-progress with publication of the last historian scheduled for 2026.

Presents peer-reviewed, annotated bibliographies and expert commentary on current scholarship in all areas of the multidisciplinary field of Classical Studies.

Each handbook introduces and surveys the state of scholarship in a field of study through review articles written by leading subject specialists. Articles review key issues and debates and set the agenda for new research.

Provides online access to Cambridge histories. Each volume is edited and written by experts in the field. Subject matter ranges widely across the humanities with a concentration on political and cultural history.

The companions cover a wide range of people and subjects from the ancient world including religion, women, gender roles, the army, and families in the Roman world. Each companion synthesizes the state of scholarship and introduces the reader to the sources. While most companions are available online, some are only available in print.

Written by experts and designed for the general reader, the Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics collection offers over 2000 comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres. For the author Companions, each writer is placed in literary and historical context; their major works are analyzed, either in separate chapters or grouped according to theme, and their influence on later writers assessed. The generic and topical Companions cover periods of English literature such as Old English or the Victorian Novel, and literary genres such as Modernism or Greek Tragedy, giving the reader vital contextual information about political, social, religious and artistic relationships. The Companions to Classical Civilisation examine key periods and aspects of the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome.

The companions cover a wide variety of subjects and persons from Classical Antiquity, and their reception in European culture. Each volume synthesizes the state of scholarship and introduces the reader to the sources. While most companions are available online, some are only available in print including the volume on Writings in Imperial Rome which features chapters on Vergil's geopolitics and Senecan political strategies.

Includes records of all print and e-books owned by the Library. Use the Online collection facet to limit results to ebooks.

Presents a combined catalog of the catalogs of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. WorldCat highlights publications available at Villanova University. Other items can be requested via an inter-library loan request form.

Provides a full text archive of academic journals and books in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

Use the Articles form to request digital scans of book chapters. Check the Library website for availability of interlibrary borrowing for print books.

Indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, and theses relating to all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations from 200 B.C. to roughly 800 A.D. Includes publications in many languages with abstracts in the major European languages. Coverage extends back to the early 20th century. Includes links to the full text in the Library's collection. The findit tool also generates borrow requests, a.k.a. Get a scan, for articles which are not locally available. These requests are typically filled in one to two days and delivered via email.

Comprises an archive of core journals in the humanities. Current content is usually excluded. The Advanced Search permits discipline-specific searches. Disciplines include classical studies and archaeology among others.

Provides the tables of contents of a selection of classics, Near Eastern studies, and religion journals. Coverage goes back to 1992. Indexing is limited and includes only author names, titles, journal titles in abbreviation, plus a few additional publication details. A list of abbreviations is available. This resources does not include full text links.

If all else fails give Articles & more a try. Use unambiguous keywords and limit results to articles from peer-reviewed journals.

Use author and subject searches to discover primary sources in the Library's collection. For example, search for Thucydides as an author and filter results for English language publications. Try the following subjects in combination with other keywords: sources, inscriptions, speeches, addresses, and correspondence.

Offers online access to authoritative editions of Greek and Latin texts. English translations appear on facing pages, following the format of the print editions. The collection is searchable in English and in the original language. Also available in print.

Contains selected full text of scholarly editions of many philosophers, theologians and literary writers including Aristotle and Plato.

Features Greek and Roman texts and their translations.

Covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world, including texts and images, and applies what has been learned from Classical Studies to other subjects within the humanities and beyond.

"The Perseus Project at Tufts University is the foremost Digital Library for the classical world, if not for the Humanities in general. In its collection of Greek and Roman materials, readers will find many of the canonical texts read today. The Greek collection approaches 8 million words and the Latin collection currently has 5.5 million. In addition, many English language dictionaries, other reference works, translations, and commentaries are included, so that anyone with an internet connection has access to the equivalent of a respectable College Classics library. The Perseus site is further enriched by intricate linking mechanisms among texts (resulting in more than 30 million links)."

"You will here find the same texts, but the mechanism for browsing and searching the text is a different one. It is PhiloLogic, a system that was especially developed for large textual databases by the ARTFL project at the University of Chicago."

Offers a rich index to primary sources in English translation freely available on the Internet. Expect a certain amount of broken links.

"Pleiades gives scholars, students, and enthusiasts worldwide the ability to use, create, and share historical geographic information about the ancient world in digital form."

An open-access digital directory of places in ancient history, built on the Classical Atlas Project, which produced the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World.

Pleiades is a joint project of the Ancient World Mapping Center, the Stoa Consortium, and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.

Discovers georeferenced data about ancient places, physical objects, people, and time periods. Maintained by the Pelagios network, a digital humanities initiative.

Maps classical Greek texts to places and peoples from Spain to India.

This new atlas of the ancient world illustrates the political, economic, social and cultural developments in the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean world, the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic world and the Holy Roman Empire from the 3rd millennium BC until the 15th century AD. The atlas has 170 large color maps that document the main historical developments. Each map is accompanied by a text that outlines the main historical developments. These texts include bibliographies and 65 additional maps, tables, and stemmata that provide further elucidation.

Features a selection of maps. The maps can be opened and enlarged in an online image viewer, and downloaded as powerpoint slides or pdf files.

Free digital maps of the ancient world.

Features maps and overviews of Athenian institutions. Maintained by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

Presents a photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens. Maintained by the Stoa consortium.

By Christopher W. Blackwell. Originally published in: Adriaan Lanni, ed., “Athenian Law in its Democratic Context” (Center for Hellenic Studies On-line Discussion Series).

Offers information on women, gender, sex, sexualities, race, ethnicity, class, status, masculinity, enslavement, disability, and the intersections among them in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Features online access to the world's art and culture in collaboration with cultural institutions and artist from around the world. Explores individual artists, art movements, and much more. Includes virtual museum tours.