LibGuides: Classics: Key resources

Key databases for Classics and Ancient history

Annee Philologique This link opens in a new window
L'Annee Philologique provides references to journal articles, books and book chapters for all subjects as relate to classics, from 1924 to the present day.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
References to published materials in the arts and humanities including journal articles, letters, editorials and reviews.

This database is part of the Web of Science Core Collection. To search just this part select 'Arts & Humanities Citation Index' from the 'Editions' drop down list.
Gives references to journal articles, letters, editorials, notes, meeting abstracts, discussions, music scores, poems, plus reviews of literature, performances and recordings. Covers 1970-

Help and guidance
Web of Science Training Portal
JSTOR [full-text] This link opens in a new window
A full-text archive of journal articles covering a range of subjects, including archaeology and classical studies.
Full-text archive of journal articles covering most subjects. Covers 1880s up to a 'moving wall' usually of between 2 and 5 years. Each journal title has its own 'moving wall'.

We subscribe to the following JSTOR packages: Arts & Sciences I-XI, Biological Sciences, Health & General Sciences and Ireland Collection.

We also subscribe to the 19th Century British Pamphlets collection.

Help and guidance
JSTOR help page for searching
Project MUSE [full-text] This link opens in a new window
A full-text database of journal articles in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Use this alongside JSTOR as it often provides access to more recent issues of journals that appear in JSTOR.
View a list of titles available on Project Muse (you will need to be on-campus or logged in via the off-campus link above to view this list).

Complements JSTOR by providing recent issues of many titles in that archive.

Help and guidance
Project MUSE video tutorials and search guides

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar is the academic version of Google. It allows you to search for scholarly literature (journal articles, books, patents) from a variety of sources, including academic publishers, professional societies, and online repositories.
It is unclear which publishers are included in Google Scholar, so it shouldn't be used as your only source for a comprehensive literature search. For references to reliable, academic sources search our Summon discovery service or databases covering your subject.

Link to our full-text
You can set your preferences on Google Scholar to show links to full-text articles in all of our e-journals.

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When you do a search, look for a 'Full-Text @ Reading' link to the right of references in your results list. This indicates that we have a subscription which will give you access to the article. Click on this link to access the full-text.

If the 'Full-text @ Reading' link does not appear next to a reference it indicates that it isn't covered by our subscriptions and you probably won't be able to access the article.

If you are off-campus you will need to login to access the articles. You will usually be prompted to login as soon as you click on the link to the article. If this doesn't happen you will need to look for an institutional or Shibboleth login link once you reach the journal's website. For more guidance see Accessing e-journals.

Google Scholar Button
Google have produced a plugin for Chrome, Firefox and Safari which allows you to easily search for and cite articles. Highlight the title of an article in the page you are reading and then click the Scholar button and it will search for the article on Google Scholar in a pop up window. To get a formatted reference for a search result press the quote button next to it and the reference will appear in three different styles.

To make the most of this tool set up the University of Reading as a 'Library Link' using the instructions above.

Loeb Classical Library [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Online access to the entirety of the Loeb Classical Library, with texts from 700 B.C to 700 A.D.
Features include:

-A duel language interface, with the Greek and Latin texts shown alongside the English translation.
-The ability to search for key words in texts.
-The ability to annotate works and create bookmarks for later use once you have created an individual account.

Individual titles are listed on the Library catalogue.
Jacoby Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
The Jacoby is a standard collection of and commentary on the fragments of 856 Greek historians whose works have survived only in fragmentary form.
Felix Jacoby's Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker (FGrHist), or shortened as the 'Jacoby', was first published between the 1920's and late 1950's.

Jacoby Online completely supersedes the traditional 18-volume set known to classical scholars. It contains:

- many updated Greek texts
- English translations of all of the Greek testimonia and fragments
- a new critical commentary on the texts (and for the first time commentary on those texts that Jacoby did not complete before his death)
- new authors and fragments not in FGrHist.

Updated twice yearly. Hosted on the Brill Scholarly Editions platform.

Help and guidance
Brill Scholarly Editions help

Patrologia Graeca
The Patrologia Graeca (Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Graeca) is an edited collection of writings in the Greek language. This link leads to an index of downloadable PDFs of all 161 volumes from the Google Books project.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) [full-text] This link opens in a new window
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is a database containing the majority of the surviving literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Constantinople.

You must also create a personal account, using your University email address, via the 'Register' link at the top right of the homepage. This will give you access to the full corpus of texts.

Use is subject to the TLG Terms of use.
Translated Texts for Historians E-Library [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Full-text digital editions of the Translated Texts for Historians series (Liverpool University Press), which makes available historical sources from A.D. 300–800, translated into English.

To access the Translated Texts for Historians series, click on the 'My Library' tab when you reach the homepage, and you will find the resources under my books.
Individual titles are listed on Enterprise.
Trismegistos This link opens in a new window
At the core of Trismegistos is Trismegistos Texts, which provides information about all published and semi-published texts from Egypt and the Nile valley, between roughly BC 800 and 800 AD, not only in Greek, Latin, and Egyptian, but also in Meroitic, Aramaic, Arabic, Nabataean, Carian, and other languages. In addition to Trismegistos Texts, it comprises a number of other sections including, Collections, Archives, People and Places.

Limited to one simultaneous user.
Upon logging in you will be granted a two hour long session. This will renew automatically if you are still using the service, otherwise the session will finish at the end of the two hours. No other users will be able to access the service during this time. If you are unable to access the service, please try again later.

Help and guidance
For help using this resource login as above and then click one of the two links under the main search box on the Trismegistos website. These contain information on how to use the database and how to cite it.

Academic Video Online on Alexander Street [video] This link opens in a new window
Video material including documentaries, interviews, performances, news programmes and newsreels covering a variety of events and themes.
We also have access to Academic Video Online on ProQuest

Academic Video Online is a comprehensive source of video material including 70,000 titles with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programmes, newsreels and more. Use the Alexander Street link for the best browsing experience.

Academic Video Online comprises some of the following channels:

-60 Minutes: 1997-2014
-American History
-Black Studies
-LGBT Studies
-The March of Time
-World History
-World Newsreels Online 1929-1966

Some of subjects covered are:

-Art & Architecture
-Criminal Justice & Public Safety
-Drama
-Education
-Engineering
-Environmental Studies
-History
-Literature
-Politics & Current Affairs
-Psychology
-Science
-Theatre

Help and guidance
Alexander Street Press resources help

How you may use the content
Permitted

-lecture presentations
-Blackboard - embed the video in your module or link to it
-student work

Tip! You may make clips and playlists with the videos

Not permitted

-publicly available websites
-public display in University
-any alteration, adaption or modification the video
Brill's New Pauly [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles on all aspects of the ancient world, including: persons, places, institutions, events, artefacts, technical terms, ideas and concepts, interaction between Greek and Roman culture and the neighbouring Semitic, Celtic and Germanic cultures.
Many articles are illustrated with maps, site plans, genealogical tables, and black-and white photographs

Pauly Online includes the entire text of Metzler's Der Neue Pauly and also all volumes of the English language Brill's New Pauly. We also have online access to the following supplements:
- Chronologies of the ancient world: Names, dates and dynasties
- Dictionary of Greek and Latin authors and texts
- Historical atlas of the ancient world
- The reception of myth and mythology
- The reception of Classical literature
- History of Classical scholarship - a biographical dictionary

Help and guidance
Tips for searching Brill's New Pauly
British Academy Scholarship Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
The full-text of over 140 titles, both monographs and essay collections, in the humanities and social sciences, hosted on the Oxford Academic platform.
Updated annually with new content.

Most titles are listed on the Library catalogue

Help and guidance
Using the content guides
Cambridge Companions [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods in the subject areas of literature, philosophy, classics, religion and cultural studies.
Over 2,800 downloadable essays taken from the Cambridge Companions series.
Provides cross-searchable introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods in the subject areas of literature, philosophy, classics, religion and cultural studies.

Most titles are listed on the Library catalogue.
Cambridge Histories [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 300 volumes published in the Cambridge Histories series since 1960, including the Cambridge ancient history.
Provides full-text access to over 300 volumes published in the Cambridge Histories series since 1960. Subjects range across the humanities and include:
- American history
- British history
- Economic history
- General history
- History of science
- Language and literature
- Literary studies
- Philosophy
- Political and social theory
- Regional history
- Theatre studies and performing arts
- Warfare

All titles are listed on the Library catalogue.
Drama Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Plays and supporting critical and contextual material relating to works from the classical era to the present day. The collection features the theatre lists of Methuen Drama, the Arden Shakespeare and Faber and Faber, as well as production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and The American Shakespeare Center. Also available are plays, screen plays and theatrebooks from Nick Hern Books; Playwrights Canada Press, a collection of plays by emerging and established Canadian playwrights; plays from the Oberon Books collection; Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama Videos covering key plays and acting techniques; and the National Theatre collection, containing 30 filmed performances from the venue.
The Drama Online collection features full-text plays and supporting critical and contextual material relating to works from the classical era to the present day.

The collection features:

-theatre lists of Methuen Drama, the Arden Shakespeare, and Faber and Faber
-production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and The American Shakespeare Center
-Nick Hern Books collection of plays, screenplays and theatre books
-Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama Videos - covering key plays and acting techniques, including Maxine Peake’s Hamlet, Stage on Screen, and a Shakespeare Acting Masterclass from Patsy Rodenburg
-Shakespeare's Globe on Screen (2008-2015): 21 films recorded live on the Globe stage
-Playwrights Canada Press: plays from established and emerging Canadian playwrights
-National Theatre collection
-Oberon Books collection of plays

Featured writers include: Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Bertolt Brecht, Oscar Wilde, and modern classics from Tom Stoppard, Caryl Churchill, Alan Ayckbourn, Mark Ravenhill, Brian Friel, John Osborne, Christopher Hampton, Alan Bennett, Willy Russell and David Hare.

New writing is also represented with works from Polly Stenham, Katori Hall, D.C. Moore, James Graham, Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Lucy Prebble and theatre companies such as Complicité and Filter.

All titles are listed on the Library catalogue

Help and Guidance
Video tours to help with making the most of this resource are available via the Drama Online YouTube channel.
IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) This link opens in a new window
Provides references to journal articles, books, book chapters and reviews in select subjects, including archaeology and history.
Also covers related subjects, such as: agriculture, social policy, archaeology, business studies, criminology, education, environmental issues, history, law, and social work.

Gives references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters. Good coverage of international material.

Help and guidance
ProQuest LibGuide: IBSS
MLA (Modern Language Association International Bibliography) This link opens in a new window
Bibliography of literature, language, linguistics and folklore worldwide; gives references and abstracts to journal articles, monographs, working papers, bibliographies, etc, from 1963 up to the most recent issues.
MLA (Modern Language Association International Bibliography) covers literature, language, linguistics and folklore worldwide.

Gives references to journal articles, monographs, working papers, conference proceedings, indexes and bibliographies, etc.

Covers 1884-. Hosted on the EBSCO platform.

Help and guidance
EBSCOhost user guide
Oxford Art Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Search across several dictionaries and encyclopedias covering visual arts including painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography.
Search across:

Grove Art Online - The dictionary of art (1996, 34 vols.)
The Oxford companion to western art
Encyclopedia of aesthetics
The concise Oxford dictionary of art terms

Help and guidance
Help using Oxford Art Online
Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
Searchable research guides across a variety of subject areas.
Bibliographies currently subscribed to are:

-Atlantic history
-Classics
-Medieval studies
-Philosophy
-Renaissance and Reformation
-Victorian literature

Individual articles are listed on the Library catalogue.

Help and guidance
Oxford Bibliographies help

The Oxford Classical Dictionary by Simon Hornblower; Antony Spawforth; Esther Eidinow
Call Number: LARGE--F 880.3-OXF
ISBN: 9780199545568
Publication Date: 2012
Available in print and online

Oxford Handbooks Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Provides access to review essays covering key issues and exploring major debates across several subject areas, including classical studies, history, archaeology and philosophy.
The University has purchased some titles in the following subjects:

-Archaeology
-Business & management
-Classical studies
-Criminology & criminal justice
-Economics & finance
-History
-Law
-Linguistics
-Literature
-Philosophy
-Political science
-Psychology

Individual titles are listed on the Library catalogue.

Help and guidance
Oxford Academic guides
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Archive of journal articles in a range of subjects.
Content also available via JISC Journal Archives.

Online archive giving access to full-text journal articles in the following subjects: arts; business; history; linguistics; literature; philosophy; politics; psychology; and social sciences.

Covers issues from 1891 to 2000.

Help and guidance
Proquest LibGuide: Periodicals Archive Online
PhilPapers This link opens in a new window
PhilPapers is an index and bibliography of works in philosophy. It indexes books and journals and also monitors open access repositories and the personal websites of academic philosophers.
Covers journal articles, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics.

Also provides an open access archive of papers in philosophy.
Routledge Handbooks Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Social sciences and humanities e-book collection. Currently the University subscribes to titles in archaeology and Classics.
Individual titles are listed on the Library catalogue.
Screen Studies Collection [partial full-text] This link opens in a new window
Searches across three databases: FIAF, which provides references to journal articles, FII, an international index of films, and the catalogue of the American Film Institute.
Search simultaneously across the following databases:

-FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database - Gives references to journal articles and access to the full-text of several journals. Also includes information about holdings of silent films in international film archives, and a directory of film and tv collections held by institutions worldwide.

-Film Index International (FII) – International index of films from the first silent movies to the latest blockbusters. Gives biographical information for almost 57,000 personalities. Also includes coverage of international film awards and prizes as well as searchable plot summaries and full cast and crew lists. References to published reviews and articles about individual films are also included within the records.

-AFI Catalog - The American Film Institute's catalogue is a comprehensive filmography of American films from 1893 to 1974, with records for selected major films from 1975-2008. New records are added each year by the AFI’s editorial team. Useful for identifying sources and reviews.

Help and guidance
Guide to using FIAF
Guide to using Film Index International
Guide to using the American Film Institute Catalogue
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Essentially a vast Library catalogue. Gives references to books, theses, and other published materials in all subjects.
Covers ca.1000 BC to the present.

Classical studies journals

Websites for Classics

ABZU: a guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East on the Web
Abzu, hosted by the library of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, is a searchable database of open access material (journals, articles, books, websites) relevant to the study of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world.
Agathe
Website for the Athenian agora excavations, maintained by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. It includes an interactive guide to the major buildings, information about democracy in Athens as well as details about the excavations themselves.
Center for Hellenic Studies
The Center for Hellenic Studies is based at Harvard University. The website includes freely available material, including a series of online discussions and two online freely available (open access) journals.
ETANA: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East Archives
Provides access to: ABZU (a searchable database of open access materials relevant to the study of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world): Core Texts (digitised texts selected as valuable for teaching and research relating to ancient Near Eastern studies): eTACT (repository for translations of Akkadian materials).
Gnomon online
A bibliographic database for ancient history, classical philology and archaeology. It indexes monographs, journal articles, conference papers and dissertations in many languages. You can search by keyword, author, title, subject and publication and it covers 1990 onwards.
The Online Liddell-Scott Jones Lexicon
This is a Greek-English lexicon provided by Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. You can search for Greek words or for English words within the definitions.
Perseus Collection: Greek and Roman Materials
A digital library project from the Department of the Classics, Tufts University which provides online access to collections/texts, covering the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world, including full-text translations of Ancient authors.
UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology
The free, open version of 'UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology', containing a variety of up-to-date articles on ancient Egypt, written by the world's leading scholars.
Woodhouse: English-Greek Dictionary
Created by the University of Chicago, this resource provides a searchable e-book version of S. C. Woodhouse's English-Greek Dictionary.
Print copies are available in the Library at DICTIONARIES--483.2-WOO - see the Library catalogue for more information.

The Abridged Online Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
An abridged online version of the Thesaurus Lingue Graecae, providing free access to the works of authors such as Euripides, Demosthenes and Plato, among others. Please note that while access is free you need to create an account and login to use the Abridged version.
Hathi Trust Digital Library
A repository of digitised books. Items in the public domain are available in full-text for everyone and items held in copyright are searchable only.
Internet Archive: E-books and Texts Archive
The Internet Archive is a non-profit organisation that was founded to build an Internet library. It now includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages, but this link will take you to their E-books and Texts Archive and Open Library which offers 6 million fully accessible public domain eBooks.
The Internet Classics Archive
441, mainly Greco-Roman, works of classical literature by 59 different authors. All are in English translation.
IntraText
An Italian based website which includes an extensive collection of freely accessible, searchable Latin texts.
LacusCurtius
A site dedicated to Roman history that includes the complete Latin texts of several ancient works as well as other out of copyright works.
Packard Humanities Institute's Classical Latin texts
PHI Classical Latin texts contains all Latin literary texts written before AD 200, as well as few from later antiquity.
Patrologia Graeca
The Patrologia Graeca (Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Graeca) is an edited collection of writings in the Greek language. This link leads to an index of downloadable PDFs of all 161 volumes from the Google Books project.
Perseus Collection: Greek and Roman Materials
A digital library project from the Department of the Classics, Tufts University which provides online access to collections/texts, covering the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world, including full-text translations of Ancient authors.
Suda online: Byzantine lexicography
The Suda is a 10th century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world. This website provides access to English translations for all the entries and is keyword searchable or browseable via subject.

Attic inscriptions online
Attic inscriptions online provides access to English translations of inscriptions from ancient Athens and Attica. You can search via keyword in the text content or by the source reference.
Epigraphic database Heidelberg
Epigraphic database Heidelberg contains the texts of Latin and bilingual (i.e. Latin-Greek) inscriptions of the Roman Empire. You can search for words within inscriptions as well as searching the descriptive information provided for the inscriptions. Sometimes photographs or drawings will also be provided.
Europeana EAGLE project
EAGLE is the European network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy and this website provides a single portal to Greco-Roman inscriptions from around the world. It is currently in progress but the website provides links to the various collections that form EAGLE so that you can search them separately.
John Rylands University Library Image Collections
Digitised versions of selected texts from the University of Manchester John Rylands Library's collections. Of particular interest to Classics is the Papyri collection.
Papyri Info
Papyri.info provides search and editing functionality for ancient papyrological documents and related materials from across four online collections. Sometimes translations and images are included.
Searchable Greek Inscriptions - PHI
Managed by the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI), aims to offer "a comprehensive database of all ancient Greek inscriptions". Can be searched by region, corpus or archaeological site.

Ancient world mapping center
The Ancient world mapping center is a research centre at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. It promotes cartography, historical geography and geographic information science within the study of ancient history. The website includes free maps and links to other resources.
Imago
Imago is The Roman Society's image bank, providing photos of sites, monuments, inscriptions and objects from the Roman world. These images are available for teaching or research.
Warburg Institute Iconographic database
A database containing images digitised by the Warburg Institute Library from their photographic and library collections. It includes a large collection of images of the classical gods and other mythological characters.

Coinage of the Roman Republic online
Coinage of the Roman Republic (CRRO) provides access to 6 online collections containing over 20,000 specimens of Republican coinage. You can narrow down your results by deity, denomination, where an item was found, and its material, among other aspects.
Coin hoards of the Roman Republic online
Coin hoards of the Roman Republic online (CHRR) is a database of Roman coin hoards dating from approximate 155 B.C. to AD 2. Whilst it is not necessarily comprehensive it is a useful tool for finding and analysing found coin hoards from this period.
The Heberden Coin Room - Ashmolean Museum
The Heberden Coin Room Collection houses around three hundred thousand coins and medals and has particuarly strong collections of Greek, Roman, Celtic, Byzantine, Medieval and Islamic numismatics. Several items can be viewed online and include references.
MANTIS - American Numismatic Society
Collections database contains information on more than 600,000 objects in the American Numismatic Society’s collections. Includes references. Includes collections of Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Medieval and South and East Asian.
Online coins of the Roman empire
Online coins of the Roman empire (OCRE) is a database of coin types from 27 B.C. until A.D. 491. As with CRRO you can narrow down your results by aspects such as deity, where an item was found, and the portrait on a coin.
Roman Provincial Coinage Online
The aim of the Roman Provincial Coinage Project is to "produce a standard typology of the provincial coinage of the Roman Empire". Includes information on 29,825 coin types and online supplementary material to the RPC.

Sackler Library, Oxford
See the Sackler library website for opening hours, admission etc.
Institute of Classical Studies Library
The library of the Institute of Classical Studies in London is run in conjunction with the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies.
Use of the Library is restricted so contact the library before you visit.
Warburg Institute Library
The Warburg Institute Library in London holds significant collections relating to the classical tradition, particularly in relation to classical art and philosophy. It also includes the libraries of the Royal Numismatic Society and the British Numismatic Society.
Access to the library is limited, especially for undergraduates, so make sure you check their admission procedures before visiting.

Accessing online Library resources

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Videos: doing your literature search

This playlist of two videos shows you how to prepare for and perform a literature search. The first video introduces literature searches and their role. The second video covers using the search operators AND and OR to create a search statement, and explains the role of wildcards and truncation in constructing a comprehensive search. This information is also available in written guides - see the links below.

Related guides

Literature searching
A guide to finding articles, books and other materials on your subject
Guide to searching databases

Theses

Reading University theses and dissertations

The Library receives a copy of all theses accepted for the degrees of PhD and MPhil by the University. All theses held by the Library can be found on the Enterprise catalogue. Recently submitted theses might also be available to download from the University's Institutional Repository, CentAUR.

Masters theses can usually be consulted in the relevant school or department.

Finding theses from other institutions

There are a number of specialist sources for finding theses produced at other institutions around the world. Many more are becoming available online making it much easier to get the full-text. For more information see our guide to finding theses.

See our guide to finding theses for more information:

Finding theses
A guide to identifying and consulting theses produced at Reading and beyond.

Conference papers

Conference papers are published in a variety of ways - they may be published as a book, or as a special issue or supplement to a journal. Some may not be published at all!

If published promptly they can you give you the latest information on research in your field.

See our guide to finding conference papers for details of specialist sources for finding this type of information.

Finding conference papers

Getting items not held at Reading

Our Inter-Library Loans service can get articles, books and other publications not held at Reading from other libraries (usually from the British Library).

For more information see our webpages:

Inter-library loans service
Use this service to get publications not held at the University of Reading.