Classics

The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library are an important resource for the study of classics in the New York metropolitan area. In addition to retrospective holdings in the subject, NYPL has a strong collection of current classics materials, mostly in English, but in a number of European languages as well.

This guide is an introduction to classics research at NYPL, particularly on the holdings of the General Research Division. English-language resources are emphasized here, with the more important foreign-language sources mentioned as well. General instructions for locating materials are given in Research Guide, How Do I Find a Book?. For further assistance, consult the librarians at the Information Desk in Room 315.

If you need further assistance, visit our reference desk, or e-mail us at grdref@nypl.org

Art, architecture and archaeology

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

• Art, Greek
• Art, Roman
• Architecture, Greek
• Architecture, Roman
• Archaeology, Greece
• Archaeology, Roman
• Classical antiquities

In addition, researchers may want to perform general searches in CATNYP for the following classmark headings:

• Call number “MT” for archaeology
• Call number “MQM” for classical architecture
• Call number “MGH” for classical sculpture
• Call number “MCD” for ancient painting
• Call number “MAH” for classical art
• Call number “MAE” for general history of ancient art

Bibliography and reference

Amiet, Pierre, et al. Art in the ancient world: a handbook of styles and forms. New York : Rizzoli, 1981. MAD 89-19612.

Coulson, William D. E., and Patricia N. Freiert. Greek and Roman Art, Architecture, and Archaeology: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1987. MAH 88-925.

De Grummond, Nancy Thomson. An encyclopedia of the history of classical archaeology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. *R-BTGP 98-10083.

Finley, M. I. Atlas of classical archaeology. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977. *R-MT 78-1585.

Henig, Martin. A handbook of Roman art: a comprehensive survey of all the arts of the Roman world. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983. 3-MAH 83-1462.

Mathiesen, Thomas J. A. A Bibliography of Sources for the Study of Ancient Greek Music. Hackensack, NJ: Joseph Boonin, 1974. JMF 77-259.

Medwid, Linda M. The makers of classical archaeology: a reference work. Hackensack, NJ: J. Boonin, 1974. JFE 01-7228.

Onians, John. Classical art and the cultures of Greece and Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press, c1999. 3-MAH 99-11540.

Pollitt, J. J. The art of ancient Greece: sources and documents. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 3-MAH 91-3705.

Pollitt, J. J. The art of Rome, c. 753 B.C.-337 A.D.: sources and documents. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960. MAH.

Preston, Percy. A dictionary of pictorial subjects from classical literature: a guide to their identification in works of art. New York: Scribner's, 1983. MAMZ 84-392.

Richter, Gisela M. A. A handbook of Greek art. London: Phaidon, 1959. MAH.

Sherrat, Andrew, ed. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology. New York: Crown Publishers/Cambridge University Press, 1980. *R-MTD 80-3580.

Stillwell, Richard, ed. The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976. *R-MTG 76-722.

Van Keuren, Frances. Guide to research in classical art and mythology. Chicago: American Library Association, 1991. MAH 91-8643.

Historical, methodological and critical studies

Beard, Mary, and John Henderson. Classical art: from Greece to Rome.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 3-MAH 01-10120.

Betts, John H. ed. Classical archaeology in the field: approaches. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 2001. JFD 03-10311.

Biers, William R. Art, artefacts, and chronology in classical archaeology. London; New York: Routledge, 1992. JFD 93-8566.

Boardman, John. The diffusion of classical art in antiquity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. MAH 95-9181.

Boardman, John. The Oxford history of classical art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. MAH 94-1029.

Cohen, Beth, ed. Not the classical ideal: Athens and the construction of the other in Greek art. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2000. JFE 01-5113.

Curl, James Stevens. Classical architecture: an introduction to its vocabulary and essentials, with a select glossary of terms. London: B.T. Batsford, 1992. MQM 92-17001.

Fleischer, Jens, John Lund and Marjatta Nielsen, eds. Late antiquity: art in context. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2001. 3-MAH 01-7673.

Grant, Michael. The visible past: Greek and Roman history from archaeology, 1960-1990. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990. JFE 90-4777.

Laing, Lloyd and Jennifer. Ancient art: the challenge to modern thought. Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, c1993. MAE 94-6325.

Pedley, John G. Greek art and archaeology. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993. JFF 93-537.

Porphyrios, Demetri. Classical architecture. London: Academy Editions, 1991. MQM+ 92-7570.

Richter, Gisela M. A. Perspective in Greek and Roman art. London, New York: Phaidon [1970?]. MAH.

Sauer, Eberhard W., ed. Archaeology and ancient history: breaking down the boundaries. London; New York: Routledge, 2004. JFE 04-7354.

Sparkes, Brian A. Greek Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. L-11 2064 no. 22.

Stewart, Peter. Roman art. Oxford [England]; New York: Published for the Classical Association [by] Oxford University Press, 2004. JQE 04-452.

Tzonis, Alexander, and Liane Lefaivre. Classical architecture: the poetics of order. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1986. 3-MQM 86-4934.

Vassilika, Eleni. Greek and Roman art. Photography by Andrew Morris and Andrew Norman. Cambridge, U.K.; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 3-MAH 98-10605.

Educational resources

Brade-Birks, S. Graham. Teach yourself archaeology. London: English Universities Press, 1953. MT.

Kenyon, Kathleen Mary, Dame. Beginning in archaeology. New York, F.A. Praeger [1952]. MT.

Norris, Michael. Greek art: from prehistoric to classical: a resource for educators. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2000. JQG 01-363.

 

Biography

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

• Greece, Biography
• Rome, Biography

Bibliography and reference

Bowder, Diana. Who was who in the Greek world, 776 B.C.-30 B.C. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982. JFF 96-3888.

Bowder, Diana. Who was who in the Roman world: 753 B.C.-A.D. 476. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980. *R-AB 91-7334.

Briggs, Ward W. Ancient Greek Authors. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1997. *R-AB 79-1061 v.176.

Briggs, Ward W. Biographical dictionary of North American classicists. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. *R-AB 95-5058.

Briggs, Ward W. Classical scholarship: a biographical encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1990. JFF 90-855.

Fraser, P.M. and E. Matthews, eds. A Lexicon of Greek personal names. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987-. APD 88-1608.

Goulet, Richard. Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Paris: CNRS, 1989- . *R-YAE 90-2069.

Hazel, John. Who's who in the Greek world. New York: Routledge, 2000. *R-AGO 00-2220.

Hornblower, Simon, and Antony Spawforth. Who's Who in the Classical World. Oxford paperback reference. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. JFD 01-1667.

Lightman, Marjorie. Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Greek and Roman Women. New York: Facts On File, 2000. *R-SNE 00-2931.

Radice, Betty. Who's who in the ancient world. New York: Stein and Day, 1971. JFC 75-2008.

Salisbury, Joyce. Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, c2001. JFF 01-3145.

Biographies

Toynbee, J. M. C. Roman historical portraits. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978. MGH 78-1719.

Davies, J. K. Athenian propertied families: 600-300 B.C. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1971. AVH (Greece) 72-152.

Develin, Robert. Athenian officials, 684-321 B.C. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. JFE 89-4809.

Grant, Michael. The classical Greeks. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989. *R-BVC 89-2958.

Grant, Michael. Greek and Latin authors: 800 B.C.-A.D. 1000. Bronx, NY: H. W. Wilson, 1980. *R-AB 81-24.

Grant, Michael. The Roman emperors: a biographical guide to the rulers of ancient Rome, 31 B.C.-A.D. 476. New York: Scribner's, 1985. *R-BWH 91-7352.

Jones, A. H. M. The prosopography of the later Roman empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1971-92. JFL 72-5.

Luce, T. James. Ancient writers: Greece and Rome. New York: Scribner's, 1982. *R-NRC 89-2041.

Richard, Carl J. Twelve Greeks and Romans who changed the world. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. JFE 03-736.

Richter, Gisela M. A. The portraits of the Greeks. London: Phaidon, 1965. MGH+.

Historical and critical studies

Edwards, Mark and Simon Swain, eds. Portraits: biographical representation in the Greek and Latin literature of the Roman Empire. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997. JFD 97-17767.

Hägg, Tomas, and Philip Rousseau. Greek biography and panegyric in late antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. JFE 02-9789.

Lamberton, Robert. Plutarch. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. JFD 02-10534.

Momigliano, Arnaldo. The development of Greek biography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. JFD 93-12563.

Scardigli, Barbara. Essays on Plutarch's lives. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. JFD 95-6866.

Stadter, Philip A., ed. Plutarch and the historical tradition. New York: Routledge, 1992. JFD 92-10052.

 

Electronic resources

Note that "dead" links below signify that a resource is not public but is available on-site at the New York Public Library.

Electronic Texts

Acta Sanctorum A collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organized according to each saint's feast day, and covers the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940. Subscription required.

Armarium Labyrinthi: Labyrinth Latin Bookcase (Georgetown University) Links to the Latin Vulgate and other Bibles (e.g., French and German), liturgical texts and Greek and Latin texts deemed to have influence the Latin tradition. Includes links to related sites.

Bibliotheca Augustana: litteraturae et artis collectio An on-line library of original-language texts, including Greek and Latin. Includes works and fragments of some lesser-known writers.

Classics Etexts (University of Florida) Provides links to classics texts available on the Web.

Bibliotheca Latina (University of Wisconsin) A rich collection of links to Latin texts, including medieval, Neo-Latin, and ecclesiastic.

Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Médecine (University of Paris) Scanned facsimiles of works by ancient medical authors, including Hippocrates and Galen.

The Chicago Homer (Northwestern University) The Chicago Homer is a multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek.

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum, a digital library covering the entire body of Latin literature, from the earliest epigraphic remains to the Neo-Latinists of the eighteenth century.

Duke Papyrus Archive (Duke University) Provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt. The target audience includes: papyrologists, ancient historians, archaeologists, biblical scholars, classicists, Coptologists, Egyptologists, students of literature and religion and all others interested in ancient Egypt.

Electronic Text Center: Latin Resources (University of Virginia) an on-line collection of classical Latin and neo-Latin texts.

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (Fordham University) The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook is a companion to the Internet Medieval Sourcebook and the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. The Medieval Sourcebook is both a classroom resource and the largest collection of online medieval texts. The Ancient and Modern Sourcebooks have a different role: since there are already ample online repositories of texts for these periods, the goal here is to provide and organize texts for use in classroom situations.

Internet Classics Archive (MIT) Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.

Latin Library at Ad Fontes Academy An eclectic and admirably inclusive library of on-line Latin texts.

Lector Longinquus (Rutgers University) On-line Latin texts at the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities.

Online Medieval & Classical Library (UC Berkeley) A collection of translations of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.

Oxford Text Archive Collects, catalogues, and preserves high-quality electronic texts from all periods and in a variety of languages.

Past Masters A searchable database that contains scholarly texts by major western philosophers, including Plato, Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas.

Patrologia Latina An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.

Peitho's Web Features texts of major figures in the Greek and Latin rhetorical traditions.

Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University) A premier Web-based resource for classicists, the Perseus Digital Library offers Greek and Latin texts on-line with English translations. Especially helpful is the variety of tools available to help researchers, including an electronic version of the Liddell-Scott-Jones lexicon, multiple grammars, a morphological analysis function for Greek and Latin words, and flexible search capabilities.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) Full text database on CD-ROM of primary sources covering Greek literature from Homer (eighth century B.C.) until the closing of the Academy (sixth century A.D.).

Other resources

Ancient History and Culture. This database provides a balanced, global view of the ancient world as it explores six ancient centers of civilization—Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia, spanning the period from the early Hominids 3 to 5 million years ago through 1522 CE.

Ancient World Mapping Center (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Cartography, historical geography and geographic information about the ancient world.

The Ancient World Web A comprehensive, well organized index of resources relating to all things ancient on the web.

APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) Links together in a single environment various sources of information about texts written on papyrus and the society that produced them. It contains descriptions of the papyri and other written materials in the collections of the participating institutions, digital images of many of these texts, and connections to databases with the texts themselves in their original languages and with bibliography about the texts.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review The authoritative archive of the Bryn Mawr Classical Review's publication, from 1990 to the present, this site publishes timely reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies (including archaeology).

Bulletin de Médecine Ancienne The "Ancient Medicine Newsletter," this site hosts a bibliography of research on topics in ancient medicine and offers for free download a handful of relevant texts, mostly scholarly studies.

Burrowing in Classical Antiquity: A Selective Guide to Internet Resources (University of Florida Libraries) A comprehensive list of Internet resources in classics compiled by Blake Landor, subject bibliographer in classics, philosophy and religion at the University of Florida.

Classics Page A popular site providing "over 900 pages of news, information, games and controversy about the life, literature, art and archaeology of the ancient world of Greece & Rome."

Classics Resources (Washington University in St. Louis) A well organized list of links to classics resources on the Web, including Greek and Latin Languages, Greek and Latin authors, Maps and sites of the Ancient World, Classics E-Journals, Medieval Latin Language and Culture, Classics Publishers, and Classics Associations, among others.

Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation (UC Irvine) Annotated list of links to classics resources, databases and web projects, home pages, e-publications, publishers and journals, images and more.

Forum Romanum A collaborative project among scholars, teachers, and students with the broad purpose of bringing classical scholarship out of college libraries and into a more accessible, online medium. Toward this end, the site hosts a number of materials for the classical scholar, including texts, translations, articles, and other pedagogical resources.

Labyrinth: a world wide web server for Medieval Studies Provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies, including databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world.

Project Libellus Provides a library of classical Latin (and Greek) texts with minimal redistribution restrictions.

Sources littéraires - Textes originaux en ligne (U. St. Louis [Brussels]) An expansive list of ancient texts available on the Web.

Vergil's Home Page (University of Pennsylvania) A source of links to Vergil scholarship on the Web.

VRoma: A Virtual Community for Teaching and Learning Classics The VRoma Project uses workshops and presentations to engage teachers and students in a virtual community dedicated to using internet technology to foster the teaching and learning of Latin and Roman culture. This web site features various types of resources created by VRomans, including a large archive of digital images relating to classical antiquity, help files and other materials about the MOO, teaching resources and course materials, information about the project and its participants, and relevant links to other sites.

WESSWeb: Classics Studies Web A selective list of Web-resources in classics.

 

General reference tools

General research guides

Bengston, Hermann. Introduction to ancient history. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1970. JFE 96-7323.

Halton, Thomas P. Classical scholarship: an annotated bibliography. White Plains, NY: Kraus International Publications, 1986. *RS-BTG 88-1445.

Jenkins, Fred W. Classical studies: a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, CA: Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1996. *R-BTG 98-10106.

Mantello, F. A. C. Medieval Latin: an introduction and bibliographical guide. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1996. *RS-RDB 97-3443.

McGuire, Martin R. An introduction to classical scholarship: a syllabus and bibliographical guide. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America, 1961. *RB-BTG.

Solomon, Jon. Accessing antiquity: the computerization of classical studies. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1993. JFE 94-4892 and JSE 94-1043.

Van Keueren, Frances. Guide to research in classical art and mythology. Chicago: American Library Association, 1991. MAH 91-8643.

Dictionaries and encyclopedias

Avery, Catherine B. The new century classical handbook. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962. JFF 95-2159.

Avi-Yonah, Michael. Illustrated encyclopaedia of the ancient world. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. JFE 96-15323.

Cotterell, Arthur. Penguin encyclopedia of classical civilization. New York: Viking, 1993. *R-BAE 94-117.

Grant, Michael. Civilization of the ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome. New York: Scribner's, 1988. *R-BTG 89-1571.

Hammond, N. G. L. Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1970. *R-BTGS 96-16575.

Pauly, August Friedrich von. Paulys Real-Encyclopäedie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Stuttgart, Germany: Metzler, 1894-1978. *R-BTGS.

Speake, Graham. A dictionary of ancient history. Oxford, England: Blackwell, 1994. *R-BAE 94-3672.

Ziegler, Konrat. Der kleine Pauly: Lexikon der Antike auf der Grundlage von Pauly's Real-Encyclopäedie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Stuttgart, Germany: Alfred Druckenmüller, 1964-1975. *R-BTGS.

 

Geography, ethnography, and anthropology

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

• Geography, Ancient
• Ethnology, Greece
• Ethnology, Rome
• Greece, Civilization
• Rome, Civilization
• Rome (Italy), Buildings, structures, etc.

Sourcebooks

Cole, Thomas. Democritus and the sources of Greek anthropology. Cleveland, OH: Press of Western Reserve University, 1967. RAA.

Dudley, Donald. Urbs Roma: a source book of classical texts on the city and its monuments. London: Phaidon, 1967. F-11 3187.

Hipparchus. The geographical fragments of Hipparchus. Edited by D.R. Dicks. London: Athlone Press, 1960. D-12 8105.

Riese, Alexander, ed. Geographi latini minores. Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1964. D-16 3954.

Maps, atlases and images

Cornell, Tim. Atlas of the Roman world. New York: Facts on File, 1982. JFG 82-120.

Hammond, Nicholas G.L., ed. Atlas of the Greek and Roman World in Antiquity. Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1981. Map Div. 84-934.

Heyden, A.A.M van der, and H.H. Scullard, eds. Atlas of the Classical World. London; New York: Nelson, 1959. G-10 795.

Jones, Barri. An atlas of Roman Britain. Oxford, England: Blackwell, 1990. Map Div. 90-10987.

Kiepert, Heinrich. Neuer Atlas von Hellas und den hellenischen Colonieen. Berlin, 1872. BVB++.

Levi, Peter. Atlas of the Greek world. New York: Facts on File, 1980. Map Div. 83-382.

Morkot, Robert. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece. London; New York: Penguin, 1996. JFE 96-18213.

Myers, J. Wilson. The aerial atlas of ancient Crete. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992. JFG 92-974.

Oliphant, Margaret. The atlas of the ancient world: charting the great civilizations of the past. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992. JFG 92-1014.

Schoder, Raymond. Wings over Hellas: ancient Greece from the air. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. JFE 81-2221.

Talbert, Richard J. A., ed. Atlas of Classical History. London: Routledge, 1988. Map Div. 91-5122.

Talbert, Richard J.A., ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. *R-BVB 00-12774.

Bibliography and reference

Avery, Catherine B. The New Century handbook of classical geography. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972. JFD 73-3008.

Grant, Michael. A guide to the ancient world: a dictionary of classical place-names. Bronx, NY: H. W. Wilson, 1986. Map Div. 86-1021.

Nash, Ernest. Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome. New York: Praeger, 1968. MQM+.

Platner, Samuel Ball. A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Completed and revised by Thomas Ashby. London, Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1929. MQM.

Richardson, Lawrence. A new topographical dictionary of ancient Rome. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. *R-BWP 93-1541.

Smith, William, ed. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. New York, AMS Press, 1966. *R-Map Div.

Steinby, Eva. Lexicon topographicum urbis Romae. Vols. 1-2. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 1993-. JFN 94-39.

Stillwell, Richard. The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976. *R-MTG 76-722.

Travlos, John. Pictorial dictionary of ancient Athens. New York: Praeger, 1971. MQM+ 72-591.

Historical and critical studies

Barrett, Don, Trevor Bryce, and Max Kanowski. A map history of the ancient world. Melbourne, Australia: Longman Cheshire, 1987. Map Div. 90-4029.

Berggren, J. Lennart, and Alexander Jones. Ptolemy's Geography: an annotated translation of the theoretical chapters. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000. JFF 01-3065.

Cary, M. The Geographic Background of Greek & Roman History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981. JFE 97-6744.

Clarke, Katherine. Between geography and history: Hellenistic constructions of the Roman world. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. JFD 00-3960.

Dueck, Daniela. Strabo of Amasia: a Greek man of letters in Augustan Rome. New York: Routlege, 2000. JFE 00-13525.

Dougherty, Carol. The raft of Odysseus: the ethnographic imagination of Homer's Odyssey. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. JFE 01-6837.

Gardiner-Garden, John R. Greek conceptions on inner Asian geography and ethnography from Ephoros to Eratosthenes. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1987. *ONV 01-2667.

Gardiner-Garden, John R. Herodotos' contemporaries on Skythian geography and ethnography. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1987. JAX M-929.

Gernet, Louis. The anthropology of ancient Greece. Translated by John D.B. Hamilton and Blaise Nagy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1981. JFE 82-247.

Humphreys, S. C. Anthropology and the Greeks. Boston: Routledge & K. Paul, 1978. JFD 78-9354.

Kluckhohn, Clyde. Anthropology and the classics. Providence, Brown University Press, 1961. D-13 5010.

Leontis, Artemis. Topographies of Hellenism: mapping the homeland. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. JFE 95-9933.

Luce, J.V. Celebrating Homer's landscapes: Troy and Ithaca revisited. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. JFE 99-2715.

Munson, Rosaria Vignolo. Telling wonders: ethnographic and political discourse in the work of Herodotus. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2001. JFE 02-4401.

Pritchett, W. Kendrick. Studies in Ancient Greek Topography. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1965-. L-11 622.

Rykwert, Joseph. The idea of a town: the anthropology of urban form in Rome, Italy and the ancient world. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976. JLF 76-1101.

Sassi, Maria Michela. The science of man in ancient Greece. Translated by Paul Tucker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. JFE 01-13190.

Saunders, Catharine. Vergil's primitive Italy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1930. NTM.

Syme, Ronald. Anatolica: studies in Strabo. Edited by Anthony Birley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. JFE 95-7346

 

Greek and Latin Language

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

• Greek language
• Latin language

Dictionaries and Lexicons

Bauer, Johannes B., and Anneliese Felber. A reverse index of patristic Greek. Graz: Institut für Ökumenische Theologie und Patrologie an der Universität Graz, 1983. JFD 90-9963.

Chantraine, Pierre. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque: histoire des mots. Paris: Klincksieck, 1968-80. *R-RCI 75-2564.

Cunliffe, Richard John. A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press [1963]. D-14 8567.

Danker, Frederick William, ed. A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2000. *R-*YIE 01-10785.

Glare, P. G. W. Oxford Latin dictionary. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982. *R-RDG 83-1077.

Lampe, G. W. H. A patristic Greek lexicon. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1976. *R-RCH 78-248.

Lewis, Charleton. A Latin dictionary. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1975. *R-RDG 77-2386 and JFF 92-2013.

Liddell, Henry George, and Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. 10th ed. Revised by Henry Stuart Jones with Roderick McKenzie and others. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1996. *R-RCH 96-15743.

Maltby, Robert. Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies. Leeds: F. Cairns, 1991. JFD 91-3868.

Neal, Bill. Gardener's Latin: a lexicon. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1992. JFC 92-2933.

Sophocles, E.A. Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B.C. 146 to A.D. 1100). F. Ungar Pub. Co., [1957]. *RR-RCH.

Souter, Alexander. A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D. Oxford: Clarendon Press, [1964]. *RR- RDG 72-1677.

Grammar

Allen, Joseph. Allen and Greenough's new Latin grammar for schools and colleges: founded on comparative grammar. New Rochelle, NY: Caratzas Brothers, 1983. *R-RDO 85-2900.

Blass, F., and A. Debrunner. A Greek grammar of the New Testament and other early Christian literature. A translation and revision of the 9th-10th German ed., incorporating supplementary notes of A. Debrunner, by Robert W. Funk. [Chicago]: University of Chicago Press, [1961]. F-10 7134.

Denniston, J.D. The Greek Particles. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1954. RCO.

Ehrlich, Eugene. Amo, amas, amat and more: how to use Latin to your own advantage and to the astonishment of others. New York: Harper and Row, 1985. JFD 85-3809.

Gignac, Francis T. A Grammar of the Greek Papyri of the Roman and Byzantine Periods. Milano: Istituto editoriale cisalpino-La Goliardica, 1976-. JFL 77-422.

Goodwin, William Watson. Syntax of the moods and tenses of the Greek verb. Boston: Ginn & Company, 1890. RCO.

Kühner, Raphael. Ausfuhrliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache. Hannover, 1869-72. RCO.

Sihler, Andrew. New comparative grammar of Greek and Latin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. *R-RCO 95-682.

Smyth, Herbert Weir. Greek grammar. Revised by Gordon M. Messing. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press [1973, c1956]. JFD 98-1803.

Threatte, Leslie. Grammar of Attic Inscriptions. Berlin; New York: W. de Gruyter, 1980-1996. JFE 99-4392.

Wheelock, Frederick [sic] M. Wheelock's Latin grammar. New York, NY: HarperPerennial, 1992. JFE 94-4210.

Language

Buck, C.D. The Greek Dialects. [Chicago]: University of Chicago Press, [1955]. *RR-RCS.

Branyon, Richard A. Latin phrases and quotations. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997. Pub. Cat. 97-10211.

Denniston, J.D. The Greek Prose Style. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1952. RCB.

Hammond, Mason. Latin: a historical and linguistic handbook. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976. *R-RDB 76-7554.

Palmer, L. R. The Greek language. London: Bristol, 1996. *R-RC 98-6516.

Palmer. L. R. The Latin language. London: Faber and Faber, 1966. D-18 3898.

Stone, Jon R. Latin for the illiterati: exorcizing the ghosts of a dead language. New York: Routledge, 1996. Pub. Cat. 96-10596.

 

History, politics and society

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• Greece, History
• Rome, History
• Rome, Politics and Government
• Greece, Politics and Government
• Greece, Commerce, History
• Rome, Commerce, History
• Greece, Civilization
• Rome, Civilization

Sourcebooks

Austin, M. M. The Hellenistic world from Alexander to the Roman conquest: a selection of ancient sources in translation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. JFE 83-1061.

Braund, David C. Augustus to Nero: a sourcebook on Roman history. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1985. JFD 86-9842.

Burstein, Stanley. The Hellenistic age from the battle of Ipsos to the death of Kleopatra VII. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. JFE 86-5114.

Campbell, Brian. The Roman army, 31 BC-AD 337: a sourcebook. London: Routledge, 1994. JFD 94-15167.

Chisholm, Kitty. Rome, the Augustan age: a source book. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. JFE 88-7289.

Crawford, Michael. Archaic and classical Greece: a selection of ancient sources in translation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. *R-BVG 91-7322.

Fornara, Charles. Archaic times to the end of the Peloponnesian War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. JFE 92-6802.

Gardner, Jane F. The Roman household: a sourcebook. London: Routledge, 1991. JLD 92-7808.

Harding, Phillip. From the end of the Peloponnesian War to the battle of Ipsus. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. JFE 88-4362.

Ireland, S. Roman Britain: a sourcebook. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. JFD 96-11979.

Jones, A. H. M. A history of Rome through the fifth century. New York: Walker, 1968-1970. L-11 2861.

Levick, Barbara. The government of the Roman empire: a sourcebook. London: Croom Helm, 1985. JFD 87-2776.

Lewis, Naphtali. Roman civilization: selected readings. New York: Columbia University Press, 1951-59. BWE.

Meijer, Fik. Trade, transport, and society in the ancient world: a sourcebook. London: Routledge, 1992. JFE 93-7331.

Rhodes, P. J. The Greek city state: a source book. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. JFD 86-7630.

Shelton, Jo-Ann. As the Romans did: a source book in Roman social history. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. JFE 88-5121.

Sherk, Robert K. The Roman empire: Augustus to Hadrian. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. JFE 89-4297.

Stanton, G. R. Athenian politics, c. 800-500 BC: a sourcebook. London: Routledge, 1990. JFD 91-2193.

Bibliography and reference

Bubel, Frank. Herodot-Bibliographie, 1980-1988. Hildesheim, Germany: Olms-Weidmann, 1991. JFD 92-7148.

Bunson, Matthew. Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire. New York: Facts on File, 1994. *R-BWH 98-8232.

Boardman, John. The Oxford history of the classical world. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. *R-BTG 86-5158.

Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray, eds. The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. *R-BVC 98-11879.
 

Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray, eds. The Oxford History of the Roman World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. *R-BWH 98-11152.

Cambridge ancient history. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1923- . *R-BAE.

The Classical World Bibliography of Greek and Roman History. New York: Garland Pub., 1977. JFE 78-1847.

Rosser, John H. Historical Dictionary of Byzantium. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001. *R-BUL 01-7237.

Scarre, Chris. Smithsonian timelines of the ancient world. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1991. *R-BAH 93-11079.

Speake, Graham. A Dictionary of Ancient History. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. *R-BAE 94-3672.

Historiography and methodology

Bengtson, Hermann. Introduction to Ancient History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1970. *R-BTG 98-10079.

Cochrane, Charles. Thucydides and the science of history. New York: Russell & Russell, 1965. JFD 94-9920.

Crawford, Michael. Sources for ancient history. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1983. *R-BAE 91-7339.

Fehling, Detlev. Herodotus and his 'sources' : citation, invention and narrative art. Liverpool, England: Francis Cairns, 1988. JFD 89-3185.

Forsythe, Gary. Livy and early Rome: a study in historical method and judgment. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1999. JFE 02-2005.

Woodman, A.J. Tacitus reviewed. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. JFD 99-4642.

Historical studies

Arnheim, M. T. W. Aristocracy in Greek society. London: Thames and Hudson, 1977. JFD 77-9686.

Brock, Roger, and Stephen Hodkinson, eds. Alternatives to Athens: varieties of political organization and community in ancient Greece. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. JFE 01-4570.

Carey, Christopher. Democracy in classical Athens. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2000. JFD 01-5635.

Cawkwell, George. Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War. New York: Routledge, 1997. JFD 97-20183.

Flensted-Jensen, Pernille, Thomas Heine Nielsen, and Lene Rubinstein, eds. Polis and politics: studies in ancient Greek history. Copenhagen; Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000. JFF 01-137.

Garnsey, Peter, and Richard Saller. The Roman Empire: economy, society, and culture. London: Duckworth, 1987. *R-BWEC 92-7891.

Glover, T. R. Democracy in the ancient world. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1966. JLD 83-2293.

Grote, George. A history of Greece. London: Murray, 1872. JFD 94-5290.

Jaeger, Mary. Livy's written Rome. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. JFE 98-1431.

McGlew, James F. Tyranny and political culture in ancient Greece. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993. JFE 94-1937.

Mitchell, Lynette G., and P.J. Rhodes, eds. The development of the polis in archaic Greece. New York: Routledge, 1997. JFE 97-9484.

Mommsen, Theodor. The history of Rome. London: R. Bently, 1894. BWB.

Robinson, Eric. The first democracies: early popular government outside Athens. Stuttgart: F. Steiner, 1997. JFF 97-1439.

Samuel, Alan. Greek and Roman chronology: calendars and years in classical antiquity. München: C. Beck, 1972. *RS-BTGP.

 

Literature

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

• Greek literature
• Latin literature
• Greek literature, History and criticism
• Latin literature, History and criticism
• Greek literature, Bibliography
• Latin literature, Bibliography
• Greek drama
• Latin drama
• Epic poetry, Greek
• Epic poetry, Latin
• Greek poetry
• Latin poetry
• Greek prose literature
• Latin prose literature
• Rhetoric, Ancient

Anthologies and compilations

Baldwin, Barry. An anthology of Byzantine poetry. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1985. JFE 86-428.

Campbell, David A. Greek lyric poetry: a selection of early Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poetry. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1982. JFD 86-10211.

Clack, Jerry. An Anthology of Alexandrian poetry. Pittsburgh, PA: Classical World, 1982. JFE 86-3993.

Cook, Albert and Edwin Dolin, eds. An Anthology of Greek tragedy. Dallas, TX: Spring Pub., [1983], 1972. JFD 85-1647.

Duff, J. Wight and Arnold M. Duff, eds. Minor Latin poets: in two volumes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. *R-NRDZ M666.

Russell, D.A. An Anthology of Latin prose. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. JFD 90-11356.

Gerber, Douglas E., ed. Euterpe: an anthology of early Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poetry. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1970. JFF 72-1024.

Hopkinson, Neil. Greek poetry of the Imperial Period: an anthology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. JFC 95-606.

A Greek anthology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. JFD 02-20487.

Hansen, William. Anthology of ancient Greek popular literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. JFE 00-1536.

Bibliography and reference

Avery, Catherine B. The new century handbook of Greek literature. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972. JFD 72-6366.

Briggs, Ward W.  Ancient Greek authors. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, 1997. *R-AB 79-1061 v.176.

Brown, Andrew. A new companion to Greek tragedy. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1983. JFD 83-4603.

Donlan, Walter. The classical world bibliography of Vergil. New York: Garland, 1978. JFE 78-2996.

Donlan, Walter. The classical world bibliography of Greek drama and poetry. New York: Garland Pub., 1977. JFE 78-1855.

Donlan, Walter. The classical world bibliography of Roman drama and poetry and ancient fiction. New York: Garland Pub., 1977. JFE 78-1487.

Enciclopedia Virgiliana. Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1984-1991. JFM 89-429.

Fedeli, P. Bibliografia properziana. Assisi, Italy: Tipografia Porziuncola, 1985. JFE 87-1570.

Feder, Lillian. The handbook of classical literature. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998. *R-NRC 99-5417.

Gerber, Douglas E. A bibliography of Pindar, 1513-1966. Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University for the American Philological Association, 1969. *RS-NRWO 76-5333.

Gwinup, Thomas, and Fidelia Dickinson. Greek and Roman Authors: a Checklist of Criticism. 2nd ed. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1982. JFD 89-4715.

Harrauer, Hermann. A bibliography to Catullus. Hildesheim, Germany: Gerstenberg, 1979. JFD 80-3755.

Holoka, James. Gaius Valerius Catullus: a systematic bibliography. New York: Garland, 1985. JFD 85-1740.

Howatson, M. C. The concise Oxford companion to classical literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. JFD 93-7903.

Lehnus, Luigi. Bibliografia Callimachea, 1489-1988. Genova, Italy: Universita di Genova, Facolta di Lettere, 1989. JFD 95-19904.

Packard, David W. A bibliography of Homeric scholarship. Malibu, CA: Undena, 1974. JFD 76-2584.

Sienkewicz, Thomas J. The Classical Epic: an Annotated Bibliography. Magill bibliographies. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1991. JFE 91-6294.

Historical and critical studies

Arnott, W. Geoffrey. Menander, Plautus, and Terence. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1975. L-11 2064 no. 9.

Barsby, John. Ovid. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1978. L-11 2064 no. 12.

Blass, Friedrich. Die griechische Beredsamkeit in dem Zeitraum von Alexander bis auf Augustus. Ein litterarhistorischer Versuch. Berlin: Weidmann, 1865. NSH.

Buxton, R. G. A. Sophocles. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1984. L-11 2064 no. 16.

Conte, Gian B. Latin literature: a history. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. *R-NTB 94-10232.

Dihle, Albrecht. Greek and Latin literature of the Roman empire: from Augustus to Justinian. London: Routledge, 1994. *R-NRC 94-7492.

Dihle, Albrecht. A history of Greek literature: from Homer to the Hellenistic period. London: Routledge, 1994. *R-NRE 94-13231.

Dover, K.J., ed. Ancient Greek literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. JFD 98-1853.

Duff, J. Wight. A literary history of Rome: from the origins to the close of the Golden Age. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1959. *R-NTB 75-5105.

Duff, J. Wright. A literary history of Rome in the Silver Age: from Tiberius to Hadrian. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1964. *R-NTB 75-755.

Easterling, P. E. The Cambridge history of classical literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982-85. *R-NRC 82-677. Volume one is Greek literature; volume two is Latin.

Ferguson, John. Catullus. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1988. L-11 2064 no. 20.

Hainsworth, J. B. Homer. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1969. L-11 2064 no. 3.

Hutchinson, G.O. Latin literature from Seneca to Juvenal: a critical study. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. JFD 93-6280.

Ireland, S. Aeschylus. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1986. L-11 2064 no. 18.

Kennedy, George A. A new history of classical rhetoric. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. JFE 95-1270.

Murphy, James J. and Richard A. Katula, with Forbes I. Hill, Donovan J. Ochs. A synoptic history of classical rhetoric. Mahwah, N.J.: Hermagoras Press, 2003. JFF 03-1343.

Rose, H. J. A Handbook of Greek Literature: from Homer to the Age of Lucian. 3d , rev. ed. London: Methuen, 1948. D-16 4108. A popular, quick-reference overview of classical Greek literature. Bibliographical references and an index are included.

Rose, H. J. A handbook of Latin literature: from the earliest times to the death of St. Augustine. London: Methuen, 1958. D-13 7029.

Schanz, Martin. Geschichte der römischen Literatur bis zum Gesetzgebungswerk des Kaisers Justinian. München: C. H. Beck, 1896-1920. (Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft, Abt. 8). *RS-BTGP. The standard scholarly history of Latin literature; in German.

Schmid, Wilhelm. Geschichte der griechischen Literatur. München: C. H. Beck, 1940-59. (Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft, Abt. 7). *RS-BTGP. Companion to the above volume, for Greek literature; also in German.

Syme, Ronald. Tacitus. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1967. *RR-BWHR 72-1731.

Ussher, R. G. Aristophanes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1979. L-11 2064 no. 13.

Williams, Gordon. Horace. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1972. L-11 2064 no. 6.

 

Mythology, magic and religion

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• Magic, Greek
• Magic, Roman
• Greece, Religion
• Rome, Religion
• Mythology, Greek
• Mythology, Roman

Sourcebooks

Betz, Hans Dieter. The Greek magical papyri in translation, including the Demotic spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. *OBKQ 90-1286.

Ferguson, John. Greek and Roman religion: a source book. Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1980. *R-ZAT 80-3415.

Gantz, Timothy. Early Greek myth: a guide to the literary and artistic sources. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. *R-ZAT 93-9171.

Kraemer, Ross. Maenads, martyrs, matrons, monastics: a sourcebook on women's religions in the Greco-Roman world. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988. JFE 89-736.

Meyer, Marvin. The ancient mysteries: a sourcebook. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1987. JFE 87-1659.

Ogden, Daniel. Magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Greek and Roman worlds: a sourcebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. JFF 02-5805.

Rice, David G. and John E. Stambaugh. Sources for the study of Greek religion. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1979. JFE 96-11550.

Bibliography and reference

Adkins, Lesley. Dictionary of Roman Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. *R-ZAT 96-1322.

Avery, Catherine B. The new century handbook of Greek mythology and legend. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972. *R-ZAT 78-2963.

Barthell, Edward. Gods and goddesses of ancient Greece. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1971. JFF 73-204.

Bell, Robert. Dictionary of classical mythology: symbols, attributes and associations. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1982. *R-ZAT 83-1116.

Bell, Robert. Place-names in classical mythology: Greece. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1989. *R-ZAT 90-1518.

Bell, Robert. Women of classical mythology: a biographical dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1991. JFF 91-2762.

Cohn-Sherbok, Dan and John M. Court, eds. Religious diversity in the Graeco-Roman world: a survey of recent scholarship. Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. JFE 02-13552.

Coulter, Charles Russell and Patricia Turner.  Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities. Jefferson, NC; London: McFarland, 2000. *R-ZBC 00-586.

Donlan, Walter. The Classical world bibliography of philosophy, religion, and rhetoric. New York: Garland Pub., 1977. *RS-YAE 00-10660.

Grant, Michael. Who's who in classical mythology. London: Routledge, 1994. JFE 95-16112.

Grimal, Pierre. A concise dictionary of classical mythology. Translated by A. R. Maxwell-Hyslop. Edited by Stephen Kershaw. New York: Blackwell, 1996. *R-ZBC 90-11211.

Latte, Kurt. Römische Religionsgeschichte. Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft; 5. Abt., 4. T. München : Beck, 1960. JFM 99-106.

Motte, André. Mentor: Guide bibliographique de la religion grecque. Liège, France: Universitè de Liège, 1992. JFL 01-15.

Nilsson, Martin P. Geschichte der griechischen Religion. Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft; 5. Abt., 2. T. München: Beck, 1955. JFM 99-106.

Parada, Carlos. Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology. Jonsered, Sweden: Paul Åströms, 1993. M-11 1087 v.107.

Reid, Jane D. The Oxford guide to classical mythology in the arts, 1300-1990's. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. MAMZ 93-8957.

Roscher, Wilhem Heinrich. Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1884-1937. JFE 98-4478.

Sienkewicz, Thomas J. World mythology: an annotated guide to collections and anthologies. The Magill bibliographies. Lanham, Md. Pasadena, Calif.: Scarecrow Press; Salem Press, 1996. *RS-ZBB 98-3402.

Historical and critical studies

Burkert, Walter. Ancient mystery cults. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987. JFE 87-6386.

Cosmopoulos, Michael B. Greek mysteries: the archaeology and ritual of ancient Greek secret cults. London; New York: Routledge, 2003. JFE 03-1957.

Cook, A.B. Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion. New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1964-65. JFE 02-841.

Croke, Brian. Religious conflict in fourth century Rome: a documentary study. Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press, 1982. JFD 88-6624.

Dickie, Matthew W. Magic and magicians in the Greco-Roman world. London; New York: Routledge, 2001. JFE 04-1054.

Dowden, Ken. The uses of Greek mythology. London; New York: Routledge, 1992. JFD 92-16121.

Easterling, P.E. and J.V. Muir, eds. Greek religion and society. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. JFE 85-3371.

Faraone, Christopher A. Ancient Greek love magic. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 1999. JFE 99-12497.

Faraone, Christopher A., and Dirk Obbink. Magika hiera: ancient Greek magic and religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. JFE 91-2376.

Farnell, Lewis Richard. Cults of the Greek States. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896-1909. ZAT.

Fontenrose, Joseph. The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. JFE 79-1056.

Luck, Georg. Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. JFE 85-4859.

Nilsson, Martin P. Greek folk religion. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. *R-ZAT 99-12167.

Ogden, Daniel. Greek and Roman necromancy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. JFE 02-7366.

Parke, H.W., and D.E.W. Wormell. The Delphic Oracle. Oxford, Blackwell, 1956. D-10 2777.

Parker, Robert. Athenian religion: a history. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. JFE 96-11265.

Parker, Robert. Miasma: pollution and purification in early Greek religion. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. JFD 83-7758.

Versnel, H.S., ed. Faith, hope and worship: aspects of religious mentality in the ancient world. Leiden: Brill, 1981. JFL 82-199 v.2.

 

Numismatics

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

• Coins, Classical
• Coins, Greek
• Coins, Roman
• Numismatics

In addition, researchers may want to perform general searches in CATNYP for the following classmark headings:

• Call number “MHL” for ancient numismatics
• Call number “MHM” for Greek numismatics
• Call number “MHN” for Roman numismatics
• Call number “MHO” for Byzantine numismatics

Sourcebooks

Jones, John R. Testimonia numaria: Greek and Latin texts concerning ancient Greek coinage. London: Spink, 1993. JFL 93-624.

Bibliography and reference

Krause, Hermann. Numismatisches Wörterbuch. Deutsch-englisch, englisch-deutsch. München: E. Battenberg, 1971. JFD 75-8648.

Malter, Joel L. Byzantine numismatic bibliography, 1950-1965. Chicago: Argonaut, 1968. D-18 8897.

Historical, methodological and critical studies

Balmuth, Miriam S., ed. Hacksilber to coinage: new insights into the monetary history of the Near East and Greece. New York: American Numismatic Society, 2001. JFG 03-309.

Banti, Alberto. Corpus Nummorum Romanorum: Monetazione Republicana: Classificazione per Ordine Alfabetico delle Monete Coniate ai Nomi delle Famiglie. 9 vols. Firenze: A. Banti, 1980-. JFM 82-170.

British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals. Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum. 5 v. in plates. London: Published by the Trustees of The British Museum, 1968-. *RR-MHN.

Casson, Lionel and Martin Price, eds. Coins, culture and history in the ancient world: numismatic and other studies in honor of Bluma L. Trell. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1981. JFF 83-877.

Chitescu, Maria. Numismatic aspects of the history of the Dacian state: the Roman Republican coinage in Dacia and Geto-Dacian coins of Roman type. Translated by Cornelia Urdea. Oxford, England: B.A.R., 1981. JFF 86-94.

Goodacre, Hugh. The bronze coinage of the late Roman empire. London, Spink & Son ltd., 1922. *C-4 p.v.678.

Holt, Frank L. Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallions. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. JFE 03-16853.

Holt, Frank L. Thundering Zeus: the making of Hellenistic Bactria. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. JFE 99-8366.

Howgego, C. J. Ancient History from Coins. London; New York: Routledge, 1995. JFD 96-3245.  

Laing, Lloyd R. Coins and archaeology. New York: Schocken Books, 1970. JFD 71-83.

Lane-Poole, Stanley, ed. Coins and medals, their place in history and art; by the authors of the British museum official catalogues. London: E. Stock, 1894. MHC.

Levy, Brooks E., and Pierre C.V. Bastien. Roman Coins in the Princeton University Library. Wetteren, Belgium: Editions NR, 1985-. JFM 88-8 Vol. 1.  

Regling, Kurt. Ancient numismatics; the coinage of ancient Greece and Rome. Translation by Terry Merz. Chicago: Argonaut, Inc., 1969. D-19 9274.

Mattingly, Harold, ed. The Roman Imperial Coinage. 9 v. in 12. London: Spink & Son, 1923-1981. *R-MHN 78-3443.

Sutherland, C. H. V. Ancient numismatics: a brief introduction. New York: American Numismatics Society, 1958. D-11 7539.

Sutherland, C. H. V. Art in coinage: the aesthetics of money from Greece to the present day. London: B. T. Batsford, 1955. MHC.

Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. London: Published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press, 1931-. MHM+. An ongoing series of complete photographic records of large or medium-sized public (a few private) collections in different countries.

 

Papyrology, epigraphy and paleography

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

• Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
• Manuscripts, Latin (Papyri)
• Inscriptions, Greek
• Inscriptions, Latin
• Paleography, Greek
• Paleography, Latin

In addition, researchers may want to perform general searches in CATNYP for the following classmark headings:

• Call number “BVEF” for Greek inscriptions
• Call number “BWDF” for Latin inscriptions
• Call number “RCC” for Greek paleography and orthography
• Call number “RDC” for Latin paleography and orthography
• Call number “*OBKQ” for Egyptian papyri
• Call number “*IC” for general paleography
• Call number “*ICC” for specimens of manuscripts generally
• Call number “*GBI” for bibliographies and catalogs of manuscripts

Resources in papyrology

Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini (CPF). Firenze: L.S. Olsckhi, 1989-. JFL 92-622; JFP 03-5.

McNamee, Kathleen. Abbreviations in Greek Literary Papyri and Ostraca. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1981. JFD 81-6534.

Oates, John F. Checklist of editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic papyri, ostraca, and tablets. Oakville, Conn.: American Society of Papyrologists, 2001. JFE 02-13881

Pestman, P.W. The new papyrological primer. New York: E.J. Brill, 1990. JFE 91-3916.

Betz, Hans Dieter, ed. The Greek magical papyri in translation, including the Demotic spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986-. *OBKQ 90-1286.

Turner, E.G. Greek Papyri: An Introduction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968. D-18 4858.

Resources in epigraphy

L'Année épigraphique; revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l'antiquité romaine. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. BWDF.

Bodel, John, ed. Epigraphic Evidence: Ancient History from Inscriptions. London; New York: Routledge, 2001. JFD 01-16755.

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. Editio altera. Berolini: G. Reimerum, 1893-1955. This series comprises Latin inscriptions from a range of historical periods and geographic regions. Editors and call numbers vary.

Gordon, Arthur E. Illustrated introduction to Latin epigraphy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983. JFF 84-798.

Peek, Werner, ed. Griechische Vers-Inschriften. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1955-. E-10 982 Bd. 1.

Inscriptiones Graecae. Berolini: G. Reimer, 1873-. BVEF++. This series, published under the authority of the Preussische Akadamie der Wissenschaften, comprises a variety of Greek inscriptions from a range of historical periods and geographic regions.

Keppie, Lawrence. Understanding Roman Inscriptions. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1991. JFF 92-916.

Meiggs, Russell, and David Lewis. A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the 5th Century B.C. New York : Oxford University Press, 1988. *R-BVEF 92-7776.

Woodhead, A. Geoffrey. The Study of Greek Inscriptions. 2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. JFD 81-5507.

Resources in paleography

Barbour, Ruth. Greek Literary Hands A.D. 400-1600. New York : Oxford University Press, 1981. JFF 82-115.

Bischoff, Bernhard. Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Translated by Dáibhí ó Cróinin and David Ganz. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1990. JFE 90-3561.

Groningen, B.A. van. Short Manual of Greek Palaeography. Leyden, A.W. Sijthoff, 1967. F-11 3704.

Roberts, Colin H. Greek Literary Hands, 350 B. C.-A. D. 400. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. F-10 875.

Seider, Richard. Paläographie der griechischen Papyri. Stuttgart : A. Hiersemann, 1967-. M-11 3477.

Seider, Richard. Paläographie der lateinischen Papyri. Stuttgart, A. Hiersemann, 1972-. JFM 76-424.

Thompson, Edward Maunde. A Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography. 3rd. Ed. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1906. *IC.

Thompson, Edward Maunde. An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1912. *ICC 75-4870.

 

Periodicals

Indexes to articles (print)

L'Anné philologique: bibliographie critique et analytique de l'antiquité gréco-latine. 1925- . Paris: Société d'édition "Les Belles Lettres." *RS-RB. (v. 27- ; 1956- ). Indexes all aspects of classical studies in one annual volume; international in scope.

Rounds, Dorothy. Articles on antiquity in Festschriften: an index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962. JFF 86-204 and JFF 94-377. Indexes articles in works honoring individuals and institutions; covers 1863-1954.

Indexes to articles (electronic)

Please note that "dead" links below signify that a resource is not public but is accessible on-site at the New York Public Library.

Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World Includes course materials, the beginnings of a systematic and searchable bibliography, and links to many on-line resources, including articles, book reviews, databases, and images.

Dyabola Contains electronic subject catalogs of publications on the history of art and the ancient world.

Gnomon Online A supplement to Gnomon Bibliographische Datenbank on CD-ROM that offers roughly 15% of its approximately 240,000 titles.

Humanities Abstracts Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals, including scholarly journals, in the diverse subject areas of the humanities.

JSTOR A searchable, digitized archive—from the first date of publication to the last three to five years—of major scholarly journals in many academic fields.

MLA International Bibliography Indexes scholarship in world literature, including poetry, fiction, drama, film, linguistics, and folklore.

The Philosopher's Index (1940-present) Indexes and abstracts the literature on epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, law, religion and science from periodicals, monographs, and other documents.

TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents of 160 Journals Provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both in text format and through a Web search program. Where possible, links are given with articles of which the full text or an abstract is available online (about 15%).

Sample periodicals

Current issues are available in the Periodicals Section, Room 108. Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library's holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library's online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

• Philosophy, Ancient, Periodicals
• Archaeology, Periodicals
• Greece, Civilization, Periodicals
• Rome, Civilization, Periodicals
• Classical philology, Periodicals
• Art, Greek, Periodicals
• Art, Roman, Periodicals

American journal of ancient history. JFL 85-259. (v. 1- ; 1976- ).
American journal of archaeology. *ZAN 5215 (v. 1- ;1885-1939) and JFM 76-103. (1940- ).
American journal of philology. *ZAN 3222. (v. 1- ; 1880- ).
American Philological Association. Transactions. RAA. (v. 1- ; 1870- ).
Ancient philosophy. JFL 85-480. (v. 1- ; 1980- ).
Antike Welt: Zeitschrift für Archäeologie und Kulturgeschichte. JFM 77-226. (v. 1, no. 3- ; 1970- ).
Apeiron: a journal of ancient philosophy and science. JFN 79-3. (v. 1- ; 1966- ).
Archaeology. MTA. (v. 1- ; 1948- ).
Arethusa. *ZAN 4668. (v. 1- ; 1968- ).
Arion: a journal of humanities and the classics. K-l0 3730. (v. 1- ; 1962- ).
British School at Rome. Papers. 3-MTX. (v. 1- ; 1902- ).
Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. MTLA. (v. 1- ; 1877- ).
Classical and modern literature. JFL 85-273. (v. 1- ; 1980- ).
Classical antiquity. JFM 86-262. (v. 1- ; 1982- ).
Classical bulletin. *ZAN 3182. (v. 1- ; 1925- ).
Classical journal. *ZAN 3312. (v. 1- ; 1905- ).
Classical philology. *ZAN 5001 (v. 1- ;1906-73, 1978- ) and *XL 654. (1974-77).
Classical quarterly. *ZAN 5205. (v. 1- ; 1907- ).
Classical world. *ZAN 3198. (v. 1- ; 1907- ).
Greece and Rome. RBA. (v. 1- ; 1931- ).
Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies. L-10 2373. (v. 1- ; 1958- ).
Helios: a journal devoted to critical and methodological studies of classical culture, literature and society. JFK 85-287. (v. 11- ; 1984- ).
Hermes: Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie. RBA. (v. 1- ; 1866- ).
Hesperia. MTGA+. (v. 1- ; 1932- ).
Journal of Hellenic studies. BVA. (v. 1- ; 1880- ).
Journal of Roman archaeology. JFM 89-170. (v. 1- ; 1988- ).
Journal of Roman studies. BWA. (v. 1- ; 1911- ).
Latomus: revue d'études latines. RBA. (v. 1- ; 1937- ).
Mnemosyne: bibliotheca classica batava. RBA. (v. 1- ; 1852- ).
Oxford journal of archaeology. JFL 86-686. (v. 1- ; 1982- ).
Oxford studies in ancient philosophy. JFL 84-419. (v. 1- ; 1983- ).
Philologus: Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie. RBA. (v. 1- ; 1846- ).
Phoenix. L-10 2085. (v. 1- ; 1946- ).
Phronesis: a journal for ancient philosophy. L-10 84. (v. 1- ; 1955- ).
Revue des études anciennes. RBA. (v. 1- ; 1899- ).
Revue des études grecques. RBA. (v. 1- ; 1888- ).
Revue des études latines. RBA. (v. 1- ; 1928- ).
Yale classical studies. RBA. (v. 1- ; 1928- )

 

Philosophy, science and technology

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

• Philosophy, Ancient
• Science, Ancient
• Technology, Greece, history
• Technology, Rome, history

Sourcebooks

Diels, Hermann, and Walther Kranz. Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 6th ed. Berlin: Weidmann, 1951-52. YAEC.

Irby-Massie, Georgia L., and Paul T. Keyser. Greek science of the Hellenistic era: a sourcebook. London; New York: Routledge, 2002. JFE 02-17837.

Long A.A., and D.N. Sedley. The Hellenistic philosophers. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. JFL 93-60.

Longrigg, James. Greek medicine: from the heroic to the hellenistic age: a source book. London: Duckworth, 1998. JFE 98-6249.

Oleson, John Peter. Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook. London/New York: Routledge, 1998. JFE 99-5369.

Bibliography and Reference

Bell, Albert A., Jr., and James B. Allis. Resources in Ancient Philosophy: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship in English, 1965-1989. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991. *RS-YAE 00-4646.

Donlan, Walter. The Classical world bibliography of philosophy, religion, and rhetoric. New York: Garland Pub., 1977. *RS-YAE 00-10660.

Goulet, Richard, ed. Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Paris: CNRS, 1989. *R-YAE 90-2069.

McKirahan, Richard. Plato and Socrates: a comprehensive bibliography, 1958-1973. New York: Garland, 1978. *RS-YAET 79-788.

Motto, Anna L. Seneca, a critical bibliography, 1900-1980: scholarship on his life, thought, prose, and influence. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1989. JFE 90-6218.

Navia, Luis E. Pythagoras: an annotated bibliography. New York: Garland, 1990. JFD 90-9253.

Navia, Luis E. Socrates: an annotated bibliography. New York: Garland, 1988. JFD 89-884.

Paquet, Leonce. Les Présocratiques: Bibliographie analytique (1879-1980). Montréal: Les Editions Bellarmine and Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1988-1989. JFL 89-402 [Vol. 1].

Zeyl, Donald J. ed. Daniel T. Devereux and Phillip T. Mitsis, assoc. eds. Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. *R-YAE 97-10082.

Historical and critical studies

Barnes, Jonathan. The Presocratic philosophers. London; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. *R-YAEB 79-1739.

Barnes, Jonathan, et al., eds. Science and speculation: studies in Hellenistic theory and practice. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press; Paris: Editions de la maison des sciences de l'homme, 1982. JFE 04-13329.

Benson, Hugh H. Essays on the philosophy of Socrates. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. JFE 92-4431.

Keimpe, Algra, et al., eds. Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. *R-YAE 00-12246.

Armstrong, A. H., ed. Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy. London, Cambridge U.P., 1967. *R-YAC.

Cleary, John J., ed. The perennial tradition of Neoplatonism. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 1997. JFE 99-2080.

Dodds, E. R. The ancient concept of progress and other essays on Greek literature and belief. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973. JFD 74-2931.

Everson, Stephen, ed. Language. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. JFE 94-16276.

Everson, Stephen, ed. Epistemology. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. JFE 90-5593.

Everson, Stephen, ed. Ethics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. JFE 98-9439.

Flashar, Hellmut. Philosophie der Antike. Basel: Schwabe, 1983-. JFL 84-195.

Frede, Michael. Essays in ancient philosophy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. JFE 87-1465.

Guthrie, W.K.C. A History of Greek Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1962-1981. 6 vols. *RR-YAE.

Hankinson, R.J. Cause and explanation in ancient Greek thought. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. JFE 99-2072.

Healy, John F. Pliny the Elder on science and technology. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. JSE 01-1.

Lloyd, G.E.R. Magic, reason, and experience. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. JSE 80-309.

Long, A.A. Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. JFE 00-1538.

Morford, Mark. The Roman philosophers: from the time of Cato the Censor to the death of Marcus Aurelius. London; New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2002. JFE 00-1538.

Mourelatos, Alexander P.D., ed. The Pre-Socratics: a collection of critical essays. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Press, 1974. *R-YAEC 00-4648.

Nussbaum, Martha C., ed. The therapy of desire: theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. JFE 94-9144.

Sedley, David, ed. The Cambridge companion to Greek and Roman philosophy. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. JFE 03-14565.

Shields, Christopher, ed. The Blackwell guide to ancient philosophy. Malden, MA; Oxford: Blackwell Pub., 2003. JFF 03-1162.

Snell, Bruno. The discovery of the mind: The Greek origins of European thought. New York: Harper, 1960. D-17 3491.

Sorabji, Richard. Necessity, cause, and blame: perspectives on Aristotle's theory. London: Duckworth, 1980. JFE 80-1722.

Striker, Gisela, ed. Essays on Hellenistic epistemology and ethics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. JFE 96-15702.

Vlastos, Gregory. Platonic studies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981. JFE 82-1239.

Vlastos, Gregory. Socratic studies. Edited by Myles Burnyeat. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. JFE 94-7198.

Vlastos, Gregory. Studies in Greek philosophy. Edited by Daniel W. Graham. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. *R-YAEC 00-4649.

 

Race, gender and sexuality

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

• Women, Greece
• Women, Rome
• Masculinity, Greece
• Masculinity, Rome
• Men, Greece
• Men, Rome
• Gender Identity, Greece
• Gender Identity, Rome
• Homosexuality, Greece
• Homosexuality, Rome
• Jews, Rome

Sourcebooks

Hubbard, Thomas K., ed. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: a sourcebook of basic documents. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003. JFE 03-7420.

Kraemer, Ross Shepard. Women's religions in the Greco-Roman world: a sourcebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. JFD 04-12708.

Lefkowitz, Mary. Women's life in Greece and Rome: a source book in translation. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. JFE 92-9707.

McClure, Laura K., ed. Sexuality and gender in the classical world: readings and sources. Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA, USA: Blackwell Publishers, c2002. JFE 03-9753.

Bibliography and reference

Bell, Robert E. Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1991. JFF 91-2762.

Goodwater, Leanna. Women in Antiquity: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1975. *RS-SNB 79-706.

Lightman, Marjorie. Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Greek and Roman Women: Notable Women from Sappho to Helena. New York: Facts On File, 2000. *R-SNE 00-2931.

Salisbury, Joyce. Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, c2001. JFF 01-3145.

Historical and critical studies

Balsdon, J. P. V. D. Roman women: their history and habits. London, Bodley Head [1962]. D-14 838.

Bassi, Karen. Acting like men: gender, drama, and nostalgia in ancient Greece. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998. JFE 99-2073.

Bauman, Richard A. Women and politics in ancient Rome. London; New York: Routledge, 1992. JFD 93-1128.

Berlinerblau, Jacques. Heresy in the university: the Black Athena controversy and the responsibilities of American intellectuals. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c1999. JFE 99-7189.

Bernal, Martin. Black Athena: the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization. London: Free Association Books, 1987-. JFL 87-416 Library has: Vol. 1-2.

Bernal, Martin. Black Athena writes back: Martin Bernal responds to his critics. Edited by David Chioni Moore. Durham: Duke University Press, c2001. *OBYE 01-11014.

Bremen, Riet van. The limits of participation: women and civic life in the Greek East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1996. JFE 98-10925.

Brooten, Bernadette J. Love between women: early Christian responses to female homoeroticism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. JFE 96-19285.

Clark, Gillian. Women in the Ancient World. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. L-11 2064 no.21.

Cole, Susan Guettel. Landscapes, gender, and ritual space: the ancient Greek experience. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004. JFE 04-5059.

Songe-Møller, Vigdis. Philosophy without women: the birth of sexism in Western thought. Translated by Peter Cripps. London: Continuum, c2002. JFE 03-12460.

Dean-Jones, Lesley. Women's bodies in classical Greek science. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. JFD 94-6202.

Donaldson, James. Woman; her position and influence in ancient Greece and Rome, and among the early Christians. London, New York: Longmans, Green, 1907. SNB.

Dover, K.J. Greek homosexuality. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, c1989. JFE 90-2562.

Flemming, Rebecca. Medicine and the making of Roman women: gender, nature, and authority from Celsus to Galen. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. JFD 01-4006.

Foxhall, Lin, and John Salmon. Thinking men: masculinity and its self-representation in the classical tradition. New York: Routledge, 1998. JFE 98-9118.

Foxhall, Lin, and John Salmon, eds. When men were men: masculinity, power and identity in classical antiquity. London; New York: Routledge, 1998. JFE 99-10153.

Goff, Barbara. Citizen Bacchae: women's ritual practice in ancient Greece. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004. JFE 04-9242.

Golden, Mark, and Peter Toohey, eds. Sex and difference in ancient Greece and Rome. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2003. JFE 03-12887.

Holst-Warhaft, Gail. Dangerous voices: women's laments and Greek literature. London; New York: Routledge, 1992. JFD 93-1740.

Joshel, Sandra R., and Sheila Murnaghan, eds. Women and slaves in Greco-Roman culture: differential equations. London; New York: Routledge, 1998. JFE 99-5975.

Karydas, Helen Pournara. Eurykleia and her successors: female figures of authority in Greek poetics. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, c1998. JFE 98-1227.

Kuefler, Mathew. The manly eunuch: masculinity, gender ambiguity, and Christian ideology in late antiquity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. JFE 01-9287.

Lardinois, André, and Laura McClure, eds. Making silence speak: women's voices in Greek literature and society. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c2001. JFE 01-7034.

Lefkowitz, Mary R., and Guy MacLean Rogers, eds. Black Athena revisited. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1996. JFE 96-7778.

Loven, Larsson, and Agneta Strömberg, eds. Gender, cult, and culture in the ancient world from Mycenae to Byzantium: proceedings of the second Nordic Symposium on Gender and Women's History in Antiquity, Helsinki, 20-22 October 2000. Nordic Symposium on Gender and Women's History in Antiquity (2000 : Helsinki, Finland). Sävedalen: Aaströms Förlag, 2003. JFD 03-16081.

Lyons, Deborah. Gender and immortality: heroines in ancient Greek myth and cult. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1997. JFE 97-2025.

Mazrui, Ali A. Ancient Greece in African political thought; an inaugural lecture delivered on 25th August 1966, at Makerere University College. [Nairobi, Kenya, East African Pub. House, 1967]. JLK 72-93 no. 1.

McCabe, Joseph. The empresses of Rome. London : Methuen, 1911. BWH.

O'Higgins, Laurie. Women and humor in classical Greece. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. JFE 03-15593.

Peradotto, John, and J.P. Sullivan, eds. Women in the ancient world: the Arethusa papers. Albany: State University of New York Press, c1984. JLE 83-3518.

Reinhold, Meyer. Diaspora: the Jews among the Greeks and Romans. Sarasota, FL: Samuel Stevens, 1983. *PXH 83-1305.

Setälä, Päivi, and Liisa Savunen, eds. Female networks and the public sphere in Roman society. Rome: Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 1999. JFF 02-172.

Staples, Ariadne. From good goddess to vestal virgins: sex and category in Roman religion. London; New York: Routledge, 1998. JFD 98-1842.

Ward, Julie K. Feminism and ancient philosophy. New York: Routledge, 1996. JFE 96-13920.

Wilson, Lyn Hatherly. Sappho's sweetbitter songs: configurations of female and male in ancient Greek lyric. London; New York: Routledge, 1996. JFD 96-16731.

Winkler, John J. The constraints of desire: the anthropology of sex and gender in ancient Greece. New York: Routledge, [1990]. JFE 90-686.

Wright, F. A. Feminism in Greek literature from Homer to Aristotle. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press [1969]. C-14 4734.

Wyke, Maria, ed. Gender and the body in the ancient Mediterranean. Oxford, UK; Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1998. JFE 99-70.

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