Researching ancient history is challenging, so be prepared to use all your library skills and learn new ones! Here are some starting points. You can also contact the librarian for History and Classical Studies, Celestina Savonius-Wroth, cewroth@indiana.edu, if you get stuck.
Reference works
The Perseus Digital Library
Collection of Classical texts and reference works relating to Greek and Roman literature and history.
Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD)
Online version of an authoritative reference work.
Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider, eds. Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Leiden: Brill, 2002- . (Wells Library Reference Room DE5 .N4813 2002)
Books
A complete set of the Loeb Classical Library, a collection of scholarly editions of all of the key works of Classical literature, is available in the Wells Library Reference Room
IUCAT
Online catalog of the IU Libraries. Hint: use the Basic Search if you already know the author or title of a book. Use Advanced Search to search by subject or to combine keywords and subjects. Try these subject terms:
greece history peloponnesian war 431-404 b c
thucydides
greece history athenian supremacy 479-431 b c
athens (greece) history
athens (greece) politics and government
Journal articles
Academic Search (EBSCO)
Online index to journals and magazines on all topics. Use scholarly (peer reviewed) journals to limit your search results.
L'Année Philologique
Online index to over 1500 scholarly journals in Classics (also includes chapters in books). Includes materials in many languages--search results can be limited to English. Also available in print (Wells Library Reference Room, Z7016 .M35).
Gnomon On-line
Similar to L'Année Philologique, but with coverage of some different journals, and a different search interface. Challenging to use because search interface is in German.
Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists (TOCS-IN)
Online, searchable tables of contents of about 160 journals in Classics
Periodicals Index Online
Online index to thousands of scholarly journals, including many Classics journals. Hint: select "Ancient Civilizations" as the subject area.
JSTOR
Digital archive of scholarly journals, including core journals in History and Classics. Full text is searchable, so this could be a good resource to check for brief discussions of a topic on which you cannot find an entire article or book.
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Many of these sources link to full text of journal articles. If you find results without linked full text, use the "Find a specific article from a journal or newspaper" search form on the Online Full-Text Journals and Newspapers page to locate full text if available or hard copy.
last updated February 19, 2008
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