Resources for Pacific Seminar II

Reference Books

The library has a number of reference books of potential use for research in this area. For example:

• Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Classical World
  Ref DE59 .A95
• Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edition
  Ref DE5 .O9 1996

Books to Borrow

In PacifiCat, search under keywords such as “greece and politics”, “democracy and culture” or subjects like “rome politics and government” or “Greece civilization”. For example, look at:

• The Growth of the City State:  Lectures on Greek and Roman History / W.R. Halliday
• The school of history : Athens in the age of Socrates / Mark Munn.
  DF277 .M86 2000
• The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought / Christopher Rowe and Malcolm Schofield, editors.
  JC51 .C294 2000
• Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World / Greg Woolf
  DG209 .C26 2003
• Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece / Paul Cartledge
  DF77 .C32 1998
• Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece / Lesley Adkins
  DF77 .A35 1997
• Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome
  DG77 .A35 1994

Articles

In addition to Academic Search Complete, try the following:

• JSTOR: full-text of the backfiles of hundreds of scholarly journals, including history, archaeology, and more.
• ARTstor:  An image database that covers a broad range of art, from ancient times to the present.
• Arts and  Humanities:  Covers a wide range of humanities topics, and how they relate to politics.
• Project Muse: Provides access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Coverage varies for each journal. 

Reliable Websites

Web sources you can trust!

• Voice of the Shuttle: This subsection of the broad humanities research database includes links to study tools and information on classical texts, maps of the ancient world, and more.
  
• Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation: A substantial list of web resources for classical studies, with links arranged by type and topic.
• Diotima: A collection of materials related to the study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World. It includes translated texts (both Greek and Roman), and links to articles, images and book reviews.
• The Perseus Digital Library A group of resources focusing on the study of the ancient world and beyond. Provides web access to a large number of images (coins, vases, sculpture) Greek and Latin texts with translations and other resources. Due to copyright restrictions most of the Perseus image collections are available to site license holders only but there is still plenty of material available via the Web.
• The Rome Project is a collection of resources for the study of Rome compiled by Dr. Neil Goldberg, Archaeologist in Residence at the Dalton School. The site is divided into sections (Literature, Military, Archaeology, Political, Philosophy, Drama, Religion) that contain links to a large number of resources.