LibGuides: CLASS 2603: Initiation to Greek Culture (Fall 2022): Specialized Encyclopedias

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Encyclopedias are great for:

Oxford Classical Dictionary. 5th edition.
Much more than a dictionary. An excellent source for sources on all aspects of the Classical World.
Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO): Classics
In progress. Annotated sources.

Oxford Handbooks Online: Scholarly Research Reviews
The complete texts of the Oxford handbooks in Archaeology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Religion online.

Brill's New Pauly
An aid for the study of Greek and Roman culture and its multifaceted presence in all periods of European and, since the Early Modern period, world history. Entries offer easy, direct access to basic information - names, places, dates, objects - from all areas of Greek and Roman culture as well as their predecessors, neighbours and heirs.
Oxford Art Online
Excellent articles and images.

The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization by Simon Hornblower; Antony Spawforth; Esther Eidinow
Publication Date: 2014-
Ancient Writers: Greece & Rome by T. James Luce (Editor)
Call Number: Olin Library Reference (Non-Circulating) + PA3002 .A54

Publication Date: 1982
A Companion to Classical Receptions by Lorna Hardwick (Editor); Christopher Stray (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008
The Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy
Publication Date: 2013

Covers all facets of the distinct form of dramatic theater that flourished in ancient Greece with its apex in the 5th century BCE.

Early Greek Myth: a guide to literary and artistic sources by Timothy Gantz
Call Number: Olin Library Reference (Non-Circulating) BL782 .G34 1996

Publication Date: 1996
Funk and Wagnall's Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend by María Leach; Jerome Fried (Editor)
Call Number: Olin Library Reference (Non-Circulating) + GR35 .F98 1984

Publication Date: 1984-09-26
Gods and Heroes: a quick guide to the occupations, associations and experiences of the Greek and Roman gods and heroes by Caroline T. Harnsberger
Call Number: Olin Library BL715 .H29

Publication Date: 1977-08-01
Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities
Call Number: Olin Library Reference (Non-Circulating) Oversize BL473 .C68 2000
The Oxford Companion to World Mythology by David Leeming
Publication Date: 2005
A Dictionary of Creation Myths by David Leeming; Margaret Adams Leeming (As told to)
Publication Date: 1996
Encyclopedia of Religion
Publication Date: 2005
The Reception of Myth and Mythology (Brill's New Pauly Supplement 1, vol 4)
Publication Date: 2010

Literature Resource Center (LRC)
A literature database combining biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism).

In Classics scholarship, titles of journals as well as Classical texts are often highly abbreviated.