Classics and Ancient History library books and reference material

This is a guide to some of the material available on Ancient History and Classics held by the University of Sydney Library. The list is not comprehensive but will give you an indication of what is available to assist with your research.

Much of this information is now also available on the World Wide Web and you should also look at the Internet links section of this Guide.


Atlases

Atlas of classical history / Michael Grant.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994
Fisher Research 911.3 14C
Covers the Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome between 1700 BC and 565 AD

Atlas of Roman Britain / B. Jones.
Cambridge, MA: Blackwells, 1990
Fisher Research 912.361 1

Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman world / edited by Richard J. A. Talbert.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Fisher Ref 912.38 4
99 full colour maps spanning Archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire. A recreation of the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from the British Isles to North Africa to the Indian Subcontinent. Include seachable map-by-map CD-Rom index.

Classical lands of the Mediterannean / produced in the Cartographic Division of the National Geographic Society; William T. Peele, chief cartographer; David W. Cook, associate chief cartographer.
1976 revision.
Washington, D.C.: The Society, [1976], c1973
Fisher Curric Posters 912.37 5

Penguin historical atlas of ancient Rome / C. Scarre.
London: Penguin, 1995
Fisher Research 911.37 2


Biographies

Biographical dictionary of ancient Greek and Roman women: notable women from Sappho to Helena.
Marjorie Lightman and Benjamin Lightman.
New York: Facts On File, c2000.
Fisher Ref 305.4092245 1

Who's who in the Ancient Near East / Gwendolyn Leick.
London; New York: Routledge, 1999.
Fisher Research 939.0099 1

Who's who in the classical world / edited by Simon Hornblower and Tony Spawforth.
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Fisher Ref 930.03 6
star iconWho's who in the classical world is also available as an electronic resource.


Concordances, Guides and Handbooks

An alphabetical keyword-in-context concordance to the Greek novelists [microform] / the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, University of California, Irvine
Irvine, Calif. : TLG Publications, 1979
Fisher Microform 883.03 / 1

Bibliographic guide to classical studies / Gerald Whitacker.
Hildesheim: Olm-Wedmann, 1997-
Fisher Ref 016.88 18

Classical studies: a guide to the reference literature / Fred W.Jenkins.
Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1996
Fisher Research 011.02 31

Late antiquity: a guide to the postclassical world.
G.W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, Oleg Grabar, editors.
Publisher Cambridge, Mass.; London, England: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999.
Fisher Ref 938.003 16

Mythological and classical world art index : a locator of painting, sculptures, manuscript illuminations, sketches, woodcuts, and engravings executed 1200 B.C. to 1900 A.D., with a directory of the institutions holding them / by Mercedes Rochelle.
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1991.
Fisher Ref 704.947074 / 1


Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

New Pauly Online
The New Pauly has become a recognized standard reference work for students and scholars of the ancient world. It provides comprehensive coverage of the ancient world from the prehistory of the Aegean (2nd millennium BCE) to late antiquity (600-800 CE).

Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Alterthumswissenschaft.
Pauly, August Friedrich von, Pauly.
Neue Bearbeitung, unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher Fachgenossen hrsg. von G. Wissowa.
Stuttgart: J.B. Metzlerscher, 1894-1980.
Fisher Ref 913.38 319

Der neue Pauly: Enzyklopaedie der Antike / Hrsg. Hubert Cancik und Helmuth Schneider. New edition.
Stuttgart: Metzler, 1996-1999 Vols.1-7, 13
Fisher Ref 937 437A

Brill's New Pauly: encyclopaedia of the ancient world.
Edited by Hubert Cancik and Helmut Schneider.
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2002+
Fisher Ref

Cassell dictionary of classical mythology / Jenny March.
London : Cassell, 1999
Fisher Ref 292.1303 / 9

Dictionary of ancient history / edited by Graham Speake.
Oxford, OX, UK; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell Reference, 1994.
Fisher Ref 930.03 / 3

Dictionary of latin words and phrases / James Morwood.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998
Fisher Ref 473 / 18

Encyclopaedia of ancient deities / Charles Russell Coulter and Patricia Turner
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c2000
Fisher Ref 291.21103 1

English-German dictionary, art history-archaeology = English-deutsches Worterbuch fur Kunstgeschichte und Archaologie.
Mary L. Apelt.
Berlin: E. Schmidt, c1987.
Fisher Ref 730.21 1

From Aristotle to Zoroaster: an A to Z companion to the classical world / Arthur Cotterell.
New York: Free Press, c1998.
Fisher Ref 930.03 5

Greek and Egyptian mythologies / compiled by Yves Bonnefoy ; translated under the direction of Wendy Doniger by Gerald Honigsblum ... [et al].
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992
Fisher Special Reserve 292.13 / 92
Fisher Short Loan 292.13 / 92

Oxford Reference Online: Premium plus Western Civilization Collection
Includes over 1 million entries across 25 subject areas - everything from architecture to Latin. It contains over 130 dictionaries, including bilingual dictionaries, the pocket Latin Dictionary, the Oxford companion to Classical Civilization and the 3rd edition of The Oxford Classical Dictionary.

Roman and European mythologies / compiled by Yves Bonnefoy ; translated under the direction of Wendy Doniger by Gerald Honigsblum ... [et al].
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Fisher Special Reserve 292.13094 / 1
Fisher Short Loan 292.13094 / 1

Thesaurus linguae graecae canon of Greek authors and works / Luci Berkowitz, Karl A. Squitier with technical asistance from William A. Johnson.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1990. 3rd edition.
Fisher Ref 016.88 / 14A

Thesaurus linguae latinae / editus auctoritate et consilio academiarum quinque Germanicarum Berolinensis, Gottingensis, Lipsiensis, Monacensis, Vindobonensis.
Lipsiae : In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, [1900-1997].
The great dictionary of the Latin Language. Includes Supplements and Index
Fisher Ref 473 / 13


Print Indexes and Abstracts

L'Annee philologique; bibliographie critique et analytique de l'antiquite greco-latine.
Paris, Societe d'edition 'Les belles lettres', 1928-
Fisher Ref 880.16/9
The major index to Classical Studies. In two sections - the first covers classical authors and texts listed alphabetically by author; the second is a classified listing by subject, with additional access by author, geographic location and personal names.
Now available online from 1959+

Humanities index
New York, H. W. Wilson Co.
v 1(1974/75)-v 24(1997/98)
Fisher Ref 016.0013 1

Subject index to periodicals
London: [Library Association], 1919-1962.
Fisher Ref 050 6