Subject Librarian
Annette Alvarado
she, her/hers, y ella en español
Contact:
Lewis Library
LUC Libraries
25 E. Pearson #619
Chicago, IL 60611
aalvarado2@luc.edu
LUC Libraries
25 E. Pearson #619
Chicago, IL 60611
aalvarado2@luc.edu
312.915.6629
Website Skype Contact: aalvarado2@luc.edu
Library Quick Links
Welcome!
This guide will introduce you to resources that are available to you, if at any point you are not sure where to find information, you can always contact me or use our Ask a Librarian chat.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics This link opens in a new windowProvides introductory essays and extended, authoritative reference lists on diverse topics; ideal for identifying and narrowing a research topic and identifying suitable sources for research.
- Annee Philologique, L' (Brepols) This link opens in a new windowIndexes journals (and other materials) on all aspects of classical studies; updated annually but with a two-year delay.
- Gnomon Bibliographic Database (GBD)Indexes journals, books, and book chapters on all aspects of classical studies with new content added more rapidly than it appears in L'Annee Philologique. Opens to a German interface; use a link near the upper right corner to switch to an English interface.
- Loeb Classical Library This link opens in a new windowFull-text Greek and Latin classical texts with English translations formatted as ebooks.
- LUC Library Catalog Advanced Search This link opens in a new windowA search tool for finding books, journal articles, media, and other materials in the library collection. The advanced search provides filters and scopes to narrow your search results.
- WorldCat Discovery Advanced Search This link opens in a new windowAdjust result list sort to relevance in order to eliminate weighting of locally-held titles.
Start here to discover a topic, define a term, check a name or event, or identify recommended sources.
- Brill's Companions to Classical studies Online This link opens in a new windowBrill's Companions to Classical Studies is a leading series of handbooks providing graduate-level synthesis of debate and the state of scholarship on key authors and subjects from Antiquity. Each volume contains an up-to-date general bibliography. Volumes published have covered authors such as Ovid, Herodotus, Cicero, Thucydides and Propertius, and thematic volumes on Flavian Rome, Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity, Greek and Latin Pastoral and Hellenistic Epigram. The database provides online access to the companions.
- Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient WorldProvides the English edition of Der Neue Pauly, an encyclopedia focused on the ancient world and classical scholarship plus four topical supplements published to date.
- Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th Ed.Includes entries on all aspects of the Greco-Roman world.
- Database of Latin Dictionaries This link opens in a new windowFull-text dictionaries to assist translation from Latin into modern languages, provide semantic and etymological explanations in Latin of Latin words, and cover historical Latin.
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new windowFull-text multidisciplinary encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference titles. Limited to five simultaneous users.
- AWOL: The Ancient World OnlineA regularly augmented blog series. "The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available." A project of Charles E. Jones, currently at Penn State University.
- Latin Place NamesRBMS/BSC Latin Place Names File
Latin Place Names Found in the Imprints of Books Printed Before 1801 and their Vernacular Equivalents in RDA (Resource Description and Access) Form. From Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (ACRL). - SCS Blog (Society for Classical Studies)Blog edited by the Communications Committee of the Society of Classical Studies (formerly the American Philological Association), featuring contributions by classicists on a range of subjects.
- Textkit: Greek and Latin LearningBegan in late 2001 as a project to develop free of charge downloads of Greek and Latin grammars, readers and answer keys. We offer a large library of over 180 of the very best Greek and Latin textkbooks on our Ancient Greek and Latin Learning pages.