Selected Ancient History Resources

Databases
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

Use *360 Search to search the Rhodes library catalog, selected databases and online journals simultaneously.

• *ATLA Religion Database
  Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA′s online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 416,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (571 currently indexed), more than 210,000 essay citations from over 15,700 multi-author works, and more than 432,000 book review citations. This database begins in 1949 although indexing for some journal titles extends back into the nineteenth century.
• *Encyclopedia Judaica
  Features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.
• *Historical Abstracts
  Your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This database is packed with annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to Tiananmen Square -- over half a million entries in all. Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the leading bibliography for historical study in the world. Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database, making this a historical periodical database unmatched in breadth.
• *Infotrac Religion and Philosophy Database
  Features a custom selection of more than 250 magazines and academic journals covering religion, philosophy, and the related areas of archaeology and anthropology. Use this database not only to study theological approaches to social issues, but also to learn about the impact that religion and philosophy have had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Coverage begins as early as 1980 for indexing and 1983 for full-text of some of the periodicals
• *Literature Resource Center
  Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group′s core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
• *MLA Bibliography
  Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, this database consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1963 to the present. The MLA International Bibliography provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats
• *Philosopher′s Index
  Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
• *WorldCat
  The world′s most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 42 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes holdings information from the world′s libraries. Now includes the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus.

Online Journals
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

• *JSTOR History Journals
• *JSTOR Classical Studies Journals
• *SerialsSolutions History and Archeology Online Journals
• *Project Muse Classics Online Journals
• Directory of Open Access Journals - 3,200 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, many of them searchable at the article level.

Reference Sources
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

• *Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
• *The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
• *The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
• *The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
• *A Guide to the Ancient World
• *Hutchinson Dictionary of World Mythology
• *The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (English-Latin)
• *The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (Latin-English)
• *Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
• **Oxford Companion to Archaeology
• *Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
• *Oxford Companion to World Mythology
• *Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, edited by Bonnie G. Smith, captures the experiences of women throughout history in a far-reaching, four-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no other text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. With over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies, Women in World History is the definitive reference work in the field.
• Who′s Who in the Classical World
• *Who′s Who in Ancient Egypt
• *Who′s Who in the Roman World

Websites

• Ancient Americas (Field Museum)
• Ancient History Sourcebook
• Ancient Egypt (British Museum)
• Ancient Egypt Website
  The Ancient Egypt Site is a constantly evolving interactive book about the history, language, monuments and culture of Ancient Egypt.
• Ancient Greece (British Museum)
• Ancient India (British Museum)
• Ancient Maps Online (about.com)
• Ancient, Medieval & Renaissance Law Documents (Avalon, Yale)
• Ancient Mesopotamia Links
• BUBL Links to Resources
  Select Greek history, Greek literature, Roman history, Latin, etc.
• Classics Gateway (U of Reading)
• Classics Page at Ad Fontes Academy
• Classics Resources (LSU Library)
• Classics Resources (UTexas)
• Classics Resources on the Internet
• Classical and Medieval History Links (Library of Congress)
• Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum
• Cuneiform Digital Initiative
  The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC, until the end of the pre-Christian era.
• Diotima
  Materials for the study of women and gender in the ancient world.
• Electronic Resources for Classicists (UC at Irvine)
• Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (Oxford)
  The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), a project of the University of Oxford, comprises a selection of nearly 400 literary compositions recorded on sources which come from ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and date to the late third and early second millennia BCE. The corpus contains Sumerian texts in transliteration, English prose translations and bibliographical information for each composition. The transliterations and the translations can be searched, browsed and read online using the tools of the website.
• Jewish History Sourcebook
• Interactive Ancient Mediterranean
  Welcome to the Interactive Ancient Mediterranean home page
  IAM is an on-line atlas of the ancient Mediterranean world designed to serve the needs and interests of students and teachers in high school, community college and university courses in classics, ancient history, geography, archaeology and related fields.
• INTUT: Classics Links
• Perseus Digital Library
  Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language.
• Roman Army: A Bibliography 
• Roman Law Resources
  Edited by Ernest Metzger, University of Glasgow
• Voice of the Shuttle: Classical Studies Links
• VRoma
  The VRoma Project is first and foremost a community of scholars, both teachers and students, who create online resources for teaching about the Latin language and ancient Roman culture.