CLASSICS RESEARCH GUIDE: BOOKS

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SOURCES OF BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

General Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• Ancient Greek authors Reference PS221 .D45 v.176
• Ancient writers : Greece and Rome, 2 vols. Reference PA3002 .A5 1982
• Classical scholarship : a biographical encyclopedia Reference PA83 .C58 1990
• Crowell's handbook of classical drama Reference PA3024 .H35
• Greek and Latin authors, 800 B.C.-A.D. 1000 : a biographical dictionary Reference PA31 .G7
• The Oxford classical dictionary Reference DE5 .O9 1996
• The Oxford companion to classical literature Reference PA31 .H69 1989
• Warfare in the classical world : an illustrated encyclopedia of weapons, warriors, and warfare in the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome Reference U29 .W37 1995

Guides and Bibliographies

• Ancient Greece and Rome : a bibliographical guide Reference DE59 .H6 1995
• The classical epic : an annotated bibliography Reference Z7018.E63 S55 1991
• Classical Greek and Roman drama: an annotated bibliography Reference Z7018.D7 F67 1989
• Classical scholarship : an annotated bibliography Reference Z6207.C65 H34 1986
• Classical studies : a guide to the reference literature Reference PA91 .J4 1996
• The Classical world bibliography of Greek and Roman history Reference Z6207.G7 C58
• The Greek and Latin literatures Reference Z7018.T7 E8

Maps and Atlases

• Atlas of classical history Reference G1033 .A833 1985
• Atlas of the Greek and Roman world in antiquity Reference/Atlas Case G1033 .A84 1981

Language Dictionaries

Latin

• Cassell's Latin dictionary: Latin-English, English-Latin Reference PA2365.E5 C3 1977
• Chambers/Murray Latin-English dictionary Reference PA2365.E5 S6 1976
• Oxford Latin dictionary Reference PA2365.E5 O9 1982
• Latin for the illiterati: exorcizing the ghosts of a dead Slanguage Reference PA2365.E5 S76 199

Greek

• Etyma graeca = Etymological lexicon of classical Greek Reference PA422 .W5 1974
• A Greek-English lexicon Reference PA445.E5 L8
• The new analytical Greek lexicon Reference PA881 .P54 1990

Mythology

• Classical mythology; an annotated bibliographical survey Reference Z7836 .P4x
• The dictionary of classical mythology Reference BL715 .G713 1985
• Dictionary of classical mythology, symbols, attributes, & associations Reference BL715 .B44 1982
• NTC's Classical dictionary : the origins of the names of characters in classical mythology Reference BL727 .R58 1990
• The Oxford guide to classical mythology in the arts, 1300-1990s, 2 vols. Reference NX650.M9 R45 1993
• Who's who in classical mythology Reference BL715 .G68 1993
• Women of classical mythology : a biographical dictionary Reference BL715 .B445 1991

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