Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies

Explore the thousands of peer-reviewed entries on all topics related to the Greco-Roman world in the Oxford Classical Dictionary. This dictionary is also available in print form in Seymour Library, REF DE5 .O9 2012.

Two projects from Stanford University explore ancient Rome in maps:

• ORBIS The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
• Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project

More sites for maps:

• Ancient World Mapping Center from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an extensive project.
• Topos Text: The Places  

The Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman World 

This important reference work covers the Archaic Greek period through Late Antiquity. 

REF Atlas Stand DE29.B32 2000 (See also the 2 volume directory to this atlas on the shelves in the Reference Room: DE29.B32 2000 Index.)

Use reference sources to gain background, and sometimes specific, knowledge on a topic and to quickly identify core scholarly resources on a topic.

• The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
• Cambridge Ancient History -- REF D57.C252 -- (See the menu to the left for more about this important work!) 
• Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, volume 1: Greece, The Hellenistic World, and the Rise of Rome
• Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, volume 2: Rome from the Late Republic to the Late Empire
• Cambridge History of Judaism: 
• • Vol. 1: Introduction: The Persian Period
  • Vol. 2: The Hellenistic Age
  • Vol. 3: The Early Roman Period
  • Vol. 4: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period
• Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome -- REF DE59.C55 1988
• Civilizations of the Ancient Near East -- Ref DS 57 C547 
• Encyclopaedia Judaica (also in Ref DS102.8 E496 )
• Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity
• Encyclopedia of Ancient Rome
• Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World
• Guide to the Ancient World 
• The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, 2nd ed.
• Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, 3rd ed.
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
• The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible
• The Oxford Handbook of Warfare in the Classical World -- Main Stacks U29 O93 2013
• The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites -- Ref DE59 .P7