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HIST 104: The Ancient Mediterranean World

The Loeb Classical Library

The Loeb Classical Library, from Harvard University Press, is a series of books of classic literature from Greek and Roman writers. The Greek volumes are bound in green and the Roman volumes are all bound in red. For each work, the original Greek or Latin text is on one side of the page, and the English translation is on the other.

Books in the Loeb Classical Library are also available as ebooks in the Digital Loeb Classical Library.

To search the Knox Library catalog (or the I-Share catalog) specifically for Loeb books, use "Loeb" as one of your search terms, as in this example:

You can tell that a book is a Loeb book because it will have the series title "Loeb Classical Library" in the catalog record, as in this example:

Perseus Digital Library

The Perseus Digital Library provides the full text of classical texts in English, Greek and Latin. The site also has some Arabic texts and some Renaissance materials. In addition, the Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser provides access to images of "a massive library of art objects, sites, and buildings." 

Artstor

Artstor is a database of images of art work, art objects, cultural objects and architecture contributed by museums, archives and libraries from all over the world. 

You can search Artstor by keyword for images related to your topic. See the Artstor guide for help.

Ancient Inscriptions

The Searchable Greek Inscriptions database presents inscriptions from multiple references. Browse by region, reference source or search.