HIST 104: The Ancient Mediterranean World

Reference books are helpful starting places if you need:

1. An overview of topic, person, place, or event.
2. To browse for topic ideas.
3. Help with focusing or narrowing your topic.
4. A list of core resources for your topic. Many reference books provide a short bibliography and/or suggested scholarly readings. These readings usually represent the best scholarship for the topic at hand up to the time the reference work was published.

• Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman World -- 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.)
• Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome -- REF DE59.C55 1988
• Civilizations of the Ancient Near East -- Seymour Library Reference DS 57 .C547 2000 
• Encyclopaedia Judaica -- online (2007 ed. in print: REF DS102.8 E496 2007)
• Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
• Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World
• Encyclopedia of the Ancient World -- Seymour Library Reference CB311.E54 2002
• Guide to the Ancient World
• Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt -- Seymour Library Reference DT 83.B56 2008)
• Oxford Classical Dictionary -- and Seymour Library Reference DE5.O9 1996 
• Oxford Companion to Archaeology, 2nd ed.
• The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (2nd ed.) 
• Oxford Companion to World Mythology
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
• The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites -- Seymour Library Reference DE59 .P7 

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.)

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  

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

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."