Ancient Roman Resources

Finding Resources in BearCAT

To find sources on the Roman Empire, search
with these Library of Congress Subject Headings:

Background Sources: History and Politics

Adkins, Lesley, and Roy A. Adkins. Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome. New York: Facts on File, 1994. Reference Collection 937 Ad5

Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray, ed. The Oxford History of the Classical World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. 938 Ox2

Bunson, Matthew. Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire. New York: Facts on File, 1994. Reference Collection 937 B88

Cornell, Tim, and John Matthews. Atlas of the Roman World. New York: Facts on File, 1982. Reference Collection 937 C81

Hazel, John. Who's Who in the Roman World. London: Routledge, 2001. Reference Collection 937 H33

Kirby, John T. Roman Republic and Empire, 264 B.C.E.-476 C.E.Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Reference Collection 937 W89

Liberati, Anna Maria, and Fabio Bourbon. Ancient Rome: History of a Civilization that Ruled the World. New York: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, 1996. 937 L61

Sienkewicz, Thomas J., ed. Encyclopedia of the Ancient World. Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 2002. Reference Collection 930 En1 v.1-3

Art and Architecture

Boardman, John, ed. The Oxford History of Classical Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 709.38 Ox2

Henig, Martin, ed. A Handbook of Roman Art: A Comprehensive Survey of All the Arts of the Roman World . Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1983. 709.37 H38

Ramage, Nancy H., and Andrew Ramage. Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine. New York: Abrams, 1991. 709.37 R14

Ward-Perkins, John B. Roman Architecture. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1977. 722.7 W21

Woodford, Susan. The Art of Greece and Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. 709.38 W85

Library Databases

ARTstor — This database is an online collection of over 330,000 art images. ARTstor contains ten collections from art repositories found around the world. The collections are fully searchable by many different fields, such as title, creator, or location.

EBSCOhost Advanced Placement Source — This database is a collection of full-text articles from over 6,100 journals. The articles are a mix of scholarly journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Advanced Placement Source contains over 400 journals that focus on the humanities. EBSCOhost has the ability to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).

Grove Art — Grove Art is an electronic version of The Dictionary of Art edited by Jane Turner (the 34 volume print version is found in the reference collection) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art edited by Hugh Brigstocke. Grove Art provides 45,000 articles with over 130,000 searchable images linked to museum and gallery websites.

JSTOR — JSTOR is short for Journal Storage. JSTOR is a collection of over 900 full-text scholarly journals. JSTOR contains complete backfiles for each journal with a moving window that averages around 5 years. This means JSTOR, for a particular journal, will have the journals first issue up until about five years from now. Subject areas vary in JSTOR, but its main focus is on the humanities, with 17 journals that focus on Classical Studies.

Project Muse — Project Muse is published by John Hopkins University. Muse is a collection of over 300 full-text scholarly journals. The coverage in Muse is current. Most of the journals’ coverage is five to ten years. As with JSTOR, Project Muse focuses on the humanities, with 5 journals that focus on Classical Studies. Muse has the ability to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).

Websites

Internet Ancient History Resource Guide — Ghent University. This site provides a collection of links to primary sources, such as Roman texts and art images. There are additional sections that offer bibliographical resources and reference works.
URL: http://www.ancienthistory.ugent.be/history/iahrg/

Forum Antiquum: Ancient World Internet Resources — University of Pennsylvania. Forum Antiquum is a directory of links to internet resources. The focus of this site is on ancient Mediterranean archaeological material from 5,000 B.C.E. to ca. 1500 C.E. There are section that center on resources for Classical Studies and Roman Art/Archaeology.
URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ekondrat/ForumAntiquum.html

Peresus Digital Library — Tufts University. This site has a section on Greek/Latin Collections. Most of the resources are primary sources with over 500 full-text items. There is also a smaller collection of over 100 full-text secondary resources.
URL: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Lacus Curtius, Into the Roman World — University of Chicago. Lacus Curtius provides photographs of Roman art, Latin texts translated to English, and atlases. There is a good collection of secondary source material, such as J.B. Bury’s History of the Later Roman Empire. Additionally, there is a strong section on Roman Military History.
URL: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html

Roman Times — University of Oregon. Roman Times is a collection of academic and popular resources on the Roman Empire. The best aspect of this site is a list of Roman scholars and bibliographies of their work.
URL: http://ancientimes.blogspot.com/

Ancient World Mapping Center — University of North Carolina. This site has a collection of high quality map images of the ancient Roman Empire.
URL: http://www.unc.edu/awmc

The photographs of the coliseum and the arch are by Leo C. Curran found at the University of Buffalo site “Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome” (http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/). The map is an image from the 1907 work Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography published by J.M. Dent & Sones Ltd. The image was digitized by J. Vanderspoel, Department of Greek, Latin and Ancient History, University of Calgary ( http://www.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/maps/basicmap.html).