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Online Databases
ONLINE DATABASES USEFUL FOR STUDYING THE HELLENISTIC WORLD
This index is a comprehensive guide to the books, journal articles, and other publications that have been published since 1924 on all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity and the early Christian world, from 2000 BCE to 800 CE. Some of its annotations are in French, but don't let that scare you. It is searched in English, and it will alert you to the existence of many publications written in English.
This index tells what articles have been published since 1984 in the most important scholarly journals in many fields in the humanities, including art, history, and ancient studies. It is one of the better sources for finding articles on ancient Egypt and the Near East.
The full text of many of the articles is available online from 1995, or later, to the present. For indexing of articles in humanities journals prior to 1984, use Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective.
This database indexes articles published in the most important journals in many fields in the humanities and social sciences, including art, history, and ancient studies, from 1907-1984. It is one of the better sources for finding articles on ancient Egypt and the Near East.
For coverage of articles published from 1985 to the present, use Humanities Full Text and/or Social Sciences Full Text.
Originally founded by James Loeb in 1911 to make available all the written works surviving from the ancient Greek and Roman world, this database provides fully searchable, high-quality online editions of the original texts in Greek and Latin, with English translations facing them. This is an excellent place for finding the primary sources in which ancient authors told us about their world.
This series was originally founded by James Loeb in 1911 to make available all the written works surviving from the ancient Greek and Roman world. Several new works and editions are added every year.
This is perhaps the most important single free Web site in the field of classical studies. It supplies the text in Greek, Latin, and (often) English translation of the works of many ancient authors. It also provides the texts of more recent books on aspects of the ancient world, and thousands of pictures of art objects, sites, and buildings. If you do research on the ancient world on the free Internet, and don't check out the Perseus Digital Library, your research will simply be incomplete.