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Online Reference Resources 

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Find overviews on a wide variety of topics by searching this online encyclopedia.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Search this dictionary to find the current meanings of words and to trace their development through time.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Also in paper, 10 vols.
REF B51 .R68

WorldCat
Find books and other materials in libraries around the world.

Research Guides

Classical Studies: A Guide to the Reference Literature
REF PA91 .J4
 
Literary Research Guide: 
An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies
REF PR83 .H37

General Background on Literature & Philosophy

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas  
REF CB9 .N49 
See essay on "Sense of the Tragic" in Vol. 4.

Masterpieces of World Philosophy 
REF B75 .M37 

Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy
REF B163 .E53 

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Also in paper, 10 vols.
REF B51 .R68 

Socrates: An Annotated Bibliography 
REF B317.N38  
 
Augustine through the Ages 
REF B655.Z69 A84 

Freud Encyclopedia: Theory, Therapy, and Culture
REF BF173 .F6176 

Encyclopedia of Psychology 8 vols.
REG BF31 .E52 

Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century 5 vols.
REF  PN771 .E5 

Background on Classical Literature & History

Atlas of the Greek World 
REF DF77.L43 

Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean 3 vols.
REF DE59 .C55 

Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume I: Greek Literature
General Collection PA3052.G73 1985  

The Dictionary of Classical Mythology 
REF BL715 .G713 

Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology
REF BL303 .T75 

Dictionary of Classical Mythology: Symbols, Attributes & Associations
REF BL715.B44 

New Century Classical Handbook
REF DE5 .N4  

Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World
On order for Reference

Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge
General Collection DF78 .S2813 

Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World
REF DE5 .L29  

The Oxford Classical Dictionary
REF DE5 .O9 

Place-Names in Classical Mythology: Greece
REF DF16.B45 

Lemprière's Classical Dictionary of Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors
REF DE5 .L564 

Who's Who in the Greek World
REF DE7 .H39 

Praeger Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Civilization
REF DF16 .D513  

Literary Terminology, Myth, Allusion, & Theme	

Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical:
A Thematic Dictionary 
REF PN43 .A4 

Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs  2 vols.
REF PN43.D48 

Dictionary of Literary Terms (Shaw)
REF PN44.5 .S46  

Background on Critical Theory	

A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
REF  PN41 .C83   

A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms 
REF PN41 .F6  

A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory 
REF PN44.5 .H37   

Critical Survey of Literary Theory 4 vols.
REF PN45 .C74 

Biographical Sources, Literary Criticism, & Bibliographies	

Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome 2 vols.
REF PA3002 .A5 1982    

A New Companion to Greek Tragedy
REF PA31.B76 

Crowell's Handbook of Classical Literature   
REF PA31 .F4  

Greek and Latin Authors, 800 B.C.–A.D. 1000 
REF PA31 .G7      

The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature  
REF PA31.H69 

Classical Greek and Roman Drama: An Annotated Bibliography  
REF PA3024.F67 

Cyclopedia of World Authors 3 vols.
REF PN451 .M36

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare 4 vols.
REF PR2892 .O9 

The Essential Shakespeare: 
An Annotated Bibliography of Major Modern Studies  
REF PR2894 .C53 

European Writers
REF PN501 .E9  

Confessions of Saint Augustine: 
An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1888-1995 
REF BR65.A62 S47 

• Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism
• Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
• Eternity
• Time
• Aristotle
• Sophocles. Antigone
• Freud, Sigmund

• Expressionism
• Dionysian
• Oedipus Complex
• Creativity
• Prometheus Bound and criticism
• Greek and Tragedy

Use the * (asterisk) as a truncation symbol to retrieve variant forms of a word root. Use the Boolean OR to expand your search by including synonyms and related terms. When using two different Boolean commands in the same search statement ("and" and "or" in the preceding examples) you must include parentheses to indicate which command is to be performed first.

Triumph over Odds: 
An Anthology of Man's Unconquerable Spirit...    
PN6014 .A32    

The Trial and Execution of Socrates: Sources and Controversies       
B316 .B75 

The Authenticity of Prometheus Bound 
PA3825 .P8G68  

Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound: A Literary Commentary                      
PA3825.P8C66  

A Commentary on the Complete Greek Tragedies--Aeschylus      
PA3829.H62 

If you are unable to locate materials in the Geisel Library Catalog, search libraries worldwide using WorldCat.

Literature Resource Center
Find biographical information on authors, as well as bibliographies, plot summaries, and literary criticism of their works. This resource also provides the full text of articles from more than 100 literary journals.

MLA International Bibliography
Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, this electronic index consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. (1963 - present)  Journal list   User guide

APh: L'Annee Philologique
For the most comprehensive database of citations and descriptions in Classical studies, search here. Over 1,800 journals from several countries are represented, as well as books, book reviews, and conference proceedings, on all aspects of Graeco-Roman antiquity. The scope of subjects includes literature, religion, archaeology, history, and philology. (1959–current) Earlier volumes are available in paper in the Reference area, with the indexes.
User Guide     Journal list (English-language titles only)

Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Provides indexing to the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selections from social science and science journals. Includes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, and reviews. (1980 - present)

Philosopher's Index
The premier international resource in philosophy, this database contains over 160,000 citations with abstracts to journal articles as well as books. The advanced search allows you to limit your results to English-language text or to journal articles only. (1940–current)  Journal list     User guide

Project MUSE
"Project MUSE provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full text of more than 200 scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics."  Journal List

JSTOR
Geisel Library subscribes to three JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I and II and Biological Sciences. These are large collections of the full text of back issues of major journals in the humanities and social sciences, including Annual Review of Sociology, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Philosophical Quarterly, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Coverage is generally from the beginning of publication to within 5 years of the current issue.
Journal list for:   Arts & Sciences I   Arts & Sciences II   Biological Sciences

Perseus Digital Library
Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief, Classics Department, Tufts University. "Begun as a collection of textual and visual materials on the Archaic and Classical Greek world, it now contains Latin texts and tools and Renaissance materials Includes an overview of fifth-century B.C. Greek history, works in Greek and in translation by ten authors from the archaic and classical periods, an online ...Greek-English dictionary, and a collection of short articles and glossary entries on topics in Perseus including geographic regions, architectural terms, vase shapes, and biographies of ancient authors." Excellent illustrations.

Voice of the Shuttle: Classical Studies

Resources for Classical and Medieval History
Library of Congress list of links to a wide range of Web sites.

Great Books Index
Links to available online editions of the great books.

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