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

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

WorldCat
"Books and other materials in libraries worldwide"

Paper Reference Resources

Reference books are shelved by Library of Congress call number in the reference stacks near the reference desk. They may not be checked out, but photocopiers are available on the lower level of the Library. Online reference sources can be found in the library catalog, listed on Library research guides and on the Library homepage.

General Background on Literature:

Dictionary of The History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas  4 Volumes
See essay on "Sense of the Tragic" in Volume 4, p. 411.
REF CB5 .D52

New Dictionary of The History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas 6 volumes
REF CB9 .N49 

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

Background on Classical Literature and History:

Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology
REF BL303 .T75

Dictionary of Classical Mythology
REF BL715 .G713

Oxford Classical Dictionary 3rd Edition
REF DE5 .O9 
  
Oxford Classical Dictionary 3rd Edition Revised
REF DE5 .O9

Praeger Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Civilization 
REF DF16 .D513
                          
Atlas of the Greek World
REF DF77 .L43

Place-Names in Classical Mythology: Greece
REF DL16 .B 45

Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece And Rome
REF DE59 .C55 1988
  
Classical Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography
REF DE59 .C65 H34 1986

Atlas of Classical Archaeology
REF G1046 .E15 A8

Crowell's Handbook of Classical Literature
REF PA31 .F4

The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
REF PA31 .H69
 
Classical Studies: A Guide to the Reference Literature
REF PA91 .J4 1996 

Classic Greek Dictionary, Greek-English And English-Greek
REF PA445 .E5 C6

Classical Greek And Roman Drama: An Annotated Bibliography
REF PA3024 .F67 1989

Biographical Resources:

Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome
See Volume 1, page 1
REF PA3002 .A5

Literary Terminology:

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

Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
REF PN41 .C83

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
REF PN41 .C67

Background on Critical Theory:

Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory
REF PN44.5 .H37 1998
 
Critical Survey of Literary Theory
Ref PN45 .C74 1988 

• Homer--Characters
• Homer--Iliad
• Homer--Odyssey
• Greek poetry - history and criticism
• Greek literature - history and criticism
• Gods and Goddesses in literature
• Goddesses, Greek in literature
• Gods, Greek, in literature
• Justice in literature

• Gods or Goddesses
• Odyssey and interpretation
• Odysseus
• Poseidon and Cyclops and Helios
• Poseidon or Helios

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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.

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

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
This comprehensive index in classical studies indexes articles in hundreds of scholarly journals, books, dissertations, and conference proceedings and provides brief abstracts. Articles written in many European languages are indexed, but the interface language of the database is English. (1959 - present)
Earlier volumes are available in paper and are located in the General Collection PA29 .A5
User Guide     Journal list (English-language titles only)

ITER
"Iter's bibliography covers all literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for journal articles (from 1842 - present), reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies are included. Also included are citations for monographs (from 1995 - present), and material published in monographs and collections of essays."   ITER Searching Guide

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. (1940 - present)  Journal list     

Academic Search Premier
Gain access to full-text as well as indexing and abstracting for a wide range of journal titles covering business, social sciences, humanities, general science, and education.

JSTOR
Geisel Library subscribes to two JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I and II. 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

Historical Abstracts
Provides abstracts to journal articles, books, and dissertations covering world history from 1450 to the present (excluding North America).  Journal list

Perseus Digital Library
Primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome

Voice of the shuttle: classical studies page

Homer's Illiad and Odyssey Thinkquest Website

The Homer Homepage

Homeric Geography A map from Reed College showing Trojan war heroes and their cities

Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism- Sites about The Odyssey

See the library's How To Cite Your Sources guide for resources on how to properly cite research materials. Always confirm the style required by your instructor.