Databases

• Academic Search Complete (approximately 1880s to date). Provides abstracts of articles (summaries), and full-text articles from more than 10,000 books, scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, and reference works on a wide variety of topics.
• L'Annee Philologique (1959 to date; use restricted to Simpson Library). Indexes articles and books in classical studies and related disciplines. Electronic coverage begins in 1959. Print issues are shelved under the call number PA 31 .A56.
• Arts & Humanities Search (1980 to date). Indexes more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
• ATLA Religion Index (approximately 1818 to date). Furnishes citations to and abstracts (summaries) of journal articles and books on church history, biblical studies, religion in social issues, and other topics relating to religion of the world.
• FirstSearch. Provides access to dozens of indexes and databases in a variety of disciplines.
• Humanities Abstracts (1983 to date). Indexes a broad range of some 500 magazine and journal publications.
• Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984. Indexes nearly 1,200 periodicals.
• Literature Resources from Gale (coverage varies by publication).
  Provides access to critical analyses of and biographical information on living and deceased authors from around the world.
• Patrologia Latina. The electronic version of publisher Jacques-Paul Migne's 217-volume Patrologia Latina (printed from 1844 to 1855), and the corresponding four index volumes (1862 to 1865). The set covers the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 A.D. to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.
• Philosopher's Index (1940 to date). Furnishes citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, and book reviews.
• Religion and Philosophy Collection (coverage varies; mostly 1970s to date). Furnishes the full text of some 300 journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed publications.

Databases in Related Disciplines

• ARTstor. A collection of some 300,000 images that documents numerous artistic traditions and cultures from around the world.
• MLA International Bibliography (1963 to date). A comprehensive, international index to articles and books on language, literature, and the dramatic arts.
• OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition (1982 to date). A multidisciplinary database that provides the full text from a variety of the company's full-text databases, including Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences, and Business. When available, the full text is included from these databases: Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science. Coverage dates: Indexing, 1982+; Abstracting, 1984+; select full text, 1994+ (start dates for full-text coverage vary from journal to journal within a database).
• Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI) (1665 to 1995). Provides author, title, and keyword access to the table-of-contents pages of more than 4,000 worldwide periodicals.

For a complete listing of databases provided by UMW Libraries, please see Databases A-Z.

selected Reference books in simpson library

• General Works
• Literary Works
• Mythology

general works

• Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World REFB DE 5 .N4813 2002
• The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization REFB DE 5 .C28 2006
• Classical Studies:  A Guide to the Reference Literature REFB PA 91 .J4 1996
• Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece REFB DF 16 .E52 2006
• Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition REFB DF 757 .E53 2000
• Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World REFB DF 16 .S23 1995
• Encyclopedia of the Ancient World REFB CB 311 .E536 2000
• An Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology REFB DE 5 .E5 1996
• Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire REFB DG 270 .B86 2002
• From Aristotle to Zoroaster:  An A – to – Z Companion to the Classical World REFB CB 311 .C83 1998
• From Polis to Empire--The Ancient World, c800 B.C. - A.D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary REFB D 54 .F76 2002
• A Guide to the Ancient World REFB DE 25 .G72 1986
• Der Kleine Pauly: Lexikon der Antike REFB DE 5 .K5
• The Oxford Classical Dictionary REFB DE 5 .O9 2003
• Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum REFB BL 727 .T48 2004

literary works

• Ancient Writers:  Greece and Rome REFB PA 3002 .A5 1982
• Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism REFB PN 681.5 .C57
• Classical Greek and Roman Drama REFB PA 3024 .F67 1989
• Classical Literature and Its Times REFB PA 31 .M67 2006
• Crowell’s Handbook of Classical Drama REFB PA 3024 .H35
• Dictionary of Literary Biography REFB PN 501 .D5x.  See volume 176, Ancient Greek Authors, and volume 211, Ancient Roman Writers.
• Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature REFB PA 5210 .M44 2004
• The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama REFB PA 3024 .T48 2005
• Greek and Latin Authors, 800 B.C. – A.D. 1000 REFB  PA 31 .G7
• Greek and Roman Authors REFB PA 3001 .G9x 1973
• The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature REFB PA 31 .H69

Mythology

• The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend REFB BL 303 .M45 2004
• Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology REFB BL 312 .G64 2005
• Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC) REFB N 7760 .L49 1981
• Myths and Legends of the World REFB BL 311 .M97 2000
• Oxford Companion to World Mythology REFB BL 312 .L44 2005
• Thematic Guide to World Mythology REFB BL 312 .S76 2004

Websites

• Virtual Libraries
• General Works
• Specialized Works
• Online Periodicals

Virtual Libraries

Virtual libraries contain annotated collections of high-quality Internet resources that librarians or other information specialists have carefully selected. Users can usually browse by subject or search.

• Librarians' Internet Index. See especially the Literature & Books category under Arts and Humanities.
• The Internet Public Library. See especially the Greek Mythology "Pathfinder."

General Works

• The Classics Page at Ad Fontes Academy. Contains many Latin and medieval texts. Sections of the web site include Latin Texts (see especially the numerous authors represented in The Latin Library), Classical Links of General Interest, and much more.
• The Classics Pages. Covers the life, mythology, literature, archaeology, and art of the ancient world of Greece and Rome.
• Dr. J's Illustrated Guide to the Classical World. A collection of images, texts, lectures, and other resources that illustrate the history, mythology, art, and archaeology of the ancient Greek and Roman world.
• The Internet Classics Archive. Includes 59 authors in a searchable collection of 441 classical texts. Most of the works are Greek and Latin, although there are a few Chinese and Persian texts; all are English translations.
• LacusCurtias: Into the Roman World. This major resource on ancient Rome includes primary and secondary texts, translations, a photo-gazetteer of Roman towns and monuments, topographical works, classical dictionaries, maps, and links to related sites.
• The Online Medieval & Classical Library. Users can browse this searchable collection of more than 30 "of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization" by title, author, genre, and language.
• Perseus Digital Library. An evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world. The extensive collection includes primary and secondary texts, translations, digital images, maps, and site plans.
• Pinax Online: An Annotated List or Web Bibliographies on the Ancient Greek World. Online bibliographies cover language, literature, history, religion, mythology, art, and archaeology of the ancient Greek world.
• Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists. TOCS-IN, as this site is called, provides the tables of contents of selected journals in Classics, Religion, and Near Eastern Studies. The project began in 1992, and it now contains approximately 185 journals and more than 45,000 articles. Pre-1992 journals are also being added. Use the search engine at Searching TOCS-IN to access this invaluable research.

Specialized Works

• Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Provides a graphical overview and background information on the Barrington Atlas, a reference work that "recreates the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from the British Isles to the Indian subcontinent and deep into North Africa." The atlas is in the atlas case of Simpson Library at the end of the Reference Collection (call number CASE G 1033 .B3 2000). The two-volume supplement, a map-by-map directory, is on the shelves of the Reference Collection (REFB G 1033 .B3 2000 Suppl.).
• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World. Focuses on women and gender issues among Roman, Greek, Egyptian, and other cultures around the ancient Mediterranean.

Online Periodicals

Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Online since 1990, the scholarly journal Bryn Mawr Classical Review publishes "timely reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies (including archaeology)."