Gemäldezyklus,1502,Vittore Carpaccio,The Yorck Project

This guide was created by the Fall 2011 ARTHIST 590 students

 I. Assignments

II. Finding Books

III. Databases

IV. Resources

V. Images

VI.  MARBL

VII. Citing your Work

Steps in the Research Process

• STEP 1: Formulate your question
• STEP 2: Get background information (see REFERENCE Box below)
• STEP 3: Refine your search topic
• STEP 4: Consider your resource options
• STEP 5: Select and use the appropriate tool, Books (discoverE), databases, 
• STEP 6: Locate your materials
• STEP 7: Analyze your materials
• STEP 8: Organize and write
• STEP 9: Cite your work/Compose your bibliography

Oxford Art Online (incl. Grove Art)
 Oxford Art Online includes Grove Art Online (an encyclopedia of over 40,000 articles covering art, artists, and all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography, as well as digital images of the most frequently studied works of art). 

TRY  Credo Reference Unlimited and Reference Universe

Greece and Roman

Brill's New Pauly
Full-text articles on all aspects of the ancient world, including persons, places, institutions, events, artifacts, technical terms, ideas and concepts, and interaction between Greek and Roman culture with others (Semitic, Celtic, Germanic, etc.). Many articles are illustrated with maps, site plans, genealogical tables, and black-and white photographs. Brill's New Pauly Online includes the entire text of Metzler's Der Neue Pauly and also all volumes of the English language Brill's New Pauly.

Cambridge Collections Online
Cambridge Companions Complete Collection presently contains the Cambridge Companions to literature, philosophy, religion, classics and culture; more collections in subject areas will be added soon. The collection is updated with new Companions on publication.

Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online contains a number of reference works relevant to Roman history:

• The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization in Reference DE5 .O92 1998
  
• The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature Online only
  
• Who's Who in the Classical World Online only
  
• Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World Online only

De Imperatoribus Romanis ("On the Rulers of Rome")
DIR is an on-line encyclopedia on the rulers of the Roman empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453).

L'Année philologique; bibliographie critique et analytique de l'antiquité gréco-latine

REFERENCE Z7016 .A55
An international bibliography that contains citations for Greek and Roman studies. Covers all aspects of classical languages, literatures, history, philosophy, art, religion, music, mythology, science, numismatics, and other subjects. Its scope is the period from 2000 BCE to CE 800.

Cassell dictionary of classical mythology

REFERENCE BL715 .M37 1998
Information on the people, places, gods, and creatures of classical mythology, with black and white illustrations, maps, genealogical tables, and a bibliography.

Civilization of the ancient Mediterranean : Greece and Rome

REFERENCE DE59 .C55 1988 (3 vols.)
Includes a chronological table, maps, and an index. Vol. 1 covers history, population (race, migration patterns, languages), agriculture, and government (law, war), among other subjects. Vol. 2 covers economics (trade, taxation), religion, private and social life (education, athletics, sex), among other subjects. Vol. 3 covers women and family life (marriage, birth control), literary and performing arts, philosophy, and the visual arts.

The Classical world bibliography of Greek and Roman history

REFERENCE Z6207 .G7 C58 1978
Reprinted articles from The Classical Weekly, arranged topically, this work contains surveys of the "major" historians of the classical world (Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Tacitus, Caesar) and annotated bibliographies on Philo Judaeus and Josephus, Alexander the Great, and Julian the Apostate.

Dictionary of classical mythology, symbols, attributes, & associations

REFERENCE BL715 .B44 1982
With over 1000 entries, this work is arranged by four subjects: 1) symbols, attributes, and associations, 2) surnames, epithets, and patronymics, 3) heroic expeditions, and 4) a guide to persona (index).

A genealogical chart of Greek mythology

REFERENCE BL785 .N44 2003
This oversize book contains a master chart, comprising 3,673 named figures of Greek mythology, all related to each other within a single family of 20 generations. Contains citations to the ancient source.

Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC)

REFERENCE NX650 .M9 L48
Alphabetically arranged articles on individual Greek, Roman and Etruscan mythology.
LIMC - Internet Bibliography (http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/)

Place-names in classical mythology : Greece

REFERENCE DF16 .B45 1989
Deals with only mythological places, unless the real historical place had mythological associations. Also contains a chart associating modern place-names with their ancient locations.

Who's who in classical mythology

REFERENCE BL715 .G68
Biographical dictionary, with entries ranging from one sentence to multiple pages in length. Contains maps, genealogical trees, and cross-references.

Who's who in the Greek world

REFERENCE DE7 .H39 2000
This biographical dictionary features entries only on real people (no mythological figures), and includes a glossary, chronology, list of rulers, and black and white maps.

Renaissance and Baroque

• Emory University Department of Classics Links
  Contains links to all the major sites of interest to classical historians.
• The Beazley Archive
  The Beazley Archive at the University of Oxford has placed online two valuable resources for Classics and Art History instructors. The first item, the Dictionary, contains "illustrated descriptions of characters from Greek myth, art and architectural terms, also maps and place names." The dictionary currently contains over 240 hypertext entries. The second item offers information on the Archive's plaster cast collection, an overview of traditional and modern cast making, and a cast catalog. The catalog contains over 50 entries, thematically organized, each of which leads to multiple thumbnail images and links to related cast images and dictionary entries.
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  Publishes timely reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies. This site is the authoritative archive of BMCR's publication, from 1990 to the present
• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
  An illustrated catalog of more than 100,000 ancient vases. Users can search or browse by country or museum and do advance searches by fabric, shape or technique.
• Diotima
  Material for the study of women and gender in the ancient world
• Perseus Digital Library
  Perseus is an evolving digital library with a goal to bring a wide range of source materials to a large audience. The collection contains extensive and diverse resources including primary and secondary texts, site plans, digital images.
• Tables of contents of journals of interest to classicists (TOCS-IN)
  Tables of contents of a selection of classics, Near Eastern studies, and religion journals, available in text format and searchable in English and French.

Renaissance and Baroque

• The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University

• HIGH MUSEUM OF ART
• The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
  The ULAN is a structured vocabulary containing around 120,000 records, including 293,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants.
  
• The Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) The AAT is a structured vocabulary of around 34,000 concepts, including 131,000 terms, descriptions, bibliographic citations, and other information relating to fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.
• The Getty Thesuarus of Geographic Names (TGN) The TGN is a structured vocabulary containing around 912,000 records, including 1.1 million names, place types, coordinates, and descriptive notes, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.