Library Guides/ Ancient History 500 BC-500 AD

Welcome

In this guide you will find an overview of databases, journals and books on the subject of Ancient History.

A special tab (above) has been made to link you through to Papyrological and Epigraphical subjects.

Alpheios
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To make reading and learning mankind's most beautiful and significant classical languages as easy and enjoyable as possible. The Alpheios Reading tools can currently be used with texts in Latin, ancient Greek and Arabic.
Diogenes
Diogenes is a tool for searching and browsing the databases of ancient texts, primarily in Latin and Greek, that are published by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and the Packard Humanities Institute.

Van Dale Dictionaries
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Bilingual dictionaries from and into Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish, and the 'Dikke Van Dale' (Dutch dictionary).

Online dictionaries of Van Dale can also be accessed via smartphone or tablet, by means of the Van Dale App! Once the app has been downloaded, you can open the app and click on the Surfspot link on the bottom of the log in screen to log in with your UG account.

L'Année Philologique via Brepols
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Database of Classical Bibliography (EBSCOhost)
L'Année philologique on the Internet is the digital version of L'Année philologique, a database published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, in collaboration with the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the American Philological Association (APA).

These are the main bibliographies on Ancient History

ZENON DAI
Combined catalogue of the archaeological libraries joined in the German Archaeological Institute and the 'Archäologische Bibliographie'.
Gnomon Bibliographische Datenbank
Academic Search Premier
Multidisciplinary bibliographic and full-text database
Oxford Bibliographies Online - Classics