Reference Sources - GSP - Cindy Brainard - Greek / Roman Resources

Selected E-Book Encyclopedias

Britannica Academic Edition Updated daily. The combination of the Encyclopædia Britannica and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools provides a variety of reliable sources.
Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists - 2008 Provides a survey of all ancient natural science, from its beginnings through the end of Late Antiquity.
ISBN: 9780415340205 eISBN: 9780203462737
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy This is considered to be the most authoritative encyclopedia covering the entire discipline of philosophy.

Selected Print Reference Works

Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum by Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Organization) Staff (Contribution by); Jean Balty
ISBN: 9780892367870
Publication Date: 2006-10-16
ThesCRA is an encyclopedia of ancient Greek, Roman, and Etruscan religious practices. It has entries written in English, French, German, and Italian.
Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians by Michelle Ballif (Editor); Michael G. Moran (Editor)
ISBN: 9780313321788
Publication Date: 2005-03-30
This book includes alphabetically arranged entries on some 60 leading rhetoricians of antiquity, with each entry providing biographical information, a discussion of the rhetorician's works and theories, and primary and secondary bibliographies.
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature by Margaret Howatson
ISBN: 0198661215
Publication Date: 1989-05-25
Useful to those studying classical literature in depth, the book will be equally accessible to the non-specialist.
The Magistrates of the Roman Republic by Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton
Publication Date: 1951
Offers detailed information on the officials that held office in the Roman Republic.
Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean by Rachel Kitzinger (Editor); Michael Grant (Editor)
ISBN: 0684175940
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
A three-volume reference work of 97 original essays on the people, customs, government, religion, and arts of the ancient world, from 2000 B.C. to the fall of Rome in A.D.476. Structured to present a comparative rather than chronological study of Greek and Roman institutions and life.