Reference Sources - HON 200 - The Ancient World - LibGuides at Morehead State University

Selected E-Book Encyclopedias

Britannica Academic Edition
Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists - 2008
ISBN: 9780415340205 eISBN: 9780203462737
Stanford Encyclopedia 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.