Library Resources for Ancient Rome and the Roman Empire
The CAT | Finding & requesting materials | Electronic Texts | Selected Reference Works |
Journal Articles | Web Sites
The CAT: Penn State 's online library catalog
Find books and other materials at Penn State by searching in the CAT (the online catalog). Begin your search by choosing the BROWSE page to search by title, or the KEYWORD page to search for books on your topic. For more info on searching the CAT, click here.
Finding and requesting materials from other libraries
- CIC University Libraries (Big Ten) (Search all the library catalogs of the Big Ten)
- WorldCat: Holdings of over 65,000 libraries worldwide
- EZ Borrow (PALCI): combined catalogs of Pennsylvania academic and research libraries
- ILLiad: University Libraries' online Interlibrary Loan system at https://ill.libraries.psu.edu/
Electronic texts
Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (CD-R0M)
- UP Copy: Call # PA6118.B53 1999, Music and Media Center
- Includes all ancient Latin texts from the earliest times to the second century, as well as a certain number of the major writers from later times
- For each individual text, the most recent or the best edition published by Teubner is used
- Software allows search strategies based on an analysis of word forms or combinations of word forms.
Library of Latin texts: CLCLT (LIAS E-Resource List)
- Texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965)
- Supports keyword, truncation, and Boolean searching
- Works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas
- Texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions
Patrologia Latina (LIAS E-Resource List)
- Electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina published between 1844 and 1855
- Includes the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865.
- Covers the works of the Church fathers from Tertullian in 200 to the death of Pope Innocent II in 1216
- Digitized, searchable texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in 1453
- Contains over 76 million words of text, over 6,600 works and nearly 2,000 authors
- Permits keyword and Boolean searching and author/title browsing
Selected reference works in the Arts and Humanities Library (click the title for copies in other locations)
Ancient Roman writers.
UP Copy:
Call # PS221.D5 v.211,
Arts & Humanities Reference, 2nd Floor Pattee
A companion to the Roman Empire.
UP Copy:
Call # DG311.C667 2006,
Arts & Humanities Reference, 2nd Floor Pattee
Dictionary of Roman religion.
UP Copy: Call # BL798.A35 1996,
Arts & Humanities Reference, 2nd Floor Pattee
Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire.
UP Copy: Call # DG270.B86 2002,
Arts & Humanities Reference, 2nd Floor Pattee
Handbook to life in ancient Rome, updated edition.
UP Copy: Call # DG75.A35 2004,
Arts & Humanities Reference, 2nd Floor Pattee
New topographical dictionary of ancient Rome.
UP Copy: Call # DG68.R5 1992,
Arts & Humanities Reference, 2nd Floor Pattee
Oxford classical dictionary, 3 rd ed. rev.
UP Copy: Call # DE5.O9 2003,
Arts & Humanities Ready Reference, 2nd Floor Pattee
Prosopographia Imperii Romani: Saecula I, II, III.
UP Copy: Call # DG203.5.P763 1933 (7 vols.), Arts & Humanities Reference, 2nd Floor Pattee
The prosopography of the later Roman Empire.
UP Copy: Call # DG203.5.J6 (3 vols. in 4), Arts & Humanities Reference, 2nd Floor Pattee
Thesaurus cultus et rituum antiquorum.
UP Copy: Call # BL727.T44 2004 (4 vols.), Arts & Humanities Reference, 2nd Floor Pattee
Find journal articles by subject via the LIAS E-Resource List
Année philologique 1969-present
- Primarily classical Greece and Rome , with some coverage of the ancient Near East
- Language, literature, history, art, archaeology, philosophy, and religion
- Strong coverage of European scholarship
- Covers journal articles, books, chapters, and collections
- “Get It” feature will retrieve full text online (link listed as sfx )
FRANCIS 1984-present. (LIAS E-Resource List)
- Covers range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities and social sciences
- Strong in religion, the history of art, psychology, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature.
- Wide range of materials, including serials, journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, French dissertations, exhibition catalogs, legislation, teaching materials, and reports
IBZ: Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur 1984-present (LIAS E-Resource List)
- Indexes multidisciplinary journals with a strong European content
- Indexes European-language journals in the humanities and social sciences
- Full-text, full-image archive of journals in a various humanities and social sciences disciplines, including many journals in classical literature and archaeology
- Some content back to the nineteenth century
- Content excludes the most recent three to five years
TOCS-IN: Tables of Content of Journals of Interest to Classicists
- Journals in classics, religious studies, and the ancient Near East
- Indexes about 160 journals and some collections of articles, such as Festschriften
- Free resource offered by CHASS (Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Toronto)
- Free resource offered by CHASS (Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Toronto)
Other useful web sites
DIR—De Imperatoribus Romanis:http://www.roman-emperors.org/
- An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman World: http://www.unc.edu/depts/cl_atlas/
- Classical atlas hosted by the Department of Classics of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Diotima: http://www.stoa.org/diotima/
- Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Perseus Project from Tufts University: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
- Full text ancient Greek and Latin literature, information on the history and civilization of classical antiquity, and images of ancient art
This page is under development. Send comments, questions, and suggestions to Eric Novotny, Humanities Librarian for History, at ecn1@psu.edu ; IM: HistoryLibrarian .