Ancient Greek Art, Architecture and Archaeology
Using the Cat | Reference Works | Locating Journal Articles | Web Links

Using the Cat to Locate Materials on Ancient Greek Art, Architecture and Archaeology

Use these general subject headings:

   Art, Classical

Art, Greek

Architecture, Greek

Greece--Antiquities

You can also search the Cat for the art, architecture and archaeology of specific cities or regions, as well as for individual artists, artistic styles, or media:

  Corinth (Greece)--Antiquities

Phidias, ca. 500-ca. 430 B.C.  Vases, Greek

See also Using the LIAS Cat for more tips on locating information about the art, archaeology and architecture of ancient Greece and the Hellenistic world.

Return to top of page

Reference Works

Curl, James Stevens.  Classical architecture : an introduction to its vocabulary and essentials, with a select glossary of terms.
Call #: NA260.C87 1992, Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection.

An encyclopedia of the history of classical archaeology.  
Call #: DE5.E5 1996, Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection.

The Oxford history of classical art.  
Call #: N5610.O84 1993, Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection.

Return to top of page

Locating Journal Articles on Ancient Greek Art, Architecture and Archaeology

AMICO: Database of more than 65,000 digital images of works of art from more than 30 North American museums. Library resource on LIAS E-Resource List.

L’annee philologique, bibliographie critique et analytique de l’antiquite greco-latine. 
Call #: Z7016.M35A5, Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection.

Art abstracts, 1984-present.  Library resource on LIAS E-Resource List.

Art index retrospective, 1929-1984.  Library resource on LIAS E-Resource List.

Bibliography of the history of art,1973-present.  Library resource on LIAS E-Resource List.

Arts and humanities citation index 1987– present (included in Web of Science database).  Library resource on LIAS E-Resource List.

DCB: Database of classical bibliography. CD-ROM edition of L’annee philologique, volumes 47 (1976)-60 (1988). 
Call#: Z7016.D38, Arts & Humanities, West Pattee 2nd Flr-Music & Media Center.

Humanities abstracts 1984-present. Library resource on LIAS E-Resource List.

IBZ: Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur (International bibliography of periodical literature) 1984-present.  Multidisciplinary journals with a strong European content.  Library resource on LIAS E-Resource List.

Project Muse. Full-text journals on LIAS E-Resource List.

TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists from the University of Toronto.

Return to top of page

Web Links

Ancient World Web from the University of Virginia.

Argos: limited area search of the ancient & medieval Internet from the University of Evansville.

Art and archaeology from the Perseus Project.

Athens Study Abroad from Penn State's Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies.  Don't sit around reading about antiquity; go do it!

Classics and Mediterranean archaeology from the University of Michigan's Department of Classical Studies.

The Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities from the British Museum, present home of the architectural sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens.

Diotima: materials for the study of women and gender in the ancient world from The Stoa.

Musée du Louvre.  Check out the Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities galleries.

Resources for art from Henry Pisciotta, Art Librarian at Penn State University Libraries.

Return to top of page

This page is under development.  Send comments, questions, and suggestions to Daniel Mack, Humanities Librarian for Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies.