Reference works are authoritative works that you can consult for specialized information to help get you started on a research topic. There are many types of reference work, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographies, atlases, thesauri, directories, almanacs, style manuals and handbooks.
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Diogenes
Software for Classics, including a version of the Lewis and Short Latin dictionary [LSJ]. A tool for searching and browsing databases of ancient texts. Version 3 is based on Mozilla Firefox. User must install the software. Instructions are given for Mac, Windows and LINUX.
WORDS Latin-to-English & English-to-Latin Dictionary by William Whitaker
Provides online translations from Latin to English and English to Latin.
Brill's New Pauly Online
The full-text New Pauly encyclopaedia of the ancient world. (netID required)
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A fully searchable online encyclopedia, featuring articles written by professional philosophers. Includes a section on Ancient Philosophy.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A dynamic encyclopedia, in which each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or a group of experts in the field.
Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
The origin Pauly encyclopedia in German online. Provides a list of articles from which to link.
Greek-English Lexicon (Liddell and Scott)
[also available via Perseus]
ALEXANDER REF, DOUGLASS REF - PA445.E5L6 1996
A Latin Dictionary (Lewis and Short)
[also available via Perseus]
ALEXANDER REF - PA2365.E5A7 2002
Oxford Latin Dictionary
ALEXANDER REF, ART LIBRARY REF, DOUGLASS REF - PA2365.E5O9 1982
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
ALEXANDER Reference PA2361.T413
ALEXANDER STACKS CDROM PA2361.T44 2002
Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. ed. Hildegard Temporini.
Berlin, New York, De Gruyter, 1972- parts 1 and 2.
ALEXANDER STACKS - DG209.T36
Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World
ALEXANDER REF - DE5.N4813 2002
The Cambridge Ancient History
ALEXANDER REF, CAMDEN STACKS, DANA REF, DOUGLASS REF - D57.C32 1982
Also available in Cambridge Histories Online
Der Neue Pauly : Enzyklopädie der Antike
ALEXANDER REF - DE5.N48 1996
The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed.
ALEXANDER REF, CAMDEN REF - DE5.O9 2003
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
ALEXANDER REF, MUSIC REF - DE5.O9 1998
Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Neue Bearbeitung unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher Fachgenossen, ed. Georg Wissowa (Stuttgart, Druckenmüller Verlag, 1893- [1956- ]).
ALEXANDER REF - DE5 .P33, DANA REF - DE5 .P331
[pubic domain volumes available in the Internet Archive]
The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire.
ALEXANDER REF - DG203.5.J6
Classics of Western Philosophy, 6th ed.
ALEXANDER REF, CARR REF - B29.C536 2002
Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy
ALEXANDER, DOUGLASS - REF B163.E53 1996
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
ALEXANDER REF, CAMDEN REF, DANA REF, DOUGLASS REF, CARR REF, MUSIC REF - PA31.H69 1989
Enciclopedia Virgiliana
ALEXANDER REF - PA6825.A3 1984
Orazio: Enciclopedia Oraziana
ALEXANDER REF - PA6411.O72 1996
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
ALEXANDER FOLIO - CN520.C6
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.
ART LIBRARY FOLIO - NK4640
Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC)
ART LIBRARY REFERENCE - N7760.L4 1981
Online database (complement, and not replacement, to LIMC)
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