RESEARCH GUIDES BY SUBJECT AND COURSE - CLASSICS RESOURCES - GETTING STARTED - LOCATING BOOKS - FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES - REFWORKS - MORE INFORMATION

Selected Reference Sources:

• Ancient Roman Writers
  [Ref PA6013.A53 1999 and Online]
• Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
  [East Wall Ref PN 681.5.C57 and Online]
• Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama
  [Ref PA3024.T48 2005]
• Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome
  [Ref DG75.A35 2004]
• Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC)
  [Ref N7760 .L49 1981]
• Concordantiae Senecanae
  [Ref PA6693 .Z8 1975]
• Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
  [Ref. PA2361.T4]
• Dictionary of Bibliographic Abbreviations Found in the Scholarship of Classical Studies and Related Disciplines
  [Ref. PA99 .W44 2003]

Locating Books

The CONSORT catalog can be used to locate books and other materials available in the Kenyon, Denison, Ohio Wesleyan and Wooster libraries. CONSORT also provides access to OhioLINK, which indicates the holdings of over 88 libraries throughout Ohio. You may borrow books directly from either CONSORT or OhioLINK. Requested materials typically arrive at Kenyon 3-5 working days after the request is made.

Examples of subject headings:

Seneca, Lucius
Phaedra
Rome--History--Nero
Roman law
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Women--Rome

Finding Journal Articles

• L'Annee Philologique on the Internet (1924-2007)
  Contains citations of all known scholarly work published in any language anywhere in the world concerning the areas of ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy, and concerning the time period from the second millennium B.C. to roughly 500-800 A.D
• Humanities International Complete
  A comprehensive database covering 1700 journals, as well as books and reference sources in the humanities. This database provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews. Photographs, paintings and illustrations are also referenced.

Getting Articles Not Available at Kenyon

Many journal titles indexed in these resources are not available at Kenyon. You need to place an Inter-Library loan request to get copies of articles from journals not available at Kenyon. Estimated time for an item to arrive is at least 2 weeks.

Refworks

RefWorks is an online service used to create a personal database of bibliographic citations, which may be automatically formatted for bibliography and footnotes.

More Information

Karen Greever

Collection Development Librarian

Chalmers Library

(740) 427-5420

At Reference Desk: Mon, 10 am - Noon and Wed, 6 pm - 10 pm

Fall 2009