Subject Guides:

Ancient Greece & Rome
 

Ancient Greece & Rome

Subject Guide to Library Resources Available
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Greek Amphora
This guide was created to assist you in locating available information on Ancient Greece and Rome at the Long Beach City College Library and through the Internet. From Ancient Greece and Rome we have gained knowledge of philosophy, mathematics, governing, medicine, and architecture and art. Some of the civilizations/areas you might research include:
  • Athens
  • Byzantium
  • Corinth
  • Crete
  • Cycladia
  • Cyprus
  • Delphi
  • Doria
  • Etruscans 
  • Greece
  • Hellas
    		•
  • Macedonia
  • Minoans
  • Mycenaeans
  • Olympia
  • Peloponnesus
  • Phrygia
  • Rhodes
  • Rome
  • Sparta
  • Thrace
  • Troy
    		•

    A good place to start a paper is to read a little general literature about the field (encyclopedia, internet article) and look up basic terms that are unfamiliar to you. The Encyclopedia Britannica (in print or online) is an excellent source of information on topics about the people and places of Ancient Greece & Rome.

    The next step would be to look for books which cover or touch upon your specific topic. Use the chapter headings and indexes of books that seem relevant to zero in on your topic.

    Finally, look for journal articles focused on your specific area of inquiry for more in-depth and recent coverage.

    When unable to find answers to your questions in these resources, the internet and other reference books will often give you new leads to the answers. Finally, don't forget the wealth of information contained in videos. Research about these ancient topics is particularly aided by information and visual material documented in videos.


    FIND REFERENCE TOOLS

    Reference tools such as indexes, directories, bibliographies, guides, encyclopedias and atlases are generally found in a reference area where many people can refer to general information. Items found in reference areas cannot be checked out of the library.

    Occasionally other copies of reference-type items can be found in the circulating collection for you to check out.


    Mycenaean Funerary Mask
    Gold, @1550 BCE, Agamemnon?
    To find articles and books on various aspects of Ancient Greece & Rome, the main printed indexes in the Reference Area to use for extensive research are:

    Humanities index.
    Location: LAC Index Table (Reference Room) Call Number: AI3 .H85

    Social sciences index.
    Location: LAC Index Table (Reference Room) Call Number: AI3 .S62

    (Previous volumes known as Social Sciences & Humanities Index AI3 .R49)

    General Reference Works

    Winick, Charles. Dictionary of anthropology. 1970 [c1956]
    Location: PCC Reference Room Collection Call Number: GN11 .W5 1970
    Location: LAC Reference Room Collection Call Number: GN11 .W5

    Smithsonian timelines of the ancient world. 1993.
    Location: LAC Reference Room Collection. Call Number: D54.5 .S65 1993

    Encyclopedias



    Encyclopedia of anthropology / David E. Hunter, Phillip Whitten. c1976.
    Location: LAC Reference Room Collection     Call Number: GN11 .E52
    The Concise encyclopedia of archaeology / edited by Leonard Cottrell. 1971.
    Location: LAC Reference Room Collection Call Number: CC70 .C6 1971

    Atlases

    The atlas of the ancient world : charting the great civilizations of the past. 1992.
    Location: LAC Reference Room Collection. Call Number: G1033 .O5 1992
    Location: PCC Reference Room Collection. Call Number: G1033 .O5 1992

    Atlas of ancient archaeology, edited by Jacquetta Hawkes. 1974
    Location: LAC Reference Room Collection. Call Number: GN739 .H38 1974
    Archaeological atlas of the world / David and Ruth Whitehouse . 1975.
    Location: LAC Reference Room Collection. Call Number: G1046.E15 W5 1975



    Discus Thrower

    FIND BOOKS IN THE CATALOG

    Books can be located by searching Voyager, the Library's online catalog. Use the term of a culture or area, along with the terms ancient Greece or ancient Rome, religion, civilization, archaeology, culture, civilization, epigraphy, inscriptions, numismatics, architecture, history, mythology, art, art history, language, literature, hellenic, atlases, historical geography, medicine, sports or law. Combine these terms in a keyword search for the best results, following subject links in desired records to find more similar records. If you don't find records in the LBCC Library for what you need, try searching online databases for articles and search other libraries for books. You may use Interlibrary Loan to request books not found at LBCC.


    Greek Ships & Alphabet from the Phoenicians?

    To find Electronic books in Voyager which can be read online from home, try a search using general terms and adding a Quick Limit of E-Books. You will need to view the record for the book to click on the link to the website that hosts the book. To view from home you will need passwords which can be found with the passwords for online databases available from the librarians.

    You will find books on Ancient Rome and Greece using some of the following LC subject headings to search our catalog and catalogs of other libraries (use Interlibrary Loan to request books from other libraries not found at LBCC):

    Alphabet
    Architecture - Rome
    Architecture, Greece
    Art, Classical
    Byzantine Empire
    Civilization, Ancient
    Engineering--Rome
    Gladiators
    Greece Antiquities
    Greece Civilization
    Greece History
    Greece Religion
    Greek Architecture
    Greek Drama
    Greek Literature
    Individual names, i.e., Perseus
    Latin Drama
    Latin Literature
    Linear B

    Medicine, Greek and Roman
    MilitaryHistory
    Mythology, Greek
    Mythology, Roman
    Olympics
    Painting, Greek
    Philosophers--Biography
    Pottery, Greek
    Roman Emperors
    Rome Antiquities
    Rome Civilization
    Rome History
    Rome (Italy)--Antiquities
    Rome (Italy)--History
    Rome (Italy)--Religion
    Science--Greece--History
    Sports, Greece
    Sports, Rome
    Vase painting, Greek


    You can also browse the shelves by the Library of Congress Classification letters assigned to books in these subject areas either in the Reference Area or on the stack level listed for books that can be checked out:


    Find these call numbers on Stack Level 1, Sub-basement of LAC:
     B-BH -- Philosophy
    BL -- Religions of the World, Mythology, Semitic Religions
    BR -- Christianity
    CB -- History of Civilization
    CC -- Archaeology
    CJ -- Numismatics
    CN -- Insriptions, Epigraphy
    D1-53 -- Ancient History
    DF -- Greek History
    DG -- Italian History including Rome

    Find these call numbers on Stack Level 2, Basement of LAC:
     G -- Historical Geography, Atlases
    GN -- Anthropology, Prehistoric Archaeology
    GR -- Folklore
    GT -- Manners and Customs
    GV -- Sports

    Find these call numbers on Stack Level 3, First Floor of LAC:

    K -- Law
    N -- Visual Arts, History of Art
    NA -- Architecture
    NB -- Sculpture
    ND -- Painting
    NK -- Decorative Arts

    Find these call numbers on Stack Level 4, the Mezzanine of LAC:

    P -- Linguistics
    PA -- Classicial Languages & Literatures

    FIND VIDEOS

    Some videos may be found in Voyager, the online catalog, to be checked out. First select a Quick Limit of Videorecordings, then do a keyword search on the name of a people, country or a civilization.

    You may also view videos inhouse from the Instructional Media Collection. Search Medianet for a discipline such as history or art, and/or the names of a civilization or a country such as Mesopotamia.

    FIND ARTICLES

    A few periodical titles currently held by the LAC library in hard copy and containing information on Ancient Greece & Rome include:


    Early Cycladic Figures

    Archaeology

    Cultural Anthropology

    Journal of Anthropological Research

    Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

    National Geographic

    Smithsonian

    The Library has a subscription to several online databases containing information on research on Ancient Greece & Rome. These databases are particularly helpful in finding information as many journals can be searched simultaneously by the keywords you select. The full-text is then most often available online for printing or sending to your email account. Some of these databases include:


    Encyclopaedia Britannica

    Facts on File On-Line

    Proquest

    SIRS Renaissance

    SIRS Researcher
    Greek "Symposium" or Drinking Party with Hetaera

    Only current faculty, students or staff may use these databases. Ask for passwords at the Reference Desk at either Library. The Librarians can instruct you on using these article databases. There is a free workshop offered for learning the ins and outs of online database searching.


    FIND INTERNET RESOURCES

    Many good resources can be found on the Internet for current research, basic information, and indexes to more resources. You will also come across many sites produced by school classes and others that will not carry the authority you might be looking for. So review the origin of the information carefully. Also look at the links beneath the images on this page for more information. A few good sites to visit include:


    http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ = Perseus Digital Library for Greek & RomanTexts
    http://www.aroundgreece.com/olympics.html = Greek Olympics
    http://www.showgate.com/medea/grklink.html = Greek Links
    http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum/gsearch.asp = Cambridge Classical Archaeology
    http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/research/Exp_Rese_Disc
    /Mediterranean/Olympics/olympicintro.shtml     = Univ. of Pennyslvania on Ancient Olympics
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariot_racing = Chariot Racing
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Senate = Roman Senate
    http://www.capitolium.org/eng/virtuale/vita.htm = Life in Ancient Rome
    http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/HELLPHIL.HTM = Greek Philosophy
    http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MINOA/MYCENAE.HTM = The Mycenaeans
    http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MINOA/MINOANS.HTM = The Minoans
    http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/hellenistic/ = Greek Culture
    http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook08.html#Hellenistic%20World = Hellenistic World
    http://plato-dialogues.org/tools/greece.htm = Map of Ancient Greece
    http://www.theplumber.com/pom.html = Plumbing in Pompeii & Herculaneum
    http://www.ghg.net/shetler/rome/ = Ancient Rome Links
    http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_1741501460/Ancient_Greece.html#s1 = Ancient Greece
    http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761552589/Ancient_Rome.html = Ancient Rome
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/pompeii_portents_01.shtml = Pompeii
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece = Ancient Greece
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome = Ancient Rome
    http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2708 = Voice of the Shuttle--Classical Studies Gateway
    http://assets.cambridge.org/0521782724/sample/0521782724WS.pdf= An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades
    http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/ = The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
    Temple of Antoninus Pious & Faustina,
    Rome, 2nd Century CE

    Olympics 2004 logo
    		 see Official website of the 2004 Olympic Games

    WRITING/RESEARCH ASSISTANCE


    Pompeii Wall Painting 1st Century CE

    Finally, while you are writing your paper, there is an online subject guide, Writing Tips, with links to online help for organizing and formulating your paper, and finding online dictionaries and citation tools.

    There is also a Writing Center at both campuses to help you with the fundamentals of your paper, for information call the Writing Center at LAC (562) 938-4520 and at PCC: (562) 938-3991.


    INTRODUCTION FIND REFERENCE TOOLS FIND BOOKS IN THE CATALOG
    FIND VIDEOS FIND ARTICLES FIND INTERNET RESOURCES


    Increase Your Research Skills!

    Enroll for Lib1 (Information Resources 1-credit)
    or Lib3 (Information Competency 3-credits)

    click on books to return to library homepage Library Homepage
    http://lib.lbcc.edu/handouts/greece.html
    Compiled 3/2004 by P. Nielson
    Go to Olympics website LBCC Library logo Diogenes? Greek amphora Roman Senators Greek Theatre in Delphi Mycenaean Funerary Mask Greek Athlete Zeus statue Discus thrower statue Greek Ship Chariot sculpture Athena sculpture Ascepius sculpture Fresco of Greek battle Cycladic figures Symposium Roman Temple Pompeii wall painting