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Classics Library Collections

Overview

The Classics Library holds a collection of 60,000 volumes and 400 serials. Since the scope of the collection is wide, it includes materials which are of interest to reseachers in a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, art history, English, modern languages, and history. Undergraduates, especially those who are enrolled in classics courses, are encouraged to make use of the library.

The collection is especially strong in critical texts of and literature on the Greek and Latin authors, Greek and Latin grammar and lexicography, philology, epigraphy, papyrology, and facsimiles of manuscripts. A consistent policy of buying practically all publications of real value and of adding older material that still retains scholarly value has made the collection unusually well-rounded and useful in a practical way. Mediaeval Latin, patristics, and Byzantine and Modern Greek are also fairly well-represented. The Classical Library has a few early and rare editions of the classical authors; more such works may be found in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

The collection is also strong in the particular research interests of different members of the classics faculty. For example, the book and pamphlet material is especially extensive for Aesop, Avianus, Epictetus, Homer, Jerome's Lives of the Hermit Saints, Apuleius, Suetonius, Terence, the Greek and Latin romances, the social and economic aspects of Greek and Roman civilization, and the ancient collections of proverbs and fables. Extensive collections of photocopies and collations of manuscripts have been built up for the following: Avianus, Asclepiodotus, Aesop, Jerome's Lives of the Hermit Saints, Plutarch's Quaestiones Graecae et Romanae, the Vitae Decem Oratorum, Suetonius' De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus, and mediaeval treatises on technology from the eighth through the fourteenth century.

In addition to the materials housed in Rooms 419 and 407, many classics-related works of wider scope may be found in the general stacks in the Main Library.

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Books

Books from Off Campus

Journals

The Classics Library has an extensive collection of on-line and print serials. Electronic serials are accessible through the University Library's On-line Research Resources

Indexes and Databases of Classical and Related Journals

Specialized Indexes

On-line Databases of Classical Texts

Other Electronic Resources

CD-ROMS

The Classics Library has a selection of CD-Roms available for on-site use including: The Archive of Celtic Latin Literature, Poetria Nova: A CD-Rom of Latin Medieval Poetry; The Electronic Monumenta Germaniae Historica; and the Gnomon bibliographische Datenbank