Early Greece Background Sources Catalogs to Books Indices to Articles Selected Web Sites The items in this bibliography can help you find information on your research topic. Many are available electronically through local library networks or the World Wide Web.

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Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean

Jeremy Rutter's in-depth lessons to the period. If this link doesn't work, an earlier text-only version, is available.

Background Sources: Encyclopedias and Atlases

Britannica Online

Online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. See for example articles on Troy and Minoan civilization . UW Only.

Barbarians and Bureaucrats: Minoa, Mycenae, and the Greek Dark Ages

Online textbook for a freshman level world civilizations class at Washington State University by Richard Hooker.

Interactive Ancient Mediterranean Project

An online atlas of the ancient Mediterranean.

Linear B

Brief overview of the Linear B script.

Overview of Archaic and Classical Greek History

Online version of Thomas Martin's book, part of the Perseus Project. See also the Perseus Encyclopedia.

UW Libraries Catalog

A listing of the books, journal subscriptions and other material available at the University of Washington Libraries.

OhioLINK

Use OhioLink to access chapters of recent books, use the "Words" search option.

OCLC WorldCat

A listing of books, journal subscriptions and other material available in hundreds of major libraries in the U.S. and abroad. UW only.

Dissertation Abstracts

Index to dissertations since 1861, those from 1980 onward include an abstract. 60,000 dissertations available in electronic format (for a fee). UW Only.

Once you identify articles you need make sure you have the complete citation (author, title, journal name, volume, pages and year), then look in the UW Libraries Catalog for the journal name (do a title search for the journal name to see if the UW subscribes) to see if and where the journal is kept (library location and call number). For commonly used abbreviations of journals, books and series in ancient history see the American Journal of Archaeology list.

Articles from journals which the UW does not own can be requested through the Interlibrary Borrowing Service.

Anthropological Literature

Index to articles in anthropology and archaeology covering material published from the 19th century to the present.

Arts & humanities citation index

Index to articles in all fields of humanities including history. Part of the Web of Science, from the search screen, choose Arts & Humanities Citation Index. UW Only.

Chloris: An Aegean Bronze Age Bibliography

Index to articles and books dealing with Bronze age archaeology. Organized by specific site.

Database of classical bibliography
CD Network - Available on library computers

Electronic version of L'Annee Philologique covering the years 1974-1989. Covers the subjects 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. Earlier and later years (1929-1993) available in print [Suzzallo Reference Z7016 .A55]

Dyabola: Sachkataloge des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts
CD Network - Available on library computers

Electronic version of Archaologische Bibliographie, an index to material published on history of art and the ancient world. Earlier years available in print [Suzzallo Reference Z5132.A67]

Expanded Academic Index

Index to approximately 1500 journals and magazines in all disciplines. Selected full-text available. Also includes book reviews. UW Only.

Nestor: Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory

"Bibliography of Aegean, eastern Mediterranean and southeastern European prehistory, Homeric society, Indo-European linguistics, and related fields." Electronic version covers 1957-1997; print edition covers 1957-1999 [Suzzallo Periodicals Z7024.L5 N45].

Research Library

Index to articles in all fields, full-text articles available for selected journals and magazines. From the menu, choose Research Library Complete. Also includes book reviews. UW Only.

Selected Websites

ABZU: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East

A project of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, "ABZU is intended to provide comprehensive coverage of the material available for the study of the ancient Near East on the Internet."

Aegean Art and Archaeology

Collection of links dealing with art and archaeology.

Argos

"Argos is the first peer-reviewed, limited area search engine (LASE) on the World-Wide Web. It has been designed to cover the ancient and medieval worlds."

Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology

Site based at the University of Michigan that "collects links to internet resources of interest to classicists and Mediterranean archaeologists."

Kapatija: Web Sites in Aegean Archaeology

Collection of web sites "for the Aegean world in the Bronze and Classical Ages."

Minoan Crete

"The aim of this web site is to eventually provide information about all the major archaeological sites of the Bronze Age Minoan civilisation in Crete along with photographs of the sites themselves and the artefacts that were discovered there."

Perseus Project

The Perseus Project at Tufts University is a multimedia digital library on Ancient Greece which includes reference works, primary and secondary texts and images.

25 September 1999
Theresa Mudrock - mudrock@u.washington.edu

Image: Wall painting from Akriotiri, c. 1550-1500 BC