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Alexander the Great & the Hellenistic World
Background Sources
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Background Sources
Encyclopedias and dictionaries can provide historical context for the primary sources you are reading and analyzing. They can also be used to identify key people, events and dates. Many also include short reading lists.
- Britannica Online
- Online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Overview of Archaic and Classical Greek History
- Online version of Thomas Martin's book, part of the Perseus Project. See also the Perseus Encyclopedia.
The Cambridge ancient history Reference, Undergraduate D57 .C25 1982 Civilization of the ancient Mediterranean : Greece and Rome Reference, Undergraduate DE59 .C55 1988 The Oxford classical dictionary Reference, Undergraduate DE5 .O9 1996 The Oxford companion to classical civilization Reference DE5 .O92 1998
Finding Books
Use the following databases to locate books in the UW Libraries and in other libraries around the region, nation and world. Books unavailable at the UW can be requested through the Interlibrary Borrowing Service.
- 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
http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/- Index to dissertations since 1861, those from 1980 onward include an abstract. 60,000 dissertations available in electronic format (for a fee). UW Only.
Finding Articles
Use indexes/abstracts/bibliographies to find articles (and sometimes books, dissertations, government reports, etc.) on a topic. Most indexes are arranged by subject or include a subject index. Indexes/abstracts are ongoing publications; bibliographies tend to be one volume and are more narrowly focused on a specific topic. Some are available electronically through the web, others are available on computers in the library while some are in print. There are indexes/bibliographies covering all sorts of subjects, use those which best fit your research topic.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).
Articles from journals which the UW does not own can be requested through the Interlibrary Borrowing Service.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
- TOCS-IN is a searchable index of the tables of contents of over 150 journals "of interest to classicists."
- Alexander the Great: a bibliography
- Annotated bibliography of materials dealing with Alexander the Great including classical sources, pre-19th century and modern (roughly through the mid 1960s) sources. [Suzzallo Reference and Bothell Z8025.65 .B86]
Selected Websites
- Alexander the Great and His Successors: A Bibliography
- Bibliography of books and articles dealing with Alexander the Great maintained by Professor Waldemar Heckel at the University of Calgary.
- Alexander the Great on the Web
- Collection of more than 900 webpages (many with annotations) dealing with Alexander.
- 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."
- HEMEA: Heuristics in Mediterranean Archaeology
- "A bibliographic and iconographic guide to the study of mediterranean archaeology" with thousands of links to archaeological and museum sites.
- In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
- PBS website that accompanies the series.
- Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Hellenistic World
- Collection of texts and sites dealing with the Hellenistic world, part of the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.
- Internet Classics Archive
- Collection of 441 works of classical authors in English translation.
- 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.
- Women's Life in Greece and Rome
- Excerpts of primary sources from the book Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation edited by Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant. Part of Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World.