HISTORY 111P: PROSEMINAR IN ANCIENT HISTORY

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Pegasus

To find books, journal titles, videos, and other materials in the UCSB library, use Pegasus, UCSB's online library catalog. Choose Author, Title, or Subject from the first pulldown menu to browse headings. Titles must be entered exactly, and subjects must be exact Library of Congress headings. Capitalization and punctuation are not necessary:

Author	thucydides	[to find works by Thucydides]
Title	history of the peloponnesian war	[to find editions of The History of the Peloponnesian War]
Subject	alexander the great	[to find books about Alexander the Great]
Subject	greece history peloponnesian war	[to find books about the Peloponnesian War]

Try the following subject searches:

military history ancient
greece history military
greece history naval
rome history military
rome history naval
rome army

When you do not know an exact title or Library of Congress subject heading, or if you want to combine different search terms, choose "Keyword anywhere" from the second search box (Keyword search). Search on words or phrases that describe your topic or area of interest. To combine words, use AND:

Keyword anywhere	ancient roman army
Keyword anywhere	armor and ancient rome	[combines "armor" and "ancient rome"]
Keyword anywhere	roman fortifications

More help and information on Pegasus is available here.

Melvyl

Melvyl is the combined catalog (known as a union catalog) of all ten of the University of California libraries. Search by author, title, journal title, Library of Congress subject headings, or general keywords. You can limit your search to any one UC campus, and/or by year(s) and by language. To request from other UC campuses items not held at UCSB (or held at UCSB but checked out), use the Request button on your search result page. Melvyl requests are generaly received in 3-5 days.

Two other library union catalogs that may prove helpful are the RLG Union Catalog (RLIN) and WorldCat; both contain millions of records for the combined holdings of libraries around the country, including the Library of Congress. To access, go to the library's home page and choose Research from the lefthand column. Then choose the Article Indexes & Databases link and scroll down the alphabetic list of databases.

L'Année philologique: Bibliographie critique et analytique de l'antiquité gréco-latine (The Year in Philology: Critical and Analytic Bibliography of Greco-Roman Antiquity), Ref. Z7016 .A75

APh is an annual index to scholarly research on classical antiquity in all languages. It provides citations to research dealing with the second millennium B.C.E. through the period of transition from late antiquity to the Middle Ages (500-800 C.E.) It covers journal articles, dissertations, books, collections (proceedings, festschrifts, etc.), and reviews. Publication began in 1924, and the latest annual volume to appear in print is vol. 70, covering research published in 1999. Each printed volume comprises two parts. Part 1, "Auteurs et Textes," is arranged alphabetically by the names of ancient authors. Each author entry lists (1) works by that author (editions and translations, as well as commentaries, concordances, lexica, etc.), and (2) studies ("Études") of those works, listed alphabetically by the names of modern scholars. Part 2 is a classified bibliography ("rubrics" in APh terminology). Each volume has an index of ancient names (i.e. divinites, mythological beings, historical figures--not ancient authors except in cases where they are discussed as political, military [etc.] figures), modern authors, and geographical locations, as well as an "index nominorum recentiorum" (medieval to modern names). Use the Database of Classical Bibliography (DCB; see below) to search vols. 45-60 (1974-1989) electronically. See the simple, handy guide to using APh (from UNCG). The online version of the database will be available soon at UCSB.

Database of Classical Bibliography

The Database of Classical Bibliography (DCB) is an electronic cumulation of APh, vols. 45-60, 1974-89; rather than having to search each individual printed volume of APh for these years, you can search them electronically all at once. In addition, the DCB offers many other search features that are unavailable using the print APh volumes and that considerably enhance access to the bibliographic information. Especially important is the DCB's full keyword and Boolean capability, plus additional indexes such as Greek genre, ancient date, journal title, and more. Cross references in APh are conveniently hyperlinked in the DCB. The database is a CD-ROM, so you have to go to the reference area of Davidson Library (first floor) to use it.

TOCS-IN

TOCS-IN (Tables of Contents of Interest to Classicists) provides convenient Web access to both journal literature and articles in collections (festschrifts, proceedings, etc.) in the fields of classics, ancient Near Eastern studies, and ancient religion. The database currently indexes ca. 160 journals back to 1992, with a growing amount of pre-1992 material included as well. (See indexed journals, indexed collections.) One of the strengths of TOCS-IN is its currency; whereas APh runs several years behind, new journal issues are indexed in the TOCS-IN database almost as soon as they appear. Links are provided to abstracts and full texts where available; for example, articles in the American Journal of Philology (APh abbr: AJPh) from 1996 on are linked to their online versions in Project Muse. There is no subject indexing; since TOCS-IN is a table-of-contents database, subject access is limited to keyword searching of article titles. The database can also be searched by author, journal title (search by APh abbreviation), year, volume, and issue, and these various fields can be combined within one search.

The Perseus Digital Library

Perseus is a growing, grant-funded library of digital materials for the study of Western antiquity and other fields within the humanities. The library currently comprises seven collections, one of which is "Greek and Roman Materials." This collection includes full texts of hundreds of works by ancient Greek and Roman authors in the original languages and in English translation. It also includes a variety of linguistic tools, secondary sources such as full-text encyclopedias and commentaries, thousands of digital images linked to full catalog entries (vases, coins, site plans, buildings, sculpture, etc.), timelines, and a digital atlas that allows users to plot sites associated with the texts and images. An extensive network of hyperlinks allows seamless navigation through the diverse materials.

ARGOS is a Web "limited area search engine" for ancient and medieval studies. An ARGOS search of the Web is quality controlled in that is it limited to a small number of carefully screened associate sites and the pages to which these sites link; consequently, a search will return only resources that have been evaluated and deemed useful for scholarly study. The search engine itself is very simple: phrases are searched as separate words with Boolean "and," and an asterisk functions as a wildcard for one or more characters at beginnings and/or ends of words.

See also: the complete list of the library's electronic journals in all subject areas, and Revues électroniques traitant du monde antique.

American Journal of Archaeology
UCSB call no.: D1 .A4463

American Journal of Philology (via JSTOR)
UCSB call no.: P1 .A5

American Journal of Philology (via Project MUSE)
UCSB call no.: P1 .A5

British Archaeology
UCSB call no.: none

Brittania
UCSB call no.: DA145 .B69

Bryn Mawr Classical Review
UCSB call no.: PA1 .B78

Classical Antiquity
UCSB call no.: PA1 .C3558

Classical Bulletin
UCSB call nol: PA1 .C5388

Classical Philology
UCSB call no.: P1 .C52

The Classical Quarterly (via Oxford U Press)
UCSB call no.: P1 .C53

The Classical Quarterly (via JSTOR)
UCSB call no.: P1 .C53

The Classical Review (via Oxford U Press)
UCSB call no.: P1 .C55

The Classical Review (via JSTOR)
UCSB call no.: P1 .C55

Classics Ireland
UCSB call no.: none

Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today
UCSB call no.: none

Forum Archaeologiae
UCSB call no.: none

Gottinger Forum fur Altertumswissenschaft (GFA)
UCSB call no.: none

Greece and Rome
UCSB call no.: D1 .G74

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
UCSB call no.: PA25 .H3

Histos-The New Journal of Ancient Historiography
UCSB call no.: none

Internet Archaeology
UCSB call no.: none

The Journal of Hellenic Studies
UCSB call no.: D1 .J63

Journal of Roman Studies
UCSB call no.: D1 .J68

Mnemosyne
UCSB call no.: none

Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association
UCSB call no.: none

Transactions of the American Philological Association
UCSB call no.: P11 .A565

I. A sampling of maps of the ancient world available online

Ancient World Mapping Center Map Room

Oddens Bookmarks -- a good place to start if you don't find what you need at AWMC.

Map History / History of Cartography -- THE Gateway to the Subject

II. Atlases and maps in the Map and Imagery Laboratory (MIL)
(1st floor of Davidson Library, opposite end of building from Circulation)

The magic call number for atlases is G1033. Here are the ones that will be held on reserve in MIL for History 111P this quarter. Plan ahead: MIL's hours are Monday through Friday 9am-5pm, and 7-10 pm Monday through Thursday evenings. There are other atlases at G1033 that you may check out, noted in Pegasus as being in MIL's Public Area.

Atlas of the Greek and Roman World in Antiquity. G1033 .A84 1981
Atlas of World History. G1030 .A875 2000
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. G1033 .B3 2000
Cities Then and Now. G140 .A58 1994
Historical Atlas / William R. Shepherd. 9th ed. G1030 S4 1964 c.3
Oxford Atlas of World History. G1030 .O85 1999
Penguin Atlas of Ancient History. G1033 .M17 1967
Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt. DT49.9 .M36 1996
Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece. G1033 .M67 1996
Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome. G1033 .S28 1995
Times Atlas of World History. G1030 .T54 1993b

For maps not in bound volumes, since only about half the map collection is cataloged, it's best if you either come to MIL and tell the person at the reference desk what you need, or send an email to Mary Larsgaard (mary@library.ucsb.edu). Maps generally cover either an entire country or a relatively small area of it. Any historical maps MIL has will either be of an entire country or a major city. Maps of relatively small areas are generally within what are called "topographic map series," which means that in addition to cultural features (e.g., cities, roads, etc.), physical features, including topography (hills etc.), are shown. I've brought some examples for you to look at.

III. Books on Warfare in the Ancient World

Try the Library of Congress classes U33 for warfare on land and V37 for warfare at sea. Both are located on the second floor, north.