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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias for Classics

Specialised dictionaries and encyclopedias relating to Classics – some online and others located in the Central Library. Use these to check facts or definitions and to gather background material.

General

Encyclopedias that cover a wide range of topics in the Classical world.

Ancient World

Brill's New Pauly :encyclopaedia of the ancient world
Central Library DE 5 .P333 2002

A companion to ancient history
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Oxford classical dictionary.
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The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome
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Greece

Encyclopedia of the ancient Greek world
Central Library DF 16 .S121

Rome

Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire
Central Library DG 270 .B942

Language Dictionaries

Greek

A Greek-English lexicon
Publisher description
Contributor biographical information
Central Library PA 445 .E5 .L712 1996

New Testament Greek

New Testament word lists :for rapid reading of the Greek Testament
Library Storage PA 881 .M878 1969

Latin

Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin :with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified
Central Library PA 2891 .S824

A Latin dictionary : founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary
Central Library PA 2365 .E5 .L673 1945

Oxford Latin dictionary
Central Library PA 2365 .E5 .O98 1982

Oxford Latin dictionary.
Central Library PA 2365 .E5 .O98

The pocket Oxford Latin dictionary
Central Library PA 2365 .E5 .P739

The pocket Oxford Latin dictionary : (English-Latin) [or] (Latin-English)
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Revised medieval Latin word-list from British and Irish sources
Central Library PA 2891 .L352

Art

Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC).
Central Library N 7760 .L679

Oxford art online
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Biography

Who was who in the Greek world : 776 BC - 30 BC
Central Library DF 16 .W628

Who was who in the Roman world : 753 BC - AD 476
Central Library DG 203 .W628

Who's who in the ancient world;a handbook to the survivors of the Greek and Roman classics
Central Library DE 7 .R129 1973

Who's who in the classical world
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Everyday Life

Food in the ancient world from A to Z
Central Library GT 2853 .G8 .D137 2003

Geography and Places

Atlas of the Greek and Roman world in antiquity
Central Library G 1033 .A881

Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman world
Central Library G 1033 .B276 2000

Place-names in classical mythology : Greece
Central Library DF 16 .B435

History and Historians

Cambridge histories online
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A companion to Greek and Roman historiography
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Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing
Central Library D 14 .E56

Encyclopedia of the ancient Greek world
Central Library DF 16 .S121

History of humanity.
Library Storage CB 69 .H673

Illustrated encyclopaedia of the classical world
Central Library DE 5 .I29

Literature

Ancient writers : Greece and Rome
Central Library PA 3002 .A541

The Concise Oxford companion to classical literature
Central Library PA 31 .C744 1993

Greek and Latin authors, 800 B.C.-A.D. 1000 :
Central Library PA 31 .G672

The names in Roman verse : a lexicon and reverse index of all proper names of history, mythology, and geography found in the classical Roman poets
Central Library PA 2379 .S972

The Oxford companion to classical literature.
Central Library PA 31 .H342 1989

Mythology

The encyclopedia of mythology : Gods, heroes, and legends of the Greeks and Romans
Central Library NX 650 .M9 .F587

Gods and mortals in classical mythology
Central Library BL 715 .G762

The Oxford dictionary of classical myth and religion
Central Library BL 715 .O94 2004

The Oxford guide to classical mythology in the arts, 1300-1990s
Central Library NX 650 .M9 .R356

Who's who in classical mythology
Central Library BL 715 .G762 1973

Women of classical mythology : a biographical dictionary
Central Library BL 715 .B435 w

Warfare and Invasion

A companion to the Roman army
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The Hutchinson dictionary of ancient & medieval warfare
Central Library D 25 .A2 .H978