LibGuides: Classics: Reference Sources

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Brill's New Pauly
Online | Contains extensive articles covering the classical world and classical scholarship

Brill's New Pauly is an English translation (with revisions) of the German Der Neue Pauly which itself is the latest revision of the great multi-volume encyclopedia of the ancient world, known familiarly as Pauly-Wissowa. This resource in print was known as the Realencyclopdie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft begun by August Pauly in 1839, with an expanded edition by Georg Wissowa published between 1890 and 1980. The New Pauly is still in progress, but includes access to the German edition, which was completed in 2003. The online version, like the print edition, includes two sections: Antiquity and the Classical Tradition.

Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition
Rockefeller Library Reference 1-SIZE DF757.E53 2000 | Contains articles covering the Hellenic Tradition from antiquity to the present
The Oxford Classical Dictionary
Online | Contains short articles covering the classical world.
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
Online | Comprehensive A-Z reference for classical literature
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
Online | Exhaustive coverage of the Byzantine world from the 4th to the 15th century
The Roman Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia
Online | Short articles covering the history of the Roman Empire

Classics (Oxford Bibliographies)
Online | Collection of annotated bibliographies covering classics scholarship

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
Online | Series of books covering all aspects of the ancient world.
Oxford Handbook of Topics in Classical Studies
Online | Collection of essays introducing various topics in the field of classical studies
The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies
Online and Rockefeller Library Stacks DF235.O94 2009 | Collection of essays surveying the field of Hellenic studies
The Oxford Handbook of the Literatures of the Roman Empire
Online | Collection of essays covering literature in the Roman Empire

The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek
Online | Modern dictionary of ancient Greek based on Montanari's Vocabulario della Lingua Greca
A Greek-English Lexicon (Liddell, Scott, Jones)
Rockefeller Library Offsite Storage 1-SIZE PA445.E5 L6 1996 | Standard Greek-English lexicon
Liddell, Scott, Jones Ancient Greek Lexicon
Online | An expanded online edition of A Greek-English Lexicon
A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature
Rockefeller Library Reference PA881.B38 2000 | Greek-English lexicon for post-classical Greek
Greek Grammar (Smyth)
Rockefeller LibraryOffsite Storage PA258 .S63 1956 | Standard reference grammar for classical Greek

Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus Online
Online | Medieval Latin dictionary
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Rockefeller Library Reference 1-SIZE PA2365.E5 O9 2006 | Standard Latin-English dictionary

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL)
Online | Comprehensive dictionary of ancient Latin, covering all extant Latin texts from antiquity to approximately 600 C.E.

The TLL is the largest Latin dictionary in the world, covering all extant Latin texts from antiquity to approximately 600 A.D. Includes the etymology of each Latin word and its development in the romance languages.