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CLST197 Roman Myths: Reference Resources

This is a guide for Prof. J. Liu's FA19 First-Year Seminar.

What are Reference Tools?

Reference tools are books and websites that give you specific facts, definitions, summaries & background information, suggestions of important readings, and help focusing your research topic.

They include encyclopedias, dictionaries & thesauri, biographical compilations, and atlases.

There are a few great online reference resources, recommended by the Classical Studies faculty.

Prof. Liu Recommended Online Resources

These are online resources Prof. Liu recommends you use throughout the course:

  • Ovid Illustrated
  • The Digital Loeb Classical Library - Full text online access to works of ancient Greek and Latin literature. Presents the original Greek or Latin text on each left-hand page, and a fairly literal translation on the facing page.
  • ORBIS - The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World: "ORBIS allows us to express Roman communication costs in terms of both time and expense. By simulating movement along the principal routes of the Roman road network, the main navigable rivers, and hundreds of sea routes in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and coastal Atlantic, this interactive model reconstructs the duration and financial cost of travel in antiquity."
  • Cornell University Guide for Greek Myth

E-reference Books Available

Online Reference Resources

Online Map & Atlas Tools

Classical Antiquity/Mythology Encyclopedias

Research Help

The Libraries are here to help! Here are a few resources available to you for your research and information needs:

1. Peer Research Consultants - Peer Research Consultants staff the Research Desk in Roy O. West Library. They go through extensive training to learn how to best help other students with their own library research questions. When they feel like a librarian can best help someone, they'll recommend that the student make an appointment with a librarian.  The Research Desk schedule is available online. 

2. Appointment with a Librarian -  Need more in-depth help on a big research project? Schedule an appointment ahead of time to work with a librarian!