Classics 238: Pompeii

Prof. Benefiel

Fall 2007

Research guide prepared by Yolanda Merrill, Humanities Librarian

Finding Books

Annie

LC Subject search: Pompeii --> this leads to 50 subject headings for Pompeii. Good for browsing.

Keyword search: pompeii and architect* --> then check the Subject Headings at the bottom of the record.

WorldCat (catalog containing over a billion books)

You can the same search strategies as in Annie. You need to use our interlibrary loan service to borrow books we don't have.

Finding Articles

L'Année Philologique. The main index for classical research.

Humanities Research Guide points you to databases used for research in the Humanities. It includes information about where to find books and periodical articles, and has direct links to specialized databases.

Periodical Finder (help page) is a complete listing of journals, magazines, newspapers available at W&L.

Background information

Oxford Reference Online: Classics. Growing collection of online reference works published by Oxford UP.

Brill's New Pauly is the most authorative encyclopedia for Classicists.This work-in-progress is the English-language edition of Der Neue Pauly , the encyclopedia of the ancient world, with a focus on Greco-Roman antiquity and its long and influential aftermath.

Pompeii Forum Project: Home Page
"The Pompeii Forum Project is a collaborative research venture that is archaeologicaly based, heavily dependent upon advanced technology, and so conceived as to address broad issues in urban history and urban design. Evidence gathered to date challenges commonly held and widely published notions about the evolution of the forum, especially during the final years of the city's life. The goals are to provide the first systematic documentation of the architecture and decoration of the forum, to interpret evidence,as it pertains to Pompeii's urban history, and to make wider contributions to both the history of urbanism and contemporary problems of urban design."

Finding Images

ArtStor, a continually growing library of art images.