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There are an overwhelming number of resources on Ancient Rome. This page provides sources and links to begin your research.

Good Places to Start

• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome.
  Large number of primary sources and online texts arranged by subject and time period.
  Example:  War with Carthage, Life of Augustus, etc. 
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook 
  Example:  Fall of Rome and the German Impact
• LacusCurtius: a Gateway into Ancient Rome.
  Includes Roman gazetteer, inscriptions, and more 
• ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies
  Extensive encyclopedia of late antiquity includes numerous primary sources.
• Perseus Digital Library.                       
  Numerous texts and secondary sources.
• Society for Late Antiquity.
  Extensive number of links to sites on all aspects of Ancient Rome.
• Internet Classics Archive
  441 works of classic literature
• Roman Laws: 753 BC to AD 533 from the Avalon Project
  (Yale Law School)
• Attalus
  Greek and Latin authors on the web, from 320-50 B.C. listed by year
• Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum
  (Harvard) Digital libary of Latin literature

Reference Materials & Guides

• Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World: Antiquity - Ref DE5 .N47413 2002 (15 volumes) 
• Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World: Classical Tradition - Ref DE5 .P33213 2006 (5 volumes)
• Brill's New Pauly: Chronologies of the Ancient World: Names, Dates and Dynasties - Ref DE5 .N47413 2007 Suppl. 
• The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome - Ref DE5 .O95 2010  
• Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire - Ref DG270 .B86 2002
• Oxford Classical Dictionary -  Ref DE5 .O9 2003
• Classical Studies: a Guide to the Reference Literature - Ref Z7016 .J4 2006
• Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Greek and Roman Women - Ref HQ1136 L54 2000
• Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World - Ref HQ1127 S25 2001
• Encyclopedia of Early Christianity - Ref BR162.2 E53 1997
• Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome - Ref PA3002 .A5 1982
• Subject Guide: Ancient Literature of Rome guide created by UCR Librarians

Article Databases

• JSTOR Journal Archive - Full-text articles from dozens of journals, many from the beginning of their publication. Current articles from 2004-2008 are not included.
  
  *Use ADVANCED SEARCH.
  *Be specific.         
  *Consider limiting to article title or abstract. 
  *Use quotation marks to search for a phrase. 
  *Scroll down to "SELECT DISCIPLINES OR JOURNALS"
  *Select   Classical Studies  History Religion
  
  
• L'Année Philologique (APh) - Multi-language index to articles, books and book chapters on classics.
  
  *To limit to English only, search using Other Criteria--Language. Use the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT to combine the two sets. Example : Q1 and Q2  
  *Ancient Authors are listed under the Latin form of the name.
  Click on to see if the article is available online or in the library.
• AHCI - Interdisciplinary Index to works in the humanities, plus citation searching for articles that cite known authors or works, 1975-present.
• Gnomon Online - International  index to books, journal articles and series in classics, ancient history and archaeology, 1997-present.  For advanced students - no links to holdings!
• ATLA  Index to articles, book reviews, book chapters on religion, 1949-present.  Do not limit to journal articles!