Dictionaries and encyclopedias for classics
Use encyclopedias:
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- when starting a project
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There are two key online resources which give access to hundreds of dictionaries and encyclopedias:
Useful reference works for classics: selected titles
Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy
3rd Floor Reference--103-ROU
Encyclopaedia of religion and ethics
3rd Floor Reference--203-HAS
Encyclopedia of religion
3rd Floor Reference--290.3-ENC
Dictionaries of classical mythology
3rd Floor Reference--292.03
Dictionary of artists/Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs ... (Benezit)
3rd Floor Reference--703-BEN
Dictionary of art (34 volumes)
3rd Floor Reference--703-DIC
Also available online via Oxford Art Online
Encyclopedia of world art
3rd Floor Reference--703-ENC
Kunstler Lexikon (Thieme-Becker)
3rd Floor Reference--703-THI
Oxford guide to classical mythology in the arts 1300-1990s
3rd Floor Reference--704.947-REI
Mythological and classical world art index
3rd Floor Reference--704.947-ROC
Dictionaries of the theatre
3rd Floor Reference--792.03
Dictionaries of literary terms and of general literature
3rd Floor Reference--803
Dictionaries of rhetoric / literary devices
3rd Floor Reference--808.03
Dictionaries of English and international quotations
3rd Floor Reference--808.88
Dictionaries of literary themes and motifs
3rd Floor Reference--809.93
Dictionary of classical reference in English poetry
3rd Floor Reference--821.093-SMI
Thesaurus linguae graecae: canon of Greek authors ...
3rd Floor Reference--880.16-BER
Brill’s new Pauly: encyclopaedia of the ancient world: Antiquity
3rd Floor Reference--880.3-BRI/ANT
Brill’s new Pauly: encyclopaedia of the ancient world: Classical tradition
3rd Floor Reference--880.3-BRI/CLA
Both also available online via Brill's New Pauly Online
Oxford classical dictionary
3rd Floor Reference--880.3-OXF
Also available online on Oxford Reference Online
Oxford companion to classical literature
3rd Floor Reference--880.3-OXF
Cambridge history of classical literature
880.9-CAM
Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker
888.08-FRA
Also available online as Brill's New Jacoby
Collins dictionary of archaeology
4th Floor Reference--913.03-COL
Oxford companion to archaeology
4th Floor Reference--913.03-OXF
Oxford history of the classical world
4th Floor Reference--930-OXF
Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic tradition
4th Floor Reference--938.003-ENC
Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome
4th Floor Reference--938.003-OXF