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The following titles are all available in the Arts and Social Sciences Library.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries:


Bibliographies

Author/Editor

Title, edition, date

Location

Fred W. Jenkins Classical studies: a guide to the reference literature (2nd ed., 2006) Z7016.JEN
Graham Whitaker A bibliographical guide to classical studies (1997-; 5 vols of 9 have been published) Z7016 WHI
Various L'Année philologique (1924-) Available online via MetaLib

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Encyclopedias and dictionaries: literature, history and culture

Author/editor

Title, edition, date

Location

P.E. Easterling and B.M.W. Knox (eds) The Cambridge history of classical literature: Greek literature (1983) PA3052 CAM
Simon Hornblower and Anthony Spawforth (eds) The Oxford classical dictionary (3rd ed., 1996) PADE5 OXF
E.J. Kenney and W.V. Clausen (eds) The Cambridge history of classical literature: Latin literature (1982-3) PA6003 CAM
Graham Shipley [...et al] (eds) The Cambridge dictionary of classical civilization (2006) PADE5 CAM
Various The Cambridge ancient history (3rd ed., 1970 onwards) PAD57 CAM

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Encyclopedias and dictionaries: language

Author/editor

Title, edition, date

Location

Robert Beekes, assisted by Lucien van Beek Etymological dictionary of Greek (2010) PA422 BEE
P.G.W. Glare (ed) Oxford Latin dictionary (1982) Oversize PA2365.OXF
Charlton C. Lewis and Charles Short ["Lewis and Short"] A Latin dictionary (1879) PA2365.E5 LEW
Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott ["Liddell and Scott"] A Greek-English lexicon (1940) Oversize PA445.E5 LID
Various Thesaurus linguae latinae (1900-) [work in progress: volumes 1-10 have appeared] Oversize PA2361 THE

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Encyclopedias and dictionaries: mythology

Author/editor

Title, edition, date

Location

Pierre Grimal The dictionary of classical mythology (1986) PABL715 GRI
Jenny March Cassell dictionary of classical mythology (1998) PABL715 MAR
Simon Price and Emily Kearns (eds) The Oxford dictionary of classical myth and religion (2003) PABL715 OXF

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