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Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias and Guides

 

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND RESEARCH GUIDES

Bibliographie de l'antiquite classique, 1896-1914
Hamilton Main Reference PA3017.9 .L36

Bibliotheca graeca et latina : a usage des professeurs des humanites greco-latines
Hamilton Main Reference PA3017.9 .O57

Bibliotheca graeca, sive, Notitia scriptorum veterum graecorum, quorumcunque monumenta integra, aut fragmenta edita exstant: tum plerorumque e mss. ac deperditis
Hamilton Main Reference PA3051 .F33

Bibliotheca scriptorum classicorum
Hamilton Main Reference PA29 .E54

Classical scholarship : an annotated bibliography
Hamilton Main Reference DE59 .H34

Classical Studies; a guide to the reference literature
Hamilton PA91.J46

Dix annees de bibliographie classique : bibliographie critiques et analytique de l'antiquite greco-latine pour la periode 1914-1924
Hamilton Main Reference PA3017.9 .M38

Fifty years (and twelve) of classical scholarship
Hamilton PA3001 .F5

Guide to research in classical art and mythology
Hamilton N7760 .V3

Introduction to ancient history
Hamilton Z6202.B413

Introduction to classical scholarship, a syllabus and bibliographical guide
Hamilton Z7016 .M25 1961

An introduction to the knowledge of rare and valuable editions of the Greek and Latin classics
Hamilton Z1029 .D5

 

INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS

 

Annee philologique : bibliographie critique et analytique de l'antiquite greco-latine
Hamilton PA3017.9 .M381

Articles on antiquity in Festschriften, an index; the ancient Near East, the Old Testament, Greece, Rome, Roman law, Byzantium
Hamilton Main Reference Z6202 .R6

Arts & humanities citation index
Hamilton Main Reference Z5937 .A75

Bibliographie internationale de l'Humanisme et de la Renaissance
Hamilton Main Reference Z6207.R4 B5

Bibliotheca classica Orientalis
Sinclair PJ1.B52

Humanities Index
Hamilton Main Reference AI3.H85
Check at Reference Desk for CD-ROM 128

International guide to classical studies
Sinclair Z7016 .I5

Nestor
Hamilton DF10 .N47

Social sciences and humanities index
Hamilton Main Reference AI3.S65

Year's work in classical studies
Hamilton PA11 .C7

 

GENERAL DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, AND HANDBOOKS

 

Ancient writers : Greece and Rome
Hamilton Main Reference PA3002 .A5 1982

Classical scholarship : a biographical encyclopedia
Hamilton Main Reference PA83 .C58 1990

A Dictionary of ancient history
Hamilton Main Reference DE5.D53

Dictionnaire des antiquites grecques et romaines, d'apres les textes et les monuments
Hamilton Main Reference DE5.D21 & MICROFILM 3011

Everyman's classical dictionary; 800 B.C.-A.D. 337
Hamilton DE5.W33

Harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities
Hamilton Main Reference DE5.P36

Illustrated encyclopedia of the classical world
Hamilton Main Reference DE5 .I4

Lempriere's Classical dictionary of proper names mentioned in ancient authors : with a chronological table
Hamilton Main Reference DE5.L56

New Century classical handbook
Sinclair DE5 .N4

Oxford classical dictionary
Hamilton Main Reference DE5 .O92

Paulys realencyclopadie der classischen altertumswissenschaft : neue bearbeitung...
Hamilton Main Reference DE5.P33

 

GREEK AND LATIN LITERATURE

 

Cambridge history of classical literature
Hamilton Main Reference PA3052 .G73

Classical epic : an annotated bibliography
Hamilton Main Reference PA3022.E6 S55 1991

Crowell's handbook of classical drama
Hamilton & Hamilton Main Reference PA3024.H35

Crowell's handbook of classical literature
Hamilton PA31 .F4

Enciclopedia virgiliana
Hamilton Main Reference PA6825.A3

Geschichte der griechischen Literatur
Hamilton PA3057 .S3

Geschichte der romischen literatur bis zum gesetzgebungswerk des kaisers Justinian
Hamilton PA6007.S32

Greek and Latin literature of the Roman Empire : from Augustus to Justinian
Hamilton PA3057.D513

Greek literature
Hamilton Main Reference PA3052 .G73

A handbook of classical drama
Hamilton & Hamilton Main Reference PA3024.H3

A handbook of Greek literature from Homer to the age of Lucian
Hamilton Main Reference PA3052.R6

A handbook of Latin literature from the earliest times to the death of St. Augustine
Hamilton PA6003.R6

Handbuch der lateinischen Literatur der Antike
Hamilton PA6007 .H36

A history of Greek literature
Hamilton PA3057.L413

Latin literature
Hamilton Main Reference PA6003 .L3

A literary history of Rome; from the origins to the close of the golden age
Hamilton PA6003.D8

A literary history of Rome in the silver age; from Tiberius to Hadrian
Hamilton PA6042.D8

Litterature latine inconnue
Hamilton PA6005 .B37

Meridian handbook of classical literature
Hamilton Main Reference PA31 .F4 1986

Oxford companion to classical literature
Hamilton Main Reference PA31 .H69 1993

 

Greek and Latin Language - General works, dictionaries, thesauri and grammars

 

GREEK

 

Ausfuhrliche grammatik der griechischen sprache
Hamilton PA258.K68

Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque, etudiee dans ses rapports avec les autres langues indo-europeennes
Hamilton Main Reference PA421.b6

Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque, histoire des mots ...
Hamilton PA422.C5

English-Greek dictionary : a vocabulary of the Attic language
Hamilton & Hamilton Main Reference PA445.E5 W6

Grammatik des neutestamentlichen Griechisch. English A Greek grammar of the New Testament and other early Christian literature
Hamilton PA813 .B513

Greek : a survey of recent work
Hamilton PA231 .H6

Greek-English lexicon
Hamilton & Hamilton Main Reference PA445 .E5 L6 1996

A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature
Hamilton Main Reference PA881 .B38 1979

Greek grammar
Hamilton PA254 .S6

Greek lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine periods (from 146 B. C. to 1100)
Hamilton Main Reference PA1125.S7

Griechische Grammatik
Hamilton PA251 .S35

Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch
Hamilton Main Reference PA422 .F7

New comparative grammar of Greek and Latin
Hamilton PA111 .S54

Patristic Greek lexicon
Hamilton Main Reference PA681 .P38 1995

Thesaurus graecae linguae
Hamilton Main Reference PA442 .Es86t

 

LATIN

 

Allen and Greenough's New Latin grammar for schools and colleges, founded on comparative grammar
Hamilton PA2087.A525

Amo, amas, amat, and more: how to use Latin to your own advantage and to the astonishment of others
Hamilton PA2057.E38

Bibliographie de la langue latine, 1880-1948
Hamilton Main Reference PA2029 .C68

A copious and critical Latin-English lexicon, founded on the larger Latin-German lexicon of Dr. William Freund
Hamilton PA2365.E5

Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine, histoire des mots
Hamilton & Hamilton Main Reference PA2342.E7

Glossary of later Latin to 600 A.D
Hamilton & Hamilton Main Reference PA2371 .S69

Lateinische Grammatik
Hamilton PA2071 .L483

Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch
Hamilton PA2342 .W2

Latin, a historical and linguistic handbook
Hamilton PA2057 .H3

Latin grammar
Hamilton PA2087 .H168

Latin language
Hamilton PA2071 .P26

Oxford Latin dictionary
Hamilton & Hamilton Main Reference PA2365.E5 O9

Thesaurus linguae Latinae
Hamilton Main Reference PA2361 .T44

 

DIRECTORIES

 

Directory of members - American Philological Association
Hamilton P11.A46

 



Selected Journals for Classical Language and Literature

 

Current periodicals owned by UHM listed in Jenkins, Classical Studies; a guide to the reference literature, 1996, [Hamilton PA91.J46].

 

Altertum
Hamilton DE1 .A35

American journal of archaeology
Hamilton CC1 .A6

American journal of philology
Hamilton P1.A5

Ancient philosophy
Hamilton B1 .A535

Ancient society
Hamilton D51 .A55

The Ancient world
Hamilton DE1 .A375

Apeiron
Hamilton folio PA1.A64

Archaeological reports
Hamilton DF10 .A7

Archaeology
Hamilton GN700 .A725

Arethusa
Hamilton PA1 .A715

Arion
Hamilton PA1 .A72

Bulletin of the institute of classical studies
Hamilton PA25 .L8

Chiron
Hamilton D52 .C53

Classica et mediaevalia
Hamilton PA9 .C5

Classical and modern literature
Hamilton PN883 .C54

Classical antiquity
Hamilton DE1 .C64

Classical bulletin
Hamilton PA1 .C35

Classical journal
Hamilton PA1 .C4

Classical outlook
Hamilton PA1 .C53

Classical philology
Hamilton PA1 .C5

Classical quarterly
Hamilton PA1 .C6

Classical review
Hamilton PA1 .C7

Classical world
Hamilton PA1.C8

Das Altertum
Hamilton DE1.A35

Eranos
Hamilton PA9.E7

Glotta; zeitschrift fur griechische und lateinische sprache...
Hamilton PA3.G5

Gnomon; kritische Zeitschrift fur die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft
Hamilton PA3.G6

Greece & rome
Hamilton DE1 .G7

Greek roman and byzantine studies
Hamilton DE1 .G73

Harvard studies in classical philology
Hamilton PA25 .H3

Helios
Hamilton PA1 .H34

Hermes zeitschrift fur classische philologie
Hamilton PA3 .H5

Hesperia
Hamilton DF10 .H4

Historia zeitschrift fur alte geschichte
Hamilton D51 .H5

Illinois classical studies
Hamilton PA1 .I43

International journal of the classical tradition
Hamilton DE1 .I58

Journal of hellenic studies
Hamilton DF10 .J8

Journal of roman military equipment studies
Hamilton DG89 .J68x

Journal of roman studies
Hamilton DG11 .J7

Klio; Beitrage zur alten Geschichte
Hamilton D51 .K62

Latomus
Hamilton PA2002 .L3

Lustrum
Hamilton PA3 .L976

Mnemosyne a journal of classical studies
Hamilton PA9 .M6

Museum helveticum
Hamilton PA3.M73

Nestor
Hamilton DF10.N47

Oxford journal of archaeology
Hamilton CC1 .O9

Oxford studies in ancient philosophy
Hamilton B1.O9

Philologus
Hamilton PA3 .P5

Phoenix
Hamilton PA1 .P48

Phronesis
Hamilton B1 .P59

Revue des etudes anciennes
Hamilton PA12 .R4

Revue des etudes grecques
Hamilton DF10 .R4

Revue des etudes latines
Hamilton PA2002 .R4

Rheinisches Museum fur Philologie
Hamilton PA3.R4

Talanta
Hamilton D51 .T35

Transactions of the American Philological Association
Hamilton P11.A52

Vergilius
Hamilton PA6825.A1 V5

Yale Classical Studies
Hamilton PA25.Y3

Zeitschrift fhur Papyrologie und Epigraphik
Hamilton PA3339 .Z45

 


About the Classical Language and Literature Collection

 

UHM Library's Classical Language & Literature Collection Consists of approximately 12,000 books and 482 active periodical subscriptions as well as many more books and periodicals in related fields. The collection includes resources on classical language, literature, language pedagogy, and intellectual history and culture.

 

Library Collection Policy Statement for Languages, Linguistics, and Literature - Europe and the Americas

 

Notes:
The books count was calculated using a shelf-inch count from relevant Library of Congress Classification areas: D51-95 History, Ancient; DE1-100 History, Greco-Roman; DF10-289 History, Greece; DG11-365 History, Ancient Italy and Rome; PA Classical Language & Literature. The figures are based on the 1997 North American Title Count, University of Hawaii at Manoa Library and on shelf-inch measurements. The periodicals count was calculated using a subject search of the library catalog.

 

Last modified: Thursday October 9, 2006

 


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