Reference Materials
Use this section to find background information for your topic or to translate texts you are consulting. UBC Library provides access to many excellent encyclopedias, dictionaries and bibliographies in both print and online versions. A select number of them are listed below.
Background Information
- Brill's New Pauly This link opens in a new windowNew Pauly Online includes the New Pauly encyclopedia for the study of Greco-Roman culture, as well as Supplements I & II in both English and German.
- Oxford bibliographies online This link opens in a new windowCombines the best features of an annotated bibliography with those of a high-level encyclopedia. Select Classics from the Subject List or use the Browse by Subject quick menu.
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new windowComprises almost two-million entries from Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. Limit your search to Classical Studies by selecting Subject or Reference Type.
- UCLA Encyclopedia of EgyptologyThe UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology is an international cooperative project to provide high quality peer reviewed information on ancient Egypt. It is a resource in development and steadily growing collection of high quality articles, written in jargon-free language.
Dictionaries
- Database of Latin Dictionaries This link opens in a new windowComprises three kinds of dictionaries: those that assist translation from Latin into modern languages, those that provide semantic and etymological explanations in Latin of Latin words, and historical Latin dictionaries.
- ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝWeb-based tool that provides simultaneous lookup of entries in many reference works that make up the Perseus Digital Library.
- The Brill Dictionary of Ancient GreekThe Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the English translation of Franco Montanari’s Vocabolario della Lingua Greca. With 140,000 entries, this is the most important modern dictionary for Ancient Greek and an invaluable tool for students and advanced scholars alike.
Encyclopedias
Brill's New Pauly (22 Vols) by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2011Twenty-two volumes of Brill's New Pauly - the English edition of the authoritative Der Neue Pauly - published by Verlag J.B. Metzler since 1996, as an encyclopedia for the study of Greco-Roman culture and its influence on modern world history.
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History by Call Number: D54 .E53 2013Publication Date: 2012The Encyclopedia of Ancient History is the only comprehensive collection of the 21st century scholarship on the entire ancient Mediterranean world, including the Near East and Egypt, with over 5,000 original entries spanning the late Bronze Age through the seventh century CE.
Encyclopedia of Religion by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2004This second edition includes almost all of the 2,750 original entries - many heavily updated - as well as approximately 600 entirely new articles. Preserving the best of Eliade's cross-cultural approach, while emphasizing religion's role within everyday life as a unique experience from culture to culture, this new edition is the definitive work in the field.
Encyclopaedia Judaica by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2006Includes more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.
Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 1997The only encyclopedia in English specific to the field of Classical Philosophy, this work presents 270 articles on major and minor figures and on topics of importance to the philosophy of Greek and Roman antiquity.
The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, 4 Volume Set by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2018An advanced resource on the emerging trends and foundational theories of archaeological science, offering students and scholars a reliable reference on the most current techniques and practices.
The Oxford Classical Dictionary by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2012For more than half a century, the Oxford Classical Dictionary has been the unrivaled one-volume reference work on the Greco-Roman world. Whether one is interested in literature or art, philosophy or law, mythology or science, intimate details of daily life or broad cultural and historical trends, the OCD is the first place to turn for clear, authoritative information on all aspects of ancient culture.
