Student Research Resources | Department of Classics

Green and Yellows (“Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics”): Texts and generally high-level commentaries on Greek and Latin texts published by Cambridge UP; covers are (surprise!) green and yellow

Loeb (“The Loeb Classical Library”): Originals with facing translation in English of varying quality; no commentaries; green for Greek, red for Latin

OCTs (“Oxford Classical Texts”): Collection of ancient Greek and Roman literature; high quality editions with full apparatus critici; no commentaries; dark blue covers

Teubners (“Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorums et Romanorum Teubneriana”): Collection of ancient Greek and Roman literature; high quality editions with full apparatus critici; no commentaries; orange for Greek, blue for Latin

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri and Corpora

CIL (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinorum): Collection of Latin Inscriptions (available online)

D-S or Daremberg-Saglio (Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines): Fairly good encyclopedia of Greek and Roman antiquity; French

IG (Inscriptiones Graecae): Greek Inscriptions (available online)

LSJ (Liddell, Scott, Jones): The Greek Lexicon

OCD (Oxford Classical Dictionary)

OLD (Oxford Latin Dictionary)

Pauly-Wissowa or RE (Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenshcaft): Excellent encyclopedia of Greek and Roman antiquity; note that there is both Pauly-Wissowa / RE and the so-called kleine Pauly, a smaller version of the “regular” Pauly; German

TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae): Digital Library of Greek Literature; see above for online access

TLL (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae): We have most of these in the seminar room

General

L’Annee or APh (for L’Annee Philologique, “The Philological Year”): An annual index of scholarly work in fields related to the language, literature, history, and material cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. First published in 1928, L’Annee is hosted online by Brepolis (requires subscription; log in through university account).

Ap Crit (for apparatus criticus): This is the “critical apparatus” or critical compilation of primary source materials (manuscripts, papyrus) that accompanies a “scholarly edition” of a text. The ap crit is the by-product of the collation of primary source materials, often called “textual criticism.”

MS or Manuscript (the plural is MSS): A hand-written (manu-scriptum) copy of an ancient text; most of the manuscripts upon which modern editions are based date from between the 11th century and the 16th century.

Primary Source: Ancient texts, whether in the original language or translated

Secondary Source: Modern scholarly studies of ancient texts or objects