Research Guides: LATN 350: Seminar in Latin Literature: The (Mostly) Latin Epigram (HC): Finding Criticism

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Roman banquet scene with a young man and hetaera, Herculaneum, 50-79 CE, National Archaeological Museum of Naples,

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Finding Criticism in Journals

Année Philologique
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Annèe Philologique is useful for researchers in the classics, philosophy, history, art, archaeology, and the humanities. It contains publication information for articles for the years 1924 to the present.

Journal articles and other periodical publications provide scholarly information on specific aspects of classical literature and history. Since articles are generally published on a shorter schedule than books, they can be more-up-to-date. The following indexes are the best ways for you to identify journal articles.

Gnomon Online
This online index is maintained by the venerable German journal Gnomon. It allows you to search by title word, author, and journal name, as well as by subject terms established in the Thesaurus in both German and English.
Note that the citations listed represent only 15% percent of the total listings in the Gnomon Bibliographische Datenbank (which is not accessible in the three colleges).

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Provides the tables of contents from a selection of Classics,Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals. Subjects covered include: Greek and Latin linguistics and literature, Greek and Roman history, archaeology, mythology,and the Ancient Near East. About ten percent of the entries link to the full text of the articles. Covers published works from 1992-present.

Finding Criticism in Books

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.

The following searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books. Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel. In examples #1 and 4 below, using keywords (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.

epigrams AND (martial OR catullus OR hellenistic) AND history [Keyword search]

martial AND "history and criticism" [Subjects] NOT "martial arts" [Keyword]

"literature and society" AND rome [Subjects] Newest titles first

reception AND (epigram* OR martial) NOT ("martial arts") [Keywords]

** Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your research interest.

Tripod Catalogs
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The library catalogs of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Use your college's Tripod catalog tp find relevant books, journals, dissertations, films, and other material owned by the Tri-college libraries. Sign into Tripod (see upper right corner) in order to see the "request" button in individual items' records to have them delivered to the library of your choice.

WorldCat
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WorldCat is an important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 1 billion titles owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan. Use the FindIt button to place requests.

Borrowing Beyond the Tri-Co
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Request items that are not available in Tripod through E-ZBorrow or Interlibrary Loan. Note that E-Z Borrow is the first place to look for books not in Tripod. It usually takes just three days for E-Z Borrow books to arrive. Books not in E-Z Borrow can come from Interlibrary Loan (ILL) which may take as little as four or five days to arrive.

For journal articles not available in your Tripod catalog, place a request and In around 3 days you will receive a digital copy of the article in your email.
BMC students request through Iliad
HC students request through Article/Chapter Request