GREK 101: Introduction to Greek Literature: Worlds of Wonder (HC)

Lucian of Samosata, True History, Dutch edition, 1647, London, British Museum (Source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain).

People from the moon battle people from the sun on a platform of spider webs.

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 (that is Any Field in Tripod), rather than subjects, will pick up results from chapter titles and book content summaries.

    historians greek  [Keyword search]       

    "greece historiography" [Subject]  Limited to publications from 2000 to the present       

     herodotus criticism and interpretation   [Subject search]        

     "lucian of samosata" [Subject]  NOT  "lucian of samosata" [Author]  Newest titles first      

    (foreign* OR ethnic* OR barbari* OR ethnolog*) AND (greek OR greeks OR "greece history") AND (ancient OR classical OR antiquity)       

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

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