HIST 218: Women and War in the Ancient World (HC)

Woman and young man stand beside an altar, Greek grave stela, Hellenistic era, southeastern Italy, Metropolitan

 Museum (Source: Metropolitan Museum, Public domain). The arms of the man whom they mourn hang on the wall.

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

       women AND war AND ancient  [Any Field]        

       women AND war [Subjects]  AND (greece OR rome OR antiquity OR ancient OR classical) [Any Field]         

       (war OR military) AND (greece OR rome OR ancient OR antiquity OR classical) AND history [All Subjects]          Limited to publications 2000-present

       "boadicea queen" [Subject]          Sorted by newest titles first 

      (queens* OR empresses) [Subject] AND (mediterranean OR hellenistic OR ancient OR antiquity OR classical OR roman) [Any Field] NOT (medieval OR "middle ages") [Any Field]        Limited to publications 2000-present

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