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LATN 211: Dear Cicero (HC) Fall 2024: Finding Criticism

Criticism in Journals

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.

Criticism in Books

Use Tripod to look for relevant books owned by Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore.

To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find some relevant material and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books. Subject headings are listed inside the catalog record for an item.

 

 

The following subject searches are a sampling of possibilities.

Latin letters

Latin letters -- History and criticism

Statesmen -- Rome -- History and criticism

Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Correspondence

Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Correspondence -- Criticism and interpretation

Additionally, some relevant ebooks are categorized with the subject heading LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.