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WRPR 191 Constructions of Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World (HC)

Writing Program 191 Constructions of Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World (Evans) Spring 2019

Representations of the Foreign

Darius, fleeing from battle, looks back toward Alexander, mosaic, House of the Faun, 

Pompei, now in the museum in Naples  (Source: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)

Finding Scholarly Studies in Books

Use the Tripod catalog Connect from Bryn Mawr College   This link opens in a new windowConnect from Haverford College  This link opens in a new windowConnect from Swarthmore College  to look for relevant books owned by Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore.

The following subject searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a title search in the Tripod Catalog to find some relevant material and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.    

        (jews OR jewish) AND (hellenis* OR alexandria*)  AND (history) [Keywords]     Icon 

         (foreign* OR ethnic* OR barbari*) [Table of Contents]  AND (greece OR greek OR roman OR rome)  [Subject]  AND (ancient OR antiqu*) [Keyword]     Icon 

         rome  identity   [Subject search]     Icon 

        (rome OR greece) AND (ethnology OR racial OR racis*) [Subject search]   Icon    

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

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  button to place requests.

Translations

Tripod lists translations under the author's name.  Limit the results to English.  There will likely be some titles included that are not translations but commentaries or editions in Greek or Latin with English language notes.   You will be able to identify the translations from the individual titles.

  • herodotus  [Advanced search on Authors] + Language: English  +  Newest titles sorted first
  • juvenal  [Advanced search on Authors]  + Language: English + Newest titles sorted first

Also note that some works have been translated multiple times, so that a Tripod search may lead to choices in terms of style and intended audience.

 

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