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This is a guide to finding the best resources for research in Classics.
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This guide is designed to help you get started with your library research.

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    Tips & Tricks

    What are Secondary Sources?  Journal articles & chapters etc... written about a work of literature and offering a critical view of that work are called literary criticism.

    What are Primary Sources?  Original works of literature and uninterpreted information about an event or period of time.

    Beware Wikipedia!
    It can't be cited in academic essays (avoid sites where authors aren't accountable for contributions). 

    Evaluate! Evaluate! Evaluate!
    Be critical about everything you read

    Avoid Plaigiarism
    Don't use an author's work or ideas without referencing them (yes, even if it's not directly quoted & you've changed the words)

     

    Books of Interest

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    Ancient Middle Classes - Ernst Emanuel Mayer
    ISBN: 9780674050334
    Our image of the Roman world is shaped by the writings of Roman statesmen and upper class intellectuals. Yet most of the material evidence we have from Roman times-art, architecture, and household artifacts from Pompeii and elsewhere-belonged to, and was made for, artisans, merchants, and professionals.

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    Barbarians of Ancient Europe - Larissa Bonfante (Ed)
    ISBN: 9780521194044
    Deals with the reality of the indigenous peoples of Europe, in contrast to many publications that explore these peoples in the context of the Greek idea of 'barbarians' as the 'other'.... Thracians, Scythians, Celts, Germans, Etruscans, & other peoples of Italy... Archaeological discoveries show how they dressed, what they ate & drank, where they lived, how they honored their dead kings with barbaric splendor and human sacrifices ...

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    Classical Archaeology - Alcock & Osborne (Eds)
    ISBN: 9781444336917
    Classical archaeology has undergone profound change in recent years as the development of new theoretical approaches and cutting-edge methodologies prompts classical archaeologists to pose more challenging questions of the extraordinarily rich data we possess from the ancient Mediterranean world.

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    Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews & Christians at Roman Dura-Europos - Jennifer Chi; Sebastian Heath (Ed)
    ISBN: 0691154686
    Strategically located high above the Euphrates River between Syria and Mesopotamia, the city of Dura-Europos was founded around 300 BCE by one of the Macedonian generals who succeeded Alexander the Great ... Dura-Europos was a city positioned at the commercial, political, and cultural intersections of the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds

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    Great Big Book of Horrible Things - Matthew White
    ISBN: 9780393081923
    Reaching back to 480 BCE's 2nd Persian War, White moves chronologically through history to this century's war in the Congo and devotes chapters to each event, where he surrounds hard facts (time & place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories.

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    Greece & the Augustan Cultural Revolution - Spawforth
    ISBN: 9781107012110
    This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece. It argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicizing 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial monarchy.

     

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