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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window Interdisciplinary resource with popular, scholarly, and peer-reviewed articles and citations. Includes speeches, newspapers, and polls.
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Index Islamicus This link opens in a new window Indexes worldwide literature in European languages on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Covers Muslim life including history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages and literatures. Includes journals, conference proceedings, monographs and book reviews. Journals and books indexed o the article and chapter level.
Annee Philologique This link opens in a new window A comprehensive index to scholarly work in in the Greek and Roman areas of Classical Studies, as well as on ancient Greek and Latin linguistics and language. Concerns the time period from the second millennium B.C. to roughly 500-800 A.D. Includes coverage of research collections and conferences.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window Index covering world history (excluding the United States and Canada). It includes hundreds of history journals and books, plus useful features such as the ability to search by time period.

Loeb Classical Library works at Macalester College Search the Macalester College Library catalog for all works that are part of the Loeb Classical Library series. "The Loeb Classical Library® is the only existing series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church fathers who made particular use of pagan culture—in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes in which an up-to-date text and accurate and literate English translation face each other page by page. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies." --Website

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ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
ORBIS reconstructs the time cost and financial expense associated with a wide range of different types of travel in antiquity. The model is based on a simplified version of the giant network of cities, roads, rivers and sea lanes that framed movement across the Roman Empire. It broadly reflects conditions around 200 CE but also covers a few sites and roads created in late antiquity. --Website

New Books In Classical Mediterranean and Middle East

Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean

A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices

Greek Lyric: A Selection

Arabic in Modern Hebrew Texts: The Stylistics of Exophonic Writing

Virtues of Greatness in the Arabic Tradition

Gaze, Vision, and Visuality in Ancient Greek Literature

Greek Warfare Beyond the Polis: Defense, Strategy, and the Making of Ancient Federal States

The Tekenu and Ancient Egyptian Funerary Ritual

Wandering Myths: Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World

Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories that Shaped Early Judaism

Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion

Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity

Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt

The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Empires in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World

Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks

Featured Journals

Archaeology
Presents articles written to meet the needs of the general reader interested in archaeology.
The Classical World
Classical World publishes substantive scholarship on Greek and Roman literature, history, and society as well as the classical tradition and the history of classical scholarship. The journal also actively engages the pedagogical community by incorporating pieces on the teaching of Greek, Latin, and classical civilizations.
The Journal of Hellenic Studies
The Journal of Hellenic Studies was first issued in 1880 and is internationally recognized as one of the foremost periodicals in the field of Classical scholarship. It contains articles on a wide variety of Hellenic topics, and reviews of recent books of importance to Greek studies.

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