UCLA Library Collections and Internet Resources in:

CLASSICAL & BYZANTINE STUDIES

Interim Classics Bibliographer: Christopher Coleman
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I.UCLA Library Collections
II.Guide to Performing Research in the Classics at UCLA
III.UCLA Resources
IV.Selected Remote Resources

I. UCLA Library Collections

UCLA's classical holdings center on Grecian civilizations from the Minoan-Mycenaean period to the fall of Constantinople in 1453; on Italian civilizations from the so-called regal period to the death of Romulus Augustulus in 476; and on the history of classical scholarship. These materials, chiefly consisting of books and manuscripts, support the research and instructional needs of the Department of Classics and, to a degree, the Departments of Art History, History, and Philosophy, and the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies. The Patrologia Latina Database (via UCLA search engine or via the Chadwyck-Healey search engine) is available on-line to UCLA affiliates.

The materials themselves are, in the main, preserved in the Arts Library (art, architecture, archaeology); the History & Special Collections Division of the Biomedical Library (medicine and science); the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (British imprints from the 17th and 18th centuries); the College Library (undergraduate materials); the Law Library (law); the Southern Regional Library Facility (older and less used materials); and especially in the Young Research Library (Main Stacks; Maps & Government Information; Micromedia; Reference, Special Collections; Arts Special Collections).

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II. Guide to Performing Research in the Classics at UCLA

See also below, An Introduction to Classical Resources on the Internet

Abbreviations
1. Rosumek, Peter, Index des périodiques dépouillés dans la collection de bibliographie classique et dans la revue des comptes rendus des ouvrages relatifs à l'antiquité classique (publiée par J. Marouzeau) et index des leurs sigles, Paris: les belles lettres, 1982. YRL Ref. Z 7016 v. 51 sup.
2. Wellington, Jean, Dictionary of Bibliographic Abbreviations found in the Scholarship of Classical Studies and related Disciplines, Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1983. YRL Ref. PA 99 W44 1983 (ref. desk).
Bibliographical Introductions
1. Halton, Thomas P. / O'Leary, Stella, Classical Scholarship: an Annotated Bibliography, White Plains, N.Y.: Kraus International Publications, 1986. YRL Ref. Z 6207 C65H34 1986 (ref. desk).
2. Jenkins, Fred W., Classical Studies: a Guide to the Reference Literature, Englewood, Co.: Libraries Unlimited, 1996. YRL Ref. Z 7016 J4 1996 (ref. desk).
Standard Encyclopedias
1. Paulys Realencyclopaedie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1894-1972. YRL Ref. DE 5 P28. Indexes: Gartner, Hans / Wunsch, Albert, Paulys Realencyclopaedie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft ... Register, Munich: Druckenmueller, 1980. YRL Ref.: DE 5 P28 Sup. Index 1980; Murphy, J. P., Index to the Supplements and Supplementary volumes of Pauly Wissowa's RE, Chicago: Ares, 1976. YRL Ref.: DE 5 P28 Sup. Index. The indexes are ordinarily kept at the end of P.W.
2. Hornblower, Simon / Spawforth, Antony, Oxford Classical Dictionary, ed. 3, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. YRL Ref. DE 5 O9 1996 (ref. desk).
3. Kazhdan, Alexander P., ed., The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991, 3v. YRL Ref. DE 521 O93 1991.
4. Smith, Sir William, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray, 1876. YRL Ref. DE 5 S66di v. 1-3.
5. Smith, Sir William, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, London: John Murray, 1878. YRL Ref. DE 25 S66 di v. 1-2.
Standard Bibliographies
1. Gnomon (1926-) (online edition). New issues in YRL Serials Reading Room, bound and unbound volumes, YRL PA 3 G53. Each issue is likely to contain obituaries of notable scholars and notices of deaths. Every other number of Gnomon contains a bibliography of recent publications.
2. J. Marouzeau et al., L'Année Philologique (1924-). YRL Ref. Z 7016 A61 v. 1. Reviews which appeared after an interval of some five years are regularly omitted; articles relevant to the history of classical scholarship, which appeared in non-classical periodicals, are often overlooked. YRL Reference has acquired the CD-ROM version; for advanced training in its use, see Christopher Coleman of Reference.
3. Bibliotheca Philologica Classica (1874-1938). YRL PA 3 J25 (1874-1896, 1915-1926, 1938); YRL PA 3 J25 supp. I (1897-1937 with duplication of some earlier years). This work greatly supplements L'Année Philologique etc. More importantly, for the period 1873-1914, BPC is the chief source of information for Realien. In addition, its parent series, Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der klassische Altertumswissenschaft, includes an annual Biographisches Jahrbuch.
4. J. Marouzeau, Dix années de bibliographie classique, Paris 1927 (YRL Ref. Z 7016 A605 1969 v. 1-2). Treats the period 1914-1924.
5. S. Lambrino, Bibliographie l'antiquité classique vol. 1, Paris 1951 (1896-1913) (YRL Ref. Z 7016 L17B v. 1). This work was to appear in two volumes, but only the first, dealing with work on ancient authors, was ever published. For Realien in this period, one needs to consult Bibliotheca Philologica Classica (no. 3).
6. R. Klussmann, Bibliotheca scriptorum classicorum et Graecorum et Latinorum, Leipzig 1909-1913, four volumes (1878-1896) (YRL Ref. Z 7016 K71b). Its compiler limited himself to scholarship on ancient texts. He prepared a continuation, which was said to be preserved at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, but that Library has no record of it.
7. W. Engelmann / E. Preuss, Bibliotheca scriptorum classicorum, Leipzig 1880-1882 ed. 4 (1700-1878) (YRL Ref. Z 7016 E57b 1880 [shelf 188]).
8. J. A. Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca, Hamburg 1790-1807 (reprint: Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1967) (YRL Ref. Z 7021 F11b 1790a v. 1-14 [shelf 189]); Bibliotheca Latina, Leipzig 1773-1774 (YRL Z 7026 F 114 1773); Bibliotheca Antiquaria, Hamburg 1760 ed. 3 (YRL Z 5131 F11b 1760 [CBC/Special Collections]).
9. W. M. Calder III / D. J. Kramer, An Introductory Bibliography to the History of Classical Scholarship chiefly in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1992 (YRL X2 717 196 [second floor]). Note: `An Index Auctorum' was privately issued but not published.

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III. UCLA Resources

Classical Dissertations and Theses in Progress in North America and the United Kingdom

Full-Text Classics Journals On-line Available at UCLA

Part I: Individual Titles

American Journal of Archaeology 1885-1997 [JSTOR]
American Journal of Philology 1996- [Project Muse]
American Journal of Philology 1880-1995 [JSTOR]
Anistoriton 1997-2002
Archaeological Reports 1954-1998 [JSTOR]
Arethusa 1996- [Project Muse]
Britannia 1970-1997 [JSTOR]
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1990-
Classical Antiquity 1994-2002 (select articles) [Infotrac]
Classical Antiquity 2002 [Ingenta/Select]
Classical Bulletin 1925-1990 [Periodicals Archive Online]
Classical Philology 1906-1997 [JSTOR]
Classical Quarterly 2001-2 [EBSCO]
Classical Quarterly 1907-1997 [JSTOR]
Classical Review 1998-2002 [EBSCO]
Classical Review 1887-1997 [JSTOR] Note: the indexes to vols. 1-64 are included in vol. 64.
Classics Ireland 1994-2000
Didaskalia (Ancient Theater Today) 1994-2002
Emérita 1933-1995 [Periodicals Archive Online]
Forum Archaeologiae 1996-
Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 1998-2003 [PGF]
Greece & Rome 1931-1997 [JSTOR]
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 1890-1998 [JSTOR]
Hesperia 1932-1999 [JSTOR]
Histos (The electronic Journal of Ancient Historiography at the University of Durham) 1997-2000
Journal of Field Archaeology 1974-1999 [JSTOR]
Journal of Hellenic Studies 1880-1997 [JSTOR]
Journal of Roman Studies 1911-1997 [JSTOR]
Journal of the History of Ideas 1996- [Project Muse]
Journal of the History of Ideas 1940-1995 [JSTOR]
Leeds International Classical Studies 2002-
Mind 1996-2002 [EBSCO]
Mind 1876-1995 [JSTOR]
Mnemosyne 1948-1990 [Periodicals Archive Online]
Mnemosyne 2000-2002 [EBSCO]
Past and Present 1952-1997 [JSTOR]
Petronian Society Newsletter 1996-1998 [Petronian Society Ancient Novel Page]
Phronesis 1955-1990 [Periodicals Archive Online]
Skyllis 1997-
Studi di Romani 1954-1975, 1987-1990 [Periodicals Archive Online]
Transactions of the American Philological Association 1869- [JSTOR]
World Archaeology 1969-1999 [JSTOR]
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 1992-1999
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (contents only)

Part II: General Resources

Patrologia Latina:

Patrologia Latina Database via UCLA search engine

Patrologia Latina Database via Chadwyck-Healey search engine

UCLA Department of Special Collections Special Collections has several collections particularly useful for those interested in classical antiquity. In recent years, the Department has had two exhibitions concerned with classical antiquity: "The Development of Classical Scholarship" and "Philodemus and Greek Papyri" (catalogues available).

Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection (printed catalogue; list on-line). **The Department's Aldine Collection is the largest in North America and rivals in size the largest collections in Europe. The press itself began publishing in 1495 and ceased in 1597. Aldus Manutius (ca 1452-1515) and his heirs published the first editions of Aeschylus, Aristotle, Demosthenes, most of Euripides, Herodotus, Pindar, Plato, Sophocles, Thucydides, Xenophon etc. See “The Aldine Press” (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of Early Italian Printing to 1600 (on-line list under construction). **The collection includes approximately 4,000 volumes, many of which are by classical authors or treat classical antiquity. There are notable groups of books printed by Blado, Giolito de Ferrari, the Giuntas, Jenson, and Ratdolt.
Truesdell S. Brown (collection 390, 24 boxes: finding aid at Department). Truesdell S. Brown (1906-1992) was Professor of History at UCLA (1947-1973). He specialized in the Hellenistic historians. His collection consists primarily of offprints which were sent to him.
Classical Dissertations Collection (coll. 357: finding aid at Department). **Approximately 1500, mostly German, dissertations (1813-1939) concerned with classical antiquity. The finding aid includes both author and text, subject and name indexes.
Paul Friedlaender Collection (coll. 1551, 46 boxes: finding aid at Department). **Paul Friedlaender (1882-1968) was perhaps the most eminent classical scholar to teach at UCLA. Removed from his chair at Halle because he was Jewish, and imprisoned for six weeks at Sachsenhausen, Rudolf Bultmann arranged for his release and, in 1939, Friedlaender and his family emigrated. His papers include letters from Bultmann, E. R. Curtius, Albin Lesky, Paul Maas, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff as well as Thomas Mann. The correspondence with Wilamowitz is to be published in the Department's Occasional Papers series in 1998.
Louis Havet Collection (coll. 606, six boxes). **Louis Havet (1849-1925), whose classical library was acquired by the University of California, was a notable Latinist, working on Nonius, Plautus, Propertius and others.
Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb Collection (coll. 100 bx 57: finding aid at Department). Sir Richard Jebb (1841-1905), Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge. A small collection of his papers was acquired by the University of California with the C. K. Ogden collection.
Gonzalez Lodge Collection (coll. 563, twenty boxes). The library of Gonzalez Lodge (1863-1942), best remembered for his “Lexicon Plautinianum”, is divided between Columbia University, New York; Franklin & Marshall College; and UCLA. At UCLA, it consists of about 900 books and bound pamphlets and offprints, chiefly treating Latin grammar, Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Seneca, Tacitus and Terence.

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Edward Noon O'Neil Collection (coll. 628: in process). This collection includes the nearly complete typescript and manuscript 'Index verborum Plutarcheus' prepared by William B. Helmbold and E. N. O'Neil, but never published: unlike the Thesaurus linguae Graecae, the Index takes cognizance of the apparatus criticus. In addition, there is considerable unpublished matter on the late Roman poet Maximianus and course-notes concerned with Plutarch, the New Testament, et al.