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Hellenic Studies

Core Resources

Provides citations to articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations on all aspects of modern literature, language, and linguistics.
Indexes books and journal articles on the history of the world (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
Anthropology Plus  (1800+)
Worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Anthropology Plus combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK.
Art Index  (Indexing 1929+, Select Full Text 1997+)
Indexes and abstracts articles and reproductions of works of art from periodicals published throughout the world on all areas in the arts.
Citations and many full-text articles from religion and theology journals.
EconLit  (1969+)
Note: Paper volumes covering 1886 to 1968 are available in SSRC. See Index of Economic Journals and Index of Economic Articles. (HB1.I425)
Indexes international economic literature. Includes major journals, articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, full-text book reviews, dissertations, and working papers.
Note: Paper volumes covering 1951-1988 are available in SSRC. (Index Table I19)
Abstracts in English or French to articles selected from over 1,000 international journals. Topics covered include political science method and theory, political thinkers and ideas, governmental and administrative institutions, political process, international relations, and national and area studies
Indexing and abstracting of the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. Covers 2,500 journals, conference papers, dissertations, and book reviews. Includes materials in 30 languages.

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Cumulative bibliography of essays and monographs cited in Byzantinische Zeitschrift and its supplement. Covers the history of Byzantium.
Information from the Greek vitae and martyria of one hundred and nineteen saints of the 8th-10th c., accounts of the translations of their relics, and collections of miracles, as well as notices from the Synaxarion of Constantinople (a 10th-century liturgical collection of brief hagiographical notices).
Greek texts relevant to the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439.
Texts of Greek literature from Homer (8th century BCE) to the fall of Constantinople (1453 CE).

Related Resources

Annee Philologique  (1924-2006)  
Main index to all aspects of classical studies, including language, literature, history, art, archaeology, law, science, philosophy. Byzantine, Medieval, and Renaissance materials are also included. Indexes monographs, journal articles, Festschriften, conference proceedings, published doctoral theses, book reviews. Covers all of the regions of the Roman Empire.
Biographical Archive of the Classical World Online  (8th century BCE to the 8th century CE)  
Includes some 51,000 personalities from the 8th century BCE to the 8th century CE. The entire Greek and Roman worlds are covered in 195 volumes of 87 biographical reference works.
English version of an important German encyclopedia of the ancient world. Divided into two sections: Antiquity, which covers the ancient world of Greece and Rome, and the Classical Tradition, which covers the history of classical scholarship. Not yet complete, but the German version, Der Neue Pauly, is.
Comprehensive information on the world of Islam in disciplines ranging from religion and history to politics and culture with a geographic and chronological scope encompassing the early Arab-Islamic Empire, Iran, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all modern Islamic states.
Ongoing database of Greek inscriptions taken from a wide range of publications.
Gateway to several art historical resources, most notably, the Grove Dictionary of Art ("Grove Art Online"), along with The Oxford Companion to Western Art (ed. Brigstocke, 2001), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (ed. M. and D. Clarke), The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (ed. Kelly, 1998), and numerous images. Grove Art covers all aspects of the visual arts.
Biographical articles for composers, performers, librettists, conductors and others. Includes entries from Grove dictionaries of jazz and opera as well.
Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of science and technology and allied fields. Coverage includes all languages in which these materials are published.
Index Islamicus  (1906+)  
Indexes literature in European languages on Islam, the Middle East and Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Includes over 2,000 journals, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews.
Interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500.
Its holdings include Islamic, Byzantine, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, cuneiform tablets from the Near East, Akkadian and Sumerian seals, papyri from the Pharaonic, Ptolemaic, Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic periods in Egypt, and c. 3000 Greek and 6000 Roman coins. The Manuscript Division also holds a large number of papers and correspondence by many Modern Greek authors, such as Nikos Kazantzakis, Odysseas Elytes, and George Seferis.
ProQuest Digital Dissertations  (1861+; full text 1997+)  
Access to citations and abstracts for every title in the Dissertation Abstracts database. Dissertations written from 1997 forward are available full text. The database includes citations to dissertations from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Citations for dissertations and master's theses published from 1980 forward have abstracts.
Provides full text of United Nations central agency parliamentary and working documents. Includes all of the six official UN languages in which a document was published.

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