Resources

Library and Research Resources

The library system of the University of Chicago, one of the largest university collections in North America, contains well over 5,000,000 volumes. Classics students may on occasion want to consult holdings in the Oriental Institute, the D'Angelo Law Library, or the John Crerar Library of technology and science, but most books and periodicals dealing with the ancient world are concentrated in the Joseph Regenstein Library.

Classics has been one of the strongest parts of this collection since its first formation in 1891, when the University purchased the entire stock of a collection in Berlin that specialized in classical philology, archaeology, and science. In addition to current monographs, the Library receives more than 700 serials devoted to ancient Greece and Rome. Major editions of classical texts printed from the Renaissance through the 18th century are found in the Department of Special Collections, which also houses collections of Greek and Latin manuscripts and a large reference library devoted to paleography, manuscript catalogs, and facsimiles.

Books not in the University system can generally be obtained quickly through interlibrary loan from the collections at the Center for Research Libraries and the University of Illinois at Urbana. The database of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae is accessible over the campus network; the Latin texts prepared by the Packard Humanities Institute, the CETEDOC database of ancient and medieval Christian Latin texts, and several other electronic databases useful to the study of the Classics are mounted on workstations in the Classics Reading Room of the Regenstein Library. The Classics Reading Room contains a full collection of Greek and Latin texts and commentaries, as well as the epigraphical collections, other basic resources, and comfortable places to work and study with other classicists.

• The Library Catalog accessed by Online Catalog or over the Reserve Catalog
• Subject Guide to Classics at the University of Chicago Library
• Electronic Full-Text journals in Classics
• University of Chicago Electronic Text Services
  • Greek
  • Latin
• Regenstein Reserve
• Interlibrary Loan Online Request Forms
• Gargoyle Express (establish an account, request xerox copies of books and articles, and receive them within 24 hours)
• Classics-specific reference sources

Computer Resources

The Classics department has a small computer room available to students. The database of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae is accessible over the campus network, including from this computer room. The Latin texts prepared by the Packard Humanities Institute, the CETEDOC database of ancient and medieval Christian Latin texts, and several other electronic databases useful to the study of the Classics are mounted on workstations in the Classics Reading Room of the Regenstein Library. Also available over the campus computer network are important research tools like the on-line L'Année Philologique and the JSTOR journal collection.

Please see the library's page on classics resources for a full list.

Graduate Workshops

• Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop
• Ancient Societies Workshop
• Ancient Philosophy Workshop

Additional Links

• Classical Philology
• The American Philological Association (APA)
• The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
• The University of Chicago Dissertation Office