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  • Acta sanctorum
    This resource is the electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, which is a collection of documents, written in Latin, examining the lives of the saints (hagiography), organized according to each saint's feast day. It includes all prefatory material and original texts with critical commentaries on the source documents. It is cross-searchable with Patrologia Latina Database.
  •  Ancient Greece and Rome
  • AnthropologyPlus
    This resource provides comprehensive indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in all the sub-disciplines of anthropology, including cultural, social, physical, biological, linguistics, archaeology, folklore, and interdisciplinary studies. It provides complete citations with descriptors and geographic information.
  • Aristoteles Latinus database
    This resource provides the complete collection of medieval Latin translations of Aristotle. These can be searched by period, author, clavis, or century.
  • Art full text
    This resource includes articles and images on a wide variety of topics relating to art, art history, architecture, design, and film and media studies published in scholarly and professional journals.
  • ATLA religion database
    This resource is an index to scholarly works in all fields of religion and theology, including Biblical studies, ancient religions, world religions, church history, mythology, archaeology, and religious perspectives on social issues. It contains citations to articles in journals, books, book chapters, and book reviews. Some citations have links to full-text articles.
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  • Database of Latin dictionaries
    This resource provides access to a growing number of Latin dictionaries covering Antiquity, Patristic Period, Middle Ages and later; Thematic dictionaries; Medieval dictionaries. It includes, but is not limited to, Blaise - Patristic, Firmini Verris Dictionarius, and Du Cange (Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, ed. 1883-1887). Use the "Advanced Search" option to search an individual dictionary or cross-search multiple dictionaries in the database.
  •  Dictionary of creation myths
  •  Dictionary of world mythology
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  • JSTOR
    This resource is a searchable multidisciplinary database of the full content of archival issues of scholarly journals. Issues published within the last 3-5 years are generally not covered. It also provides citations to books and pamphlets provided by JSTOR in digital format.
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  • L'Année philologique
    This resource is useful for locating scholarly works relating to Antiquity, including Late Antiquity. It contains citations and abstracts to journal articles, conference papers, books, book reviews, and related research in ancient Greek and Latin language, culture, history, literature, religion/mythology, and philosophy, including material about the early Christian church.
  • Library of Latin texts (Cross Database Searchtool)
    This resource is a major database of full-text Latin texts from ancient times (Livius Andronicus, 240 B.C.) through to the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It draws from more than 3,000 works that are attributed to about 950 authors.
  • Loeb classical library
    This resource provides full-text of over 500 volumes of original ancient Greek and Latin texts (from 800 B.C. to A.D. 1000) alongside their modern English translations. Works include poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; medical writers and mathematicians; and those Church fathers who made particular use of pagan culture. An integrated Greek keyboard aids in searching the Greek texts.
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  • Patrologia Graeca
    This resource provides access to the full text of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Graeca and indexes, which is an edited collection of writings by the Christian Church Fathers and various secular writers, published in Greek with Latin translations. The content covers the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439.
  • Patrologia Latina database
    This resource is the electronic version of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina and indexes. It comprises the works of the Church Fathers (e.g., patristic works) from Tertullian (A.D. 200) to the death of Pope Innocent III (A.D.1216).
  •  Pocket Oxford Latin dictionary : English-Latin
  •  Pocket Oxford Latin dictionary : Latin-English
  • Project Muse
    This resource is a searchable multidisciplinary full-text database of scholarly journals primarily in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. It also provides citations to books provided by Project Muse in digital format.
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  • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (*user registration required)
    This resource is a searchable collection of digitized full-length literary texts in ancient Greek, from Homer (8th c. B.C.) to the fall of Byzantium (A.D. 1453). It also includes The TLG Canon of Authors and Works, a searchable database and a bibliographic guide to the authors and works included in the TLG. Note: In order to access the full corpus, you must register as an individual first (link is in the upper right of the screen).
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