Music, Film and Media Studies, Performing Arts and Classics Librarian
Inscriptiones Graecae
- IG Catalog LinksThis document includes all IG titles with catalog links in each of the three IG series - Major, Altera (Minor), and Tertia.
Welcome
Welcome to the Washington University in St. Louis Libraries' guide to resources for the study of Classics! The table of contents to the left provide links to a wealth of resources that will help inform your studies and research. Some are subscription databases that require you to login with your WashU credentials, while others are freely accessible to all.
Department of Classics Website
Classics Department Library Catalog (for items housed in the Dept. of Classics)
Classics Call Numbers for Print Books
Call Numbers
Washington University Libraries use the Library of Congress classification system. For the most part, material for the study of classical antiquity is located in the classes PA "Classical Philology and Literature," and DE, DF, and DG, for general Mediterranean, Greek, and Roman history respectively. However, a substantial amount of relevant material is distributed elsewhere in the classification system, largerly according to the subject matter of the work.
Editions of works in the original languages are, as a rule, classified under call number PA, with occasional exceptions. Translations of classical literary works (e.g. poetry, drama) are classified under PA; however, translations into English of "nonliterary" works, such as history, philosophy, and geography are usually classified according to their subject matter--so, for example, translations of Plato and Aristotle will in the "B's". Classifications of commentaries and secondary literature on such works is a bit less consistent.
Special Note: When looking for foreign language titles in the Library Catalog that include a non-English preceding article, e.g., L'amica geniale, Le "Etiopiche" di Eliodoro: Approcci narratologici e nuove prospettive, you must remove the article from the title when doing a "title" search, e.g., amica geniale, "Etiopiche" di Eliodoro: Approcci narratologici e nuove prospettive. If you do not remove the article, the search will yield no results. Follow the link provided above to see a full list of initial articles to be on the lookout for!
PA: Classical Philology
PA1–9 Periodicals
PA51–85 History, study & teaching
PA111–199 Greek & Latin Language
PA201–1179 Greek Philology & Language
- PA600–691 Hellenistic (κοινή) Greek
- PA700–791 Biblical Greek
- PA1001–1179 Medieval & Modern Greek
PA2001–2995 Latin Philology & Language
PA3000–3049 Classical Literature (In General)
PA3050–5868 Greek Literature
- PA3300–3371 Papyri
PA6000– Latin Literature
D: History
D51-90 Ancient History (General)
DA145–147 Roman Britian
DC62–63 Roman Gaul
DE: The Greco-Roman World
- DE1–15 General
- DE27–31 Geography
- DE46–73 Culture and Civilization
- DE80–98 History
DF1-500 Ancient Greece (to c. 323 CE)
- DF10–16 General
- DF10 Periodicals
- DF12 Sources & Documents
- DF75–135 Civilization & Culture
- DF207–241 History
- DF207–218 General
- DF220–241 By Period
- DF251–289 Local History
DG1-399 Ancient Italy, Rome to 476 CE
- DG11–16 General
- DG11 Periodicals
- DG13 Sourcebooks
- DG42–70 Local and Regional History
- DG61–69 City of Rome
- DG75–190 Civilization & Culture
- DG201–365 History
- DG221–365 History by Period
DS54.3 Ancient Cyprus
DS71–75 Ancient Iraq to 638 A.D.
DS81 Phoenicia
DS96 Ancient Syria, including the Seleucids
DS111–123 Ancient Israel
DS275–287 Iran to 651 AD
DT57–93 Ancient Egypt, including the Ptolemies (DT92)
Classics outside of the D's and PA's
B108–708 Ancient Philosophy
BL700–820 Classical Religion and Mythology
BR160–240 Early History of Christianity
CE21–46 Ancient Chronography, CE42–46 Greek & Roman Calendars
CJ201–1400 Ancient Numismatics.
CN1–1100 Ancient Epigraphy
G82–88 Ancient Geography, G1033 Atlases of the Ancient World
GT530–580 Ancient dress and costume
GV17–35, 573 Ancient Sports and Games
HC31–39 Ancient Economic History
HD132–137 Ancient Economic History (Land), HD4844 Labor in the Ancient World
HF355–381 History of Ancient Trade and Commerce
HN9–10 Ancient Social History
HQ13 Ancient Sexuality; HQ505–12 The Family in Antiquity; HQ1127–1139 Women in the Ancient World
HT863 Ancient Slavery
JC51–93 Ancient Political Institutions & Theory
KJA Roman Law
ML162-169 Ancient Music
N5320-5899 Fine Arts in Antiquity
NA210–340 Ancient Architecture
NA69–169 Ancient Sculpture
ND60–135 Ancient Painting
NK610–685 Ancient Decorative Arts
NK1180–1250 Ancient Decoration and Ornament
NK4645–4654 Greek & Roman Vases
P901–1099 Extinct Asian and European Languages
R126–127 Ancient Medical Works; R135 History of Ancient Medicine.
T16 Ancient Technology
U29–35 Warfare in Antiquity
Z105–115 Paleography, Z7016–7030 Bibliography of Classical Languages and Literature
Dissertations & Theses Online
Search these resources for dissertations and theses online. In the ProQuest Global database, use advanced search to limit to Washington University in St. Louis publications. Please note that print dissertations and theses that have not been digitized may not be available online.
- Dissertations & Theses @ Washington University in St. Louis (1996-) This link opens in a new windowFull-text. Citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by Washington University and published in UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database. View 24-page previews of dissertations and theses, and download the full text. Learn more about this database
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global Full Text This link opens in a new windowAccess to 5 million citations to dissertations and theses from around the world from 1637 to the present day together with over 2.7 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Over 200,000 new dissertations and theses are added to the database each year. Learn more about this database.
Book Reviews
- Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewBryn Mawr Classical Review publishes timely reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies (including archaeology).
- The Classical ReviewThe Classical Review publishes informative reviews from leading scholars on new work covering the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome.
- Gnomon Bibliographic DatabaseThe Gnomon Bibliographic Database contains an index to works on Classical Philology, Ancient History, and Archaeology. It is a comprehensive electronic version of the quarterly index of publications in Classics from the journal Gnomon: Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft.
- London Review of Books This link opens in a new windowThe LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance.
As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and a diary, and is available in print, online, and offline via our app. Subscribers enjoy unlimited access to almost 15,000 articles in our digital archive. Our website features a regular blog and a channel of audio and video content, including podcasts, author interviews and highlights from the events programme at the London Review Bookshop.