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All Classics Databases

L'Année Philologique   1959-recent

Indexes articles on the literature, languages, and history of ancient Greece and Rome from journals, books and conference proceedings. Coverage in the online version begins with 1959 and goes up to 2-3 years before the current year.

International Medieval Bibliography   1968-present

Lists articles from books and journals on any topic relating to the European Middle Ages (ca. 400-1500). Click the blue Enter Databases button to start and choose the IMB from the menu on the next page. NOTE: There have been problems using IMB with Internet Explorer on some UVA computers. If you have a problem, try Netscape or Firefox instead.

Iter Bibliography

Look for books, journal articles, and essays in books on all topics for the Middle Ages and Renaissance (ca. 400-1700). Click the Iter Bibliography link to begin.

Library of Latin Texts (Online)

Contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas a Kempis are available.

Patrologia Latina database

Complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's 'Patrologia Latina' (1844-1855 and 1862-1865), containing 221 volumes.

Perseus Digital Library

Access to selected Greek and Latin texts as well as related criticism and reference works and a collection of images.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

This full-text database of more than 80 million words contains virtually all surviving Greek texts from the time of Homer to the fall of Byzantium.

TOCS-IN   1992-present

"Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists." Covers ca. 185 journals, whose tables on contents can be browsed or searched. Some recent Festschriften are also included.