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Classical Studies Research Guide

Welcome!

Roman Mosaic British Museum by Tony Hisgett (Wikimedia Commons)

 

Welcome to the Classical Studies research guide.  This guide will help you find materials about ancient languages, culture, art, and civilization.

Background Information

Learn more about topics related to Classical literature and civilization using these encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Frameworks for Information Literacy

Most of this guide is very practical - here's a source, here's how to find information in it.  But as you begin your research journey this semester, I want to share with you some ideas that librarians are considering about how you find, use, evaluate, and create information.  These six concepts will all be important to you at different times this semester.  They are listed alphabetically, not in a sequence or in order of importance.  Research is not always a linear process!

  1. Authority Is Constructed and Contextual
  2. Information Creation as a Process
  3. Information Has Value
  4. Research as Inquiry
  5. Scholarship as Conversation
  6. Searching as Strategic Exploration