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Reference Sources for Ancient Greek Art

General Sources

- Britannica Search. http://www.britannica.com/

Online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Book of the Year, and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition.

-The Dictionary of Art. 34 vols. New York: Grove, 1996. Hamon Index Tables N31 .D5 1996

Use index in volume 34. See entries such as "Greece, ancient", volume 13, pp. 361-606, which also includes illustrations, maps, and a chronological table.

-Encyclopedia of World Art. 17 vols. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959-1987. Hamon Reference N31 .E533

See entries such as "Greek Art" and additional entries on periods of Greek art, sites, and specific media. Index in volume 15.

General Sources - Ancient World

- Avery, Catherine B., ed. The New Century Classical Handbook. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962. Hamon Reference DE5 .N4

- Avi-Yonah, Michael and Israel Shatzman. Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Classical World. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. Hamon Reference DE5 .I55

- Devambez, Pierre, ed. Praeger Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Civilization. New York: Praeger, 1967. Hamon Reference DF16 .D513

- Enciclopedia dell'arte antica, classica, e orientale. 7 vols. Rome: Istituto dell' enciclopedia italiana, 1958-1973. Hamon Reference N31 .E48

Contains general ("Greca, Arte") and specific articles. Entries for categories of art, specific topics, names of mythological characters, building types, archeaological sites and archaeologists, and specific Greek artists. There is no index - entries must be looked up in Italian.

-The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3rd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. See also 1st ed. (1949) and 2nd ed. (1970). Hamon Reference DE5 .O9

Geographical Sources

-Atlas of the Greek and Roman World in Antiquity. Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1981. Hamon Reference G1033 .A84 1981

-The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976. Hamon Reference DE59 .P7

-Traulos, Ioannes N. Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Athens. New York: Praeger, 1971. Hamon Reference NA280 .T68

Mythological Sources

-Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae: (LIMC). Zurich: Artemis Verlag, 1981-present. 8 vols. to date. Hamon Reference NX650 .M9L48

General Art

- Coulson, William D. E.Greek and Roman Art, Architecture, and Archaeology: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Pub., 1987. Hamon Reference Z5932.3 .C68 1987

- Rochelle, Mercedes. Mythological and Classical World Art Index: A Locator of Paintings, Sculptures, Frescoes, Manuscript Illuminations, Sketches, Woodcuts, and Engravings Executed 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1900, with a Directory of the Institutions. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1991. Hamon Reference N7760 .R63 1991

- Van Keuren, Frances Dodds. Guide to Research in Classical Art and Mythology. Chicago: American Library Association, 1991. Hamon Reference N7760 .V3 1991

Architecture

- Ginouves, Rene. Dictionnaire methodique de l'architecture grecque et romaine. Athens: Ecole francaise d'Athenes, 1985. Hamon Reference NA260 .G56 1985

- Teague, Edward H. World Architecture Index: A Guide to Illustrations. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. Hamon Reference NA202 .T4 1991

Sculpture

- Clairmont, Christoph W. Classical Attic Tombstones. 9 vols. Kilchberg, Switzerland: Akanthus, 1993-1995. Hamon Reference NB133.5 .S46C53 1993

- Museo Chiaramonti. 3 vols. Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1995. Hamon Reference NB27 .I8V37 1995

*Compiled by Kathryn Jackson, Hamon Fine Arts Librarian 3/98.

 

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