Pompeian Art and Culture: Home
General Reference
- Academic Search Elite This link opens in a new windowThis multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis.
- Chicago Manual of Style Online This link opens in a new windowA style manual for writing, editing, and publishing.
- Grove Art Online This link opens in a new windowA scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art
- Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new windowCombining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, Oxford Bibliographies Online guides researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.
- Oxford Classical Dictionary This link opens in a new windowContains over 6,200 entries. The Oxford Classical Dictionary has been regarded as the unrivalled one-volume reference work on all aspects of the Graeco-Roman world. It provides both scholars and non-specialists with a comprehensive source of reference which aims to answer all their questions about the classical world. The Dictionary provides coverage of Greek and Roman history, literature, myth, religion, linguistics, philosophy, law, science, art and archaeology, and topics in near eastern studies and late antiquity. The approach is interdisciplinary: all areas, regions, and cultures are represented beyond the core areas of Greece and Rome. As well as providing factual information, the Dictionary contains many thematic entries on subjects relevant to the 21st century such as nationalism, race, and ecology. The text is written in an accessible style and all Latin and Greek words have been translated.
Online Resources for Journal Articles and Citations
- L’Année Philologique This link opens in a new windowCitations for books and articles covering most aspects of the Greek and Roman world.
- Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new windowCitations of articles in archaeology and art history
- Art Full Text This link opens in a new windowfull text of articles 1997- present; abstracts of articles 1994 - present; and citations to articles in journals 1984 - present
- Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new windowProvides citations to journal articles 1929-1984. Can search simultaneously with ArtFull Text
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new windowJournal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions and indexes on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration.
- Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) This link opens in a new windowBibliography of the History of Art contains records describing current literature about art. Materials indexed include books, dissertations, exhibition catalogs, and articles drawn from more than 4,300 periodicals. Subject coverage includes Western Art, architecture, decorative and applied arts, popular and folk art, and selected contemporary art, as well as painting, sculpture, drawing, and prints.
- JSTOR (Journal Storage) This link opens in a new windowFull text articles in art history, archaeology, and classical studies.
- Perseus Digital Library This link opens in a new windowA multimedia library of Archaic and Classical Greek literature, history, art, and archaeology. Pictures of ancient ruins, antique art, and much more. Read Greek texts online in Greek or English.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowWith full text for well over 300 journal titles from university publishers, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Coverage begins in 1995.
- TOCS-INTables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
Other Web Resources
- Houses in PompeiiPlans and images of houses in Regions I, V, VI, IX (created by Dr. Eleanor Leach)
- Mao, August. Pompeii Its Life and Art. London: Macmillan,1902full text via Project Gutenberg
- Pompeian HouseholdsPlans, images and material remains from 30 houses (created by Dr. Penelope Allison)
- Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta StabiaDirectors: Dr. Gary Devore and Dr. Steve Ellis
- Pompeii Forum ProjectDirector: Dr. John Dobbins
- Villa Imperiale di Pompei ProjectThis conservation project is supervised by Dr. Pietro Giovanni Guzzo.
Important Journals and Reference Titles
American Journal of Archaeology (Main Library Journals and JSTOR)
Journal of Roman Studies (Main Library Folio DG 11 .J7 and JSTOR)
Journal of Roman Archaeology (Main Library DG 11 .J68
Via Interlibrary Loan (https://login.uiowa.edu/uip/login.page?service=http://uiowa.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/illiad.dll )
Evaluating Information
Evaluating your sources
Authority - Find out who's telling you the information, an expert or scholar?
Source - Who's the publisher or entity responsible for presenting the information?
Coverage - Is it scholarly (look for footnotes and/or a bibiliography) or popular?
Who's the intended audience? (Check the vocabulary, language and tone.)
What's the depth/scope?
Accuracy - Are the facts, names, dates, etc. correct?
Objectivity - Is there a bias or particular viewpoint?
Date - Is it recent? (Is that relevant?)
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How do you find out if an author is an expert or scholar?
From the Art Library’s homepage (http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/art/ ) search these:
InfoHawk Catalog
Databases such as ArtFull Text+Art Index Retrospective, Avery Index, JSTOR
WorldCat
Grove Art Online