The Roman Empire: Articles
Selected Databases
- 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.
- ATLA Religion Database + ATLAS This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Contains the complete contents of Religion Index One (journal literature in religion from 1949-present), Religion Index Two (multi-author works, such as Festschriften, conference proceedings, and other volumes of collected articles and essays, 1960-present), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion. Included are article citations from some 650 journals and essay citations from over 14,000 multi-author works as well as book review citations.
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowHeinOnline is the world's largest image-based legal research collection and contains more than nine centuries of legal history. All content is image-based in PDF format just as they appear in the original print copy thus preserving the authenticity of the hard copy in a digital environment.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowHistorical Abstracts offers coverage of world history, from 1450 onward, outside the US and Canada. (The companion index for those countries is America: History and Life). Historical Abstracts provides citations with abstracts to articles in over 1,700 journals, published 1954 to the present. It also contains bibliographic citations to books and dissertations. Limited to 6 simultaneous users.
As of Sep 2023, we've received some reports from users encountering access issues while using Chrome. - JSTOR (Journal Storage) This link opens in a new windowProvides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, philosophy, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each titles. Journals may be searched across multiple titles as well as by the individual titles below
Note that this database comprises mostly back issues: for most titles the JSTOR database does NOT include full text of the most recent 3 to 5 years. - L’Année Philologique This link opens in a new windowAPh Online contains over 600,000 bibliographic records dating back to 1949.
- MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO Version) This link opens in a new windowThe MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.
- Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new windowProvides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields--ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. [Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9]
- 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.
Selected Journals
- American Journal of Ancient HistoryPublishes articles concerning the history of the ancient Mediterranean world and the history of other countries in their relations with it.
- American Journal of PhilologyA forum for international exchange among classicists and philologists by publishing original research in classical literature, philology, linguistics, history, society, religion, philosophy, and cultural and material studies.
- Antichthon : Journal of the Australian Society for Classical StudiesMain emphasis is on Greece and Rome, however, its scope has been broadly defined so as to embrace the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean from the beginnings of civilisation to the Early Middle Ages.
- BritanniaBritannia has established itself as a major national and international academic journal. It is the foremost journal for the study of the Roman province of Britannia.
- The Classical WorldPublishes substantive scholarship on Greek and Roman literature, history, and society as well as classical reception and the history of classical scholarship.
- Greece & RomeShowcases original and informative articles on ancient history, literature, art, archaeology, religion, philosophy, and reception of the ancient world.
- Greek, Roman and Byzantine studiesDevoted to the culture and history of Greece from Antiquity to the Renaissance, featuring research on all aspects of the Hellenic world from prehistoric antiquity through the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods, including studies of modern classical scholarship.
- Journal of Roman ArchaeologyPremier journal for the field of Roman archaeology. It regularly publishes articles, book reviews, and supplementary volumes relevant to the study of Roman material culture.
- The Journal of Roman StudiesPeer-reviewed papers on Roman history and Latin literature form the larger part of each issue. Papers on art history and archaeology are also published. The Journal regularly includes major review articles and archaeological surveys, along with one of the widest selections of reviews of recent publications in all scholarly languages.
- PallasPallas is an inter-university and international journal studying classical disciplines in a broad sense and all aspects of Greek and Roman civilisations, including literature, linguistics, metrics, history, archaeology and iconography.
- Transactions of the American Philological AssociationCovers the history, culture, and language of ancient Greek and Roman societies