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The Classics collections support teaching and research at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the Classics Department and in other departments and programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They also serve as a resource for the people of the State. The collections are particularly strong in the areas of specialization within the Department of Classics.
The library has extensive reference materials to support the study of Classics. Access to many of the major abstracting and indexing tools is available online. Chief among them is the Année Philologique on the Internet, which contains citations of all known scholarly works published in any language anywhere on the classical world. Its coverage begins in the second millennium B.C.E. and ends during the transition from late antiquity to the middle ages. DYABOLA (Sachkataloge des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts) is a comprehensive international listing of material covering all areas of European and Near Eastern archaeology and philology from prehistory to the Byzantine era. The International Medieval Bibliography covers over 4,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, essay collections, and festschriften on the European Middle Ages (c. 450-1500). Other reference tools are also available online; notably, the Oxford Classical Dictionary. Printed materials can be found primarily in the Reference Department. E-Reference materials are a good place to begin the study of Classics, while tutorials facilitate exploration in depth in selected areas. The Reference Department also has software for textual analysis. For further information about reference materials or help using them, please consult the Reference staff.
The Library offers online access to several full-text databases of interest to faculty and students in Classics. The Patrologia Latina Database contains the texts of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian (A.D. 200) to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. The Online Medieval & Classical Library has a large collection of classical and medieval texts in English. The Grove Dictionary of Art Online contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts--painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography--from prehistory to the present day. A number of CD-ROMs are available for use in the Reference Department. Bibliotheca iuris antiquii contains three integrated archives: "Fontes" archive ("the most up-to-date edition of 'Romtext,' a full text electronic version of the main juridical Roman sources..."), "Opera" archive (bibliography), and "Thesaurus" archive (a "controlled dictionary of about 9000 terms..."). The Library of Christian Latin Texts, also known as Cetedoc, includes Latin texts chiefly from the following corpora: Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina; Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Medievalis; Corpus Christianorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum; Patrologiae cursus completus. Series Latina; Patrologiae Latinae supplementum; Sources chrétiennes; S. Bernardi opera omnia; and Biblia sacra juxta vulgatam versionem. Information about electronic journals related to the study of Classics is available on a collected list. However, the best way to find information a bout individual electronic serials is to enter a title search on the Library's "E-Journal Finder" web page. For further information about these titles, please consult the Reference staff. To request a title, please contact the West European Bibliographer.
Greek and Latin have been an important part of the University's curriculum since it opened as the nation's first state university in 1795. The collections in Classics were therefore among the earliest to be built by the Library and make them some of the strongest and richest in the Southeast. The Classics collections support the study of the standard periods, genres, topics, and traditions of classical literature and history, with special strengths in Roman Law, ancient history, philology, epigraphy, and archaeology. The Library also holds most of the works of the major and minor classical authors, with notable strengths for Virgil. Bibliographies, histories, and critical studies enrich the study of these materials. In response to changing approaches to the field, the Library acquires most works of theory, methodology, and cultural studies published in English and the major European languages. The Solmsen Collection of 4,500 books from the estate of Lieselotte Solmsen is particularly noteworthy. The strengths of this working collection belonging to Prof. Friedrich (Fritz) Solmsen, one of the great Classicists of the twentieth century, are Homer, Greek philosophy, and Greek poetry and drama. The collection of scholarly journals that support Classics is very good. The Library maintains subscriptions to a high percentage of the serials indexed in L'Année philologique. A list of current print subscriptions in the discipline is available. For further information or to request a title, please consult the West European Bibliographer.
The Epigraphy Room in Davis Library houses folios and complete sets of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, the Inscriptiones Graecae, the Supplementa Italica, and important epigraphic journals that are used in conjunction with these materials. There is also an uncatalogued collection covering the history and archaeology of the Roman province of Dacia. The Epigraphy Room is located in Room 6010 in Davis Library. Users need to get a key at Circulation. For further information or to request a title, please consult the West European Bibliographer.
The internationally known Ancient World Mapping Project, housed on the fifth level of Davis Library, promotes cartography, historical geography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies. It holds some unique resources, including the Carta dell'Agro and a significant collection of the Peutingeriana. For further information, please contact the Ancient World Mapping Center.
The Maps Collection, located in Wilson Library, houses over 250,000 maps, atlases, gazetteers, cartographic reference volumes, CD-ROMs, mapping software, journals, microforms, and transparencies. It holds the complete set of the Istituto Geografico Militare maps for Italy, and UNC is the only university in the U.S. to do so. For further information, please contact the Maps Librarian.
The Media Resources Center, located in the House Undergraduate Library, has about 50 feature and documentary films on classical literature and ancient history that are accessible by country, title, genre and director. For further information about this collection or to request a title, please consult the Media Resources Librarian.
The Microform Reading Room contains hundreds of titles on microform that would be of interest to faculty and students of Classics. Particularly noteworthy is The Vergiliana Collection that includes not only Virgil's writings, but also commentaries on his works. For further information about microforms or help using them, please consult the Reference staff. To request a title, please contact the West European Bibliographer.
The Rare Book Collection in Wilson Library has several collections pertaining to Classics. Of particular importance are the Estienne Imprint Collection, a collection of classical authors published by that press during the Renaissance, and the Lucretius collection. In addition, most books relating to Classics that were published before 1800 are held in this location. For further information, please consult the Curator for the Rare Book Collection.
The Sloane Art Library holds an extensive collection of materials on classical art, including the University's complete set of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. It also has notable holdings in Near Eastern and Anatolian studies. For further information, please consult the Art Librarian.
Collections in anthropology, art, comparative literature, English literature, French literature, German literature, Italian literature, Spanish and Portuguese literature, history and religious studies extend library holdings related to Classics. Perkins Library, at Duke University, also has extensive collections of these materials. Users can therefore expect to find most of the resources they need in the area. Tufts University sponsors The Perseus Project, which includes about 600 classical texts, art, and archaeology and is available free online. The Center for Research Libraries supplements library holdings with almost 200 additional microform titles related to Classics. UNC faculty and students can request unlimited amounts of materials from CRL via the web and keep them indefinitely, or until another person needs them. For further information, please contact the West European Bibliographer.