LibGuides: Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology: Getting started

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Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Subject Pages

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Recommended resources to get you started

Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics collection offers thousands of comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers. For the author Companions, each writer is placed in literary and historical context; their major works are analysed,either in separate chapters or grouped according to theme, and their influence on later writers assessed.
Oxford Scholarship Online : Classical Studies Collection
Full text of Oxford University Press books in classical studies
Very Short Introductions (Oxford University Press)
Launched by Oxford University Press in 1995, Very Short Introductions offer concise introductions to a diverse range of subject areas from Climate to Consciousness, Game Theory to Ancient Warfare, Privacy to Islamic History, Economics to Literary Theory.