LibGuides: CLAS 1310: Daily Life in Ancient Greece (Pache): Find Primary Sources

Primary Sources in Print in the Library

Coates Library Catalog
Use the library catalog to search for books on your topic. Conduct keyword searches using author names, book titles, or particular subjects. You may begin your search using broad terms and keywords, and narrow your results as you find useful information.

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Collection (in print)
The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum provides access to a collection of images of primarily Greek ancient vases dating from 6,000 B.C. to 400 A.D. from more than 120 collections in 26 countries. Each museum that contributes to the CVA project may or may not include their image collections in the CVA online. To access print copies of the CVA, visit the Special Collections department in the library.

Loeb Classical Library

Loeb Classical Library
This online database including all of the publications in the Loeb series of classical texts is searchable by subject or can be browsed by title or author.

Visual Primary Sources Available from the Library

ARTstor
This database includes digital images of art and material culture from the Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection, the Huntington Archive of Asian Art, the Illustrated Bartsch, the Mellon International Danhuang Archive (MIDA), the Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection, and the Image Gallery, ARTstor`s own collection of images for the teaching of art history and other fields in the humanities and social sciences. This latter collection includes over 4,000 images in the Art History Survey Collection, images selected on the basis of a concordance of ten standard art history survey texts.

15,000 B.C.E.-present

Primary Sources on the Internet

Perseus Digital Library
Digital library offering access to primary texts, secondary sources, site plans, digital images, and maps. Also includes word study tools as well as extensive art and archaeology catalogs.
Beazley Archive
Sponsored by Oxford University, this archive includes image and text resources from more than 20 archival databases.
Ancient World Mapping Center
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill comes the website for this interdisciplinary mapping research center. A number of independent projects have been incorporated into the AWMCs work over the years as well, and aside from interactive ancient world maps available for purchase, the site includes free downloadable maps.
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum provides access to a collection of images of primarily Greek ancient vases dating from 6,000 B.C. to 400 A.D. from more than 120 collections in 26 countries. This searchable database of digitized text and images, is browsable by country and museum, and searchable by fabric, technique, provenance and other aspects.