Classical Studies : Geography & Environment :
a guide to library resources
Contents:
Starting points | Finding books |Finding journal articles etc.
STARTING POINTS
The following are selected introductory texts/overviews. For Atlases & Maps of the Classical Period follow this link
City in the ancient world (1972) [print]
[A survey of ancient cities which includes a chronological survey and extensive bibliographies]
Dawn of modern geography (3 vols. 1897-1906) [print]
[A history of exploration and geographical science from the conversion of the Roman Empire up to AD900]
Ecology of the ancient Greek world (1991) [print]
[An ecological history of the ancient Greek world which includes the relationship between human population & the land]
Encyclopedia of historic places (2 vols, 1984) [print]
[Detailed coverage of all geographic locations of historical significance]
Environment and the classical world (1998) [print]
[Introduction to the ways in which the natural world dictated the development of Greek and Roman society]
Four thousand years of urban growth : an historical census (2nd ed. 1987) [print]
[Provides available data on urban population mostly from 800AD]
Geographic background of Greek and Roman history (1967) [print]
[Investigates the influence of geographic environment on the world of ancient Greece and Rome]
Geological companion to Greece and the Aegean (1996) [print]
[An account of the geology of the Aegean area with particular emphasis on archaeological sites & on the way in which the geological environment shaped human settlement in antiquity]
Greeks and the environment (1997) [print]
[Explores Ancient Greek thought regarding the natural enviornment]
History of cartography (1987) [print]
[Volume 1 of this publication covers cartography in prehistoric, ancient, and medieval Europe and the Mediterranean]
Pan's travail : environmental problems of the ancient Greeks and Romans (1993) [print]
[Provides a picture of the relationship of the Greeks & Romans to their environment]
Roman cities (1983) [print]
[Introduction to Roman cities]
If you need to identify place-names, the following are available:
New topographical dictionary of ancient Rome (1992) [print]
[Catalogues monuments and landmarks that are mentioned by ancient testimonia or discovered by modern archaeology. It replaces the Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (1929) which nevertheless still contains much useful information & is freely available via the web]
Classical gazetteer [web access] [NOT WORKING AS AT 4TH JULY 2007]
[This was published 1851 so the contents should be used with caution]
Guide to the ancient world : a dictionary of classical place names (1986) [print]
[Covers the Mediterranean region up to the late 5th century AD]
The following more specialised sources are also available
Ancient Greek theophoric toponyms [print]
[A collection of city names & toponyms which are related to the names of the gods, goddesses, heroes & other mythological figures of the Greek pantheon. Reprint of the original 1936 German edition]
Lexicon of the Greek and Roman cities and place names in antiquity, ca 1500 B.C.-ca A.D. 500 [print]
[On-going series being issued in fascicli]
Lexicon topographicum urbis Romae (6 vols, 1993-2000) [print]
[Provides an account of public and private buildings and monuments for the city of Rome up to the 7th century AD]
Mapping Augustan Rome (2002) [print]
[The topography and monuments of Rome as they existed in AD14]
Orbis Latinus : Lexikon lateinischer geographischer Namen (4th ed. 1971) [print]
[Consists of 2 lists : Latin place-names followed by modern equivalents, & modern place-names followed by Latin equivalents. Note: the modern names are in German. The 1909 edition is available freely via the Web]
Pictorial dictionary of ancient Athens (1971) [print]
Pictorial dictionary of ancient Rome (1968) [print]
[Reference works on the topography and ancient monuments of Athens and Rome]
FINDING BOOKS USING THE LIBRARY CATALOGUE
Books can be found by searching the library catalogue. The following are terms which can be browsed using the Subject Heading option:
- Cities and towns, Ancient
- Cities and towns, Ancient Greece
- Cities and towns, Ancient Rome
City-states Greece
- Classical Geography
- Demography Rome
- Geography Ancient
- Geography History
- Geography Rome
- Greece Description and travel
- Human Ecology Greece
- Human Ecology Rome
- Names, Geographical Greece
- Names, Geographical Rome
- Population History
- Rome Description and travel
- Rome Population
Or construct your own keyword searches. Here are some examples:
"human ecology" and greece
rome and (population or demograph?)
environment? and history and (greece or rome or mediterr?)
Click here if you need help with constructing keyword searches using techniques such as truncation and Boolean operators
FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES USING DATABASES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES
For most topics the databases listed in the Databases for Classics guide should be sufficient, but those researchers needing to undertake a more comprehensive literature search should note the following additional sources:
L'Annee philologique [print]
[The premier index for Classics - if it's unfamiliar, read this description before attempting to use it. See especially Section VIII.D : Sciences et Techniques de la Terre for topics in geography, & Section VIII.E : Sciences et Techniques de la Vie in each annual printed volume]
GEOBASE [electronic]
[Global index to geography (physical & social), ecology & the environment, earth science, marine science. Includes historical geography references]
Bibliography of Italian Land Use and Settlement in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages [web access]
Census populi : bibliographie de la demographie de l`antiquite romaine (1988) [print]
This page is maintained by Jennifer Osborn
Last update: 3 August 2007
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