Here are some resources for the study of the Latin language. The Classics Department also maintains a more comprehensive reference guide to classical studies on their departmental home page.
The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. This is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. (For help in citing this, see the annotation). View:OnlineAnnotation
Reference Materials
Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar
- PA2087 .A525 1931
The library print copy is the 1931 edition. An online version of the 1903 edition is available through the Perseus Project. View:In Print
Cassell's New Latin Dictionary
- PA2365 .L3 C3
A popular and reliable desk dictionary (Latin-English; English-Latin). View:In Print
Oxford Latin Dictionary
- PA2365 .E5 O9 1982
The standard reference for Classical Latin from its beginnings to the end of the 2d century AD. Includes words for literary and non-literary sources with brief etymological notes and quotations illustrating usage. View:In Print
Web Sources
Cambridge Gateway to Classics Resources on the Web
A gateway to web resources in all areas of classical studies, arranged under six headings: literature; philosophy and science; history; art history and architecture; linguistics and philology; general. View:Online
Intute: Arts and Humanities
A major UK web portal for the finest Arts and Humanities web resources for education and research. More than 18,000 sites have been selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists and made available through an intuitive search interface. View:Online
Perseus Project
The Classics Collection of the (now) broader Perseus Project contains extensive and diverse resources including primary and secondary texts, site plans, digital images, and maps related to the Greek and Roman world. View:Online
Textkit: Greek and Latin Learning Tools
Textkit is the Internet's largest provider of free and fully downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers. With currently 146 free books to choose from, Greek and Latin learners have downloaded 648,431 grammars, readers and classical e-books. There are also many other areas of Textkit which can help you learn Greek and Latin. View:Online
For a general guide to searching WebCat, the library's online catalog, see the library's guides Searching WebCat - Basic or Searching WebCat - Advanced. Here are some representative formats for subject headings relevant to the Latin language:
Latin language--Grammar
Latin language--Study and teaching
Latin language, Medieval and modern--Dictionaries
Latin language--Religious aspects--Christianity
Paleography, Latin--Abbreviations
A good way to find specific LC Subject Headings is to look up the bibliographic record of a book on your topic in the catalog, and then read the description and information in that record. Near the end of that information several LC Subject Headings will be given as links. If you click on these, the catalog will call up other books on that topic in the collection.
You may want to start with a keyword search, then read the information provided in several of the bibliographical records for several books, and locate the subject headings given there. Then click on the subject heading link to discover other books on that topic.
