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Homer (7th Century)

RESOURCES:

Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).

SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>

Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Homer.

DATABASE	SEARCH TERMS	RESULTS
Academic Search Premier	*homer* Perform the basic search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text," and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals."	Provides a good number of relevant items.
Arts & Sciences Collection	*homer* JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collection, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details).	Provides a good number of excellent items.
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online	*homer* Perform the default search.	Provides a significant number of poems.
Encyclopedia Britannica	*homer* Perform the default search.	Provides a primary encyclopedia article, several related articles and a couple of Web sites.
Expanded Academic ASAP	*homer* Perform the Keyword search, NOT the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text" and "to refereed publication."	Provides a good number of worthy items.
Literature Resource Center	*homer* Perform the default (author) search. After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, Web links, and journal articles (many are full-text).	Provides a small number of quality documents.
netLibrary	*homer* Perform the basic search and select the Full Text checkbox.	Provides a large number of eBooks that refer to the author, along with a small number that focus on him and his works.
Research Library Complete	*homer* Perform the basic search. Set the "Database" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary -Research Library." Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and "Scholarly journals."	Provides a significant number of excellent items.
Scribner's	Select "Writers A-Z" and click on the *Homer* link.	Provides an essay about the author and his works, along with a bibliography.
SIRS Renaissance	*homer* Perform the "Quick Search."	Provides a small number of excellent items.
Twayne Authors Series- Twayne World, English and US Authors	Select "Writers A-Z" and click on the *Homer* link.	Provides a number of quality items.

SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>

The following bibliography is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
Circulating books not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary loan.
eBooks are electronic books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide via the Internet.

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
Ref PN6815C57 v. 1
Location: Troy-FWR
Benet's reader's encyclopedia
Ref PN41B4 1987
Location: Troy-FWR

The reader's adviser
Ref Z1035R42 1994 v. 2 & 4
Location: Troy-FWR

Iliad
PA4025.A2.L66 1997
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

The Odyssey: a verse translation, backgrounds, criticism
PA4025 .A5 C57 1993
Location: Troy, AL; Phenix City

An essay on the original genius and writings of Homer, with a comparative view of the ancient and present state of the Troade
PA4037.A2 W7 1973
Location: Troy, AL

The compact Homer: the Iliad and the Odyssey
PA4025.A1 B8
Location: Troy, AL

Homer: poet of the Iliad
PA4037 .E39 1990
Location: Troy, AL; Montgomery

Readings on Homer
PA4037 .R42 1998
Location: Troy, AL; Phenix City

From Homer to tragedy: the art of allusion in Greek poetry
PA3136.G37 1990
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

The odyssey
Location: eBook

Greek writing from Knossos to Homer: a linguistic interpretation of the origin of the Greek alphabet and the continuity of ancient Greek literacy
Location: eBook

Homer the theologian: neoplatonist allegorical reading and the growth of the epic tradition
Location: eBook

Homeric vocabularies; Greek and English word-lists for the study of Homer
Location: eBook

Moral codes and social structure in ancient Greece: a sociology of Greek ethics from Homer to the Epicureans and Stoics
Location: eBook

The tradition of the Trojan war in Homer and the epic cycle
Location: eBook

Homer's Iliad
Location: eBook

SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>
About Homer
http://www.underthesun.cc/Classics/Homer
Homer
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C040C0C
Homer
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MINOA/HOMER.HTM
Homer Home Page
http://www.enl.umassd.edu/InteractiveCourse/Homer/homer.html

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