HIS 332: Ancient Mediterranean Empires

This research guide is for the history course, Ancient Mediterranean Empires. Here, you should be able to find primary and secondary resources, sorted by the region(s) to which they are relevant. You may not be able to traipse through Rome and touch every material like Mary Beard, or take them out of their habitat and install them in your local museum, but you will be able to find resources to interact with in order to absorb their information, grapple with the context and information, and produce a meaningful research project.

The British Museum has several artifacts that were taken from the ancient world. 

  © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.

Fordham University has a collection of ancient sources in their Internet Sourcebook.

JSTOR contains both primary and secondary sources that can help with your research projects.

The Met has several collections of ancient art to select artifacts from to use as primary sources.

• Ancient Near East Collection
• Ancient Egyptian Collection
• Greek and Roman Collection

The Cairo Museum's photographic archive contains a collection of papyrus texts.

If you want to look outside of the resources provided for you, continue to examine the collections of museums and archives which are based in the areas of your study. Good luck!

From the Thrift Library homepage, navigate to the "Catalog" button and search your topic through this helpful resource!

This can help you search through Thrift Library's physical catalog, where you can find the material books upstairs in the library, or journal articles and e-books available online. 

Also on the Thrift Library homepage, the "Databases A-Z" button will help you navigate through academic papers. The "Group By" selection allows users to group by category, where there is a subject section for History resources. 

Some of the most helpful for this course include:

• Archives Unbound
• Book Review Index
• History Reference eBook Collection
• History Reference Source
• World History
• World History in Context

Turabian, Kate L., Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, and William T. Fitzgerald. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Ninth Edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

LOC Call Number: LB2369 .T8 2018

Use the Turabian manual as a guide for Chicago/Turabian style.

Use the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide as an online resource to develop notes and bibliography for your research.

The Turabian Quick Guide provides an online resource as a guide for using Chicago/Turabian style.

Thrift Library recommends using Zotero for reference management.

Once you save an article, book, webpage, etc. to Zotero it will generate citations in the style guide of your choice. It also does so much more! With Zotero, you can...

• Save PDFs and Snapshots of your sources to folders in your library
• Annotate PDFs (when you copy and paste text from an annotated file it will automatically add quotation marks and the author, date, and page number in a parenthetical citation.)
• Search your entire library
• Generate bibliographies 

Zotero is a desktop app that also has a web library for when you need to access your library away from your primary computer. 

Zotero also offers browser connectors that enables users to save sources with a single click. 

More information about reference management as well as other available tools can be found in LibraryDIY under Citation Tools.

Zotero is a citation guide which you can use to map your research project resources.  Below is a step-by-step photo guide to using Zotero to create a bibliographical citation. However, you can also use the Zotero Connector browser extension, and Zotero will automatically generate the citation for you! Just be sure to check for any errors. 

Morley, Neville. Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches. London: Routledge, 2002.

Meijer, Fik, and Onno van Nijf. Trade, Transport and Society in the Ancient World. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. 

Roisman, Joseph. Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander: The Evidence. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Arnaoutoglou, Ilias. Ancient Greek Laws: A Sourcebook. Oxford: Taylor & Francis Group, 1998.

Humphrey, John W., John P. Oleson, and Andrew N. Sherwood. Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook : Annotated Translations of Greek and Latin Texts and Documents. New York: Routledge, 2009.

Irby-Massie, Georgia L. Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge, 2002.

Cotter, Wendy. Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge, 1999.

Tomarchio, John. A Sourcebook for Ancient Greek : Grammar, Poetry, and Prose. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Education Press, 2022. 

Sweet, Waldo E. Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook with Translations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Carey, Christopher. Trials from Classical Athens. Milton: Routledge, 1997.

Sage, Michael. Warfare in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook. Oxford: Taylor & Francis Group, 1996.

MacLachlan, Bonnie. Women in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook. London: Continuum, 2012.

Kraemer, Ross Shepard. Women’s Religions in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Schwartz, Matthew B. Biblical Stories for Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge, 2012.

Hewitt, Jim. Egypt Visual Sourcebook: For Artists, Architects, and Designers. New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2011.

Hays, Christopher B. Hidden Riches: A Sourcebook for the Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2014.

Scurlock, JoAnn. Sourcebook for Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2014. 

Kugel, James L. Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible as It Was at the Start of the Common Era. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Rice, Michael. Who’s Who in Ancient Egypt. London: Routledge, 1999.

Harvey, Brian K. Daily Life in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook. Indianapolis: Focus, an imprint of Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2016.

This book is only available as a physical copy under LOC Call Number DG78 .D135 2016.

Levick, Barbara. The Government of the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge, 2000.

Humphrey, John W., John P. Oleson, and Andrew N. Sherwood. Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook : Annotated Translations of Greek and Latin Texts and Documents. New York: Routledge, 2009.

Cotter, Wendy. Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge, 1999.

Beard, Mary. Religions of Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Futrell, Alison. The Roman Games: A Sourcebook. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2006.

Parkin, Tim, and Arthur Pomeroy. Roman Social History: A Sourcebook. Oxford: Routledge, 2007.

MacLachlan, Bonnie. Women in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook. Bloomsbury Sources in Ancient History. London, England: Bloomsbury, 2013.

This title is only available as a physical copy at Thrift Library, using the LOC Call Number HQ1136 .M34 2013

Evans Grubbs, Judith. Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and Widowhood. Oxford: Routledge, 2002.

Kraemer, Ross Shepard. Women’s Religions in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2004.