Use this selection of online encyclopedias and dictionaries to find reliable background information, overviews and key resources from articles' bibliographies
Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport by 
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History by 
The Oxford Classical Dictionary by 
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites by 
Brill's New Pauly by 
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Updated regularly. A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources. Fully searchable across all files.
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Updated annually. Corresponds to the printed L'Annee Philologique, the international critical and analytical bibliography of ancient Greek and Latin languages and literatures and classical studies. Provides 350,000 bibliographic records for the years 1949 to the present, with 12,500 new records added each year. The international offices analyze 1,500 periodicals each year as well as 500 articles in collections and conference papers.
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This is the free version of the DYABOLA database. DYABOLA (Dynamically Accumulating Database on Objects and Literature About Antiquity) provides citations to books, articles, and essays on classical, early Christian, Byzantine, early Medieval, and ancient Middle Eastern antiquities, art, and archaeology.
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Updated regularly. Offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. Includes archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
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Updated monthly. Provides citations, many with abstracts, of periodical and monographic literature in the areas of sport, recreation, exercise physiology, sports medicine, coaching, physical fitness, the psychology, history and sociology of sport, training, and conditioning. Includes full text coverage for more than 415 indexed journals starting in 1985. Coverage is international.
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Updated quarterly. TOCS-IN (Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists) provides tables of contents of about 200 journals of interest to classicists. Where possible, links to online abstracts or full text are provided (about 6%).
Pictures and images of artifacts, places and objects from the ancient world can provide key evidence to life from that time. There are many sources for such images, including books, articles and the internet. Below are listed some authoritative sources from the internet:
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Updated regularly. Comprised of over 2.5 million digital images of visual material encompassing artistic and historical traditions across many time periods and cultures. Focuses on, but is not limited to, the arts. Includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. Designed to be used by researchers in fields that do not traditionally use images as well as by art historians.
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Updated daily. Provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with annual additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.
Covers the artistic traditions of the world's leading cultures, countries, cities, towns, and regions as well as important archaeological sites, monuments, and buildings. Includes over 45,000 signed articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory through the present as well as over 40,000 web links to important art images in galleries and museums around the world. Both the fine arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the decorative arts (ceramics, textiles, jewellery, interior design, furniture, glass, metalwork, and more) are included.
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Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World by The Stark Center (NEZ 5.700) has created a reserve cart of book material relevant to this assignment. You’ll find several books detailing the games and sports played by various ancient cultures with most books also providing information about the culture, politics and lifestyles of the people living during this time. These books do not circulate, so must be used at the Stark Center. You may visit the Center Monday-Friday, 9am – 5pm. If you have any questions about the collection you can email the Stark Center at info@starkcenter.org.
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