CLST 3109-401 Living and Dying in Ancient Athens: Home

Formal Subject headings

When searching with subject headings in Franklin Catalog:

• It is easiest to use the "subject heading keyword" search option
  • you don't need to know what the subject headings are.
  • Looking at the subject headings in either a catalog record or from a journal database helps you find good descriptive terms to use as you search for books and articles. 
• Material culture -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
• Landscape archaeology -- Greece
• Social archaeology -- Greece
• Pottery, Greek -- -- Greece -- Athens
• Coins, Greek -- Greece -- Athens -- History
• Food habits 
• Drinking customs
• manners and customs
• Mediterranean Region -- Commerce.
  Mediterranean Region -- Social life and customs.

Freely constructed terms and phrases 

• You can construct simple or complex searches using  the "keyword expert" search
  • complex keyword search: ("ancient athens" OR Greece OR Greek) AND "material culture"
    • animals AND ancient (greece OR greek)
  • simplekeyword search:  Greek statuary and women

We have searchable and comprehensive access to both

• Archeopress 
  • Works best with simple searches.
    • In advanced search, choose the geographical reagion 
      • Greece, Aegean, Crete, Black sea
    • Add a term -- such as pottery, animal, coins... etc.  into the free text box. 
    • Search directly in Franklin may be more effective 
• BAR Digital Collection (British Archaeology Reports) 
  • use search box in upper right hand corner 
  • you can type in or two words such as statuary female (even Kithara comes up) 
  • Look through "subjects" in the left hand column, and you'll find 
    • Mediterranean
    • Greece, Aegean, Crete, Black sea
    • Classical and Hellenistic
  • you can "truncate" using ? for one letter and * for multiple letters. 
    • Greek? = could be Greek or Greeks
    • statu* = could be statute, statue, statuary, statuesque

Searching for journal articles: 

• L'Annee philologique 
  • Dedicated to the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world 
  • Literature, language, history, art, and more 
  • Choosing "advanced search" allows you to limit the language of article results 
  • Most of our databases will give you a "penn text" link to connect to a journal article or other text, in this database look for SFX. It will be at the top of the record you are looking at. 
• JSTOR Advanced Search
  • Choose journal categories:
    • Archaeology 
    • Classical Studies (only 74 journals -- compared to hundreds of journals and books covered in L'Anne philologique)
  • JSTOR is all fulltext -- if you find a journal article it should be available on the site
  • We do not have all JSTOR books
  • Proximity search: "word 1 word 2" ~maximum number of words separating the two words
    • "kylix sports"~20
  • ARSTOR (images) is now incorporated into JSTOR. 
    • After you do your search and see your results, scroll down along the left hand column. 
    • you'll see a box to check for "images" 
    • Try typing in the name of your object and then clicking on image. 
      • Kithara, kylix, tetradrachm, amphorae -- for instance bring up many images. 
• Articles+
  • Choose scholarly and peer review from the left-hand facets
  • You may also want to view newspapers or magazines
  • start with a simple search: amphora* "ancient greek" and as you find interesting articles, look at "Quick look" to find
    • summaries
    • and descriptive terms 
  • working new terms that you run across nto your search will allow you to get more precisely to articles that may meet your needs
• Google Scholar 
  • using this link to Google Scholar makes sure that your Penn credentials are recognized so that you can connect with articles and other resources to which we have subscriptions
  • If you go through this link (proxied for Penn), you'll see the "Penn Text" links to connect with actual argticles 
  • The beauty of Google Scholar is you can type exactly type a sentence exactly as you would say or think it.