ANCH 136 The Ancient Economy: Home

These resources can help you come up with dates, names, additional vocabulary and variant spellings for your research. They can also help you develop a better understanding of your topic or give you ideas for comparisons and contrasts.

Rebecca Stuhr is the librarian specialists for Classical Studies. 
You can arrange  individual appointments or ask questions by email by contacting Rebecca at stuhrreb @ upenn.edu or click the button just below to find a time that works for you:

Schedule Appointment

Rebecca also has office hours  in the Classics Lounge, Cohen Hall 2nd floor:  Mondays 1-2 and Thursdays 12:30-1:30. Feel free to drop in any time.

Examples of keywords or subject terms to combine and use as you search Franklin Catalog or databses listed below. Use an * to truncate words (gree*=greece or greek; farm*=farm, farms, farmstead) for better searching.

• greece, greek, rome, roman
• agriculture, econom*, trade, farm*, animals, [type of animal], crops, food [specific crops or food]
• networks, connections, routes, transport*
• coins, treasurey, finance
• domestic, home, labor, work, textiles
• famil*, children,
• archaeolog*, bioarchaeolog*, zooarchaeolog*
• disease, mortality, plague, illness, death
• rural, urban, countryside, [locations], landscape
• enviornment*, eco*, geograph*

These databases will also uncover book chapters along with articles in journals

Gynaeceum scene: women weaving.
Detail from an Attic black-figure epinetron