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 an appointment: Open the Humanities box, and scroll down to Rebecca Stuhr

Rebecca has office hours in the Classics Lounge, Cohen Hall 2nd floor

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*
• names of various trades and occupations 

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

Gynaeceum scene: women weaving.
Detail from an Attic black-figure epinetron
Photography by Marie-Lan Nguyen