Odyssey (EN1021)

Background Information	Research Process Flow Chart (Inspiration)
Books & Videos at Landmark College	Research Process Flow Chart (Word)
Books & Videos at Other Libraries	Search Terms Worksheet (Word)
Articles	Formulating a Research Question (Word)
Websites
Citations

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Find Background Information

Reference area (first floor)

  Daily Life through World History in Primary Documents —909 D133

  Encyclopedia of World History — 909 E565 v.1

  Encyclopedia of Art — 703 F142 v.1

  Classical Literature & Its Times - 880.9 M913C

  Encyclopedia of the Ancient World -- 930.003 E56

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Available      Great Lives from History: Ancient & Medieval Series — 920.009 GRE

  Weapons & Warfare: Ancient & Medieval -- 623.409 W362 v. 1

Greece

  Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World — 938.003 SAC 1995

  Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece — 938 ADK

Database

• Britannica Online
  This comprehensive online encyclopedia is an excellent source for background information on all aspects of Ancient Greece. For example:
  Greek Mythology or Ancient Greek Civilization

Find Books & Films at the Landmark College Library

Use the Library Catalog to search for other books and films at the Landmark College Library.

Book stacks (second floor)

• Ancient Greece:  From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times — 938 MAR

• Warrior: A Visual History of the Fighting Man -- 355.0209 G762 w

• The Ancient World at War: A Global History — 930 A541

• The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece — 938 C177

• The Cambridge Companion to Homer — 883.01 C178

• Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs:  Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World — 358.34 M473G

• The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome — 930 B344H

• Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad — 883.01 B821H

• Homer's The Odyssey — 883.01 HOM

• Homosexuality and Civilization — 306.76609

• 7000 Years of Jewelry — 739.2709 S497

• Women in Greek Myth — 292.1308 L493W

E-Book

• The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity
  

Videos in our collection (second floor)

• Aegean: Legacy of Atlantis (VHS) — 939.1 AEG 1995
• Ancient Greek Civilization, Part I (VHS) — 938 ANC
• Helen of Troy (DVD) — 291.13 H4745
• Iphigenia (DVD) — 882.01 E895I
• The Odyssey (DVD) — 791.4372 O277
• The Trojan Women (DVD) — 882.01 E895T
• Troy (DVD) 791.4372 T8644

 

Find Books & Films Available from Other Libraries

1. Search in WorldCat for an item:
   

   Search for an item in libraries near you: Enter title, subject or author
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2. Print-out the record for the item you want and bring it the front desk of the library OR email the information to library@landmark.edu
3. Allow up to two weeks (average is one week) for the materials to arrive.

Find Articles

Use the Search Term Worksheet to organize your search strategy (Word)

Databases

• Academic Search Premier
  Includes a large collection of scholarly articles on archaic Greece, Homer, and the Odyssey.
  • Try an Advanced Search

• PowerSearch
  Cross-search multiple databases including academic journals.

• JSTOR
  Full Text articles from scholarly journals - some dating back to the 1800's
  • Advanced Search Check the Articles box to eliminate book reviews

 

Websites

Use the C.R.A.P. Test to evaluate your web sources (Word)
Getting the Goods from Google (Word)

• Greek Art in the Archaic Period
  http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/argk/hd_argk.htm

• Barbarians and Bureaucrats: Minoa, Mycenae, and the Greek Dark Ages http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MINOA/MINOA.HTM

• Mycenae: Research and Publication http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/aha/kaw/Mycenae/mycenaeindex.htm

• Timeline of Art History: Metropolitan Museum of Art
  http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/intro/atr/04sm.htm

• Troy: Northern Virginia Community College
  http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/Eli/Troy/new/troyweb/index.html

• Troy: University of Cincinnati
  http://cerhas.uc.edu/troy/

 

Citations

• NoodleBib
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