Research Guides: CLA331-001 Gender and Sexuality in Antiquity: Getting Started

Getting Started on your Research

Research 101
Writing Center
Individual and group consultations for all UK students, faculty, and staff with the process of composing and communicating in writing, speaking, and multimedia projects across the curriculum.

MLA Formatting and Style Guide
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OWL, Purdue University's Online Writing Lab, has created an online overview to help writers cite sources using MLA style, including the list of works cited and in-text citations.

(Please note: There is a citation generator on this site that is not free or recommended. See the list of recommended citation generators on our guide to Style Guides and Manuals.)

Modern & Classical Languages Department
This links to the home page of the University of Kentucky's Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
Gender & Women Studies
Describes the gender and women studies options available at the University of Kentucky.
Gender Studies Research
Outlines areas in Gender and Women's Studies where MCLL are conducting research.

Diotima
Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World

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Diotíma (v. 3.0), a resource for information on women, gender, sex, sexualities, race, ethnicity, class, status, masculinity, enslavement, disability, and the intersections among them in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Why Diotíma? She’s the sage who taught Socrates the “philosophy of love” in Plato’s Symposium. She’s probably not real. Why docta femina in the site’s address? She’s the educated woman audience of the Roman elegists. She’s not real either. But hopefully through the materials on the site, you can find information about real ancient Greeks and Romans for your research, teaching, and personal interest.
Electronic Resources for Classicists
This page contains a list of resources for Classicists.

Oxford Reference / Classical Studies reference books
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Ready-reference book collection. Search or browse the Classics subject. Search within a book or search the whole database of Oxford Reference.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
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A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

JSTOR
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Searchable full-text journal backfile collection. Individual titles are listed in the E-Journals A-Z.
Academic Search Complete
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Multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
L'Annee Philologique
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Published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, L'Annee Philologique is a bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. Includes all volumes of the annual index, beginning with Volume I published in 1928.

Oxford Art Online
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Covers the visual arts from prehistory to the present day with full-text definitions, biographies and bibliographies. Now includes The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Image partners include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Art Images for College Teaching (AICT), and the Artists Rights Society. Part of Oxford Art Online. Database restricted to three simultaneous users; please logout (upper right-hand corner) when finished using the database.

Films on Demand
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These are primarily documentaries.
Theatre in Video
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Contains information on Medea, Trojan Women and other plays.