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History : Ancient: Books & eBooks

A research guide to primary and secondary sources for ancient history.

Selected eBooks

Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity : Intellectual and Material Transformations.
Slavery and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity
Alexander the Great in his World
Spartan Women
Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World
Freedom and Power in Classical Athens
The Body Politic in Roman Political Thought
The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture
From Hannibal to Sulla: The Birth of Civil War in Republican Rome
Believing Ancient Women: Feminist Epistemologies for Greece and Rome
Insults in Classical Athens
Dolia: The Containers That Made Rome an Empire of Wine
The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361–630
The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus
Roman Aquileia: The Impenetrable
Birthing Romans: Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome
Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome
Populus: Living and Dying in Ancient Rome

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Browsing Ancient History

The UW Libraries arranges books by Library of Congress call numbers. Though history is covered in every discipline (e.g., women's history may be located in the women's studies call numbers while the medical history may be in the medicine call numbers), the major sections for ancient history are listed below.

DE Greco-Roman Suz 4
DF10-DF289 Ancient Greece Suz 4
DG11-DG365 Ancient Italy Suz 4


For a more specific breakdown of the call numbers see the Library of Congress Classification Online.

Subjects: Classics, History