Classics

New Books

Click on this Excel file to view the latest Classics books added to the Olin Library collection. Your suggestions for books are most welcome, just email me.

LCL - Loeb Classical Library - to go digital in 2013

Richard Thomas, a professor of classics at Harvard University, and his fellow trustees at Loeb Classical Library— a 515-volume series of essential Latin and Greek texts with their English translations — are hoping to make things a little easier for non-classicists to mine the literature of the ancients. Along with the Harvard University Press, which publishes Loeb's compact, colorful print volumes, the Loeb trustees recently announced that they are preparing to convert the Loeb series to a digital format that would allow any authorized user to search the English translations of the Loeb works for specific words, ideas, and phrases. Libraries would buy licenses to provide students and other authorized users to the digital Loeb, which is expected to go live in 2013. (The Harvard press will continue selling the print versions.)

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/08/02/loeb_classical_library_plans_for_digital_version_of_its_classics#ixzz1fJ2FGZCV

Inside Higher Ed

You can now register for i Teach 2012

i teach provides opportunities for Washington University faculty from across the disciplines to exchange ideas and insights on teaching.

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Registration is now open for the i teach 2012 faculty symposium, on January 12, 2012. Please take a look at the symposium schedule and register now.

How can teaching enhance research? To find out, read the Fall 2011 i teach newsletter.

Cambridge Collections Online

Take the time to examine this collection in its entirety, and in particular, The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics & The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture. Here is a link to a guide on the features of this ebook collection and other ones. Here are three methods of searching the contents of this collection.

• Quick Search across all collections

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