This is a perfect place for undergraduates beginning research projects who need an overview of a new topic and a starting bibliography, and a great alternative to that frenemy of the undergrad, Wikipedia.

At under $1000, the OEAGR is a steal compared to the New Pauly, which is ca. The other major competition in the up-to-date general classics encyclopedia is Brill’s Neue Pauly/ Brill’s New Pauly, which unfortunately the UGA library only owns in German (read by precious few undergraduates, and even feared by many graduate students!). These multiple-page essays, with bibliography, are paced to better serve as an introduction to a topic. While it has fewer entries than the Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD), I think it will be of more use to the entry-level undergraduate, who I suspect finds the OCD somewhat terse and tending to assume one already has a solid base of knowledge in the classics. I was eager to see this set arrive at UGA. Its 7 volumes, comprising 3400 pages, aim to be a comprehensive introduction, in English, to classical antiquity.

Published by OUP, it is edited by Michael Gagarin of UT Austin and the contributors are well-known scholars.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome is a new (2010) work, which we received in Main Reference at UGA in March.

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