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Hours & Location | Contact Information | Facilities | Selected Classics Resources

The Classics Library was organized in 1892 by the Greek and Latin Club of Yale University as the Classical Club Library (the name was later changed to Classics Library). The Library has been located in Phelps Hall since 1896 and has been administratitvely part of the larger Arts Library system since 1999. The collection, with more than 32,000 volumes, covers many disciplines that include Greek and Latin texts, textual criticism, inscriptions, paleography, papyrology, epigraphy, Greek and Roman literature, philology, numismatics, history (prehistory, Greece and Rome, Byzantine and medieval), Greek and Roman law, classical archaeology and art, Greek and Roman mythology and religion, ancient philosophy and science, ancient music, classical scholarship, Byzantine studies, and the early history and literature of Christianity. The reference collection contains dictionaries, encyclopedias, manuals, and bibliographies for Greek and Latin studies. The Classics Library constitutes an integral part of the curricular program in the Classics Department and functions in close and vital connection with its teaching and research program. All material is non-circulating.

Hours & Location

Location  344 College Street, Phelps Hall, 5th floor, New Haven, CT

  • Summer 2011
  • Mon - Fri: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  • Sat & Sun: Closed
  • Closed Labor Day, September 5
  • Fall Hours Begin : Tuesday, September 6
Contact Information
Colin McCaffrey 
Facilities

Computer facilities include CD-ROMs of L'Annee Philologique, named CDB (Database on Classical Bibliography), Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina, and Bibliotheca Iuris Antiqui. In addition, the library has the complete edition of the subject catalogue of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome (DYABOLA); the Gnomon bibliographic database of books reviewed in the journal Gnomon; the electronic version for the PC of the Bibliographie du Centre de Documentation des Droits Antiques, and the Bibliographie Papyrologique.  One computer is available for searching ORBIS. A photocopier is available that operates with copy cards.

Selected Classics Resources