DCB

 

 

Database of Classical Bibliography

Transforming the retrospective volumes of L'Année Philologique for the computer age.

Dee L. Clayman, Director and General Editor

We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of
  • The National Endowment for the Humanities

    • Special announcement

    The joint website, combining data from the DCB and the Année Philologique (vols. 20-76, 1949-2005), is now open at www.annee-philologique.com. A one-year subscription for an individual costs 45 Euros plus the VAT tax. It is possible to subscribe using a credit card directly from the site which also has information about institutional subscriptions. The database is now complete from 1949 to 2004.

    History and Mission

    The Database of Classical Bibliography (DCB) was created by the American Philological Association in 1989 in co-operation with the Société internationale de bibliographie classique, publishers of the Année Philologique, (APh) and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where the project is housed. Our mission is to transform the printed volumes of the Année Philologique into a computer database in order to preserve the scholarly record of research in Greco-Roman antiquity and to make it widely available.

    The Année Philologique, is a bibliography without peer, containing citations of all known scholarly work on classical antiquity published in any language, anywhere in the world. Its subjects are Greek and Latin literature and linguistics, including early Christian texts and patristics, Greek and Roman history, philosophy, art, archaeology, religion, mythology, music, science and scholarly sub-specialties such as numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy. Its coverage begins in the second millennium B. C. E. with pre-classical archaeology, and ends with the period of transition from late antiquity to the middle ages (roughly 500-800 C.E.), extending from the physical centers of ancient Greece and Rome to Northern and Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, the Middle East, and North Africa.

    Complementing the APh's excellent coverage are its high editorial standards. Among publications devoted to the advancement of classical studies around the world, none has done more to facilitate scholarly work at all levels by improving its quality, increasing its efficiency, and teaching, by example, the virtues of accuracy, organization and comprehensiveness. No serious research on Greco-Roman antiquity ever goes forward without it.

    The APh was founded in Paris in 1927 by J. Marouaeau and has been published annually since then. Juliette Ernst, who worked with Marouzeau from the earliest years, and whose heroic efforts kept the bibliography alive during the Second World War, succeeded him as director in 1965. She retired in 1992 at age 92. Today, bibliographical references are collected at a central office in Paris, directed by Pierre-Paul Corsetti and by collaborating offices in Cincinnati OH, Heidelberg, Genoa and Grenada.

    The DCB Database

    The DCB central database, begun in 1989 under the direction of Dee L. Clayman, now contains more than 700,000 records including the entire contents of volumes 8-63 (1935-1982) of the Année Philologique. It was published on CD-ROM in 1995 and 1997. Both editions sold out and are now out of print, but they can still be consulted in university libraries.

    The DCB database of retrospective bibliography is complemented by the Année Philologique's database of recent bibliography containing volumes 64-76 (1993-2005). The two have now been combined into a single database which is available online at www.annee-philologique.com.

    Please direct all inqueries to:
    Emily Fairey

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