Introduction
The reference bibliography for academic publications relating to Ancient Greek and Roman Civilization
L’Année philologique, published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, is a specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. The bibliography is published in print and online. The online database includes all volumes of the annual index, beginning with Volume I published in 1928. Both the online and print publications are now available via Brepols Publishers.
Broad coverage on a variety of subject areas
L’Année philologique covers a wide array of subjects, including Greek and Latin literature and linguistics—which includes early Christian texts and patristics—Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, science, and scholarly subspecialties such as numismatics, papyrology, and epigraphy.
Abstracts of journal articles are provided in English, German, Spanish, French, or Italian. Book entries may include tables of contents and book review information.
An international bibliography
L’Année philologique is international in character, not only in terms of the origins of the publications it indexes, but also in terms of its production, with teams from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States collaborating together and coordinated by the editorial director to keep the database up-to-date.
New Interface
Since February 2024 we gave APh’s interface an important update with improved search functionalities. A beta version is now available for testing. The old version of the interface remains available.
For more details, please visit https://about.brepolis.net/brepolis-bibliographies-new-interface-beta/
Key Features
- Broad coverage of publications related to Antiquity, including Late Antiquity
- 1,480,000+ entries (publication records, and book review references)
- About 14,000 references added annually
- More than 1,000 journals indexed
- Records include abstracts for articles, citations of reviews for monographs, and tables of contents for edited volumes
- Multiple search fields: author, title, year of publication, subject, etc.
- DOI links to the full text of a book or article
- Live links to ancient authors and texts in the Library of Latin Texts, Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, and full-text resources on the Classical Works Knowledge Base
- Several export formats (EndNote, Zotero, RefWorks, RIS, Microsoft Office Word)
- Multi-lingual interface
- Metrics component that enables users to examine in detail trends in Classics, see journal profiles (e.g. information on subjects and periods covered), and find authors’ publication profiles
- Compatible with OpenURL, facilitating linkage to full text
- Email alerts
Coverage
The list of covered journals is available here.
The list (PDF) of journals abbreviations used in L’Année philologique can be found here.
Partner
L’Année Philologique is realised in collaboration with the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique.
Leaflets
English version (PDF)
French version (PDF)
Flyer
English version (PDF)
Slides
Introduction (PPT).
Related Databases
Apart from L’Année Philologique (covering Antiquity), Brepols publishes a wide range of other online bibliographies: the International Medieval Bibliography and the Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale (covering the Middle Ages), the International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance (covering Early Modern History), the Bibliography of British and Irish History, and the Index Religiosus (covering theology, religious sciences, and Church history).
Linked Databases
- Live links to ancient authors and texts in the Library of Latin Texts (published by Brepols) and to external full-text resources on the Classical Works Knowledge Base, including PHI Classical Texts, Perseus Digital Library and Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
- Live links to the biographies of Greek and Roman Philosophers in the Dictionnaire des Philosophes Antiques (DPhA)
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