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Two New Databases from Brill: New Jacoby and New Pauly

Anyone interested in digging into the ancient world will appreciate these new full-text offerings, based on classic reference works. Brill’s New Jacoby collects commentary on the fragments of 856 Greek historians, each with Greek text, English translation, new critical commentary, a brief encyclopedia-style entry, and a select bibliography. This database builds on F. Jacoby’s Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, and contains much new information, plus some new authors (though the old numbering system is retained for easy reference). The database can be browsed alphabetically by name, as well as searched by itself or in conjunction with other Brill databases; all articles include a formatted bibliographic citation. If you ever need to know everything there is to know about Androsthenes of Thasos, this is the place to look.

Brill’s New Pauly includes full-text articles, maps, site plans, genealogical tables, and black-and white photographs, covering all aspects of the ancient world, including persons, places, institutions, events, artifacts, technical terms, ideas and concepts, and the interaction of the Greeks and Romans with Semitic, Celtic, Germanic, and other cultures. You can browse the database—which contains the entire text of Metzler’s Der Neue Pauly and also all of the English translation New Pauly—in two sections, Antiquity and the Classical Tradition, and you can easily switch back and forth between English and German (the German section is more complete, as the translation is still in progress). Or (like Brill’s New Jacoby) you can search the database both by itself and in conjunction with other Brill databases. Again, all articles include a formatted bibliographic citation. Wondering where the tradition about the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow came from? Look up the article on the Celtic “Rainbow cup” in the Antiquities section.

Brill’s New Jacoby and Brill’s New Pauly can be accessed by title search in the catalog, by clicking on the Databases @ Emory link on the Pitts home page, or by using the direct links below.

http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=newjcby

http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=newpauly

Posted September 21st, 2009 by Bill Shepherd
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