L'Année philologique is in the reference room (Z7016.A56); there is another copy at 481 Main Street room 302. Please ask me to show you how to use it if you can't find things. If you carry volumes of this around the library in order to make it more convenient to find things, please carry the volumes back to their proper place in the Reference Room. More instructions on how to use L'Année philologique.

The first section of this reference work is alphabetical by ancient author, beginning on page 1, usually with Ablabius. This is the part where you look for articles about a specific ancient author. Note: there is no upper-case U in Latin, and often no lower-case v, thus Livy (Titus Livius) comes out Titus Liuius or TITVS LIVIVS (similarly with other authors).

There are indices in the back. The one you want to use is Index Nominum Antiquorum (Index of Ancient Names) to find a person who is not an author. The spelling in this index may not be what you are used to (Thucydides comes out Thoukudides, which is a direct transliteration of the Greek; in general, any Greek name you have learnt with a C in it will have K instead). Romans may be found either under their familiar name (Cicero, Caesar) or their Roman family name, which is a more proper way (Tullius and Iulius, respectively). For any volume of L'Année philologique from 1976 through 2002, the list of numbers after each name will be to entry numbers (there are many entries on each page), not to page numbers. Prior to 1976 the entry numbers were not used (see the example of an article by Henderson, below, from 1963).

To find the volume number of your volume of L'Année philologique, look on the spine. It will be in Roman numerals, which you need to translate to Arabic numbers.

Here is an example from 1983, p. 83, straight out of L'Année philologique: Konrad C.F., "Reges Armenii patricios resalutare non solent?" A note on Cicero, Ad Att. 2.7.2. f.: AJPh CIV 1983 278-281. / Cicero's jibes at Clodius show how he misread the situation in the spring of 59. [1388

The part beginning "Cicero's jibes" is a synopsis of the article. You don't want to pay attention to that at this point and it doesn't matter what language the synopsis is written in; if the article title is in English, the article is in English. This entry is an article, not a book (you can't use books for this project). You can tell it's an article because the title of the work is followed by a bunch of letters (AJPh) that look like an abbreviation, then Roman numerals (the volume number, which you need to translate into Arabic numerals), year, and page numbers. Then there is a synopsis of the contents, often written in French but not in this case. Last, there is the entry number (1388), which you would need to reproduce (see the sample below) as 54-01388 if you had to get this article from Interlibrary Loan (they like to have an exact reference showing that an article they request from another institution actually exists). Where does the 54 come from? 1983 is volume 54 of L'Année philologique. You can tell that by looking on the spine of the book (it says LIV).

How do you find out what AJPh means? You look up AJPh in the abbreviations in the front, and will find it on p. xvii. It stands for American Journal of Philology. Check Voyager. This periodical is in our library.

How to cite an article in the traditional manner (the order of elements is usually different in L'Année philologique:

Henderson, M.I. "The Establishment of the 'equester ordo'." JRS 53 (1963) 61-72. [JRS is the Journal of Roman Studies] APh volume 34 (1963) p. 502

Calore, Antonello. "L'aiuto ai proscritti sillani," Labeo 35 (1989) 194-214. 71-11405
    This last entry is neither in English nor in a journal available at UVM; I put it here because it was handy on my desktop with the reference to L'Année philologique. The 71 is the volume number, 11405 the entry number.

Details and Rules:

The extra credit assignment is to find three articles about any one ancient person or important event, narrowly defined (e.g., Battle of Gaugamela is acceptable but Alexander's world vision is too broad a topic)

Each student must have a different topic.

Once you find the three articles, read them and write a short critical analysis of each one. Do not use the synopsis in L'Année philologique, which, if in English, usually comes straight from the concluding paragraph of the article and is not an accurate analysis. If you have ever done an annotated bibliography before, that is what you ought to do; rational criticism of each author's thesis and methods will make your analysis useful (and get a better grade).

Sample Project

Late projects lose ten percentage points each weekday. It is not only acceptable, but a good idea, to complete the project before the due date.

In order to avoid being late, you may send the project as an e-mail attachment, but only provisionally: you must turn in an actual hard copy of the project to have it read. There is one very important rule if you use e-mail: do not think, just because you have hit 'Send', that I shall receive the e-mail, or that it will come with the attachment(s). You can only be sure that I have received it if I send a return e-mail saying so. If there is no return e-mail, assume that the project did not arrive.

Consult with me before choosing the topic. I try to keep the project page web site as up to date as possible, changing it as many times a day as necessary. It may be inconvenient for you, but you may not start searching for articles until you have requested the topic and heard from me that you may have it.

Who has what: