The afterlife in ancient and medieval thought

Background

Gazis, George Alexander, and Anthony Hooper. Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021.

• The Oxford Companion to World Mythology (Oxford, 2006)
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (Oxford, 2005)
• The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife (Routledge, 2018)
  • NOTE, only 1 user can access this ebook at one time
• Oxford Bibliographies
  • Searchable lists of sources
  • always remember to look at the bibliographies of all sources, including non-academic ones

Scholarly sources

• How do I know if my source is scholarly? (4:21)
• What is a peer-reviewed journal? (1:42)
• Identifying peer-reviewed journals (2:15)
• How to find scholarly books (3:04)
• Some examples:
  • Death and the afterlife (British Library)
    • NOTE due to a Cyberattack on the British library website, unavailable as of Jan 15, 2024
  • Underworld topography (Google results)

Secondary Sources

Books

• Search Omni - items at Laurier and other Omni libraries
  • sample Omni results
  • on left-hand side of results screen, limit to Books & eEbooks, or Book Chapters
  • all the bibliographic content of our Proquest Ebooks is included in Omni, although you can search across the entire full-text content by visiting the ebook site.

Articles

• Search Omni - items at Laurier
  • on left-hand side of results screen, limit to Articles
  • All the bibliographic content of JSTOR, Project Muse, and Scholars Portal Journals is included in Omni, although you can search across the entire full-text content by visiting the ejournal sites.

Omni searches all disciplines, so results lists can often be difficult to sift through. Try a subject-specific database for more refined results. You might have to link out of the database to find the full text (e.g., Get it @ Laurier)

• Anthropology Plus
  • Includes references to folklore material
• Atla Religion Database
  • Indexes multifaith religious publications
• L'Année Philologique: Bibliography of the Classical World
  • Indexes both books and articles
• ITER - Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  • indexes both books and articles

Citing

• Look for citation information indexes and databases
• Chicago Manual of Style