Brill´s New Pauly presents the current state of traditional and new areas of research in Classical Studies and contains two sections: one on Antiquity and one on Classical Tradition. Many entries contain maps, illustrations and all contain bibliographic references.
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For this assignment, we want to focus whenever possible on Scholarly sources that are Secondary or Tertiary. This will help you with descriptive research that is in an academic context.