Within the text of Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, author Anthony Swofford makes reference to several literary works. Among those is The Iliad by Homer. Listed below are a selection of resources related to:

The Iliad

by Homer

Searching Wallace Library's Einstein Catalog provides information relating to Homer's The Iliad. Remember, you can do a keyword search or a subject search to locate information on a topic. When doing a keyword search, you can make use of Boolean searching by combining your search words with the words and, or, not. Advanced searching will allow you to set some limitations to your search results. Below is a sampling of titles along with their call numbers and the floor location.

Daily Life in the Time of Homer. DF78 .M513 1959a, 4th floor.
The Greek Epic. Videorecording. Located in Media Resource Center. VH658.
Homer and His Influence. PA4037 .S417 1963, 3rd floor.
Homer and the Heroic Age. PA4037 .L68 1975b, 3rd floor.
Homer's The Iliad. PA4037 .A5 H8 1987, 3rd floor.
Poetry Criticism Series. PN1111 .P648. Vol. 1-46. Reference Area, 1st floor.
The Iliad. PA4025 .A2 F33 1990, 3rd floor.
The Iliad. PA4025 .A2 L66 1997, 3rd floor.
The Iliad. Electronic Resource available via University of Pennsylvania Library.

Research Databases:

Click on the above link for the complete list of the RIT Library's Online Databases. Suggested databases are listed below.

Academic Search Elite: Provides information on a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics. It features full text for over 1,200 journals with many dating back to 1990, abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals, and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor.

Humanities Full Text: Part of Wilson OmniFile. Full-text coverage back to 1994, abstracts back to 1984.

JStor: Full-text arts and humanities journals with coverage back to initial issues of each publication.

Literary Index: An online cumulative index to the titles and authors covered in the research and criticism literary series published by Gale. Most of the publications listed are available in the Reference Collection, 1st floor of the Library.

MLA Bibliography: Modern Language Association database providing citations from journals, books, and dissertations in literature, linguistics and folklore. Citations date back to 1963.