L'Année philologique is the comprehensive and authoritative international bibliography of classical studies. It publishes annually a complete and accurate volume of all classical scholarship throughout the world, covering the whole range of the ancient classical languages, literature, history, archaeology, art, epigraphy, religion, law, philosophy, science and technology, and allied topics. L'Année philologique was founded by Jules Marouzeau in Paris in the 1920s and for decades operated from a single office by the formidable Juliette Ernst, but as the volume of work increased additional offices were founded in other countries. The American Office is an autonomous unit that collects and prepares materials published throughout the English-speaking world. Its material is combined with that prepared in the other offices to form an annual printed volume and to update the online database.
The American Office was founded in 1965 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it remained for more than 30 years. After a period of residency at the University of Cincinnati, the office moved in 2010 to Duke. The office is staffed by a director, Dr. Lisa Carson, and an assistant director, Dr. Shirley Werner. The office is under the governance of the Society for Classical Studies and is supported by funds from the SCS endowment and Duke Classical Studies.
L'Année philologique has 7 international offices with responsibility for publications according to their place of publication:
- The American Office (Duke University) treats publications from the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and current or former members of the British Commonwealth
- The German office (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) treats publications from Germany and Austria
- The Italian office (Università di Bologna) treats Italian publications
- The Spanish office (Universidad de Granada) treats publications from Spain, Portugal, and Latin America
- The Greek office (Akidimia Athinon) treats publications in Modern Greek.
- The Swiss office (Université de Lausanne) treats Swiss publications
- The French office (Université de Lille) treats all other publications
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