Yes LIMC is an essential reference, even if unconscionably costly. I might point out the bizarre circumstance of a set of LIMC topping the AbeBooks list of Top 10 Most Expensive Sales in September 2011, fetching $14,067...

You'll find links to the (limited) open access components at:
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2013/10/limc-basel-databases-fondation-pour-le.html

-Chuck Jones-

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LIMC is not only useful for upper level work. I regularly show it to undergradate classes and students for the plate volumes alone. The foreign language essays can intimidate but the images volumes are easy to use: arranged by person then by type (busts, single, group, narratives, etc.) in rough chronological order..

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Stylianopoulos, Louann (lws4n) <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Amy,

The Amazon set for $6,600 sounds like the right price. LIMC is hard to
find and is essential for anyone doing iconography in a Humanities
discipline, but particularly in Greco-Roman art and Renaissance art. It
contains not only the authoritative entries on figures in Greco-Roman
mythology/religion but also a wealth of images not collated elsewhere.

An online version of the French articles is emerging under LIMC, but to my
knowledge is nowhere near complete. There are entries in English, German,
Italian, and Greek(?). Our volumes are threadbare from use.. Volumes of
its sister set Thescra are still being published. LIMC covers persons;
Thescra covers subjects.

Best,

-- Lucie

Lucie Wall Stylianopoulos
Head of the Arts Libraries
Librarian for Archaeology and Classics
University of Virginia
Bayly Drive, PO Box 400131
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4131
434-924-6604
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On 10/14/13 3:55 PM, "Amy Lynn Fry" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>We would like to purchase a copy of the reference set "Lexicon
>iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC)." (See WorldCat record
>forwarded below.) Our reference collections librarian approved the
>purpose and placed a rush order in August for a copy through GOBI for
>$1800. They were unable to supply, the order was cancelled, and no one
>noticed. I asked her about it today and she said they identified a set
>from Amazon for $6600 which is beyond our budget. However, the faculty
>member who requested it was told we were getting it and has planned an
>assignment for her class to do, and I really don't want to have to tell
>her she's out of luck now.
>
>There is another one listed on Amazon for $50, but I suspect it's just
>one volume. We're checking into it. I've asked Worldwide Books, but our
>acquisitions librarian says it isn't in their catalog. Does anyone have
>any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>Amy
>
>Amy Fry
>Electronic Resources Coordinator
>Bowling Green State University
>Jerome Library
>Bowling Green, OH 43403
>419.372.2690
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>Record 1 of 1
> WSU
>CALL # N7760 .L49 1981.
>CALL # 704.9/47/0938 19.
>TITLE Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC) /
>[redaction,
> Hans Christoph Ackermann, Jean-Robert Gisler]
>IMPRINT Zurich : Artemis, c1981-c1997.
>DESCRIPT'N 8 v. in 16 : ill. ; 29 cm.
>NOTE English, French, German, and Italian.
>NOTE Vol. <2, pts. 1-2 > edited by P. Muller and C. Auge.
>NOTE Includes bibliographies.
>NOTE v.1. Aara-Aphlad -- v. 2. Aphrodisias-Athenas -- v. 3.
>Atherion-
> Eros -- v. 4. Eros-Herakles -- v. 5. Herakles-Kenchrias --
>v.
> 6. Kentauroi et Kentaurides - Oiax -- v. 7.
>Oidipous-Theseus ;
> Indices v.1-2.
>SUBJECT Mythology, Classical, in art -- Dictionaries -- Polyglot.
>SUBJECT Mythology, Classical -- Dictionaries -- Polyglot.
>SUBJECT Dictionaries, Polyglot.
>OCLC # 9577512.
>ISN/STD # 3760887511 (set)
>LCCN 82225552//
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