Classics: finding your way

This guide outlines the location numbers for books on classics and basic information on finding information in this subject.

• To find books on a specific topic search the Unicorn catalogue
• To find journal articles search  Databases for classics

Where are the classics books?

• Most of the Classics books about literature, language and art are on the 3rd Floor of the Library.
• Books about history and archaeology are on the 4th Floor.
  
• Larger sized (Folio) books are shelved separately from normal sized books for practical reasons. You will find your key sections in both large (Folio) and normal sized sections. 
• Pick up a floor plan from the Information Desk to help you find your way around. 
• View the 3rd Floor plan (PDF)
• View the 4th Floor plan (PDF)

Key sections for classics

 

3rd Floor

180	Philosophy
184	Plato
185	Aristotle
200	Religion
292	Greek and Roman religion and mythology
400	Language
470	Latin language
480	Greek language
700	The arts
722.7	Roman architecture
722.8	Greek architecture
733	Classical sculpture
870	Latin literature
876	Latin letters
879	Medieval and modern Latin literature
880	Greek literature
886	Greek letters
889	Medieval (Byzantine) and modern Greek literature

4th Floor

913	Archaeology
930	Ancient history

2nd Floor

610.9

History of medicine

Call Numbers for selected topics

Aeschylus 882.1
Aristophanes 882.4
Aristotle 185 & 888.5
Art, Greek (general) 709.38
Art, Roman (general) 709.37

Catullus 874.2
Cicero 875.1-875.4 & 876.1
Cinema 791.43

Demosthenes 885.6

Epicureanism 187
Euripides 882.3

Greek ethics 170.938
Greek dictionaries 483
Greek grammar 485
Greek language textbooks 488
Greek literature (general) 880
Greek oratory 885
Greek poetry 881-884
Greek satire and humour 887

Herodotus 888.1
Hesiod 883.2
Historiography 907.2
History, Greek 938
History, Roman 937
Homer 883.1
Horace 874.5

Inscriptions, Greek 481.7
Inscriptions, Latin 471.7

Juvenal 877.7

Latin dictionaries 473
Latin grammar 475
Latin language, Medieval & modern 479.3
Latin language textbooks 478
Latin literature (general) 870
Latin oratory 875
Latin poetry 871-874
Latin satire and humour 877
Literary theory 801
Livy 878.4

Menander 882.6

Ovid 871.2

Painting, Greek 759.937
Painting, Roman 759.938
Paleography 417
Pindar 884.5
Plato 184.1 & 888.4
Pliny the Younger 876.2
Plutarch 888.8
Pre-Socratic Greek philosophy 182

Religion & mythology, Classical 292

Sallust 878.2
Scepticism, Ancient 186
Science, Greek 509.38
Sculpture, Classical 733
Seneca 188.6 & 872.6 & 878.5
Slavery, Greek 326.938
Slavery, Roman 326.937
Sophistic and Socratic philosophy 183
Sophocles 882.2
Stoicism 188

Tacitus 878.6
Thucydides 888.2

Virgil 873.1

Warfare, Greek 355.0938
Warfare, Roman 355.0937
Women, Greek 396.0938
Women, Roman 396.0937

Xenophon 888.3

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