Types of Books you may encounter:
Anthology - A published collection of articles or writing.
Scholarly Books - Sometimes called 'Monographs', these books are written by scholars and experts in Philosophy intended for other specialists in the field. Scholarly books are typically published by a university press or other scholarly publishing house.
Primary Sources - Though many books are secondary sources, some books can be considered primary sources.
Some examples of primary source books in Philosophy include:
Original Literature (sometimes called seminal texts such as Plato's Republic) - Secondary sources can also be seminal sources. Seminal just means “universally recognized as something everyone should read.
Autobiographies
Reproduction of Diaries, essays, and other personal manuscripts.
Architecture, Classical
Architecture, Greek [or Roman]
Art, Classical
Art, Greek [or Roman]
Classical drama
Classical literature
Classical poetry
Greece--History
Greece--Religion
Greek drama
Greek language
Greek literature
Greek poetry
Latin drama
Latin language
Latin literature
Latin poetry
Mythology, Greek [or Roman]
Philosophy, Ancient
Rome--History
Rome--Religion
Slavery--Greece [or Rome]
Women--Greece [or Rome]
names of individuals, e.g.
Alexander the Great
Caesar, Julius
Plato
Sappho
If you would like to browse our book stacks, here are some call numbers relevant to Classical Studies:
BL700-820 Classical (Etruscan, Greek, Roman)
DE1-100 History of the Greco-Roman world
KL4110-4399 Greek law
KJA2-3660 Roman law
P901-1091 Extinct ancient or medieval languages
PA1-8595 Classical philology
