LibGuides: Classics: Books

Finding books

Finding printed books and e-books

Search the Enterprise catalogue to find specific books or books on a topic.

Finding online book chapters

To find online book chapters on a topic search the Summon discovery service:

Book locations

2nd Floor

180

Philosophy

184

Plato

185

Aristotle

200

Religion

292

Greek and Roman religion and mythology

3rd Floor

400

Language

470

Latin language

480

Greek language

700

The arts

722.7

Roman architecture

722.8

Greek architecture

733

Classical sculpture

4th Floor

870

Latin literature

876

Latin letters

879

Medieval and modern Latin literature

880

Greek literature

886

Greek letters

889

Medieval (Byzantine) & modern Greek literature

913 & 930.1

Archeology

930

Ancient History

Please note that books marked as 'Large' will be in separate sections to the rest of the books.

Enterprise Search Results
For more information on finding large books.

Classical literature author location list
A list of key ancient and medieval authors and their call number locations in the Library.

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, Egypt, Greco-Roman period 932.02
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 759.938
Painting, Roman 759.937
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

Digital Loeb Classical Library

The Loeb Classical Library contains texts from 700 B.C. to 700 A.D and provides trusted English translations alongside the original Latin or Greek.

Loeb Classical Library [full-text] This link opens in a new window
Online access to the entirety of the Loeb Classical Library, with texts from 700 B.C to 700 A.D.

Features include:

-A duel language interface, with the Greek and Latin texts shown alongside the English translation.
-The ability to search for key words in texts.
-The ability to annotate works and create bookmarks for later use once you have created an individual account.

Individual titles are listed on the Library catalogue.

Searching the Library
A short guide to searching the Loeb Classical Library
Browsing the Library
Some tips on browsing the Loeb Classical Library

Brill's New Jacoby

Jacoby Online [full-text] This link opens in a new window
The Jacoby is a standard collection of and commentary on the fragments of 856 Greek historians whose works have survived only in fragmentary form.

Felix Jacoby's Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker (FGrHist), or shortened as the 'Jacoby', was first published between the 1920's and late 1950's.

Jacoby Online completely supersedes the traditional 18-volume set known to classical scholars. It contains:

- many updated Greek texts
- English translations of all of the Greek testimonia and fragments
- a new critical commentary on the texts (and for the first time commentary on those texts that Jacoby did not complete before his death)
- new authors and fragments not in FGrHist.

Updated twice yearly. Hosted on the Brill Scholarly Editions platform.

Help and guidance
Brill Scholarly Editions help

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) [full-text] This link opens in a new window
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is a database containing the majority of the surviving literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Constantinople.

You must also create a personal account, using your University email address, via the 'Register' link at the top right of the homepage. This will give you access to the full corpus of texts.

Patrologia Graeca

Patrologia Graeca
The Patrologia Graeca (Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Graeca) is an edited collection of writings in the Greek language. This link leads to an index of downloadable PDFs of all 161 volumes from the Google Books project.

Accessing online Library resources

If you are on campus you will be able to access most e-journals and e-books, and some databases, without entering a username and password because your IP address identifies you as being at the University of Reading.

For any that require a login, see the Off-campus tab.

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Terms and conditions of use for Library e-resources

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Your login details

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Getting to the login page...

For most resources, if you follow a link from our website or catalogues your login will be picked up automatically or you will be prompted to login straightaway.
If you access resources via another route you will need to look for a login option once you reach the resource you are trying to access. Look for an institutional or shibboleth login option and pick 'University of Reading' from a list of institutions. This will then pick up your login or prompt you to login. For more information about institutional login, please see the link below: