Latin 221-001: Virgil, Fall 2018 (Prof. Suzanne Lye): Finding Books
UNC Catalog Search with Links
Searching the UNC Catalog
N.B.: You will see see variant spellings for Virgil/Vergil. The Library of Congress uses Virgil for him as either Author or Subject.
Search for books By a person as an Author search. Search for books About a person as a Subject search.
Author: Virgil
Subject: Virgil
If you are searching for a topic, use logical keywords to identify relevant works, then look at the full record to see if there are potentially useful Subject Headings (more specific than keywords). That said, sometimes keywords might work better. You'll need to evaluate your searches.
Keywords: Virgil politics
LC Subject Headings: Virgil -- Political and social views.
Keywords: Augustan Rome
LC: Subject Headings: Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Rome -- History -- Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
Potentially Useful Subject Headings:
Aeneas (Legendary character) -- In literature.
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. (English)
Politics and literature -- Rome. (English)
Library of Congress Classification Outline
- Library of Congress Classification OutlineWithin the LCCO, Classical languages & literature will be in the PA classification. Additionally, resources for Greece and Rome might be classified geographically within DE, DF, & DG.
Reading a Call Number
‘Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus’, Joseph Mallord William Turner, c.1798 / Aeneas in the Underworld with a Sibyl (Parody)
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A 1st-century terracotta expressing the pietas of Aeneas, who carries his aged father and leads his young son
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