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CLASSICAL LITERATURE |
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We use the Dewey Decimal System to Arrange our books in the library. The Dewey system arranges every subject under a number system, where each number in a 1,000 number classification scheme corresponds to a specific subject. Here are the ten main classes of the Dewey Decimal System:
| 000-099 | GENERALITIES |
| 100-199 | PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY |
| 200-299 | RELIGION |
| 300-399 | SOCIAL SCIENCES |
| 400-499 | LANGUAGE |
| 500-599 | NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS |
| 600-699 | TECHNOLOGY (Applied Sciences) |
| 700-799 | THE ARTS |
| 800-899 | LITERATURE |
| 900-999 | HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY |
| R 809 C56Ym | Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism This is a set of volumes that contains critical writings on world authors from ancient times, including Egypt, Greece, and Rome, to the end of the fourteenth century. For each author given, the compilers of this set have scoured the critical literature, and pulled this critical literature together in one volume for easy reference. Some of the critical literature focuses on only one of an author's works, in other volumes there may be criticism on many of an author's works. |
| R 880.9001 H83o2 | The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature This is an encyclopedia of information about the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome, or works which touched upon what is known as the classical world. There are entries on the history of ancient Greece and Rome, and also "the most important myths, science, geography, religion and thought, as well as many features of ancient life and society." |
| R 883.01 H75YF | The Cambridge Companion to Homer This is a "guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship." |
| R 291.130321 M53f | The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Myths Contains about three thousand names and other terms found in mythology around the world. |
| R 292.1303 D64e | Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology Contains about fourteen hundred entries, mostly names of characters in the myths, of Greco-Roman mythology. |
| R 930 C14ca2 | The Cambridge Ancient History This is a detailed history of the ancient world. |
| R 930 G79c | The Ancient World This gives descriptions of important locations, people, and events in the ancient world. For each article it gives the locale, category, a summary of the event, person, or place, and its significance. Also each article contains a bibliography of further works. |