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HART 4960 - Revealing Aphrodite - Lee: Finding Books in Library Catalog

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Keyword vs. Subject Heading

Keyword vs. Subject Heading

Useful Library of Congress Subject Headings

Try a SUBJECT begins with search using one of the Library of Congress Subject Headings listed below:

Nude in art Aphrodite (Greek deity)
Sculpture, Greek Aphrodite (Greek deity) Art
Sculpture, Roman Aphrodite (Greek deity) Cult
Sculpture, Hellenistic Aphrodite (Greek deity) in literature
Art and mythology Venus (Roman deity)

Aphrodite of Rhodes

Aphrodite of Rhodes

  

Aphrodite of Rhodes

Hellenistic

ca. 2nd - 1st century BCE

Archaeological Museum of Rhodes

Search Tips

1. Use AND to combine terms

example:  Aphrodite AND Art

2. Use OR to search related terms

example:  Aphrodite OR Venus

3. Use $ to truncate a word and return all possible endings

example:  Myth$

(searches for all variants of the word myth e.g. myth, myths, mythology, mythological...)

Books from the Catalog