Museum studies: Books

The MERL library is located on the open access library corridor next to the Special Collections Service reading room – please ask a member of reading room staff if you require any assistance in finding books. Please note that the MERL library uses its own classification system that is different from the University Library system.

Archaeology and museums 930.1074

Museum ethics 069
Museum management 069.068
Museums, Great Britain 069.0942
Museums, educational services 069.15
Museum objects, collecting and preparing 069.4
Museum exhibitions 069.5
Museum selection, acquisition, disposal 069.51

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

Anthropology 301
Archaeological methods 913.018 and 930.1

Bronze age 930.156

Ceramics 738
Classical sculpture 733
Coins 737.4

Dating techniques 913.018 and 930.10285

Evolution 575 and 576.8
Excavation techniques 913.018 and 930.1028
Excavations see under Regional archaeology

Field archaeology 913.018 and 930.1028

Industrial archaeology 609
Iron age 930.16

Neolithic period 930.14

Paleolithic period 930.12
Physical anthropology 599.9 and 930.10285
Pollen analysis 561.13
Pottery – Greek 738.30938
Pottery – Roman 738.30937
Prehistoric archaeology 930.1

Regional archaeology:
     Aegean 913.391 and 939
     Ancient civilisations 913.3 and 930
     Ancient Greece 913.38 and 938
     Ancient Rome 913.37 and 937
     England 913.42 and 936.2
     Europe 913.4 and 936
     France 913.44 and 936.44
     Germany 913.43 and 936.3
     Ireland 913.415 and 936.15
     Italy 913.45 and 937
     Mediterranean 913.4 and 937
     Scotland 913.41 and 936.11

Sculpture – classical 733
Silchester 913.4227 and 936.2271
Stone age Britain 936.201
Stone age Europe 936.01