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BRAMLEY, GUILDFORD, SURREY, GU5 0DF
Classics Department
Sixth Form Reading List
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Classical Epic: Homer and Virgil
Camps, W.A, An Introduction to Virgil’s Aeneid ** ^
Edwards, Mark, Homer: Poet of the Iliad ^
Finley, M.I., The World of Odysseus ** ^
Fowler, Robert, The Cambridge Companion to Homer ^
Griffin, Jasper, Homer ** ^
Griffin, Jasper, Homer: the Odyssey ^
Griffin, Jasper, Virgil ^ **
Harrison, Stephen, Oxford Readings in Vergil’s Aeneid ^
Homer, The Iliad (translated by Peter Jones) ^ *
Homer, The Odyssey (translated by D.C. Rieu and edited by Peter Jones) ^ **
Jenkyns, Richard, Classical Epic: Homer and Virgil * * ^
Jones, Peter, Homer’s Odyssey, a companion to the English Translation by Richmond
Lattimore ^
Luce, J.V., Homer and the Heroic Age * ^
Martindale, Charles (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Virgil ^
Silk, Michael, Homer: the Iliad ^ *
Thorpe, Martin, Homer * ^
Virgil, The Aeneid (translated by David West) * ^
Williams, R. Deryck, Aeneas and the Roman Hero ** ^
Wood, Michael, In Search of the Trojan War *
Zanker, G., The heart of Achilles: characterisation and personal ethics in the Iliad ^
Greek Tragedy
Aeschylus, Prometeus Bound, Suppliants, Seven against Thebes, Persians (Penguin) *
Aeschylus, The Oresteia (Penguin) * ^
Blundell, Mary, Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: a study in Sophocles and
Greek Ethics ^
Easterling, Pat, The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy ^
Easterling, Pat, Greek Drama ^
Euripides, Electra and Other Plays (Penguin) * ^
Euripides, Heracles and Other Plays (Penguin) *
Euripides, Medea and Other Plays (Penguin) * ^
Euripides, Orestes and Other Plays (Penguin) * ^
Goward, Barbara, Aeschylus: Agamemnon * ^
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Hughes, Ted, Alcestis (his translation of Euripides’ tragedy) *
Kitto, H.D.F., Greek Tragedy: a literary study ^
Knox, Bernard, The Heroic Temper: studies in Sophoclean Tragedy ^
Lloyd, Michael, Sophocles: Electra ^ *
Mills, Sophie, Euripides: Bacchae ^ *
Mills, Sophie, Euripides: Hippolytus ^ *
Segal, Erich, Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy ^
Sophocles, Philoctetes (Arris and Phillips) * ^
Sophocles, The Theban Plays (Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus) * ^
Taplin, Oliver, Greek Tragedy in Action ^
William, Allan, Euripides: Medea ^ *
Winnington-Ingram, R., Sophocles: an interpretation ^
Woodard, Thomas, Sophocles: a collection of critical essays ^
Greek Comedy
Aristophanes, The Birds and Other Plays (Penguin) *
Aristophanes, Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin) *
Aristophanes, The Wasps and Other Plays (Penguin) *
Easterling, Pat, Greek Drama
Greek and Roman Philosophy
Annas, Julia, An Introduction to Plato’s Republic
Aristotle, Classical Literary Criticism (Penguin) ^
Barnes, Jonathan, Aristotle **
Fox, Adam, Plato for Pleasure **
Guthrie, W.K.C., The Greek Philosophers from Thales to Aristotle
Nadaff, Ramona, Exiling the poets: the Production of Censorship in Plato’s Republic
Plato, Protagoras and Meno (Penguin) **
Plato, Republic (Penguin) *
Sedley, David, The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy
Shields, Christopher, Aristotle
Taylor, C.C.W., Socrates **
Greek Historians
Dewald, Carolyn, The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus ^
Dover, K.J., Thucydides
Finley, M.I, Greek Historians: the essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon,
Polybius ^
Gould, John, Herodotus ^ *
Herodotus, Histories (Penguin) * ^
Romm, James, Herodotus ^
Rood, Tim, Thucydides: narrative and explanation
Thomas, Rosalind, Herodotus in Context ^
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (Penguin)
Usher, Stephen, Herodotus: the Persian Wars ^ *
Westlake, H.D., Studies in Thucydides and Greek History
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Greek History and Civilisation
Andrews, Anthony, Greek Society **
Buckley, Terry, Aspects of Greek History, 750-323
Cartledge, Paul, The Spartans **
Dover, K.J. Greek Homosexuality *
Easterling, Pat, Greek Religion and Society * ^
Easterling, Pat, The Cambridge History of Classical Literature I: Greek Literature
Forrest, W.G., A History of Sparta
Grant, Michael, The Classical Greeks *
Jones, Peter, The World of Athens: an introduction to classical Athenian culture * ^
Powell, Anton, Classical Sparta: Techniques behind her Success
Wycherley, Richard, How the Greeks Built Cities
Greek Art and Architecture
Beard, Mary, The Parthenon ** ^
Boardman, John, Athenian Black-figure Vases ^
Boardman, John, Athenian Red-figure Vases ^
Boardman, John, Athenian Red-figure Vases: the classical period ^
Boardman, John, Greek Art * ^
Boardman, John, Greek Sculpture * ^
Boardman, John, Greek Sculpture: the Archaic Period ^
Carpenter, Thomas, Art and Myth in Ancient Greece ^ *
Cook, R.M., Greek Art, its Development, Character and Influence ^
Jenkins, Ian, The Parthenon Frieze ^
Pedley, John Griffiths, Greek Art and Archaeology ^
Politt, J.J., Art and Experience in classical Greece ^
Robertson, Martin, The Art of Vase Painting in Classical Athens ^
Smith, R.R.R., Hellenistic Sculpture
Woodford Susan, Introduction to Greek Art ** ^
Woodford, Susan, The Parthenon ** ^
Latin Poets
Catullus, The Poems (Penguin Classics) **
Davis, P.J., Ovid and Augustus, a political reading of Ovid’s erotic poems ^
Hardie, Phillip, The Cambridge Companion to Ovid ^
Knox, P.E., Oxford Readings in Ovid ^
Lyne, R.O.A.M., The Latin Love Poets from Catullus to Horace ^
Nisbet, R.G.M., A commentary on Horace: Odes Book I
Nisbet, R.G.M., A commentary on Horace: Odes Book III
Otis, Brooks, Ovid as an Epic Poet
Ovid, Metamorphoses (in Penguin Classics) **
West, David, Horace Odes III: Dulce Periculum
West, David, Reading Horace
Williams, Gordon, Horace
Wiseman, T.P., Catullus and his World *
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Cicero
Cicero, Murder Trials (Penguin Classics) *
Cicero, Selected Political Speeches (Penguin Classics) *
Everett, Antony, Cicero **
Harris, Robert, Imperium **
Rawson, Elizabeth, Cicero: a portrait *
Shackleton, D.R. Cicero
Roman Historians
Goodyear, F.R.D., Tacitus ^
Goodyear, F.R.D., The Annals of Tacitus: Books I-VI ^
Grant, Michael, Greek and Roman Historians: information and misinformation ^ *
Livy, The Early History of Rome (Penguin Classics) *
Livy, The growth of Rome (extracts from his histories) **
Martin, Ronald, Tacitus ^
Mellor, Ronald, Roman Historians ^
Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics) **
Syme, Ronald, Tacitus ^
Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics) * ^
Walker, B., The Annals of Tacitus: a study in the writing of history ^
Walsh, P. G., Livy
Walsh, P.G., Livy: his historical aims and methods
Roman History and Civilisation
Alston, Richard, Aspects of Roman History, AD 14-117 *
Bradley, Keith, Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World *
Dawson, Ian, Greek and Roman Medicine *
Flower, Harriet, The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic *
Gardner, J.F., Women in Roman Law and Society *
Grant, Michael, Julius Caesar *
Griffin, Miriam, Nero: the End of a Dynasty *
Holland, Richard, Augustus, Godfather of Europe **
Holland, Tom, Rubicon: the Tragedy and Triumph of the Roman Republic **
Jones, Peter, The World of Rome: an introduction to Roman culture **
Massey, Michael, Slavery in Ancient Rome *
Paoli, Unrico, Rome, its People, Life and Customs **
Richardson, J., Roman Provincial Administration *
Salway, Peter, The Oxford Illustrated History of Roman Britain *
Sear, Frank, Roman Architecture *
Shelton, Jo-Ann, As the Romans Did: a Sourcebook in Roman Social History **
Shotter, David, The Fall of the Roman Republic **
Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew, Augustan Rome **
Ward-Perkins, J.B., Roman Imperial Architecture *
Woolf, Greg, Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World **
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