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Bibliography for CLAS 110: Greek Civilization
John Porter, instructor

• General Reference
• Greek History and Society
• Art, Architecture, and Archeology
• Minoan and Mycenaean Civilization
• Homer: The Iliad
• Simone Weil
• Herodotus: The Histories
• Greek Theater and Greek Tragedy
• Aeschylus: Persians
• Sophocles: Oedipus the King
• Euripides: Hippolytus
• Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War
• Aristophanes: Clouds
• The Sophists
• Socrates
• Women in Ancient Greece

An asterisk (*) indicates that the work is on the reserve list for the course in the Main Library.

General Reference

• The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Third edition. New York, 1996.
• Howatson, M.C., ed. The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. Second edition. Oxford and New York, 1989.
• Easterling, P.E. and B.M.W. Knox, eds. The Cambridge History of Ancient Literature, I: Greek Literature. Cambridge, 1985.
• Rose, H.J. A Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythology. Second edition. London, 1933.
• Beard, M., and J. Henderson. Classics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, 1995.
• Jenkins, F.W. Classical Studies: A Guide to the Reference Literature. Englewood, 1996.

Greek History and Society

• Bury, J.B. and R. Meiggs A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great. Fourth edition. London and Basingstoke, 1975.
• The Cambridge Ancient History.
• Connolly, P., and H. Dodge. The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome. Oxford and New York, 1998.
• Ehrenberg, V. From Solon to Socrates. London, 1968.
• Hansen, M.H., ed. The Ancient Greek City-State. Copenhagen, 1993.
• Hanson, V.D. The Western Way of War. Infantry Battle in Classical Greece. New York, 1990.
• J.A.C.T. The World of Athens. Cambridge, 1984. [DF 275 W69 1984]
• Krentz, P. "The Nature of Hoplite Battle," ClassAnt 4 (1985) 50-62.
• Martin, T.R. Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times. New Haven, 1996. [DF77 M3 1996]
• Munn, M. The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socrates. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 2000.
• Powell, A., ed. The Greek World. London, 1995.
• Stanton, G.R. Athenian Politics c. 800-500 B.C. New York, 1990.
• Starr, C.G. A History of the Ancient World. New York, 1965. [D 59 S79]
• Walker, H.J. Theseus and Athens. New York, 1995.

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Art, Architecture, and Archeology

• Beard, M. The Parthenon. Cambridge, [Mass.], 2003.
• Boardman, J. Greek Art. Revised edition. Oxford, 1983.
• Camp, J. M. The Athenian Agora. London, 1986.
• Castriota, D. Myth, Ethos, and Actuality: Official Art in Fifth-Century B.C. Athens. Madison, 1992.
• Connelly, J.B. "Parthenon and Parthenoi: A Mythological Interrpetation of the Parthenon Frieze," American Journal of Archaeology 100 (1996) 53-80.
• Forbes, R.J. Studies in Ancient Technology. Second edition. Leiden, 1964.
• Fullerton, M.D. Greek Art. Cambridge and New York, 2000.
• Hurwit, J.M. The Athenian Acropolis: History, Mythology, and Archaeology from the Neolithic Era to the Present. Cambridge and New York, 1999.
• Hurwit, J.M. "Beautiful Evil: Pandora and the Athena Parthenos," AJA 99 (1995) 171-86.
• Lagerlöf, M.R. The Sculptures of the Parthenon: Aesthetics and Interpretation. New Haven, 2000.
• Lawrence, A.W. Greek Architecture. Fourth edition. Harmondsworth, 1983.
• Neils, J., ed. Worshipping Athena: Panathenaia and Parthenon. Madison, 1996.
• Osborne, R. Archaic and Classical Greek Art. Oxford and New York, 1998.
• Pollit, J.J. Art and Experience in Classical Greece. Cambridge, 1972.
• Richter, G. A Handbook of Greek Art. Seventh edition. London and New York, 1974.
• Roberts, J.W. City of Sokrates: An Introduction to Classical Athens. London and New York, 1998.
• Robertson, M. The Parthenon Frieze. New York, 1975.
• Rossiter, S. Blue Guide: Greece. Fourth edition. London and Tonbridge, 1981.
• Spivey, N.J. Greek Art. London, 1997.
• Woodford, S. The Parthenon. Cambridge, 1981.

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Minoan and Mycenaean Civilization

• Arnott, W.G. "Bull-Leaping as Initiation," LCM 18 (1993) 114-16.
• Cadogan, G. Palaces of Minoan Crete. Corrected edition. London and New York, 1980.
• Castleden, R. Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete. London and New York, 1990.
• Chadwick, J. The Mycenaean World. Cambridge, 1976.
• Cottrell, A. The Minoan World. London, 1979.
• Doumas, C.G. Thera. London, 1983.
• Fitton, J.L. The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Age. Cambridge, 1996.
• Hooker, J.T. Mycenaean Greece. London, 1976.
• MacGillivray, J. A. Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth. New York, 2000.
• McDonald, W.A. Progress into the Past. Second edition. Bloomington, 1990.
• Taylour, W. The Mycenaeans. Revised edition. London, 1983.
• Tolstikov, V.P., et al. The Gold of Troy: Searching for Homer's Fabled City. London, 1996.
• Vermeule, E. Greece in the Bronze Age. Fifth printing. Chicago and London, 1972.
• Wood, M. In Search of the Trojan War. London, 1985.

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Homer: The Iliad

• Bardakjy, J.E. "An Iliadic Apocalypse: Shades of Homer's Achilles in Coppola's Colonel Kurtz," Classical Bulletin 71.2 (1995) 111-16.
• Campbell, J.K. "The Greek Hero," in J.G. Peristiany and J. Pitt-Rivers, eds., Honor and Grace in Anthropology (Cambridge, 1992) 129-49.
• Camps, W.A. An Introduction to Homer. Oxford, 1980.
• Griffin, J. Homer on Life and Death. Oxford, 1980.
• Griffin, J. Homer. Oxford, 1980.
• Johnston, I.C. The Ironies of War. Lanham, 1988.
• Kirk, G.S. "Homer," in The Cambridge History of Ancient Literature, I: Greek Literature (ed. P.E. Easterling and B.M.W. Knox, Cambridge, 1985) 42-91.
• Kirk, G.S. The Songs of Homer. Cambridge, 1962.
• McAuslan, I., and P. Walcot, eds. Homer. Oxford and New York, 1998.
• Pitt-Rivers, J. "Honour and Social Status," in J.G. Persitiany, ed., Honour and Same: The Values of Mediterranean Society (Chicago, 1966) 19-77.
• Postlethwaite, N. Homer's Iliad: A Commentary on the Translation of Richmond Lattimore. Exeter, 2000.
• Rutherford, R. Homer. Oxford, 1996.
• Shay, J. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. Atheneum, 1994.
• Schein, S.L. The Mortal Hero. Berkeley, Los Angeles and New York, 1984. [PA 4037 S349 1984]
• Wace, A.J.B. and F.H. Stubbings. A Companion to Homer. London, 1962.
• Willcock, M.M. A Companion to the Iliad. Chicago, 1976. [PA 4037 W69]
• Woodford, S. The Trojan War in Ancient Art. Ithaca, 1993.
• Sissa, G. The Daily Life of the Greek Gods. Stanford, 2000.

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Simone Weil

• Bell, R. Simone Weil: The Way of Justice as Compassion. Lanham, 1998.
• Coles, R. Simone Weil: A Modern Pilgrimage. Reading [Mass.], 1987.
• Courtine-Denamy, S. Three Women in Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, or, Amor fati, amor mundi. Ithaca, 2000.
• Ferber, M.K. "Simone Weil's Iliad," in G.A. White, ed., Simone Weil, Interpretations of a Life (Amherst, 1981) 63-85.
• Fiori, G. Simone Weil: An Intellectual Biography. Athens [GA], 1989.
• Frost, C., and R. Bell-Metereau. Simone Weil: On Politics, Religion and Society. London, 1998.
• Hourdin, G. Simone Weil. Paris, 1989.
• James P. Holoka, J.P. "'The Iliad or the Poem of Force' [Simone Weil]," in F.N. Magill, ed., Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series (Pasadena, 1989) 684-88.
• Little, P. Simone Weil: Waiting on Truth. Oxford and New York, 1988.
• McFarland, D.T. Simone Weil. New York, 1983.
• McLellan, D. Utopian Pessimist: The Life and Thought of Simone Weil. New York, 1990.
• Nye, A. Philosophia: The Thought of Rosa Luxemburg, Simone Weil, and Hannah Arendt. New York, 1994.
• Pétrement, S. Simone Weil: A Life. New York, 1976.
• Poole, A. "War and Grace: The Force of Simone Weil on Homer," Arion 2.1 (1992) 1-15.
• Rhees, R. Discussions of Simone Weil. Albany, 2000.
• Summers, J.H. "Notes on Simone Weil's Iliad," in G.A. White, ed., Simone Weil, Interpretations of a Life (Amherst, 1981) 87-93.

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Herodotus: The Histories

• Harrison, T. Divinity and History: The Religion of Herodotus. New York, 2000.
• Immerwahr, H.R. Form and Thought in Herodotus. Cleveland, 1966.
• Immerwahr, H.R. "Herodotus," in The Cambridge History of Ancient Literature, I: Greek Literature (ed. P.E. Easterling and B.M.W. Knox, Cambridge, 1985) 422-41.
• Luce, T.J. The Greek Historians. London, 1997.
• Myers, J.L. Herodotus. Oxford, 1953.
• Romm, J.S. Herodotus. New Haven, 1998.
• Thomas, R. Herodotus in Context: Ethnography, Science, and the Art of Persuasion. Cambridge and New York, 2000.
• Waters, K.H. Herodotus the Historian. Norman, 1985.

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Greek Theater and Greek Tragedy

• "Tragedy," in The Cambridge History of Ancient Literature, I: Greek Literature (ed. P.E. Easterling and B.M.W. Knox, Cambridge, 1985) 258-345.
• Baldry, H.C. The Greek Tragic Theatre. New York and London, 1971.
• Csapo, E., and W.J. Slater. The Context of Ancient Drama. Ann Arbor, 1995.
• Easterling, P.E., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy. Cambridge, 1997.
• Green, J.R., and E. Handley. Images of the Greek Theatre. Austin, 1995.
• Kitto, H.D.F. Greek Tragedy. Third edition. London and New York, 1961.
• Lesky, A. Greek Tragic Poetry. New Haven and London, 1983.
• Simon, E. The Ancient Theater. London and New York, 1982.
• Taylor, D. The Greek and Roman Stage. Bristol, 1999.
• Vince, R.W. Ancient and Medieval Theatre: A Historiographical Handbook. Westport, 1984.
• Wiles, D. Greek Theatre Performance: An Introduction. Cambridge and New York, 2000.
• Wiles, D. Tragedy in Athens: Performance Space and Theatrical Meaning. Cambridge and New York, 1997.

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Aeschylus: Persians

• Conacher, D.J. "Aeschylus' Persae: A Literary Commentary," in Serta Turyniana (Urbana, 1974) 143-68. (Updated and expanded in Aeschylus: The Earlier Plays and Related Studies [Toronto, 1996] 3-35.)
• Hall, E., ed. Aeschylus: Persae. Warminster, 1996.
• Hall, E. Inventing the Barbarian. Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy. Oxford, 1989.
• Harrison, T. Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' Persians and the History of the Fifth Century. London, 2000.
• Herington, J. Aeschylus. New Haven and London, 1986.
• Hogan, J.C. A Commentary on The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus. Chicago and London, 1984. [PA 3829 H62 1984]
• Podlecki, A.J., transl. and comm. The Persians by Aeschylus. Englewood Cliffs, 1970.
• Taplin, O. The Stagecraft of Aeschylus: The Dramatic Use of Exits and Entrances in Greek Tragedy. Oxford, 1977.

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Sophocles: Oedipus the King

• Bloom, H., ed. Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. New York, 1988.
• Cook, A. Oedipus Rex, A Mirror for Greek Drama. Prospect Heights [Ill.], 1982.
• Dodds, E.R. "On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex," in O'Brien (below), pp. 17-29. (See Course Notes on Interpretations of the Oedipus.)
• Edmunds, L., and A. Dundes. Oedipus: A Folklore Casebook. Madison, 1995.
• Griffith, R. Drew. The Theater of Apollo: Divine Justice and Sophocles' Oedipus the King. Montreal, 1996.
• Knox, B.M.W. Oedipus at Thebes. New Haven, 1957.
• Meineck, P., and P. Woodruff, trs. Sophocles: Oedipus Rex. Indianapolis, 2000.
• O'Brien, M.J., ed. Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Oedipus Rex. Englewood Cliffs, 1968. [PA 4413 O7 O13]
• Segal, C. Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge. New York, 1993.
• Whitman, C.H. Sophocles: A Study of Heroic Humanism. Cambridge, Mass., 1951.

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Euripides: Hippolytus

• Conacher, D.J. Euripidean Drama. Toronto, 1967. [PA 3978 C74]
• Conacher, D.J. Euripides and the Sophists: Some Dramatic Treatments of Philosophical Ideas. London, 1998.
• Grube, G.M.A. The Drama of Euripides. London, 1941.
• Knox, B.M.W. "The Hippolytus of Euripides," in Euripides (ed. E. Segal, Englewood Cliffs, 1968) 90-114.
• Kovacs, D. Euripidea. Leiden, 1994.

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Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War

• Cawkwell, G. Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War. London and New York, 1997.
• Crane, G. The Blinded Eye: Thucydides and the New Written Word. Lanham, 1996.
• Finley, J.H., Jr. Thucydides. Cambridge, Mass., 1947.
• Grundy, G.B. Thucydides and the History of his Age. Second Edition. Oxford, 1948.
• Luce, T.J. The Greek Historians. London, 1997.

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Aristophanes: Clouds

• Dover, K.J. Aristophanic Comedy. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1972.
• MacDowell, D.M. Aristophanes and Athens: An Introduction to the Plays. Oxford, 1995.
• McLeish, K. The Theatre of Aristophanes. London, 1980.
• Muir, J.V. "Religion and the New Education: The Challenge of the Sophists," in Greek Religion and Society (edd. P.E. Easterling and J.V. Muir, Cambridge, 1985) 191-218. [BL 790 G74 1985]
• Russo, C.F. Aristophanes, An Author for the Stage. London, 1994.
• Sommerstein, A.H., tr. Aristophanes: Lysistrata, The Acharnians, The Clouds. Harmondsworth, 1973. (Instructor's copy on Reserve)
• Whitman, C.H. Aristophanes and the Comic Hero. Cambridge [Mass.], 1964.

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The Sophists

• Guthrie, W.K.C. The Sophists. Cambridge, 1971.
• Kerferd, G.B. The Sophistic Movement. London, 1981.
• Sprague, R.K. The Older Sophists. Columbia, 1972.
• Waterfield, R., tr. and comm. The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists. Oxford and New York, 2000.

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Socrates

• Brickhouse, T.C., and N.D. Smith. The Philosophy of Socrates. Boulder, 2000.
• Ferguson, J. Socrates: A Source Book. London, 1970.
• Green, R.K. Democratic Virtue in the Trial and Death of Socrates: Resistance to Imperialism in Classical Athens. 2001.
• Guthrie, W.K.C. Socrates. Cambridge, 1971.
• Hansen, M.H. The Trial of Sokrates From the Athenian Point of View. Copenhagen, 1995.
• Kelly, E., ed. New Essays on Socrates. Lanham, 1984.
• Montuori, M. Socrates: An Approach. Amsterdam, 1988.
• Navia, L.E. Socrates: The Man and his Philosophy. Lanham, New York, London, 1985.
• Scott, G.A. Plato's Socrates as Educator. Albany, 2000.
• Stone, I.F. The Trial of Socrates. New York, 1988.
• Stokes, M.C., tr. and comm. Plato: Apology of Socrates. Warminster, 1997.
• Tredennick, H., tr. Plato: The Last Days of Socrates — Euthyphro, The Apology, Crito, Phaedo. Harmondsworth, 1969. (B358 .T78 1969)
• West, T.G. Plato's Apology of Socrates. Ithaca and London, 1979.
• Zanker, P. The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity. Berkeley, 1995.

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Women in Ancient Greece

For a more complete listing, see the Bibliography on Women in Antiquity for CLASSICS 220.

• Austin, N. Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom. Ithaca, 1994.
• Balmer, J. Classical Women Poets. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1996.
• Blundell, S. Women in Ancient Greece. Cambridge [Mass.], 1995.
• Cameron, A. and A. Kuhrt, eds. Images of Women in Antiquity. London, 1983.
• Carson, A. "Putting Her in Her Place: Woman, Dirt, and Desire," in D.M. Halperin, J.J. Winkler, and F.I. Zeitlin, eds., Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World (Princeton, 1990) 135-69.
• Clark, G. Women in the Ancient World. Oxford, 1989.
• Cohen, D. "Seclusion, Separation, and the Status of Women in Classical Athens," Greece and Rome 36 (1989) 3-15.
• DeJean, J. Fictions of Sappho 1546-1937. Chicago, 1989.
• duBois, P. Sappho is Burning. Chicago, 1995.
• Fantham, E., et al. Women in the Classical World. New York, 1995.
• Finnegan, R.J. "Women in Herodian Mime," Hermathena 152 (1992) 21-37.
• Foley, H.P., ed. Reflections of Women in Antiquity. New York, 1981.
• Gould, J.P. "Women in Classical Athens," Journal of Hellenic Studies 100 (1980) 38-59.
• Halperin, D.M., J.J. Winkler, F.I. Zeitlin, eds. Before Sexuality. Princeton, 1990.
• Hawley, R and B. Levick. Women in Antiquity: New Assessments. New York, 1996.
• Hurwit, J.M. "Beautiful Evil: Pandora and the Athena Parthenos," American Journal of Archaeology 99 (1995) 171-86.
• Just, R. Women in Athenian Law and Life. London and New York, 1989.
• Lacey, W.K. The Family in Classical Greece. Ithaca, 1968.
• Lefkowitz, M.F. and M.B. Fant. Women's Life in Greece and Rome. Baltimore, 1982.
• Lefkowitz, M.F. Heroines and Hysterics. London, 1981.
• Lloyd-Jones, H. Females of the Species. London, 1975.
• Lyons, D. Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult. Princeton, 1997.
• Massey, M. Women in Ancient Greece and Rome. Cambridge, 1988.
• McAuslan, I., and P. Walcot. Women in Antiquity. Oxford, 1996.
• Parker, R. "Myths of Early Athens," in J. N. Bremmer, ed., Interpretations of Greek Mythology (Totowa, 1986), 187-214.
• Patterson, C. "Hai Attikai: The Other Athenians," Helios 13 (1986) 49-67.
• Peradotto, J. and J.P. Sullivan, eds. Women in the Ancient World. Albany [N.Y.], 1984.
• Pomeroy, S. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. New York, 1975.
• Pomeroy, S.B., ed. Plutarch's Advice to the Bride and Groom and A Consolation to his Wife. New York and Oxford, 1999.
• Pomeroy, S.B. Xenophon, Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary. Oxford and New York, 1994.
• Sealey, R. Women and the Law in Classical Greece. Chapel Hill, 1990.
• Snyder, J.M. The Woman and the Lyre. Carbondale and Edwardsville [Ill.], 1989.
• Walcot, P. "Greek Attitudes Toward Women: The Mythological Evidence," Greece and Rome 31 (1984) 37-47.
• Williamson, M. Sappho's Immortal Daughters. Cambridge, 1995.
• Wilson, L.H. Sappho's Sweetbitter Songs: Configurations of Female and Male in Ancient Greek Lyric. London, 1996.

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