Textbooks

The following are available through the Ruminator Textbooks bookstore on Grand Avenue. Please consult with me immediately if you have difficulties obtaining any of them. Some reading assignments will also be provided through electronic reserve or other sources online. Since we will be discussing these readings extensively in class, you will need to have a hard copy of the text, although you may share with one other colleague. Consider this collection another, and quite inexpensive, textbook.

Translations of ancient texts:

• Homer. The Iliad. Translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 1990.
• Herodotus. Histories. Revised Edition. Translated by Aubrey de Selincourt, revised by John Marincola. Penguin Classics, 1996.
• Ten Greek Plays in Contemporary Translations. Edited by L.R. Lind. Houghton Mifflin, 1957.
• Thucydides. On Justice, Power and Human Nature: Selections from the History of the Peloponnesian War. Translated by Paul Woodruff. Hackett, 1993.
• Plato. Phaedrus. Translated by Alexander Nehamas & Paul Woodruff. Hackett, 1995.
• Introduction to Aristotle. Edited by Richard McKeon. Modern Library, 1947.

Overview of Ancient Greek history and cultures:

• Ancient Greece from Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times. Thomas Martin. Yale, 1996.

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