Readings

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Textbooks

Osborne, Robin. Greece In the Making, 1200-479 BC. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 1996. ISBN: 9780415035835.

Hornblower, Simon. The Greek World 479-323 BC. 3rd ed. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2002. ISBN: 9780415153447.

Greek Masterpieces in Translation

English translations of these works are available at: The Perseus Digital Library.

Aeschylus. "The Persians," "Seven Against Thebes," "The Suppliants," "Prometheus Bound." In Aeschylus, 1 : The Oresteia. Translated and Edited by David R. Slavitt and Palmer Bovie. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780812216271.

Aristophanes. "Lysistrata," "The Acharnians," "The Clouds." In The Birds and Other Plays. Translated with an Introduction by Alan H. Sommerstein. London and New York, NY: Penguin, 2003. ISBN: 9780140449518.

Aristotle. The Athenian Constitution. Translated with an Introduction and notes by P. J. Rhodes. New York, NY: Penguin, 1984. ISBN: 9780140444315. (Abbreviated as Ath. Pol.)

Herodotus. Histories. Translated by Aubrey de Selincourt with an Introduction by John Marincola. New York, NY: Penguin, 1996. ISBN: 9780140446388.

Homer. The Iliad. Translated by Robert Fagles. New York, NY: Penguin, 1990. ISBN: 9780670835102.

Plutarch. Greek Lives. Translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford and New York, NY: Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 1998. ISBN: 9780192825018.

Sophocles. "Antigone," "Oedipus the King," "Electra." In Selections. Translated by H. D. F. Kitto. Oxford and New York, NY: Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 1998. ISBN: 9780192835888.

Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Translated by Rex Warner. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 1954. ISBN: 9780140440393.

Plato. Apology (or Defence of Socrates). Translated by Harold North Fowler. Cambridge, MA and London: London Heinemann Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1966.