Classical Societies and Cultures
Text List for 2009
Greek
Homer, Iliad Book 6
Translated by Robert Fagles, Penguin Classics
Aeschylus, The Persians
in Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
Translated by Philip Vellacott, Penguin Classics
Aristophanes, The Clouds
in Lysistrata, Acharnians, The Clouds
Translated by Alan Sommerstein, Penguin Classics (2002 translation)
Thucydides, extracts from The Sicilian Expedition Book 6, pp. 414–429, Book 7, pp. 503–537 in The Peloponnesian War
Translated by R Warner, Penguin Classics
Greek Temple Architecture and Architectural Sculpture
The Parthenon: the building; the ‘Panathenaic’ frieze; and the southern metopes (Centauromachy).
A Handbook of Greek Art by Gisela Richter, Phaidon, London.
Additional illustrations in Greek Art and Archaeology, by John Griffi ths Pedley, Laurence King Publishing.
Roman
Virgil, Aeneid Book 1
Translated by David West, Penguin Classics
Seneca, Trojan Women
in Four Tragedies and Octavia.
Translated by E F Watling, Penguin Classics
Suetonius, Nero
in The Twelve Caesars
Translated by R Graves, Penguin Classics
Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome
Translated by Michael Grant, Penguin Classics
Sections: Introduction (pp. 31–34), Demise of Messalina (pp. 245–51) and Nero and Seneca (pp. 336–44).
Post Augustan Emperors
All portraits can be found on the pages listed below in the second edition of Ramage and Ramage, Roman Art 1995, Laurence King Publishing, and the reprinting in 1996 Prentice Hall edition.
Caligula wearing a toga (p. 122), Claudius as Jupiter (p. 122), Portrait of Nero (p. 123), Portrait of Vespasian (p. 136), Colossal portrait of Titus or Domitian (p. 149), Bust of Trajan (p. 164) Portrait of Hadrian wearing an oak wreath (p. 198), Portrait of Antoninus Pius (p. 210), Portrait of Marcus Aurelius (p. 215), Portrait of Lucius Verus, bust (p. 215), Marcus Aurelius on Horseback (p. 219), Bust of Commodus as Hercules (p. 231).
