Resources
Courses must be developed within the framework of the study design: the areas of study, outcome statements, and key knowledge and skills.
Some of the print resources contained in this list may be out of print. They have been included because they may still be available from libraries, bookshops and private collections.
At the time of publication the URLs (website addresses) cited were checked for accuracy and appropriateness of content. However, due to the transient nature of material placed on the web, their continuing accuracy cannot be verified. Teachers are strongly advised to prepare their own indexes of sites that are suitable and applicable to the courses they teach, and to check these addresses prior to allowing student access.
Student references
Dictionaries and concordances
Liddell, HG & Scott, R 2002,
An Intermediate Greek–English
Lexicon, Oxford University Press
Liddell, HG & Scott, R 1986,
Greek–English Lexicon (abridged edition), Oxford University Press
Morwood, J & Taylor, J 2002,
The Pocket Oxford Classical Greek
Dictionary, Oxford University Press
Language books
Balme, M et al. 2015 & 2016,
Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient
Greek Books 1 & 2, Oxford University Press
Campbell, M 1998,
A Greek Prose Reading Course for Post-Beginners Units 1–4, Bristol Classical Press
Campbell, M 1998,
Classical Greek Prose: A Basic Vocabulary, Bristol Classical Press
Hiner, M 1991,
Greek Comprehensions for Schools, Bristol Classical Press
Mansfield, ED & Abbott, E 2000,
A Primer of Greek Grammar, Focus Classical Reprints, Focus
Moore, JM & Evans, JJ 1998,
Variorum: A Greek Translation
Book, Bristol Classical Press
Morwood, JA 2003,
Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek, Oxford University Press
Nairn, JA & Nairn, GA 1991,
Greek Through Reading, Bristol Classical Press
Taylor, J 2016,
Greek to GCSE Parts 1 & 2, Bloomsbury Academic
Taylor, J & Anderson, S 2016,
Greek Unseen Translation, Bloomsbury Academic
Taylor, J & Waite, K 2017,
Greek Stories: A GCSE Reader, Bloomsbury Academic
Set texts 2021–2023#
Thucydides (2021)
History of the Peloponnesian War Book IV (sections 3–6, 8–9, 11–16, 21–23, 26–41 to be studied in the original Classical Greek, the remainder to be read in English translation)
Cambbell, M 1998,
A Greek Prose Reading Course for Post-Beginners Unit 4: Historiography (Thucydides:
Events at Pylos and Sphacteria), Bristol Classical Press
Aristophanes (2021–2022)
Frogs (lines 1–311, 460–478, 631–674, 759–813, 830–870, 1180–1247, 1364a–1481 to be studied in the original Classical Greek, the remainder to be read in English translation)
Stanford, WB 1993,
Aristophanes: Frogs, Bristol Classical Press
Plato (2022–2023)
Republic Book I (lines 331c–344c8 to be studied in the original Classical Greek, the remainder to be read in English translation)
Allan, DJ 1998,
Plato: Republic I, Bristol Classical Press
Sophocles (2023)
Philoctetes (lines 219–390, 453–506, 730–826, 865–973, 1218–1444 to be studied in the original Classical Greek, the remainder to be read in English translation)
Webster, TBL 2002,
Sophocles: Philoctetes, Cambridge University Press. Superseded by Schein, SL 2013,
Sophocles: Philoctetes, Cambridge University Press
#Set texts for subsequent years will be published by NESA in due course.
Teacher references
General
Easterling, PE & Knox, BMW (eds) 1989,
Cambridge History of
Classical Literature, Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge Greek Lexicon. 2021, Cambridge University Press
Emde Boas, E van, et al. 2019,
Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek, Cambridge University Press
Goodwin, WW 1998,
Greek Grammar, Bristol Classical Press
Hornblower, S et al. (eds) 2012,
The Oxford Classical
Dictionary, Oxford University Press
Lewis, DM et al. 1992 & 1994,
The Cambridge Ancient
History Volumes V & VI, Cambridge University Press
Liddell, HG et al. 2005,
Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Palmer, LR 2011,
The Greek Language, Bristol Classical Press
Books
Thucydides
Balot, RK et al. (eds) 2017,
The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides, Oxford University Press
Cartwright, D 1997,
A Historical Commentary on Thucydides: A Companion to Rex Warner’s Penguin Translation, The University of Michigan Press
Gomme, AW 1997,
A Historical Commentary on Thucydides Volume III: Books IV–V24, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Graves, CE 1982,
Thucydides Book IV, Bristol Classical Press
Hornblower, S 2005,
A Commentary on Thucydides Volume II:Books IV– V.24, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Kagan, D 1996,
The Archidamian War, Cornell University Press
Kagan, D 2009,
Thucydides: The Reinvention of History, Viking
Rengakos, A & Tsakmakis, A (eds) 2012,
Brill’s Companion to Thucydides, Brill
Rhodes, PJ 1999,
Thucydides: History IV.1–V.24, Aris & Phillips
Rusten, JS 2009,
Thucydides, (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies), Oxford University Press
Rutter, NK 1996,
Thucydides Books III–V: A Companion to the Penguin Translation of Books III–V of Thucydides’ History, Bristol Classical Press
Strassler, RB 2008,
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War, Free Press
Tsakmakis, A & Tamiolaki, M (eds) 2015,
Thucydides Between History and Literature, De Gruyter
Warner, R (trans.) 1974,
Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian
War, Penguin Classics
Aristophanes
Cartledge, P 1991,
Aristophanes and his Theatre of the Absurd, Bristol Classical Press
Dover, KJ 1972,
Aristophanic Comedy, University of California Press
Dover, KJ 1993,
Aristophanes: Frogs, Oxford: Clarendon Press (also available in an abridged edition 1997)
Ehrenberg, V 2015,
The People of Aristophanes, Routledge
Griffith, M 2013,
Aristophanes’ Frogs (Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature), Oxford University Press
Halliwell, S (trans.) 2016,
Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays, Oxford University Press
Littlefield, DJ (ed.) 1968,
Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Frogs, Prentice-Hall
McLeish, K 1980,
The Theatre of Aristophanes, Thames & Hudson
Marshall, CW & Kovacs, G (eds) 2012,
No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy, Bristol Classical Press
Robson, J 2009,
Aristophanes: An Introduction, Bristol Classical Press
Segal, E (ed.) 1996,
Oxford Readings in Aristophanes, Oxford University Press
Sidwell, KC 2009,
Aristophanes the Democrat: The Politics of Satirical Comedy During the Peloponnesian War, Cambridge University Press
Sommerstein, AH 1997,
Aristophanes: Frogs, Aris & Phillips
Whitman, CH 1965,
Aristophanes and the Comic Hero, Harvard University Press
Wright, M 2012,
The Comedian as Critic: Greek Old Comedy and Poetics, Bristol Classical Press
Plato
Adam, J & Rees, DA 2009,
The Republic of Plato Books I–V (edited with critical notes, commentary and appendices), Cambridge University Press
Cross, RC & Woozley, AD 1979,
Plato’s Republic: A Philosophical Commentary, Macmillan
Emlyn-Jones, C 2007,
Plato: Republic I and II (-368c), Aris & Phillips
Ferrari, GRF (ed.) 2007,
The Cambridge Companion to Plato’s Republic, Cambridge University Press
Fine, G (ed.) 2019,
The Oxford Handbook of Plato, Oxford University Press
Guthrie, WKC 1986,
A History of Greek Philosophy Volume IV, Cambridge University Press
Guthrie, WKC 1979,
Socrates, Cambridge University Press
Guthrie, WKC 1977,
The Sophists, Cambridge University Press
Kerferd, GB 1981,
The Sophistic Movement, Cambridge University Press
Kraut, R (ed.) 1992,
The Cambridge Companion to Plato, Cambridge University Press
Lane, M (trans.) 2007,
Plato: The Republic, Penguin Classics
McPherran, ML (ed.) 2013,
Plato’s Republic: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press
Pappas, N 2013,
The Routledge Guidebook to Plato’s Republic, Routledge
Rice, DH 1997,
A Guide to Plato’s Republic, Oxford University Press
Rosen, S 2008,
Plato’s Republic: A Study, Yale University Press
Santas, G (ed.) 2008,
The Blackwell Guide to Plato’s Republic, Blackwell
Sophocles
Austin, N 2011,
Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Great Soul Robbery, University of Wisconsin Press
Baldry, HC 1971,
The Greek Tragic Theatre, Chatto & Windus
Finglass, PJ (ed.) 2019,
Sophocles, New Surveys in the Classics, Cambridge University Press
Goldhill, S 2015,
Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy, Oxford University Press
Griffin, J (ed.) 2000,
Sophocles Revisited: Essays Presented to Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Oxford University Press
Jebb, RC 2004,
Sophocles: Philoctetes, Bristol Classical Press
Jouanna, J (translated by Rendall, S) 2018,
Sophocles: A Study of his Theater in Its Political and Social Context, Princeton University Press
Kirkwood, GM 1994,
A Study of Sophoclean Drama, Cornell University Press
Kitto, HDF 2011,
Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study, Routledge
Markantonatos, A (ed.) 2012,
Brill's Companion to Sophocles, Brill
Pickard-Cambridge, AW et al. 1989,
The Dramatic Festivals of Athens, Clarendon Press, Oxford
Roisman, HM 2005,
Sophocles: Philoctetes, Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy, Bristol Classical Press
Segal, C 1998,
Sophocles' Tragic World: Divinity, Nature, Society, Harvard University Press
Segal, C 1999,
Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles, University of Oklahoma Press
Taplin, O 2002,
Greek Tragedy in Action, Routledge
Ussher, RG 2001,
Sophocles: Philoctetes, Aris & Phillips
Some of the books listed above are also available online, either as ebooks for sale or reference, or in pdf form, and many useful articles can be found and consulted in online archives.
Websites
ACL Software Directory for the Classics
(a portal to a wide range of instructional and reference materials in the field of Classical Studies)
The American Classical League
The Australasian Association of Classical Studies
The Classical Association (UK)
The Classical Association of Victoria
The Digital Classicist Wiki
(hub for classicists featuring links to digital tools, projects, discussions and events)
Greek Language and Linguistics
(portal to sites dealing with aspects of ancient Greek language and linguistics)
ITHAKA
(portal to extensive online collections of books, journals, images and other resources, covering a wide range of topics, including Classical Greek history and literature)
JSTOR
(an online library of books, journals, images and other resources, covering a wide range of topics, including Classical Greek history and literature)
Lexilogos
(site offering a variety of ancient Greek lexical aids)
The Loeb Classical Library
(online library of ancient Greek and Latin texts and translations)
Oxford Bibliographies
(site offering surveys of current scholarship on a wide range of topics, including Classical Greek history and literature)
Oxford LibGuides
(portal to online collections of ancient Greek and Latin texts)
The Perseus Digital Library
(online library of ancient Greek and Latin texts, translations and commentaries, with lexical and grammatical aids)
The World’s Largest Library Catalogue
(bibliographic database itemizing the collections of thousands of libraries worldwide)