Resources List For Classical Studies

Resources for Classical Studies
These resources have been recommended as helpful by the New Zealand

Association of Classical Studies(http://www.nzact.org.nz/). They have not
been extensively reviewed or checked for quality by the Ministry of Education.

Teachers are advised to ensure that the resources they choose support the
key concepts, the learning objectives and the pedagogical approach
suggested in the Classical Studies Teaching and Learning guide.

Curriculum level 6 - Level 1 NCEA

Schools are advised to make sure they are using the most up-to-date version
of the NCEA standards when selecting resources to support external
assessment at this curriculum level.

Literature

Print publications

Suggested texts for class use:

A useful source of translations for classroom use is provided by Penguin
Classics.

Ovid, Metamorphoses, A new verse translation by David Raeburn,
Penguin Books, London, 2004
Livy, The Early History of Rome, translated by Aubrey de Selincourt,

Suggested texts for teacher reading or extension reading:

Greek mythology and/or legends

Marianthe Colakas and Mary Joan Masello, Classical Mythology and
More: A Reader Workbook, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2007
Peter Connolly, The Legend of Odysseus, Oxford University Press,
1991
Mark P. O. Morford and Robert J. Lenardon, Classical Mythology, 5
th

Edition, Longman, 1995
Lucilla Burn, Greek Myths, British Museum Press, 1990

Stories of early Rome

Marianthe Colakas and Mary Joan Masello, Classical Mythology and
More: A Reader Workbook, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2007
Jane F. Gardner, Roman Myths, British Museum Press, 1993
Rose Williams, Once Upon a Tiber: An Offbeat History of Rome,
Anthem Press, London, 2002

Websites

http://www.cambridgescp.com/main_entrance.php
http://www.vroma.org/

Audiovisual

Commercially available
Jim Henson, The Storyteller: Greek Myths, The Jim Henson Company,
2005
Michael Wood, In Search of Myths and Heroes (Jason), BBC, 2005
Daniel Morden and Hugh Lupton, War with Troy: The Story of Achilles,
Classics School Classics Project, University of Cambridge, 2004 (CD
plus Teachers Guide)

Art

Print publications


Greek or Roman Public Architecture

Henri Stierlin, Greece: From Mycenae to the Parthenon, Taschen,
1997
Henri Stierlin, The Roman Empire: From the Etruscans to the Decline
of the Roman Empire, Taschen, 1996
Furio Durando, Greece: Splendours of an Ancient Civilization, Thames
and Hudson, 1997
Anna Maria Liberati and Fabio Bourbon, Splendours of the Roman
World, Thames and Hudson 1996

Greek or Roman House Design and Decoration

Peter Hodge, The Roman House, Aspects of Roman Life, Longman,
1975
Greek Art and Architecture, Aspects of Greek Life, Longman, 1975

Depictions of Gods and Heroes

T.H. Carpenter, Art and Myth in Ancient Greece, Thames and Hudson,
London, 1994 (0-500-202236-2)

Websites


Audiovisual

A Journey Back in Time, Lost Treasure of the Ancient World, Ancient
Greece, Cromwell Productions, 1999
A Journey Back in Time, Lost Treasure of the Ancient World, Ancient
Rome, Cromwell Productions, 1999

History

Print publications


Greek or Roman Political Figures

Martin Forrest et al, Book III Pompey and Caesar, Cambridge
University Press, 1986
Richard Hingley and Christina Unwin, Boudicca: Iron Age Warrior
Queen, Hambledon & London, 2006
Graham Tingay, Julius Caesar, Cambridge University Press, 1991
E. E. Rice, Cleopatra, Sutton, Publications, 1999
Brent D. Shaw, Spartacus and the Slave Wars, Bedford / St Martins
Press, 2001
David Shotter, Nero, 2
nd
Edition, Routledge, London, 2005

Accounts of Major Events

Ernest Hatley and Margaret Widdess, Book IV Athens: City and
Empire, Cambridge University Press, 1989
Plutarch, Fall of the Roman Republic (Life of Crassus),
John Sharwood Smith, Greece and Persians, Bristol Classical Press,

Aspects of Greek or Roman Social Life

David Buchanan, Roman Sport and Entertainment, Aspects of Roman
Life, Longman, 1975
Peter Connolly, The Roman Army, Macdonald Educational, 1975
Adrian Goldsworthy, The Complete Roman Army, Thames and
Hudson, 2003
Peter Hodge, Roman Family Life, Aspects of Roman Life, Longman,
1975
Peter Hodge, the Roman Army, Aspects of Roman Life, Longman,
1975
John Murrell, Athletics, Sports and Games, Greek and Roman Topics,
George Allen & Unwin, 1975
Greek Athletics, Aspects of Greek Life, Longman, 1975
Greek Everyday Life, Aspects of Greek Life, Longman, 1975
Erich Segal, Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook
with Translations, Oxford University Press, 1987

Websites

Audiovisual

Greek or Roman Political Figures

Programmes from Sky Channels, (History, National Geographic,
Documentary)
I, Caesar (Nero), BBC

Accounts of Major Events

Fall of the Roman Empire (Spartacus) BBC, 2008
The History of Warfare: The Greek and Persian Wars, Cromwell
Productions Ltd, 1998
Command Decisions: Battle of Marathon, The History Channel

Aspects of Greek or Roman Social Life

Documentary)
First Olympian

Science and Religion

Print publications


Practical Technology

Mike Hughes and Martin Forrest, How the Greeks and Romans made
cloth, Cambridge University Press, 1984
Miranda Green, Roman Technology and Crafts, Aspects of Roman
Life, Longman, 1975
Peter James and Nick Thorpe, Ancient Inventions, Ballantine Books,
New York, 1994

Traditional Beliefs and New Religious Ideas

Michael Massey, Roman Religion, Aspects of Roman Life, Longman,
1979
John Sharwood Smith, Temples, Priests and Worship, Greek and
Roman Topics, George Allen & Unwin, 1975

Websites


Audiovisual

Documentary)
Roman Technology



Literature

Print publications


Classics.

Homer, The Odyssey, translated by E.V. Rieu, revised translation by D.
C. H. Rieu, Penguin Books, London, 1991, 2003
Sophocles, The Theban Plays, translated with an introduction by E. F.
Watling, Penguin Books, London, 1947
Plautus, The Rope and other plays, translated by E. F. Watling,


Homer The Odyssey

Charles Rowan Beye, Odysseus: A Life, Hyperion, New York, 2004
Howard W. Clarke, The Art of the Odyssey, Bristol Classical Press,
1990
M.I. Finley, The World of Odysseus, Penguin Books, London, 1972 (0-
1402-0570-5)
Jasper Griffin, Homer: The Odyssey, Landmarks of World Literature,
Cambridge University Press, 1987
Ralph Hexter, A Guide to the Odyssey: A Commentary on the English
translation of Robert Fitzgerald, Vintage Books, New York, 1993 (0-
679-72847-3)
Richard Jenkyns, Classical Epic: Homer and Virgil, Bristol Classical
Press, London, 1996 (1-85399-133-3)
Peter V. Jones, Homers Odyssey: A Companion to the Translation of
Richmond Lattimore, Bristol Classical Press, 1988
J.V. Luce, Homer and the Heroic Age, Futura, 1979 (0708815626)
Kostas Myrsiades (ed), Approaches to Teaching Homers Iliad and
Odyssey, (Approaches to Teaching World Literature, 13), Modern
Language Association of America, 1987 (0873525000)
Martin Thorpe, Homer, Bristol Classical Press, London, 1986

Sophocles

Peter D. Arnott, An Introduction to the Greek Theatre, Macmillan,
London, 1962
Marion Baldock, Greek Tragedy, Bristol Classical Press, 1989 (1-
85399-119-8)
H.C. Baldry, The Greek Tragic Theatre, Ancient Culture and Society,
Chatto and Windus, London, 1974 (7011-1629-3)
R.G.A. Buxton, Sophocles, Greece and Rome, New Surveys in the
Classics No. 16, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1984 (0903035138)
P.E. Esterling (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy,
Cambridge University Press, 1997 (0521423511)
Garvie, Plays of Sophocles, Bristol Classical Press, 2005 (1-85399-
680-7)
H.D.F. Kitto, Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study, Routledge, London,
1978 (0-415-05896-1)
Bernard Knox, Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles Tragic Hero and His
Time, Yale University Press, new edition, 1998 (0300074239)
Bernard Knox, The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy
(Sather Classical Lectures), University of California Press, reprint
edition, 1983 (0520049578)
Sophocles, Antigone, A new translation and commentary by David
Franklin and John Harrison, Cambridge University Press, 2003 (useful
commentary)
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, A new translation and commentary by
Ian McAuslan and Judith Affleck, Cambridge University Press, 2003
(useful commentary)
Oliver Taplin, Greek Tragedy in Action, Methuen and Co Ltd, London,
1978 (0-415-04312-3)
David Taylor, Acting and the Stage, George, Allen and Unwin, London,
1978
A.J.A Waldock, Sophocles the Dramatist, Cambridge University Press,
1966
T.B.L. Webster, An Introduction to Sophocles, Methuen, London,
Oxford, 1969
David Wiles, Tragedy in Athens: Performance Space and Theatrical
Meaning, Cambridge University Press, 1999 (0521666155)
John Wilkins and Matthew Macleod, Sophocles Antigone and Oedipus
the King - A Companion to the Penguin Translation, Bristol Classical
Press, London, 1994 (0-86292-240-2)

Roman Comedy

W. Beare, The Roman Stage: A Short History of Latin Drama in the
Time of the Republic, Methuen, London, 1968 (416295207)
Kenneth McLeish, Roman Comedy, (Inside the Ancient World series)
Macmillan, 1976 (0862921864)
F.H. Sandbach, Comic Theatre of Greece and Rome, Ancient Culture
and Society Series, Norton & Co, 1977 (0-7011-2194-7)

Websites

Homer

http://www.mythweb.com/odyssey/
http://www.temple.edu/classics/odysseyho.html
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/odchoice.htm
http://www.projectx2002.org/nederlands_hotpots/quiz_odyssey.htm
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/Eng9/homer.html

Sophocles

Roman comedy

Audiovisual

Homer The Odyssey

Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fagles, read by Sir Ian
McKellan, Penguin Audio Books, 2005
Homer, The Odyssey, (CD) Naxos Audio Books, 2000
Homer, The Odyssey (Radio Collection), (CD) BBC Audiobooks Ltd,
2004
Michael Wood, In Search of the Trojan War, BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2007
Troy, Ancient Myths and Unsolved Mysteries, National Geographic,
2004
Troy Myth or Reality, Eagle Media Productions Ltd, 2004

Sophocles

Oedipus Rex, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Franco Citti as
Oedipus, 1967
Oedipus the King, directed by Philip Saville, starring Christopher
Plummer as Oedipus, 1968
Oedipus the King, (CD) Naxos Audio Books, 1999 (also available as an
audio download from audible.com)
Antigone, directed by George Tzavellas, starring Irene Papas as
Antigone, 1961
Antigone (Jean Anouilhs), directed by Gerald Freedman, starring
Genevieve Bujold as Antigone, Broadway Theatre Archive, 1972
Antigone, directed by Don Taylor, starring Juliet Stevenson as
Antigone, BBC, 1984
Antigone (Jean Anouilhs), (CD) translated by Christopher Nixon,
directed by Brendon Fox, L.A. Theatre Works, Audio Editions, 2005
(also available as an audio download from audible.com)
Three Greek Tragedies (Medea, Antigone, Agamemnon), (CD) Classic
Books on Cassette Collection, Audio Book Contractors Inc, 2005

Art

Print publications


Susan Woodford, The Parthenon, Cambridge University Press, 1981
(0-521-22629-5)
Paul Artus, Pompeii and Herculaneum, Bellona Books, 2007


Athenian architecture and sculpture

William R. Biers, The Archaeology of Greece, revised edition, Cornell
University Press, Ithaca, 1987 (0801494060)
John Boardman, Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Period, Thames and
Hudson, London, 1991 (0-500-20163-3)
John Boardman, Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period, Thames and
Hudson, London, 1992 (0-500-20198-6)
John Boardman & David Finn, The Parthenon and its Sculptures,
Thames and Hudson, London, 1985 (0-500-01372-1)
B.F. Cook, The Elgin Marbles, British Museum Press, London, 1991 (0-
7141-2026-X)
Janet Burnett Grossman, Looking at Greek and Roman Stone
Sculpture: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques, J. Paul Getty
Museum, 2003 (0892367083)
R.J. Hopper, The Acropolis, Spring Books, London, 1974
(0600302229)
Jeffrey M. Hurwit, The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles, Cambridge
University Press, 2005, includes CD Rom with 180 colour images of
monuments of the Acropolis (0521527406)
Ian Jenkins, The Parthenon Frieze, Thames and Hudson, London,
1994 (0-7141-2200-9)
Ian Jenkins, Greek Architecture and its Sculpture, Harvard UP, 2007
(0674023889)
Manolis Korres, The Stones of the Parthenon, J. Paul Getty Museum,
Los Angeles, 2000
A.W. Lawrence, Greek Architecture (revised with additions by R.A.
Tomlinson), Yale University Press, 1983 (0-300-05289-8)
Roland Martin, Architecture of the World 6: Greece, Henri Stierlin
(series ed), Benedidkt Taschen, (3822893080)
Roland Martin, History of World Architecture: Greek Architecture,
Phaidon Press, 2004, (1904313167)
Jenifer Neils, The Parthenon Frieze, Cambridge University Press, 2001
(0521641616) includes CD Rom
Robin Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, Oxford University
Press, 1998
John Griffiths Pedley, Greek Art, Laurence King, 2
nd
edition, 1998
J. J. Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, Cambridge
University Press, 1972 (0521096626)
Robin Francis Rhodes, Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian
Acropolis, Cambridge University Press, 1995 (0-521-46981-3)
M.A. Richter, A Handbook of Greek Art, Phaidon Press, 1996 (0-7148-
2496-8)
Martin Robertson and Alison Frantz, The Parthenon Frieze, Oxford
Martin Robertson, A Shorter History of Greek Art, Cambridge
University Press, 1989 (0-521-28084-2)
Nigel Spivey, Understanding Greek Sculpture: Ancient Meanings,
Modern Readings, Thames and Hudson, 1996 (0-500-27876-8)
R.A. Tomlinson, Greek Architecture, Classical World Series, Bristol
Classical Press, London, 1991 (1-85399-115-5)
R.E. Wycherley, The Stones of Athens, Princeton University Press,
1978 (0-691-10059-4)

Pompeii and Herculaneum

Mary Beard, The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found, Harvard
Joanne Berry, The Complete Pompeii, Thames and Hudson, 2007
Alex Butterworth, Pompeii: The Living City, St Martins Press, 2006
John R. Clarke, The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C. A.D. 250,
University of California Press, 1991
Peter Connolly, Pompeii (Roman World), Oxford University Press,
1994
Joseph Jay Deiss, Herculaneum: Italys Buried Treasure, Getty
Publications, 1989
Simon P. Ellis, Roman Housing, (Duckworth Archaeology), 2003
Robert Etienne, Pompeii: The Day a City Died, Thames and Hudson,
London, 1986
Michael Grant, Cities of Vesuvius, Spring Books, 1975
Roger Ling, Roman Painting, Cambridge University Press, 1991
Roger Ling, Pompeii: History, Life and Afterlife, Tempus, 2005
Donatella Mazzoleni, Umberto Pappalardo and Luciano Romano,
Domus: Wall painting in the Roman House (Getty Trust Publications: J.
Paul Getty Museum), 2005
Alexander G. McKay, Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World,
1998
Salvatore Nappo, Pompeii: Guide to the Lost City, White Star, 1998
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Houses and Society in Pompeii and
Herculaneum, Princeton University Press, 1996
Paul Zanker, Pompeii: Public and Private Life, Harvard University
Press, 1999

Websites


http://www.stoa.org/metis/cgi-bin/qtvr?site=acropolis
http://www.stoa.org/athens/index.html
http://www.debevec.org/Parthenon/
http://www.learn.columbia.edu/parthenon/flash/main.htm
http://www.ekt.gr/parthenonfrieze/index.jsp?lang=en&w=1280
http://library.thinkquest.org/23492/data/bronze.htm
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rogr/hd_rogr.htm
http://www.flvs.net/products_services/2005_showcase_flvs/art/apart/les
sons/03_04.htm
http://www.class.uh.edu/classes/Arth1380/ArtConceptPages/Parthenon
Metopes/index.htm
http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali//print.php?itemID=11236



Audiovisual


Documentary)
Engineering an Empire Greece
Mystery of the Parthenon
Secrets of the Parthenon
Empires of Stone Acropolis
Athens Ancient Supercity


Documentary)
Shadow of Vesuvius
Riddle of Pompeii
Pompeii Uncovered

Lost Civilizations: Pompeii, City Captured in Ash, (tape) read by Blair
Brown and David McCallum, Time Life Audio Books, 1992
Pompeii (Lost treasures of the Ancient World), Cromwell Productions
Ltd, 1998
Pompeii, The Last Day, BBC, 2004
Pompeii and the Roman Villa, narrated by Derek Jacobi, National
Gallery of Art, 2008
Proxima Veritati, Volume III, Pompeii: Houses of Menander and
Caeciliius Iucundus, Theatre District, Forum, Auckland University, 2005

History

Print publications

John Thorley, Athenian Democracy, (Lancaster Pamphlets),
Routledge, London, 1996 (0-415-12967-2)
David Shotter, The Fall of the Roman Republic, Routledge (Lancaster
Pamphlets), 1991 (0-415-10292-8)

Suggested texts for extension reading:

Athenian Democracy

Antony Andrewes, Greek Society, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth,
1971 (0-14-021367-8)
Robin Barrow, Athenian Democracy, Inside the Ancient World,
Macmillan, 1973
Pamela Bradley, Ancient Greece: Using Evidence, Cambridge
Christopher Carey, Democracy in Classical Athens, Classical World
Series, Bristol Classical Press, London, 1998
J.K. Davies, Democracy and Classical Greece, Fontana, London, 1993
(0-00-686251-9)
Victor Ehrenberg, From Solon to Socrates: Greek History and
Civilization during the sixth and fifth centuries B.C., Routledge, London,
1993 (0-415-04024-8)
Simon Hornblower, The Greek World 479-323 BC, Routledge, London,
1991 (0-415-06557-7)
JACT, The World of Athens: An Introduction to Classical Athenian
Culture, Cambridge University Press, 1988 (0-521-27389-7)
James, Renshaw, In Search of the Greeks, Bristol Classical Press,
2008
J.W. Roberts, City of Socrates, London, 1998 (2
nd
ed)

Roman Politics

Mary Beard, and Michael Crawford, Rome in the Late Republic, 2
nd

Edition, Duckworth, 1999
Pamela Bradley, Ancient Rome: Using Evidence, Cambridge University
Press, 1990
Anthony Everitt, Cicero: the Life and Times of Romes Greatest
Politician, Random House, 2003 (037575895X)
Kate Gilliver, Rome at War: Caesar and his Legacy, Essential
Histories, Osprey Publishing, 2005 (1841768812)
Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus, Yale University Press,
2006 (0300120486)
Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesars Civil War, Essential Histories, Osprey
Publishing, 2002 (1841763926)
Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic, Anchor
Books, 2005 (1400078970)
Peter V. Jones, Keith C. Sidwell, The World of Rome: An Introduction
to Roman Culture, JACT, Cambridge University Press, 1997
(0521386004)
W. K. Lacey, Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic, Hodder and
Stoughton, London, 1978 (0340059370)
Christian Meier, Caesar: A Biography, Fontana, 1995 (0006863493)
John R. Patterson, Political Life in the City of Rome, (Classical World
Series), Bristol Classical Press, 2000 (1853995142)
H.H. Scullard, From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome 133 BC to
AD 68 fifth edition, Routledge, London, 1991 (0-415-02527-3)
Robin Seager, Pompey the Great, Blackwell, 2002 (2
nd
ed)
(0631227210)
David Taylor, Cicero and Rome, Inside the Ancient World, Macmillan
Education, London, 1983 (333-14742-1)
T.E.J. Wiedemann, Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic,
Classical World Series, Bristol Classical Press, London, 1991 (1-
85399193-7)

Websites

Athenian Democracy

Roman Politics

http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/romanpages.html
http://www.unrv.com/government/consul-1-bc.php
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/RepGov.html
http://www.therthdimension.org/AncientRome/RomanOffices/romanoffi
ces.htm
http://www.livius.org/caa-can/caesar/caesar01.html
http://www.livius.org/caa-can/caesar/caesar01.html
http://www.fenrir.dk/history/index.php?title=Gaius_Julius_Caesar
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/ho
me.html

Audiovisual

Athenian Democracy

Documentary)
The Greeks Crucible of Civilisation

Roman Politics

Documentary)
Line of Fire Caesar: Conqueror of Gaul
Greatest Heroes in History Julius Caesar
Caesars Greatest Battle

The Great Commanders (Vol. 1), Julius Caesar the battle of Alesia,
1993
The History of Warfare, the Gallic Wars, Cromwell Productions, 1996
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of Rome (Julius Caesar), BBC, 2009

Science, Religion, Philosophy

Print publications


Jennifer Gibbon, Athenian Society, Inside the Ancient World,
Macmillan, 1990
David Taylor, Roman Society, Inside the Ancient World, Macmillan,
1980 (0-333-25626-3)


Athenian Social Life

Antony Andrewes, Greek Society, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth,
1971 (0-14-021367-8)
Robin Barrow, Greek and Roman Education, Inside the Ancient World,
Macmillan, 1976, 88 pgs (0-333-18315-0)
S. Blundell, Woman in Classical Athens, Classical World Series, Bristol
Classical Press, London, 1998 (1853995436)
Peter Connolly, Hazel Dodge, The Ancient City: Life in Classical
Athens & Rome, Oxford University Press, 1998
N. Fisher, Slavery in Classical Greece, Classical World Series, Bristol
Classical Press, London, 1998 (1853991341)
Robert Flaceliere, Daily Life in Ancient Greece at the Time of Pericles,
Phoenix Press, 2002 (1842125079)
Robert Garland, Religion and the Greeks, Classical World Series,
Bristol Classical Press, London, 1994, 109 pgs (185399409X)
Anne Haward, Penelope to Poppaea, Inside the Ancient World, Nelson,
1990, 91 pgs (0-17-438513-7)
Kenneth Hughes, Slavery, Greek and Roman Topics, George Allen &
Unwin, London, 1975
JACT, The World of Athens: An Introduction to Classical Athenian
Culture, Cambridge University Press, 1988 (0-521-27389-7)
Michael Massey and Paul Moreland, Slavery in the Ancient World,
Inside the Ancient World, Macmillan, 1978, 91 pgs (0-333-18317-7)

Roman Social Life

J.P.V.D. Balsdon, Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome, Phoenix Press,
new ed., 2002 (1842125931)
Robin Barrow, Greek and Roman Education, Inside the Ancient World,
Macmillan, 1976, 88 pgs (0-333-18315-0)
David Buchanan, Roman Sports and Entertainment, Aspects of Roman
Life, Longman, London, 1988 (0582314151)
Jerome Carcopino, Daily Life in Ancient Rome, Penguin Books, 1991
(014012487X)
Ken Dowden, Religion and the Romans, Classical World Series, Bristol
Classical Press, London, 1992, 102 pgs (1-85399-180-5)
Anne Haward, Penelope to Poppaea, Inside the Ancient World, Nelson,
1990, 91 pgs (0-17-438513-7)
Peter Hodge, Roman Family Life, Aspects of Roman Life, Longman,
London, 1974 (0582314119)
Kenneth Hughes, Slavery, Greek and Roman Topics, George Allen &
Unwin, London, 1975
Peter V. Jones, Keith C. Sidwell, The World of Rome: An Introduction
to Roman Culture, JACT, Cambridge University Press, 1997
(0521386004)
Eckart Kohne and Cornelia Ewigleben (ed), Gladiators and Caesars:
The Power of Spectacle in the Ancient World, British Museum Press,
2000
Michael Massey and Paul Moreland, Slavery in the Ancient World,
Inside the Ancient World, Macmillan, 1978, 91 pgs (0-333-18317-7)
Michael Massey, Roman Religion, Aspects of Roman Life, Longman,
London, 1979 (0582215730)
Tim G. Parkin and Arthur J. Pomeroy, Roman Social History: A
Sourcebook, Routledge, 2007

Websites


Roman Social Life


Audiovisual


Roman Social Life

Documentary)
The true story of the Roman Arena
Gladiators the brutal truth
Gladiatrix Savage Sisters
Gladiator Games Roman Bloodsports
Conquest weapons of the Gladiators
Gladiator Graveyard
Life and Death in Rome (6 parts)
The Roman Army at War Trajans Column



Literature

Print publications


Classics.

Aristophanes, Frogs and other plays, translated by David Barrett,
revised translation with an introduction and notes by Shomit Dutta,
Penguin Classics, London, 2007
Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires, third edition, translated with an
introduction and notes by Peter Green, Penguin Classics, London,
1998
Virgil, The Aeneid, translated into English prose with an introduction by
W.F. Jackson-Knight, Penguin Classics, London, 1958

The following are suggestion for useful general texts for the classroom.

Gwen Hunter, Greek Drama, Longman, 1996
Marion Findlay, Divine Quest - A Guide to Reading Virgils Aeneid,
Longman, Auckland, 1996 (0582879558)
R. D. Williams, Aeneas and the Roman Hero, Bristol Classical Press,
1998


Aristophanes

Aristophanes, Lysistrata and other plays, translated by Alan H.
Sommerstein, Penguin Classics, London, 2002 (useful introduction)
Aristophanes, Birds and other plays, translated by Alan H.
Sommerstein, Penguin Classics, London, 2002 (useful introduction)
Kenneth J. Dover, Aristophanic Comedy, University of California Press,
1972 (0-520-02211-4)
J. R. Green & E. W. Handley, Images of the Greek Theatre, London
1995
Nick Lowe, Comedy (New Surveys in the Classics), Oxford, 2007
D.M. Macdowell, Aristophanes and Athens: An introduction to the
Plays, Oxford University Press, 1995 (0198721595)
F.H. Sandbach, Comic Theatre of Greece and Rome, Ancient Culture
and Society Series, Norton & Co, 1977 (0-7011-2194-7)
E. Segal (ed), Oxford Readings in Aristophanes, Oxford, 1996
R.G. Ussher, Aristophanes, Greece and Rome New Surveys in the

Juvenal

Susanna Braund, Roman Verse Satire, Greece and Rome, New
Surveys in the Classics No 23, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992
(0199220727)
Susanna Braund, Roman Satirists and their Masks, Bristol Classical
Press, 2003 (1-85399-139-2)
S.H. Braund (ed), Satire and Society in Ancient Rome, University of
Exeter, 1989 (reprint 2001) (0859893316)
Michael Coffey, Roman Satire, Bristol Classical Press, 1989 (1-85399-
046-9)
John Ferguson (ed), Juvenal: The Satires, St Martins Press, 1979,
reprinted Bristol Classical Press, 2001 (1853995819) Latin text but
very good introduction
Kirk Freudenburg, Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to
Juvenal, Cambridge University Press, 2001
Peter Green, Roman Satire and Roman Society in Essays on
Antiquity, John Murray, London, 1960
Gilbert Highet, Juvenal the Satirist, Oxford University Press, 1954
now dated but still has useful material on individual satires.
E.J. Kenney, Juvenal: Satirist or Rhetorician? Latomus 22 (1963),
pp.704-720
Niall Rudd, Themes in Roman Satire, Bristol Classical Press, 1986 (1-
85399-561-4)
Niall Rudd, The Satires - Juvenal, edited by William Barr, The Worlds
Classics Series, Oxford University Press, 1992 (0-19-281762-0) has
a useful introduction and is a useful alternative translation.

Virgil

W.S. Anderson, The Art of the Aeneid, Inside the Ancient World Series,
Duckworth, London, 2003 (1-85399-131-7)
W.A. Camps, An Introduction to Virgils Aeneid, Oxford University
Press, 1989 (0-19-872024-6)
S. Commager (ed), Virgil: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood
Cliffs, New Jersey, 1966
K.W. Grandsen, Virgil: The Aeneid, Landmarks of World Literature,
Philip R. Hardie, Virgil, Greece and Rome, New Surveys in the
S.J. Harrison (ed), Oxford Readings in Virgils Aeneid, Oxford
McAuslan & P. Walcott (ed), Virgil, Oxford, 1990
K.F. Quinn, Virgils Aeneid: A Critical Description, Routledge, London,
1968; paperback Bristol Phoenix Press, 2005 (1904675522)
V. Poschl, The Art of Vergil, Ann Arbor, 1962; Greenwood Press
Reprint, 1986 (0313250537)
M.J.C. Putnam, The Poetry of the Aeneid, Cambridge, Mass., 1965;
paperback Cornell University Press, reprint edition, 1989 (0801495180)
David O. Ross, Virgils Aeneid: A Readers Guide, Blackwell
Publishing, 2007
R.D. Williams, The Aeneid of Virgil: Books 1 6, St Martins Press,
New York, 1972 (0333118731)
R.D. Williams, The Aeneid of Virgil: A Companion to the translation of
C. Day Lewis, Bristol Classical Press, 1985 (0-86292-044-2)
For students with language difficulties a useful entry point prior to
reading the full text might be to recommend Emily Frenkel, Aeneas:
Virgils Epic retold for Young Readers, Bristol Classical Press, 1986

Websites

http://www.stoa.org/metis/cgi-bin/qtvr?site=south

Virgil

http://www.temple.edu/classics/epic.html
http://virgil.org/
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Hal
icarnassus/1C*.html
http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/justin/english/trans18.html#3

Audiovisual

Aristophanes

The Frogs (DVD), Translated and Directed by Robin Bond, University
of Canterbury Production, 2005
Steven Sondheim, The Frogs (1970s musical)
http://www.amazon.com/Frogs-2004-Broadway-Cast/dp/B0006SSMWY

Juvenal

Laughter and Loathing, written by Ian Hislop, starring Stephen Fry,
BBC, 1995

Virgil

Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (opera) see utube versions
Virgil, The Aeneid, translated by David West, (tape) narrated by
Richard Pasco, Penguin Audio, 1995
Virgil, The Aeneid, C. Day-Lewis translation, (CD) with Derek Jacobi as
narrator and Ralph Fiennes as Aeneas, BBC Radio Production, 1999
Virgil, The Aeneid, C. Day-Lewis translation, (CD) read by Paul
Schofield, Naxos Audio Books, 2002 (also available as an audio
download from audible.com)
Virgil, The Aeneid (Abridged), translated by Robert Fitzgerald, (CD)
narrated by Christopher Ravenscoft, Audio Editions, 2005
Virgil, The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles, (CD) narrated by
Simon Callow, Penguin Audio, 2006

Art

Print publications


Paul Artus, Greek Vase Painting, 2
nd
edition, Bellona Books, 2007
Paul Artus, Art and Architecture of the Roman Empire, 2
nd
edition,
Bellona Books, 2006


Greek Vase Painting

John Boardman, Greek Art, Thames and Hudson, London, 1989 (0-
500-20194-3)
John Boardman, The History of Greek Vases, Thames and Hudson,
London, 2001 (0-500-237808)
John Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases, Thames and Hudson,
London, 1993 (0-500-20138-2)
John Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period,
John Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period,
Jonathan Campbell and Kay Harrison, The Art of Greek Vase Painting,
Longman, Auckland, 1996 (0-582-87935-3)
T.H. Carpenter, Art and Myth in Ancient Greece, Thames and Hudson,
London, 1994 (0-500-202236-2)
Andrew J. Clark et al, Understanding Greek Vases: A guide to terms,
styles and techniques, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2002
(0-89236-599-4)
R.M. Cook, Greek Painted Pottery, Routledge, London, 1997 (0-415-
13860-4)
M.A. Richter, A Handbook of Greek Art, Phaidon Press, 1996 (0-7148-
2496-8)
Martin Robertson, A Shorter History of Greek Art, Cambridge
Martin Robertson, The Art of Vase Painting in Classical Athens,
T. Rasmussen & N. Spivey (eds), Looking at Greek Vases, Cambridge,
1991(0-521-37679-3)
Brian A. Sparkes, The Red and the Black: Studies in Greek Pottery,
Routledge, 1996 (0-415-12661-4)
P. Gregory Warden (ed), Greek Vase Painting: Form, Figure and
Narrative, Meadow Museum SMU Press, 2004 (0870744895)
Susan Woodford, An Introduction to Greek Art, Duckworth, London,
1994 (0-7156-2095-9)
Susan Woodford, Images of Myths in Classical Antiquity, Cambridge
University Press, 2002, 332 pgs (0521788099)

Roman Art and Architecture

James Anderson, Roman Architecture and Society, Johns Hopkins
Axel Boethius, Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture (Pelican History
of Art), Yale University Press, 1987 (0-300-5290-1)
Lucilla Burn, The British Museum Book of Greek and Roman Art,
British Museum, 1991 (0-7141-1297-6)
Jonathan Campbell, Roman Art and Architecture, Longman, Auckland,
1978 (0-582-73984-5)
Eve DAmbra, Roman Art, Cambridge UP, 1998 (0521644631)
Jan Elsner, Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph, Oxford, 1998
Anne Haward, Art and the Romans, Bristol Classical Press, 1999 (1-
85399-558-4)
Martin Henig (ed), A Handbook of Roman Art: A survey of the Visual
Arts of the Roman World, Phaidon, 1995 (0714823015)
Tonio Holscher, The Language of Images in Roman Art, Cambridge
University Press, 2004, 188 pgs (0521665698)
Mark Wilson Jones, Principles of Roman Architecture, Yale UP, 2003
(030010202X)
Diana E. Kleiner. Roman Sculpture, Yale University Press, 1994
(0300059485)
William L. MacDonald, The Architecture of the Roman Empire, Volume
1: An Introductory Study, Yale Publications in the History of Art, rev.
ed., 1982 (0300028199)
William L. MacDonald, The Pantheon: Design, Meaning and Progeny,
Harvard UP, 2002 (0674010191)
Carlos A. Picon et al, Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome, Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, 2007 (Resource for Educators, with CD Rom)
Gilbert Picard, The Roman Empire (Architecture of the World 12), Henri
Stierlin (ed), Benedikt Taschen, (3-8228-9305-6)
N. & A. Ramage, Roman Art, 2nd ed., Laurence King, 1995 (1-85669-
078-4)
Donald S. Robertson, Greek & Roman Architecture, Cambridge
Frank Sear, Roman Architecture, Cornell UP, 1983 (0801492459)
Donald Emrys Strong, Roman Art (Pelican History of Art), Yale
Susan Walker, Roman Art, British Museum, 1991 (0-7141-2076-6)
J.B. Ward-Perkins, Roman Imperial Architecture (Pelican History of
Art), Yale University Press, 1981 (0-300-05292-8)
J.B. Ward-Perkins, History of World Architecture: Roman Architecture,
Phaidon Press, 2004 (1904313191)
Mortimer Wheeler, Roman Art and Architecture, Thames and Hudson,
1985 (0-500-20021-1)
Susan Woodford, The Art of Greece and Rome, Thames and Hudson,
1980

Websites

Greek Vase Painting

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-
bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0043;layout=;loc=London
%20A%20342;query=toc
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/pottery/default1.htm
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ancient_Greek_pottery_b
y_shape
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/vasepainting.htm
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/videoDetails?cat=2&segid=373
http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles/roman.html
http://techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us/spring025/


http://www.cambridgescp.com/page.php?p=clc^oa_book4^intro

Audiovisual


Documentary)
Engineering an Empire Rome
Secrets of Archaeology the Colosseum
Modern Marvels the Colosseum
Megastructures Colosseum
Empires of Stone - Colosseum
Roman Technology

Colosseum Romes Arena of Death, BBC, 2004

CD Roms
Proxima Veritati, Volume I, Rome, Auckland University, 2003
Proxima Veritati, Volume II, Arches of Severus, Titus and Constantine,
Auckland University, 2005
Proxima Veritati, Volume III, Pompeii: Houses of Menander and
Caeciliius Iucundus, Theatre District, Forum, Auckland University, 2005

History

Print publications

Classics.

Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander, translated by Aubrey de
Selincourt, Penguin Books, London, 1958
Plutarch, The Age of Alexander, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert,
Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, translated by Robert Graves, Penguin
Books, London, 1957
Cassius Dio, The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus, translated by
Ian Scott-Kilvert, Penguin Books, London, 1987
P.A. Brunt & J.M. Moore, Res Gestae Divi Augusti - The Achievements
of the Divine Augustus, Oxford University Press, 1986 (0-19-831772-7)

Suggested general texts for class use:

J.R. Hamilton, Alexander the Great, University of Pittsburgh Press,
1974 (0-8229-6084-2)
David Shotter, Augustus Caesar, Routledge, 1991 (0-415-06048-6)


Alexander the Great

Winthrop Lindsay Adams, Alexander the Great: Legacy of a
Conqueror, Library of World Biography Series, Longman, 2004
(0321086171)
A.B. Bosworth, Conquest and Empire: the Reign of Alexander the
Great, Cambridge University Press, 1993 (0-521-40679-X)
A.B. Bosworth, Alexander and the East: The Tragedy of Triumph,
Clarendon, 1998
Paul Cartledge, Alexander the Great The Hunt for a New Past,
Macmillan, London, 2004 (1-4050-3292-8)
Robin L. Fox, Alexander the Great, Viking Penguin, 1994 (0-14-
008878-4)
J.F.C. Fuller, The Generalship of Alexander the Great, Wordsworth
Military Series, 1998 (1-85326-695-7)
Peter Green, Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. A Historical
Biography, University of California Press, 1992 (0-520-07165-4)
N.G.L. Hammond, Alexander the Great - King, Commander,
Statesman, Bristol Classical Press, 1994
Waldemar Heckel, The Wars of Alexander the Great, Essential
Histories, Osprey Publishing, 2002 (1841764736)
John Maxwell OBrien, Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy,
Routledge, London, 1994 (0-415-11367-9)
James Romm (ed), Alexander the Great: Selections from Arrian,
Diodorus, Plutarch and Quintus Curtius, Hackett Publishing Company
Inc, 2005
Nick Sekunda, The Army of Alexander the Great, (Men at Arms Series
148), Osprey Publishing, 1988 (0850455391)
Richard Stoneman, Alexander the Great, Routledge (Lancaster
Pamphlets), 1997 (0-415-15050-7)
John Warry, Alexander 334-323 BC - Conquest of the Persian Empire,
Osprey Military Series 7, Osprey Publishing, 1991 (1855321106)

Augustus

Werner Eck, The Age of Augustus, Blackwell, London, 2003
(0631229582)
Anthony Everitt, Augustus: The Life of Romes First Emperor, Random
House, 2006 (1400061288)
Karl Galinsky, Augustan Culture, Princeton University Press, 1998
(0691058903)
Karl Galinsky (ed), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus,
A.H.M. Jones, Augustus, W.W. Norton (Ancient Culture and Society
Series), 1971 (0-393-00584-4)
W.K. Lacey, Augustus and the Principate: The Evolution of the System,
Francis Cairns, 1996 (0-9052-0591-X)
Ronald Mellor, Augustus and the Creation of the Roman Empire: A
Brief History with Documents, Beford/St Martins Press, 2005
(0312404697)
Josiah Osgood, Caesars Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the
Roman Empire, Cambridge University Press, 2006 (0521671779)
F. Millar & E. Segal (eds), Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects,
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990, (0-19-814858-5)
Kurt A. Raaflab (ed), Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of
Augustus and his Principate, University of California Press, 1993 (0-
520-08447-0)
Howard H. Scullard, From the Gracchi to Nero, Routledge, 1986 (0-
416-32900-4)
Pat Southern, Augustus (Roman Imperial Biographies), Routledge,
2001 (0415258553)
Ronald Syme, Roman Revolution, Oxford University Press, 1960 (0-19-
881001-6)
Wallace-Hadrill, Augustan Rome, Bristol Classical Press, 1993 (1-
85399-138-4)
P. Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus, The
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1988 (0-472-08124-1)

Websites

Alexander the Great

http://www.livius.org/aj-al/alexander/alexander00.html
http://www.historyofmacedonia.org/AncientMacedonia/AlexandertheGr
eat.html
https://portal.marsden.school.nz/Collaboration/Virtual%20Class%20Ro
oms/121ec7d1-ada1-4f46-baf8-a1706fca72cf-
defaultaspx/alexander/default.aspx
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Al
exander*/home.html
http://www.1stmuse.com/frames/
http://faq.macedonia.org/history/alex.timeline.html
http://www.alexanderstomb.com/main/index.html

Augustus

Audiovisual

Alexander the Great

Documentary)
Engineering an Empire Alexander
Unsolved History Who killed Alexander the Great?
Ancient Voices - Alexander, Child of Fire
Line of Fire The Conquests of Alexander
Greatest Heroes in History Alexander the Great
Battleground: The Art of War Alexander

The Great Commanders (Vol. 2), Alexander the Great the battle of
Issus, 1993
Alexander the Great The Man behind the Legend, National
Geographic, 2004

Augustus

Documentary)
I, Caesar (Augustus), BBC

Science, Religion, Philosophy

Print publications

Classics.

Plato, The Last Days of Socrates, translated by Hugh Tredennick,


G.E. Lloyd, Greek Science: Thales to Anaximander, W.W. Norton and
Co (Ancient Culture and Society Series) 1974 (0-393-00583-6)
R. M Ogilvie, The Romans and their Gods, Hogarth Press (Ancient
Culture and Society Series), 1986 (0-7012-0731-0)


Greek Science

Luciano De Crescenzo, The History of Greek Philosophy, Volume II,
Socrates and Beyond, Picador, 1990
W.K. Guthrie, The Greek Philosophers: From Thales to Aristotle,
Routledge, 1968 (0-415-04025-6)
G.E. Lloyd, Greek Science after Aristotle, W.W. Norton and Co
(Ancient Culture and Society Series) 1975 (0-393-00780-4)
T. E. Rihill, Greek Science, Oxford, 1999
T. E. Rihill, Greek Science (New Surveys in the Classics), Oxford, 2006

Socrates

W. K. Guthrie, Socrates, Cambridge University Press, 1971
Gwen Hunter, Socrates, Longman, 1998
T. Irwin, Classical Thought, Oxford, 1989
M. Parker, Socrates in Athens, London, 1973
J. W. Roberts, City of Socrates, London, 1998 (2
nd
ed)
I. F. Stone, The Trial of Socrates, Picador, 1988
C. C. W. Taylor, R. M. Hare, J. Barnes, Greek Philosophers, Oxford,
1999
Emily Wilson, The Death of Socrates, Harvard University Press, 2007

Roman Religion

Lesley Adkins, Roy Adkins, Dictionary of Roman Religion, Oxford
S. Angus, The Mystery Religions, Dover Publications, new edition,
1975
Mary Beard et al, Religions of Rome: Volume 1; A History, Cambridge
Mary Beard et al, Religions of Rome: Volume 2; A Sourcebook,
K. Dowden, Religion and the Romans, Bristol Classical Press, 1992 (1-
85399-180-5)
J. Ferguson, The Religions of the Roman Empire, London, 1970
Marion Findlay, Roman Religion, Longman, New Zealand, 1998 (0-
582-71846-5)
J. A. North, Roman Religion, Greece and Rome, New Surveys in the
Sarah B. Pomeroy, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women
in Classical Antiquity, Schocken Books, New York, 1975
James Rives, Religion in the Roman Empire (Blackwell Ancient
Religions), Blackwell, 2006 (1405106565)
John Scheid, Janet Lloyd, An Introduction to Roman Religion, Indiana
Robert Turcan, The Gods of Ancient Rome: Religion in Everyday Life
from Archaic to Imperial Times, Routledge, 2001 (0415929741)
Robert Turcan and Antonia Neville, The Cults of the Roman Empire
(Ancient World), Blackwell Publishing, 1997 (0631200479)
Valerie Warrior, Roman Religion: A Sourcebook, Focus Publishing,
2002 (1585100307)

Websites

Greek Science

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Socrates

Roman Religion

http://www.novaroma.org/calendar/
http://www.carnaval.com/saturnalia/romanfestivals.htm

Audiovisual

Greek Science

Pythagoras Genius, Great Minds Throughout History, Cromwell
Productions, 1999

General resources for Classical Studies

Journals

NZACT Bulletin
National Geographic specific past issues contain useful maps and posters

http://www.jact.org/index.htm
http://minervamagazine.com/
http://www.archaeology.org/
http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/
http://www.aclclassics.org/
http://www.irismagazine.org/

Websites

General

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
http://www.stoa.org/metis/

Mythology

http://www.theoi.com/
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
http://www.paleothea.com/
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Greeks.htm
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/oldindex.htm

Maps

http://www.unc.edu/awmc/index.html
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/Articles/Maps/Maps_of_the_Ancient
_World.htm
http://iam.classics.unc.edu/

Print

Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth (eds), The Oxford Classical
Dictionary, 3
rd
edition, Oxford University Press, 1999
M.C. Howatson and Ian Chilvers (eds), Concise Companion to
Classical Literature, Oxford University Press, 1993
Jenny March, Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Cassell, 1998
Barry B. Powell, Classical Myth, 5
th
Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall,
2007

A useful introductory overview can be found in the Study Guides for NCEA
Levels 2 and 3 published by ESA Publications.

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