Required Texts for CLAS210
Ancient Literature: Images of Masculinity

Fall, 2001
Department of Classics,
Monmouth College

(listed in order of use)
Click on title for more information.
 The Iliad of Homer (Lattimore translation)                         

 Homer. The Iliad.
 Translated by Richmond Lattimore
 Chicago:  University of Chicago Press
 1972

 

A Companion to the Iliad                            

                            Willcock, Malcolm M. A Companion to the 
                            Chicago: University of Chicago Press
                            1976

                            Note: This book is recommended, not required.

 


                           
Greek LyricsLattimore, Richmond, ed. Greek Lyrics
                            Chicago: University of Chicago Press       
                            1976


 

 

Aeschylus. Seven Against Thebes
  Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications
 2000

 

 

Sophocles: Sophocles. Complete Plays.
Translated by Paul Roche.
NAL
2001

 


 

Euripedes:Euripides. Ten Plays.
Translated by Paul Roche.
NAL
1998

 

 

Great Dialogues of Plato:Great Dialogues of Plato. 
Translated by W. H. Rouse.
NAL
1990

 

 

Terence. Brothers. (No bookcover available.)
Translated by Charles Mercier.
Focus Publishing.
1999

Petronius. Satyricon. 
Translated by Sarah Ruden.
Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co.
2000

 

 

Note: You are also expected to have ready access to a Bible. Click here for an electronic version.

Standing offer for extra credit: If you submit a 250-word review of one of these books to www.barnesandnoble.com or www.amazon.com and send the link to the instructor, you will get extra credit in this course. This offer expires on Nov. 30th.

This material has been published on the web by Prof. Tom Sienkewicz for his students at Monmouth College. If you have any questions, you can contact him at toms@monm.edu.

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