References for Ancient Times CCD Western Civilization

General References for Ancient Times

Recommended Browsing

Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century, Clarence Glacken, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1967.

Further Studies

J. Boardman: Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World	J. O'Faolain-L. Martines: Not in God's Image: Women in History etc.
S. Chodorow, ed.: The Other Side of Western Civilization	H.M. Orlinsky: Ancient Israel
M.I. Finley: Ancient History: Evidence and Models	S. Pomeroy: Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves
M.I. Finley: Aspects of Antiquity	H.W.F. Saggs: Civilization Before Greece and Rome
Henri Frankfort: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man	F.M. Snowden: Blacks in Antiquity
W.W. Hallo and W.K. Simpson: The Ancient Near East	S. Vryonis, Jr.: Byzantium and Europe
D. Kagan, ed.: Problems in Ancient History	J.A. Wilson: The Culture of Ancient Egypt

On Greek Religion

M. P. Nilsson, A History of Greek Religion (tr. 1925, 2d ed. 1964)

W. W. Jaeger, Paideia (4 books in 3 vol., 1939-45, repr. 1960-62)

W. K. C. Guthrie, The Greeks and Their Gods (1950, repr. 1956)

R. Graves, The Greek Myths (2 vol., 1955, repr. 1959)

B. C. Dietrich, The Origins of Greek Religion (1974)

W. Burhert, Greek Religion (1985)

A. H. Armstrong, ed., Classical Mediterranean Spirituality (1986)

Greece
Cook, R. Greek Art. 2nd ed., Harmondsworth, Eng., 1979.
Lacey, W.K., The Family in Ancient Greece, 1984.
Hooker, J. The Ancient Spartans, London, 1980.
Burkert, W., Greek Religion, 1985.
Just, R. Women in Athenian Law and Life, 1988.
Finley, M. The Legacy of Greece: A New Appraisal, Oxford, 1981.
Finley, M. The World of Odysseus, rev. ed., 1965.
Botsford, Robinson and Kagan, Hellenic History.
Godwin, J. Mystery Religions in the Ancient World, London & San Francisco, 1981.
Pollitt, J.J., Art and Experience in Classical Greece, 1972.
Pollitt, J.J., Art in the Hellenistic Age, 1986.
Frost, F. Greek Society, 2nd ed., Lexington, Mass., 1980.
Grant, Michael. From Alexander to Cleopatra: The Hellenistic World. New York, 1982.

Rome

Ogilvie, R. Early Rome and the Etruscans, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1976.
Boardman, J., J. Griffin and O. Murray, The Oxford History of the Roman World, 1990.
Salmon, E. The Making of Roman Italy, Ithaca, NY, 1982.
Balsdon, J. Roman Women, rev. ed., London, 1974.
Meyer, J.C., Pre-Republican Rome, 1983.
Dilke, O., The Ancient Romans: How They Lived and Worked, London, 1975.
Scullard, H.H., From the Gracchi to Nero, 5^th ed., 1982.
Cary, M. and H.H. Scullard, A History of Rome Down to the Reign of Constantine, 3^rd ed., 1975.
Barker, J.W., Justinian and the Later Roman Empire, 1966.
Dörries, H. Constantine the Great, trans. by Roland Bainton, 1972.
Scullard, H. Festivals and Ceremonies of the Roman Republic, Ithaca, NY, 1981.
Lefkowitz, M., and M. Fant. Women's Life in Greece and Rome. Baltimore, 1982.
Barnes, T. The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine, 1982.
Brown, P. Augustine of Hippo, 1967.
Brown, P. The World of Late Antiquity, A.D. 150-750, 1971.
Grant, Michael, The Fall of the Roman Empire, 1990.
Parker, H.M.D., A History of the Roman World from A.D. 138 to 337, 1969.
Salmon, E.T., A History of the Roman Wrold, 30 B.C. to A.C. 138, 1968.

On-line References

Greece
Plutarch's biographical sketches are excellent and quite readable. Aristophanes was a comic playwright who lived during the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata is an anti-war work; in The Birds he makes fun of Socrates and his crowd. Aeschylus and Euripedes both wrote some of the greatest tragedies in Western literature.

One of the best sources for Ancient History online is Paul Halsall's Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.

Plutarch's life of Solon - 64k - one of the founders of Athenian democracy

The Plays of Aristophanes
The Acharnians - 74K
The Birds - 102K
The Clouds - 93K
The Frogs - 93K
The Knights - 85K
Lysistrata - 81K
The Wasps - 90K

Aeschylus, The Persians
Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Sophocles, Antigone and a very good study guide

Euripedes, The Bacchae

Rome

Ditto for Rome. Go first to the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.

Augustine, Confessions - Sometimes called the first autobiography. A profoundly influential work during the Middle Ages - 1.0 Mb

Cassiodorus - Not the actual writings of Cassiodorus, but James O'Donnell's 1979 monograph on the 6th-century statesman and writer. This site has a link to Junillus, as well.

Sulpicia: Six Poems -- Sulpicia was a female poet. The six works here are new translations and are complete with hypertext notes.

Tacitus, Histories -- Imperial history from the death of Nero - 591K

A Roman Palace in ex-Yugoslavia - Diocletian's palace at Spalato (Split)

Ancient Roman Recipies - See what the ancients had to eat -- a recipe list from Julia Infanta (ok, dumb joke).

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- Edward Gibbon's book was extremely influential, though his views have been heavily modified and even rejected. This site has many selections from his multi-volume work.