Humanities 110 Conference 23
         
         

Books
Printable Version of Syllabus
Required Texts
Recommended Texts
Why these Translations?
Uses for E-texts
Where to Buy the Books
Archaic Greece
E-texts:
Homer
Hesiod
Greek Lyrics
Presocratics
Classical Greece
E-texts:
Herodotus
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Classical Art
Thucydides
Hellenic Greece
E-texts:
Aristophanes
Euripedes
Plato
Artistotle

 

REQUIRED TEXTS:

Note that below is a list of the translations that are required for this course, along with other versions that are available for free in electronic format.

Why Use the Bookstore Translations? I highly recommend that you use the translation the Humanities 110 Staff has selected as we have researched the editions for clarity, readablity and faithfulness to the Greek original. Many of the free e-text translations listed below are from before 1900 and are in archaic English that will impede your ability to understand the texts. That said, if you insist upon using an e-text as your primary source, please either print it and bring it to conference or check out a copy of the correct translation to bring with you to conference. You must have a print copy with you in conference. Even if you have bought the recommended edition you may want to use the e-texts below as study aides.

Here are some uses for e-texts:

  • It is very helpful to compare translations as this can give you a sense of what artistic choices your translator made and can help underscore the translator's central interpretation of the text.
  • The Perseus editions listed below allow you to check the original Greek word for the English word used. If you look up this word in the Perseus dictionary or in the Oxford Classical Dictionary, you can gain a much greater sense of the connotations of this Greek word. isotes (proportionate equality or harmony)  and isonomia (equality under the law) may bothe be translated as "equality," but they have very different connotations.
  • Because you can do an electronic search of an e-text, you can look for repeating words, ideas, and themes much more thoroughly and quickly.
  • For other useful ideas on how to use e-texts to aide literary analysis see Robert Harris's The Personal Computer as a Tool for Student Literary Analysis (1994) Virtual Salt.
  • If you are truly courageous (and computer savvy), see former Reedie Willard McCarty's A Serious Beginner's Guide to Hypertext Research (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London)

Buying Books. All texts may be purchased at the Reed College Bookstore; limited numbers of each are on reserve in the Library. Also on reserve or in the reference section: Oxford Classical Dictionary; Oxford Companion to Classical Literature; Anchor Atlas of World History, Volume I; Richard Lanham, Revising Prose.
 E-texts  

Aeschylus, The Oresteia, trans. Fagles*. Other E-text Versions:


Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Ross*

Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Translated by W. D. Ross (Internet Clasics Archive)

Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Translated by W. D. Ross (Constitution Society)

Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. ed. H. Rackham. (English)   (Aristot. Nic. Eth.) PERSEUS

Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. ed. J. Bywater. (Greek)   (Aristot. Nic. Eth.) PERSEUS


Euripides, Phoenician Women, The Bacchae, ed. Grene and Lattimore (Chicago)

The Bacchae (Ian C. Johnston of Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC)

Euripides. Bacchae. ed. Gilbert Murray. (Greek)   (Eur. Ba.) PERSEUS

Euripides. Bacchae. ed. T. A. Buckley. (English)   (Eur. Ba.) PERSEUS


Freeman, Egypt, Greece, and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean (Oxford)


Herodotus, The History, trans. de Selincourt (Penguin)

Herodotus. The Histories. (Greek)   (Hdt.) PERSEUS

Herodotus. The Histories. ed. A. D. Godley. (English)   (Hdt.) PERSEUS

Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days, and Shield, trans. Lombardo (Hackett)

Hesiod. Theogony. (English)   (Hes. Th.) PERSEUS
Hesiod. Theogony. (Greek)   (Hes. Th.) PERSEUS
Hesiod. Works and Days. (Greek)   (Hes. WD) PERSEUS
Hesiod. Works and Days. (English)   (Hes. WD) PERSEUS

Homer, The Iliad, trans. Lattimore (Chicago)

The Iliad (Ian C. Johnston of Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC)

Homer. Iliad. (English)   (Hom. Il.) PERSEUS
Homer. The Iliad. ed. Samuel Butler. (English)   (Hom. Il.) PERSEUS
Homer. Iliad. (Greek)   (Hom. Il.) PERSEUS

Miller, Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation (Hackett)

Murray, Early Greece, 2nd ed. (Harvard)

Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates, trans. Grube (Hackett)

Plato. Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo. (English)   (Plat. Phaedo)

Plato. Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo. (Greek)   (Plat. Phaedo)

Plato, Plato’s Republic, 2nd ed., trans. Grube/Reeve (Hackett)

Plato. Republic. (Greek)   (Plat. Rep.)
Plato. Republic. (English)   (Plat. Rep.)

*Presocractics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimonia, ed. Curd, trans.
McKirahan (Hackett)

Rhodes, Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis (Cambridge)

Sophocles, Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, ed. Grene and Lattimore (Chicago)

Sophocles. Antigone. ed. Sir Richard Jebb. (English)   (Soph. Ant.) PERSEUS
Sophocles. Antigone. ed. Sir Richard Jebb. (Greek)   (Soph. Ant.)Sophocles. PERSEUS

Sophocles. Oedipus Tyrannus. ed. Sir Richard Jebb. (English)   (Soph. OT) PERSEUS
Sophocles. Oedipus Tyrannus. ed. Sir Richard Jebb. (Greek)   (Soph. OT) PERSEUS

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian Wars, Warner (Penguin)

HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR translated by Richard Crawley [ABRIDGED VERSION]; abridged version prepared by Ian Johnston of Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC.

Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. (English)   (Thuc.) PERSEUS
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. (Greek)   (Thuc.) PERSEUS

Essays on Ancient Greece (Pamphlet / Bookstore)

 

Also see the Perseus Catalog for a Complete List of their Online Primary Texts and Secondary Texts

Classical Art

Archaic Greek Art Resource: Ancient Greece: Archaic Period (700 BC - 480 BC) (Michael D. Gunther, Old Stones: a website about selected topics in ancient art and archaeology)

Timeline of Art History, Balkan Peninsula 1000 BCE-1 CE. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

The Complete Chronology (Anthony F. Beavers, University of Evansville. This is an awesome timeline with links to art and texts, be patient as it is slow to load). Also see the timeline specific to Greece and Rome

Perseus Image Catalog

RECOMMENDED TEXTS:
Homer, The Odyssey, trans. Fagles (Penguin)

Homer. Odyssey. (Greek)   (Hom. Od.) PERSEUS
Homer. The Odyssey. ed. Samuel Butler. (English)   (Hom. Od.) PERSEUS
Homer. Odyssey. (English)   (Hom. Od.) PERSEUS


Marius, A Writer’s Companion, 3rd ed. (McGraw)
Hacker, A Writer's Reference, 5th ed. (Bedford)
Williams, Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago).

 

 
   

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