Greece & Rome
Humanities 110 Conference 20
         
         

Spring Books
Printable Version of Syllabus
Required Texts
Recommended Texts
Why these Translations?
Uses for E-texts
Where to Buy the Books
Reserve List for Reader
Roman Republic
E-texts:
Livy
Lucretius
Golden Latin
E-texts:
Virgil
Res Gestae
Suetonius
SilverLatin
E-texts:
Ovid
Tacitus
Seneca
Judaism
Genesis

Exodus
Isisah, Daniel, Amos

Josephus
Tractate Avot
Plotinus
Early Christianity
Gospel of Mathew
St. Paul
Gospel of John
Gospel of Thomas

Revelation
St. Perpetua
Late Antiquity
Apuleius
Athanasius
Augustine
Recommended Texts

 

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. Reserve List for Reader
 E-texts  

Apuleius, The Golden Ass (Indiana University Press)

Athanasius.Life of Anthony

Augustine, Confessions (Oxford University Press)

Augustus

Hebrew Bible

GENESIS

EXODUS

DANIEL

  • World English Bible. ed. Rainbow Missions, Inc. (English)   DANIEL (Zephaniah; PERSEUS)
  • Daniyel - Daniel. JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY BIBLE (Massoretic, Hebrew, Aramaic, JPS, Kaplan) (HAREDI.ORG)

AMOS

  • World English Bible. ed. Rainbow Missions, Inc. (English)   AMOS (Zephaniah; PERSEUS)
  • Amos - Amos. JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY BIBLE (Massoretic, Hebrew, Aramaic, JPS, Kaplan) (HAREDI.ORG)

ISAIAH

TRACTATE AVOT (TALMUD)

 

Josephus, The Jewish War


Livy, Early History of Rome


Lucretius, The Way Things Are (De Rerum Natura)

 

New Testament

MATTHEW

  • New Testament. ed. Brooke Foss Westcott, Fenton John Anthony Hort. MATTHEW (Greek)   (Titus; PERSEUS)

JOHN

  • New Testament. ed. Brooke Foss Westcott, Fenton John Anthony Hort. JOHN (Greek)   (Titus; PERSEUS)

ST. PAUL

  • New Testament. ed. Brooke Foss Westcott, Fenton John Anthony Hort. ST. PAUL: ROMANS (Greek)   (Titus; PERSEUS)
  • New Testament. ed. Brooke Foss Westcott, Fenton John Anthony Hort. ST. PAUL: ACTS (Greek)   (Titus; PERSEUS)

REVELATION

  • New Testament. ed. Brooke Foss Westcott, Fenton John Anthony Hort. REVELATION (Greek)   (Titus; PERSEUS)

THOMAS


Ovid, Metamorphoses (Oxford World Classics)

 

 St. Perpetua

  • The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity (Sometimes attributed to Tertullian) (English) (NEW ADVENT)


Plotinus


Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca (W. W. Norton)

 

Suetonius, The Lives of the Caesars (tr. Robert Graves)


Tacitus, The Agricola and the Germania


Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome


Virgil, The Aeneid

 

RECOMMENDED TEXTS:
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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