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References for Ancient History

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.
• Far and away the best one-stop shopping 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