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Freshman level

Beginner’s Ancient Greek CLG 101 (fa26)

  • An Intro. to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach by Luschnig & Mitchell

Beginner’s Latin LAT 101 (fa26)

  • Intro. to Latin by Susan C. Shelmerdine

Socrates CLG 105 (fa26)

  • Plato’s Apology of Socrates: A Commentary by Miller & Platter
  • ✔️ Apology by Plato

Intermediate Latin: Catullus & His Age LAT 105 (fa26)

  • AVARICVM: A Latin Text of Caesar’s Gallic War VII 1-28 with Running Vocabulary and Commentary by Lanier et al.
  • The Student’s Catullus by Daniel H. Garrison

Sophomore level

Classical Mythology CLA 212 (fa26)

  • The Greek Tragedies: 17 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, & Euripides
  • Metamorphoses by Ovid
  • Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation by Trzaskoma et al.
  • The Odyssey by Homer
  • The Poems of Hesiod by R.M. Frazer
  • Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
  • Apollodorus’ Library & Hyginus’ Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology by Smith & Trzaskoma
  • The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes

Democracy in Ancient Greece CLA 220 (fa26)

  • Democracy & Classical Greece by J.K. Davies
  • History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
  • Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds by Peter Meineck
  • Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens by Stephen Everson
  • Legal Speeches of Democratic Athens: Sources for Athenian History by Wolpert & Kapparis

Hellenism: The 1st 3000 Years CLA 223 (fa26)

  • The Greeks: A Global History by Roderick Beaton

How to Read CLA 230 (fa26)

  • A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
  • Phaedrus by Plato
  • Confessions by Augustine
  • Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
  • Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History & Future of Reading by Leah Price

Pompeii CLA 250 (fa26)

  • The Complete Pompeii by Joanne Berry
  • The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost & Found by Mary Beard
  • The World of Pompeii by Dobbins & Foss
  • Pompeii & Herculaneum: A Sourcebook by Cooley & Cooley

Junior level

Aristotle & His Successors CLA 303 (fa26)

  • Complete Works of Aristotle, v.1
  • Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

The Trojan War: A Linguistic Intro. CLA 307 (fa26)

  • How Dead Languages Work by Coulter H. George
  • ✔️ The Trojan War: A Very Short Intro. by Eric H. Cline

Tacitus & the Parthians LAT 320 (fa26)

  • The Annals by Tacitus

Ancient History: Everyday Writing in the Roman World CLA 326 (fa26)

  • Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East by Roger S. Bagnall

Senior level

Greek Literature: The Greek Chorus CLG 405 (fa26)

  • Euripides: Bacchae by Allan & Swift
  • Aristophanes: Frogs by Kenneth Dover
  • New Selected Odes of Pindar by Dickey & Hamilton
  • The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Gilbert Murray
  • Greek Lyric Poetry: A Selection of Early Greek Lyric, Elegiac & Iambic Poetry by David A. Campbell
  • Pindar: Pythian Eleven by P.J. Finglass

| Between Selves: Living Letters from Antiquity to the Present CLA 415 (fa26)

  • Letter to the Father by Franz Kafka
  • The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
  • ✔️ The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (my highlights)
  • Heroides by Ovid
  • The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder
  • The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
  • Selected Letters by Seneca

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