🐯 Princeton Hellenic Studies unofficial reading list

Sophomore level
Classical Mythology HLS 212 (fa26)	• The Greek Tragedies: 17 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, & Euripides • Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A New Translation by C. Luke Soucy • Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation by Trzaskoma et al. • The Odyssey of Homer by Richmond Lattimore • 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 • Apollonius of Rhodes: Jason and the Golden Fleece by Richard Hunter
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

Sophomore level

Classical Mythology
HLS 212 (fa26)

• The Greek Tragedies: 17 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, & Euripides
• Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A New Translation by C. Luke Soucy
• Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation by Trzaskoma et al.
• The Odyssey of Homer by Richmond Lattimore
• 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
• Apollonius of Rhodes: Jason and the Golden Fleece by Richard Hunter

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