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Freshman level

Elementary / Intermediate Modern Greek I HLS/MOG 101/105

  • Ellinika A / Greek 1: Method for Learning Greek as a Foreign Language by Giorgos Simopoulos

Sophomore level

The Byzantine Empire HLS 209

  • ✔️ Byzantium: A Very Short Intro. by Peter Sarris
  • The Social History of Byzantium by John Haldon
  • A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales & Surprising Facts from History’s Most Orthodox Empire by Anthony Kaldellis
  • Secret History by Procopius
  • Alexiad by Anna Komnene
  • Three Byzantine Military Treatises by George T. Dennis
  • Accounts of Medieval Constantinople: The Patria by Albrecht Berger
  • Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions by Elizabeth Jeffreys

Classical Mythology HLS 212

  • Persians by Aeschylus
  • Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
  • Agamemnon by Aeschylus
  • The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus
  • The Eumenides by Aeschylus
  • Antigone by Sophocles
  • Oedipus the King by Sophocles
  • Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
  • Electra by Sophocles
  • Alcestis by Euripides
  • Medea by Euripides
  • Hippolytus by Euripides
  • Hecuba by Euripides
  • Electra by Euripides
  • The Trojan Women by Euripides
  • Iphigenia among the Taurians by Euripides
  • The Bacchae by Euripides
  • Metamorphoses by Ovid
  • Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation by Trzaskoma et al.
  • The Odyssey by Homer
  • Theogony by Hesiod
  • Work & Days by Hesiod
  • Ajax by Sophocles
  • The Women of Trachis by Sophocles
  • Philoctetes by Sophocles
  • The Trackers by Sophocles
  • Library by Apollodorus
  • Fabulae by Hyginus
  • ✔️ Jason & the Golden Fleece by Apollonius of Rhodes

Democracy in Ancient Greece HLS 220

  • 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 HLS 222

  • The Greeks: A Global History by Roderick Beaton

The New Testament & Christian Origins HLS 251

  • The Jewish Annotated New Testament by Levine & Brettler
  • Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers by Louth & Staniforth
  • The New Testament: A Historical Intro. to the Early Christian Writings by Ehrman & Méndez

Junior level

Aristotle & His Successors HLS 302

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

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