This course is designed to acquaint you with some of the major works of the classical world.  We will seek to understand these works with reference to the specific social, political, and artistic conditions of their time, but we will also try to increase our understanding of these works as they speak to us today.  

Here is a list of the books for our class. I have put in links to Amazon, but you should feel free to get them anywhere, including our campus bookstore.

Palaima, Thomas. Anthology Of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation.  ISBN 0872207218

Homer, The Iliad, trans. Stanley Lombardo ISBN 0872203522

Homer, The Odyssey, trans. Stanley Lombardo ISBN 0872204847

Aeschylus, Oresteia, trans. Richard Lattimore ISBN 0226307786

Sophocles, Antigone, Oedipus, Electra, ed. Edith Hall ISBN 0192835882

Euripides, Ten Plays, trans. Paul Roche ISBN 0553213636

Aristotle, The Poetics, trans. Preston H. Epps ISBN 0807840173

Aristophanes, The Birds and Other Plays, trans. Stephen Halliwell ISBN 0192824082

Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. Robert Fitzgerald ISBN 0679729526

Margaret Williamson, Sappho's Immortal Daughters ISBN 067478913X

Plautus, Four Comedies, trans. Erich Segal  ISBN 0192838962

Hughes. Tales from Ovid. ISBN 0374525870