CLASSICAL LITERATURE

SUB-PAGES

Feminist:

• Ancient Feminist Thought / Feminist Perspectives on Ancient Thought

Post-colonial:

• Ancient Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives on Ancient Thought

ASSOCIATIONS

• Classical Reception Studies Network

• Royal Irish Academy Committee for Greek and Latin Studies

AUTHORS

Greece:

• Homer

• Hesiod

• Pindar

• Aeschylus

• Sophocles

• Euripides

• Aristophanes

Rome:

• Virgil (70 - 19 BCE)

• Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] (65 BCE - 8 BCE)

• Plautus

• Ovid

• Petronius

CONFERENCES

2009:

• Life is a (Greek) Tragedy II, Finnish Institute at Athens, February 9-10

2008:

• Fragmented Narrative: the Narratology of the Greek Letter, Department of Classics, University of Wales Lampeter, September 21–24

• Classics (Especially Greek Literature) and the Cognitive Sciences, Open University, July 4-5

• Time and Space in Early Greek Elegiac, Iambic and Lyric Poetry, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, June 20-21

• Tragedy and Archaic Greek Thought, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh,
  June 13-15
• The Reception of Greek and Roman Drama, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, June 12-13
• Theory and Reception, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, April 24
• Proxima Poetis: Ancient Historiography and the Imperial Latin Poets, Department of Classics, University of Virginia, April 11-12
• Concepts of Pictorial Representation in the Hermeneutics of Greek Vase-Painting, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, April 9-11
• The Classical Sublime, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, March 14-15

2007:

• Graeco-Aegyptica / Aegypto-Graeca: Interactions between Greece and Egypt, 700 BCE - 300 CE, Department of Classics, University of Reading, September 17-19
• Greek Drama and the Polis: New Work in Progress, School of Classics, University of St Andrews, September 13
• Why Athens?  Reappraising Tragic Politics, Department of Classics, University of Reading, September 10-11
• The Ancient Novel and its Reception of Earlier Literature, a KYKNOS Conference, University College Cork, August 29-31

• Lies and Metafiction in Ancient Narrative, Kyknos: Centre for Research on Ancient Narrative Literature, University of Wales, Swansea, University of Wales, Lampeter, and University of Exeter, July 14-16

• Greek Drama IV, Victoria University of Wellington, July 3-6

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COURSES

• Princeton University: Greek Tragedy -- Aeschylus (Zeitlin)

JOURNALS

• Arachnion: a Journal of Literature and Ancient History on the Web

• Didaskalia: Ancient Theatre Today

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Reardon, B. P., ed.  Collected Ancient Greek Novels.  Berkeley: U of California P, 2008.

• Selected Individual Works:

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Goldhill, Simon, and Robin Osborne, eds.  Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.

  • Halperin, David, John J. Winkler, and Froma I. Zeitlin, eds.  Before Sexuality: Structures of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1990.

  • Hardwick, Lorna, and Christopher Stray, eds.  Blackwell Companion to Classical Receptions.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
  • de Jong, I. J. F., and R. Nuenlist, eds.  Time in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative.  2 Vols.  Leiden: Brill, 2007.
  • Taplin, Oliver, ed.  Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds: a New Perspective.  Oxford: OUP, 2000.

  • Winkler, John J., and Froma I. Zeitlin, eds.  Nothing to Do With Dionysos: Athenian Drama in its Social Context.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Csapo, Eric, and W. J. Slater.  The Context of Ancient Drama.  1995.

  • Detienne, Marcel.
  • Goldhill, Simon.  How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today.  Chicago:  U of Chicago P, 2007.
  • Goldhill, Simon.  The Invention of Prose.  Oxford: OUP, 2006.
  • Goldhill, Simon.  Love, Sex and Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005.
  • Goldhill, Simon.  Language, Sexuality and Narrative.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.
  • Goldhill, Simon.  Foucault's Virginity.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002.
  • Goldhill, Simon.  The Poet's Voice: Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature.  Cambridge: CUP, 1990.
  • Goldhill, Simon.  Reading Greek Tragedy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1986.

  • Heath, Malcolm.  Unity in Greek Poetics.  Oxford: OUP, 1989.

  • Heath, Malcolm.  The Poetics of Greek Tragedy.  London: , 1987.

  • Loraux, Nicole.  The Invention of Athens: the Funeral Oration in the Classical City.  Trans. Alan Sheridan.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.

  • Loraux, Nicole.  The Mourning Voice: an Essay on Greek Tragedy.  Trans. Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002.

  • Loraux, Nicole.  The Divided City: on Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens.  Trans. Corinne Pache and Jeff Fort.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.

  • Loraux, Nicole.  Born of the Earth: Myth and Politics in Athens.  Trans. Selina Stewart.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2000.

  • Loraux, Nicole.  The Experiences of Tiresias.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1995.

  • Loraux, Nicole.  Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1991.

  • Loraux, Nicole.  Les Enfants d'Athéna: Idées Athéniennes sur la citoyenneté et la division des sexes.  Paris: Maspero, 1981.

    • The Children of Athena: Athenian Ideas about Citizenship and the Division between the Sexes.  Trans. Caroline Levine.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994.

  • Seaford, Richard.  Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.

  • Seaford, Richard.  Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State.  Oxford: OUP 1994.

  • Stephens, Susan A.  Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria.  Berkeley: U of California P, 2003.
  • Vasunia, Phiroze.  The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander.  Berkeley: U of California P, 2001.
  • Vernant, Jean-Pierre.
  • Vidal-Naquet, Pierre.   
  • Zeitlin, Froma I.  Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.

On-Line:

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:
  • Ancient Literature:
    • Ancient Greek Literature
    • Latin Literature

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Europe:

• UK:

  • University of Wales, Swansea, University of Wales, Lampeter, and University of Exeter: KYKNOS: Research Centre for Ancient Narrative Literature

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