References are given in the syllabus and at the end of each topic in the Second and ThirdYear Guidelines. Further references, which pertain also to the First-Year Guidelines, are given below.
To determine if books are in print check Whitaker's Books in Print. It is published annually and is usually available in the public libraries.
Atlases
Banks, A.: A WorldAtlas of Military History, vol 1, Seeley Service, London, 1979
Grant, M.: Ancient History Atlas 1700 BC to AD 565, Michael Grant, 1990
Kinder, H., and Hilgemann, W.: The Penguin Atlas of World History, vol 2, Penguin Books, 1974
Quick reference
Bray, W., and Trump, D.: The Penguin Dictionary of Archaeology, Penguin Books, 1970
Cirlot, JE.: A Dictionary of Symbols, Routledge, London, 1995
Fleming, J., Honour, H., and Nikolaus, P.: The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture, 1980
Grimal, P.: Penguin Dictionary of Classical Mythology, 1991
Hammond, NGL, and Scullard, H.: The Oxford Classical Dictionary
Harvey, P.: The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, Oxford University Press, 1984
Hopwood, K.: Ancient Greece and Rome: a Bibliographical Guide, Manchester University Press, 1995
Jacobs, A.: The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Penguin Books, 1986
Mellersh, HEL.: The Ancient World Chronology of World History, Helicon, 1994
O'Donnell, J.: Wordgloss, Institute of Public Administration, Dublin, 1990
Radice, B.: Who's Who in the Ancient World, Penguin Reference Books, 1973
Russell Taylor, J.: The Penguin Dictionary of Theatre, 1970
General
Andrewes, A.: Greek Society, Penguin, 1967
Andrews, I.: Pompeii, Cambridge University Press, 1991
Arnott, WG.: Menander, Plautus, Terence, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1975
Askin, M.: Troy (Ilion), Keskan Colour Ltd, Istanbul
Barker, P.: Latin in our Language, Useful for students of Latin, classical studies and English, Bristol Classical Press, 1993
Bailey, C.: The Legacy of Rome, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1940
Boardman, J.: Greek Art, Thames and Hudson, 1981
Brown, A.: Before Knossos Arthur Evans Travels in the Balkans and Crete, Ashmoleon Museum, Oxford, 1993
Brown, A.: Arthur Evans and the Palace of Minos, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1989
Browning, R.: The Greek World, Thames and Hudson, 1985
Camp, JM." The Athenian Agora, Thames and Hudson, 1992
Campbell, B.: The Roman Army 31 BC - AD 337, A source book, Routledge, 1994
Camps, WA.: An Introduction to Homer, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980
Camps, WA.: An Introduction to Virgil's Aeneid, Oxford University Press, 1986
Carcopino, J.: Daily Life in Ancient Rome, Penguin Books, 1985
Castle, E.B.: Ancient Education and Today, Penguin, 1969
Chadwick, J.: Linear B and Related Scripts, British Museum, London, 1987
Cook, BF.: The Elgin Marbles, British Museum, 1984
Cook, RM.: Greek Art, Penguin, 1981
Corbett, P.: Roman Art, Avenel Books, New York, 1980
Cottrell, L.: Lost Cities, Pan Books, 1957
Dal Maso, LB.: Rome of the Caesars, Translated by Hollingwood, Roma
Davaras, C.: The Palace of Knossos, Editions Hannibal, Athens
Ehrenberg, V.: From Solon to Socrates, Methuen and Co. Ltd. London, 1976
Farley, B.: Roman History, Folens, Dublin
Finley, MI.: The Idea of a Theatre, The Greek Experience, British Museum, London
Finley, MI.: Politics in the Ancient World, Cambridge University Press, London 1991
Gibbone,: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776 - 1788
Glover, TR.: The Ancient World, Pelican Books, 1944
Grant, M.: Pompeii and Herculaneum, Newsweek Books, New York, 1979
Grant, M.: Roman Literature, Penguin, 1967
Graves, R.: The Greek Myths, Penguin, 1960
Griffin, J.: Homer, Oxford University Press, 1980
Garland, R.: Religion and The Greeks, Bristol Classical Press, 1994
Hamilton, E.: The Roman Way, A Discus Book published by Avon Books, 1973
Hamilton, E.: The Greek Way, A Discus Book published by Avon Books, 1973
Higgins, R.: Minoan and Mycenaean Art, Thames and Hudson, 1977
Hood, S.: The Home of the Heroes, 1974
Jenkins, I.: Greek and Roman Life, British Museum, London, 1986.
Kitto, HDF.: The Greeks, Penguin, 1981
Laurence, R.: Roman Pompeii, Routledge 1994 (see review Classics Ireland vol. 3; 1996)
Livingstone, RW.: The Legacy of Greece, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1928
Lloyd, GER.:
- Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle
- Greek Science after AristotleAncient Culture and Society Series Norton and Co. New York, 1973
McLeish, K.: Roman Comedy, Macmillan Education, 1982
Massey, M.: Women in Ancient Greece and Rome, Cambridge University Press, 1988
Massey and Moreland: Slavery in Ancient Rome, Macmillian Education, 1980
O'Doherty, EF.: Language, Logic and Thinking, Thornfield Papers, no. 9, University College, Dublin
Ogilvie, RM.: Roman Literature and Society, Penguin, 1980
Ogilvie, RM.: The Romans and their Gods, Hogarth Press, 1986
Pausanius: Guide to Greece, vol I and II, Penguin, 1971
Perowne, S.: Roman Mythology, Hamlyn, London, 1969
Petsas, P.: Delphi, Krene Editions, Athens. 1981
Pliny: The Letters of the Younger Pliny, Penguin, 1969
Plutarch: Lives, Penguin Classics (Caesar in Fall of Roman Republic Pericles in Rise andFall of Athens)
Pollitt, JJ.: Art and Experience in Classical Greece, Cambridge University Press, 1984
Pollitt, JJ.:The Art of Ancient Greece, Sources and Documents, Cambridge University Press, 1990
Potter, TW.: Roman Britain, British Museum, 1983
Richter, G.: A Handbook of Greek Art, Phaidon London, 1983
Rusk, RR.: Doctrines of the Great Educators, Macmillan, St Martin's Press, 1967.
Scullard, HH.: From the Gracchi to Nero, Methuen, 1977
Simon, E.: The Ancient Theatre, Methuan, 1982
Spooner, A.: Lingo, Bristol Classical Press, 1988
St. Clair, W.: Lord Elgin and the Marbles, Oxford University Press, 1983
Staccioli, RA.: Ancient Rome, Monuments Past and Present, Vision, 1989
Stobart, JC.: The Grandeur that was Rome, Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1948
Taplin, O.: Greek Fire, Atheneum, New York, 1990
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War, Penguin, 1972
Trevelyan, R: The Shadow of Vesuvius, Folio Society, London, 1978
Vickers, M.: Greek Vases, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1988
Williams, D.: Greek Vases, British Museum London, 1985
Williams, RD.: Virgil Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986
Wood, M.: In Search of the Trojan War, BBC Books, London, 1985
Woodford, S.: The Parthenon, Cambridge University Press, 1987
Woodford, S.: The Trojan War in Ancient Art, Duckworth, 1993
Woodford, S.: An Introduction to Greek Art, Duckworth, 1986
Journal
Classics Ireland." Journal of the Classical Association of Ireland (Department of Classics, UCD)
Books suitable for students
A number of small booklets are published by Longman in the "Aspects of Greek Life and Aspects of Roman Life" series that are very suitable for students. Reference has already been made under specific topics to a number of these. The Cambridge School Classics Project, Cambridge University Press, also has a number of booklets suitable for students.
Slides and filmstrips
Ancient Greek Men at Work, Ashmolean Museum 1991
Ancient Greek Musical Instruments, Ashmolean Museum 1989
Ancient Greeks and Persians at War, Ashmolean Museum 1989
Ancient Greek Symposia, Ashmolean Museum 1991
Ancient Greek Women, Ashmolean Museum 1991
The Bassae Frieze, British Museum 1977
The Parthenon, British Museum 1977
Wars of the Greeks and Persians, British Museum 1977
Cambridge Latin Course, filmstrip 1, Pompeii
Useful addresses
Blackwell's Bookshop, 50 Broad Street Oxford OX 13BQ
telephone 0044 1865 792792 Ext. 4387 (Mail Orders)
Blackwell's have a huge range of classical books and also stock maps of the ancient world.
BBC Books (also take orders for BBC videos)
telephone 0044 181 5762000
National Geographic videos can be got from: World Leisure Marketing; telephone 0044133 2272020 or through Xtra-Vision PLC, Greenhills Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24
British Museum, London;
telephone 0044 171 6361555
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford;
telephone 0044 1865 278000