Reserve Books:
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- Peter Toohey, Reading Epic
- W. A. Camps, An Introduction to Homer
- Simon Goldhill, Reading Greek Tragedy
- Charles Rowan Beye, Ancient Greek Literature and Society
- Jean-Pierre Vernant, Myth and Society in Ancient Greece
---, The Origins of Greek Thought
- W. A. Camps, An Introduction to Virgil's Aeneid
- Gian Biagio Conte, The Rhetoric of Imitation
- Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo
---, Authority and the Sacred
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Reference Books:
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- The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (PA31.H69 1995)
- a good quick reference to practically everything in the classical texts on the course
- The Oxford Companion to the Bible (BS440.M434 1993)
- same as above, but for the Bible
- The Oxford Classical Dictionary (DE5. O9 1996)
- useful for broader background information
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Reliable Web Sites:
Classical Studies
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- Perseus is an amazing collection of searchable texts, images, sites, secondary resources on
the ancient world (and a few other topics): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
(hint: the mirror sites are often faster than the main site -- it has a lot of webtraffic).
- Stoa.org is probably the 2nd best classics site out there, with articles, bibliographies,
images, virtual tours: http://www.stoa.org/
- Diotima is a collection of resources (bibliographies, articles, links, etc.) on women and gender
in the ancient world: http://www.stoa.org/diotima/
- William Johnson at UCincinnati provides a useful collection of resources (summaries, background, etc.)
on Greek Tragedy: http://classics.uc.edu/~johnson/tragedy/
- Virgil.org provides bibliography, texts, maps, links etc. on Virgil: http://virgil.org/
- VRoma (virtual Rome) is a site developed by Latin teachers with a collection of images, and other resources:
http://vroma.org/
- The Bucknell Classics Department also has a large collection of links to sites on all aspects of
the ancient world:
http://www.bucknell.edu/Academics/Departments_Majors/
Classics/Resources.html#weblinks
- Jack Lynch at Rutgers has a more succinct, annotated collection of links on Classical literature
(including the Bible & Augustine): http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/classic.html
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Vergil
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Bible and Augustine
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Medieval Studies
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Help with writing
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