4AACAL01 - Greek and Latin Literature: An Introduction

Indicative Bibliography (excluding primary sources)

A. Broad surveys of Greek and Latin Literature

A. Barchiesi and W. Scheidel (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (Oxford 2010).
G. Boys-Stones, B. Graziosi, and P. Vasunia (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies
(Oxford 2010)
S. Braund, Latin Literature (N. York and London 2002)
G. B. Conte, Latin Literature (Baltimore 1994)
P. E. Easterling and B. Knox (eds), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, vol. 1: Greek
Literature (Cambridge 1989)
E. Fantham, Roman Literary Culture from Cicero to Apuleius (Baltimore and London 1996).
S. Harrison (ed), A Companion to Latin Literature (Blackwell 2006)
E. Kenney and W. Clausen, Cambridge History of Classical Literature, vol. 2: Latin Literature
(Cambridge 1982)
S. Morton Braund, Latin Literature (London 2002)
R. Rutherford, Classical Literature: A Concise History (Blackwell 2004)
O. Taplin (ed.) Literature in the Greek and Roman World (Oxford 2000)
T. Whitmarsh, Ancient Greek Literature (Cambridge 2004)

B. Thematic bibliography
E. Bakker (ed), Brill's Companion to Herodotus (Leiden 2002)
S. Bartsch, Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian
(Cambridge, Mass. 1994).
F. Budelmann (ed) The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric (Cambridge 2009)
D. A. Campbell, The Golden Lyre: The Themes of the Greek Lyric Poets (London 1983)
P. Cartledge, Aristophanes and his Theatre of the Absurd (Bristol 1990)
J. J. Clauss (ed), A Companion to Hellenistic Literature (Blackwell 2010)
W. R. Connor, Thucydides (Princeton 1984)
E. Csapo and W. J. Slater, The Context of Ancient Drama (Ann Arbor 1995)
J. Dillon, The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 BC) (Oxford 2003)
L. Doherty (ed), Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Homer's Odyssey (Oxford 2009)
E. Dugdale, Greek Theatre in Context (Cambridge 2008)

E. Fantham, Ovid's Metamorphoses (Oxford 2004)

M. Fantuzzi and R. Hunter, Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (Cambridge 2004)
W. Fitzgerald, Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination (Cambridge 2000)
W. Fitzgerald, Catullan Provocations (Berkeley 1995)
A. Ford, Homer: the Poetry of the Past (Ithaca 1992)
R. Fowler (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Homer (Cambridge 2004)
R. Fowler, Herodotos and his Contemporaries, JHS 116 (1996) 62-87
S. Goldhill, The Poet's Voice: Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature (Cambridge 1991)
S. Goldhill, The Invention of Prose Greece and Rome (New Surveys in the Classics) (Oxford 2002)
S. Goldhill, Who Needs Greek? Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism (cambridge 2002)
J. Gould, Herodotos (London 1989)
E. Gowers, The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature (Oxford 1992).
E. Greenwood, Thucydides and the Shaping of History (London 2006)
J. Griffin, Homer: The Odyssey (2nd edn. Cambridge 2004)
K. Gutzwiller, A Guide to Hellenistic Literature (Blackwell 2007)
T. Habinek, Ancient Rhetoric and Oratory (Blackwell 2004)
E. Hall, Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun (Oxford 2010)
P. Hardie, The Epic Successors of Virgil: A study in the dynamics of a tradition (Cambridge 1993)
P. Hardie, The Cambridge Companion to Ovid (Cambridge 2002)
E. A. Havelock, A Preface to Plato (Cambridge, Mass. 1963)
P. D. Hills, Horace (London 2005)
S. Hinds, Allusion and Intertext (Cambridge 1998).
N. Holzberg, The Ancient Novel: An Introduction (London 1995)
S. Hornblower, Thucydides (London 1987)
R. Hunter, The Shadow of Callimachus: Studies in the Reception of Hellenistic Poetry at Rome
(Cambridge 2006)
R. Hunter, The New Comedy of Greece and Rome (Cambridge 1995)
G. O. Hutchinson, Greek Lyric Poetry (Oxford 2003)
W.R.Johnson, Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergils Aeneid (California 1976).
G. Kennedy, The Art of Persuasion in Greece (London 1963)
D. Kennedy, The Arts of Love (Cambridge 1993).
P. Knox, Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Ovid (Oxford 2006)
D. Konstan, Greek Comedy and Ideology (New York 1995)
R. Kraut (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge 1992)
G. Liveley, Ovid: Love Songs (London 2005)

R. O. A. M. Lyne, Further Voices in Vergil's Aeneid (Oxford 1987)

J. Marincola (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus (Cambridge 2008)
C. Martindale, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Virgil (Cambridge 1997)
I. Morris and B. Powell (eds), A New Companion to Homer (Leiden 1996)
G. Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry (Baltimore
1979)
E. Oliensis, Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority (Cambridge 1998)
M. Putnam, The Poetry of the Aeneid (Ithaca and London 1988)
J. M. Redfield, Herodotus the Tourist, CP 80 (1985) 97-118
D. Russell, Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life (Oxford 2005)
S. Schein (ed) Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretative Essays (Princeton 1996)
S. Schein, The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer's Iliad (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London
1984)
C. Segal, Singers, Heroes and Gods in the Odyssey (Ithaca and London 1994)
E. Segal, Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus (Oxford 1987)
M. S. Silk, Homer: the Iliad (Cambridge 1987)
M. Silk, Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy (Oxford 2000)
N. Slater, Plautus in Performance (Princeton 1985)
A. Sommerstein, Talking about Laughter and Other Studies in Greek Comedy (Oxford 2009)
C. Steele, Reading Cicero (London 2005).
S. Swain, Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250
(Oxford 1996)
S. Swain (ed), Oxford Readings in the Greek Novel (Oxford 1999)
O. Taplin, Homeric Soundings: The Shaping of the Iliad (Oxford 1992
K. Volk, Ovid (Blackwell 2010)
A. Wallace-Hadrill, Augustan Rome (Bristol 1993).
T. Whitmarsh, Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation (Oxford 2001)
T. Whitmarsh, The Second Sophistic (Greece and Rome, new surveys in the Classics: 35) (Oxford
2005)
T. Whitmarsh, The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel (Cambridge 2008)
G. Williams, The Nature of Roman Poetry (Oxford 1970).
I. Worthington (ed), Persuasion: Greek Rhetoric in Action (London 1994)