IDS 121:  ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE

Waggle Section

Web sites for accessing the texts for the course

The following list of web sites contain electronic versions of the texts we will be using for the semester.  I would strongly advise that you actually purchase the Homer and the Thucydides texts, since they are edited versions of these works.  I have listed web sites for these too, but it will be more difficult to follow the class discussion if you only use the web resources.  This list is not exhaustive.  There are a number of additional sites on the world wide web that have e-texts.  These sites do not have the translations that I have ordered for the class.  They, however, do offer you another resource for getting the course materials.

Homer: http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html 

Hesiod:http://classics.mit.edu/Hesiod/hes.wd.html

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_hesiod_theogony.htm

Herodotus: http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.html

Thucidides: http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/pelopwar.html

Aeschylus: http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/aeschylus/oresteiatofc.htm (This contains a link to Medea)

Sophocles: http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html

Aristophanes: http://www.tkline.freeserve.co.uk/Webworks/Website/LYSISTRATA.htm

Note: If any of these links act strange, i.e., do not connect. Simply copy the link into your browser and go directly to the website. All of these sites were up and running when this page was created.

The required texts for the course are listed below.  I have also ordered a recommended text as a resource on ancient Greece to be used for historical and cultural information on them.

Required texts:

Homer: The Essential Homer, Hackett Press, trans. Stanley Lombardo

Hesiod: Works and Days . Theogony, Hackett Press, trans. Stanley Lombardo

Herodotus: The Histories, Penguin Press, trans. Aubrey De Sélincourt

Thucydidies: On Justice, Power and Human Nature (Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War), Hackett Press, trans. Paul Woodruff

Aeschylus: Oresteia, Hackett Press, trans. Peter Meineck

Sophocles: Antigony, Hackett Press, trans. Paul Woodruff

Euripides: Medea, Penguin Press, trans. Phillip Vellacott

Aristophanes: Lysistrata; Hackett Press

Recommended text:

The Ancient Greeks, M.I. Finley

Note: It seems that the book store did not order this book. You may want to consult with the Milner Library and seek this there. At least that won't cost you any additional funds.

*Wagrag Productions 2003