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CLASSICS & ENGLISH PRELIMS (GREEK)

BIBLIOGRAPHY (Created Oct 2004) This is a bibliography designed to help you find your way through the bewilderingly large number of books and articles that exist on almost every topic in the classics. It includes many standard items which you will find frequently cited, and so may be useful for regular reference; but it does not represent a single faculty orthodoxy, and certainly must not be treated as a reading-list, since it contains far more than anyone can be expected to master. The compilers have assumed that you can read some French but no other modern language. If you are lucky enough to have a working knowledge of German or Italian the range of useful literature is widened a good deal and you should get your tutor's advice. The titles of academic journals, in Classics as in many other disciplines, are normally abbreviated and referred to by initials: thus CQ = Classical Quarterly. Some of the most common are given at the end of this Bibliography: for a fuller list, see the new edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary (1996) pp. xxix onwards. When you consult a particular book, it is often worth your while to find out what reviewers in periodicals such as CR, JHS and JRS thought of it. A few reviews, not all unfavourable, are mentioned in the course of this document, and you may do well to look up some more. For further suggestions you can consult the bibliographies in The Cambridge History of Classical Literature (I. Greek Literature, ed. P. E. Easterling and B. M. W. Knox, 1985). In the author sections that follow, material is grouped thus: 1. Prescribed Texts. 2. Translations. 3. Commentaries. 4. Books and Articles. P = available in paperback. * is a signal to librarians, and can be ignored by readers! HOMER 1. OCT (Monro-Allen, Iliad).

2. R. Lattimore (Iliad, Chicago, 1951 P); or, pleasantly archaic, Lang-Leaf-Myers trans. of Iliad (Macmillan, 1914). For the Iliad in prose, see now M. Hammond (revised Penguin, 1987); for the Odyssey, W. Shewring (Oxford, World's Classics, 1980).

3.

Iliad

M. W. Willcock (Macmillan, 1978). W. Leaf - M. A. Bayfield (Macmillan, 1898) and especially the large commentary of W. Leaf (ed. 2, Macmillan, 1900-2) are still useful; so is M. W. Willcock, Companion to the Iliad (Chicago, 1976 P) . The introduction to C. W. Macleod, Homer: Iliad XXIV (Cambridge, 1982 P) discusses the Iliad as a whole. The most comprehensive modern commentary on the Iliad is that under the general editorship of G. S. Kirk, with many valuable overviews of modern scholarship in the various Introductions (6 vols., P., Cambridge 1985-93). There is a recent shorter commentary on Iliad 9 by J. Griffin (Oxford, 1995 P); on a similar scale is the edition of book 1 by S. Pulleyn (Oxford 2000; includes translation and vocabulary). 4. Language and Grammar

The standard grammar is Chantraine, Grammaire Homrique, 2 vols., 1958 and 1963. In English, there are introductions in L. R. Palmer in Wace-Stubbings, Companion to Homer and G. Horrocks in Morris-Powell, A New Companion to Homer. The concordances of G. L. Prendergast (Iliad) and H. Dunbar (Odyssey) are useful for the study of formulae, including their creative uses. 5. 1969) A. Lesky, History of Greek Literature, 1976, ch. iii P C. M. Bowra, Tradition and Design in the Iliad, 1930. G. S. Kirk, Songs of Homer, 1962. Homer and the Epic, 1965, shorter, revised version. J. Griffin, Homer (Past Masters, 1980). A. J. B. Wace & F. H. Stubbings (edd.), Companion to Homer, G. S. Kirk (ed.), The Language and Background of Homer, 1964. R. B. Rutherford, Homer (Greece and Rome, New Surveys 26, 1996 P). I. Morris and B. Powell (ed.), A New Companion to Homer, 1997 (a) Surveys and General Studies

J.B. Hainsworth, Homer (Greece and Rome, New Surveys 3,

is a 1962.

(b)

Literary Criticism (see also the general works in 5 (a))

J. Wright (ed.), Essays on the Iliad: selected modern criticism, 1978 P J. Redfield, Nature and Culture in the Iliad, 1975, an anthropological approach. P J. Griffin, Homer on Life and Death, 1980 P M. S. Silk, Homer: The Iliad (Cambridge 1987) M. W. Edwards, Homer: Poet of the Iliad (Baltimore, 1987 P) O. P. Taplin, Homeric Soundings: the Shaping of the Iliad (Oxford, 1992 P). J. Griffin & M. Hammond, 'Critical Appreciation: Homer, Iliad 1.1-52', Greece and Rome 29 (1982), 126-142 [repr. In McAuslabn-Walcot, see [i] below. J. Griffin, 'The epic cycle and the uniqueness of Homer', JHS 97 (1977), 39-53. Simone Weil, The Iliad or the Poem of Force (trans. M. McCarthy, or available in Intimations of Christianity among the ancient Greeks, tr. E. Geissbuhler, Routledge, 1957) O. P. Taplin, 'The shield of Achilles within the Iliad', Greece and Rome 27 (1980), 1-21 [reprinted in McAuslan-Walcot, see [i] below] Matthew Arnold, 'On translating Homer', available in various editions of his Essays. C. W. Macleod, 'Homer on Poetry and the Poetry of Homer', in his Collected Essays, 1983, 1-15. G.M.Wright and P.V.Jones (ed.) Homer; German Scholarship in Translation (1997) includes valuable essays by Reinhardt, Schadewaldt, Burkert Works of comparative literature sometimes have useful insights, e.g. T. M. Greene, The Descent from heaven: a study in Epic Continuity, 1963; A. S. Cook, The Classic Line: a study in Epic Poetry, 1966. (c) Analytic Criticism

Traditionally this has been the preserve of German scholarship, but something of its methods may be gleaned from D. L. Page, History and the Homeric Iliad, 1959, Appendix. (d) Historical Background (see also 'Homeric Archaeology' Special subject) N.B. Studies in this area may rapidly be superseded.

4 H. L. Lorimer, Homer and the Monuments, 1950, ch. viii T. B. L. Webster, From Mycenae to Homer, 1958 (for some Eastern and Mycenaean data) D. L. Page, History and the Homeric Iliad, 1959 (to be used with caution) M. I. Finley and others, 'The Trojan War', JHS 84 (1964), 1 ff. M. Woods, In Search of the Trojan War, 1985 (well-illustrated) L. Foxhall & J. K. Davies (edd.), The Trojan War: its historicity and context, 1985 Chapters by various authors in Part Four, Homers Worlds, of Morris-Powell, A New Companion to Homer (e) Homeric Society and Values

E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational, 1951, ch. 1 P A. W. H. Adkins, Merit and Responsibility, 1960, chs. 2-4 P H. Lloyd-Jones, The Justice of Zeus (ed. 2, 1983), chs. 1-2 P A. M. Snodgrass, 'An historical Homeric society?', JHS 94 (1974), 114-25 M. I. Finley, The World of Odysseus (ed. 2, 1977). P (Pelican) (f) Oral Tradition and Techniques

M. Parry, The Making of Homeric Verse: the collected papers of M. Parry, 1970 P. A. B. Lord, The Singer of Tales, 1960 P B. C. Fenik, Typical Battle Scenes in the Iliad, 1968 G. S. Kirk, Homer and the Oral Tradition, 1976 A. Parry, 'Have we Homer's Iliad?', Yale Classical Studies 20 (1966), 177ff., reprinted in The Language of Achilles and other papers (Oxford 1989) J. B. Hainsworth, Homer, Iliad, commentary on books 912, 1993 [in the Cambridge series edited by Kirk], introduction pp. 1-31. R. Finnegan, Oral Poetry, 1977 Chapters by various authors in Part Two, Homers Language, of Morris-Powell, A New Companion to Homer (g) Comparative Study

C. M. Bowra, Heroic Poetry, 1952 B. C. Fenik, Homer and the Nibelungenlied: comparative studies in epic style (Harvard, 1986)

5 (h) History of Scholarship

R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship, i, 1968 (on the Alexandrians) H. W. Clarke, Homer's Readers (London and Toronto, 1981) A. Parry, Introduction to M. Parry, The Making of Homeric Verse, 1970; reprinted in A. Parry, The Language of Achilles and other papers (Oxford 1989) Chapters by various authors in Part One, Transmission and History of Interpretation, of Morris-Powell, A New Companion to Homer Useful collections of modern articles D. Cairns (ed) Oxford Readings in Homers Iliad, 2002. I.McAuslan and P. Walcot (ed.) Homer (Greece and Rome Studies 4, Oxford 1998) I. de Jong (ed.) Homer (4 volumes), Critical assessments of Classical Authors (Routledge, London and New York 1999) SOPHOCLES, Antigone 1. OCT (Lloyd-Jones and Wilson; this replaces the older version by Pearson). 2. H. Lloyd-Jones (Loeb new edition, 1994) 2. and 3. R. Jebb (ed. 3, Cambridge, 1900) M. Griffith

3. Most up-to-date, and of high quality: (Cambridge, 1999) P

4. K. Reinhardt, Sophocles (trans. D. & H. Harvey, Blackwell, 1979), ch. 3. R. Winnington-Ingram, Sophocles, an Interpretation, (Cambridge, 1980 P) chs. 5-6 R. G. A. Buxton, Sophocles (Greece and Rome, New Surveys in the Classics 16, 1984) R. W. B. Burton, The Chorus in Sophocles' Tragedies (Oxford, 1980), ch. 3 R. Coleman, 'The role of the chorus in Sophocles' Antigone', PCPS 18 (1972) 4-27 See also the Sophocles Special Subject bibliography. IV. EURIPIDES, Bacchae

1. 2. 3. 4.

E. R.Dodds (ed. 2, Oxford 1960)

G. S. Kirk (Prentice-Hall, 1970; reprinted Duckworth, 1980), or Seaford (see 3) E. R. Dodds (ed. 2, Oxford, 1960 P); R. Seaford (Aris and Phillips, 1996, including translation. P)

R. P. Winnington-Ingram, Euripides and Dionysus (Cambridge, 1948; reprinted by Bristol with preface by P.Easterling, 1997 P) O. Taplin, Greek Tragedy in Action (Methuen, 1978 P): use index B. Vickers, Towards Greek Tragedy (Longman, 1973 P) 311-20 A. Henrichs, 'Changing Dionysiac identities', in B. F. Meyer and E. P. Sanders, Jewish and Christian Self-Definition, vol. 3: SelfDefinition in the Greco-Roman World (London, 1982), 137-60. C. Segal, Dionysian Poetics and Euripides Bacchae (Princeton 1982) S. Goldhill, Reading Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 1986) 259-86. PLATO, Symposium 1. 2. 1999) K. J. Dover (Cambridge University Press, 1980) P R. Hamilton (Penguin), replaced by C. Gill (Penguin

3. Dover (see 1. above); also R. G. Bury (Cambridge 1909), sometimes fuller, and with a better introduction. See also C.J. Rowe (Aris and Phillips 1998) P, including translation. 4. K. Dover, Greek Homosexuality (Duckworth, London 1978), esp. 153ff. W. K. C. Guthrie, History of Greek Philosophy iii.2 (Cambridge 1969), chh. 12 and 13 (also available in paperback as Socrates) M. Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness (Cambridge 1986) ch. 6. R. B. Rutherford, The Art of Plato (Duckworth 1995) chh. 1, 3 and 7. THE GREEK LANGUAGE

7 W. W. Goodwin, A Greek Grammar, ed. 2 (Macmillan, 1894, often reprinted) W. W. Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, ed. 2 (Macmillan, 1889, often reprinted) J. D. Denniston, The Greek Particles, ed. 2, revised by K. J. Dover (Oxford, 1954) J. D. Denniston, Greek Prose Style (Oxford, 1952) L. R. Palmer, The Greek Language (Faber, 1980) A. Meillet, Aperu d'une histoire de la langue grecque, ed. 8 (Paris, 1975) K.J. Dover, The Evolution of Greek Prose (Oxford, 1997) GENERAL, esp. works of reference The Oxford Classical Dictionary [usually abbreviated as OCD] (3rd edn., edited by Simon Hornblower and A. Spawforth, 1996) gives valuable information and references on a host of topics, not only individual authors or historical figures. An illustrated abridgement of the OCD compiled by the same editors is now available, entitled The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilisation (1998). This however lacks bibliographies and many more detailed references. M. H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms (5th edn. 1988, or later versions, should be used). P J. Boardman, J. Griffin, O. Murray (edd.) The Oxford History of the Classical World (Oxford 1986; now available as 2 separate pb. volumes) Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Vol. I (Greek) edited by P. E. Easterling and B. M. W. Knox (Cambridge, 1985). Albin Lesky, History of Greek Literature (Eng. Tr., 1966). Despite its date, still the best one-man history of the field; but the translation was not well done. O. Taplin (ed.), Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Oxford 2000), now available (2001) in two separate paperbacks More Specific Studies D. A. Russell and M. Winterbottom, Ancient literary criticism: the principal texts in new translations (Oxford, 1972) P. There is a shorter selection by the same editors, Classical Literary Criticism (Oxford, World's Classics 1990) P D. A. Russell, Criticism in Antiquity (Duckworth, 1981 P) M. L. West, Greek Metre (Oxford, 1982), abridged as An Introduction to Greek Metre (Oxford 1987) P

8 R. Pfeiffer, History of classical scholarship: from the beginnings to the end of the Hellenistic age (Oxford, 1968) L. D. Reynolds and N. G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars, ed. 3 (Oxford, 1991 P) D. M. MacDowell, The Law in Classical Athens (Thames & Hudson, 1978) S. B. Pomeroy, Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity (New York, 1975 P) W. K. C. Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy, 6 vols. (Cambridge, 1962-1981). Vol. 3 is available in two paperback parts, The Sophists and Socrates. K. J. Dover, Greek Popular Morality in the time of Plato and Aristotle (Blackwell, 1974) W. Burkert, Greek Religion (Blackwell, 1985 P). This work is a masterpiece, but a shorter and more readable account is available in Jan N. Bremmer, Greek Religion (Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics 24, 1994) P. E. Easterling & J. Muir (edd.) Greek Religion and Society (Cambridge, 1985) P T.E. Rihll, Greek Science (Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics 29, 1999). C. M. Robertson, A History of Greek Art (Cambridge, 1975): abbreviated paperback available Abbreviations for periodicals: a select list AJP = American Journal of Philology BICS = Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (London) CP or CPh = Classical Philology CQ = Classical Quarterly CR = Classical Review G&R = Greece and Rome GRBS = Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies JHS = Journal of Hellenic Studies JRS = Journal of Roman Studies PCPS = Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society TAPA = Transactions of the American Philological Association ZPE = Zeitschrift fr Papyrologie und Epigraphik