HIS103: Introduction to Ancient Greece

1. Paul Cartledge, The Spartans: An Epic History, (Pan Books, 2002)
2. Frederick Copleston, A History of Philosophy, vol.1, Greece and Rome (many editions)
3. Victor Ehrenberg, From Solon to Socrates (many editions)
4. Tom Holland, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, (Little, Brown, 2005)
5. John Ma, Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity, (Princeton University Press, 2024)
6. Josiah Ober, The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece, (Princeton University Press, 2015)
7. Robin Waterfield, Creators, Conquers and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece, (Oxford University Press, 2018)

HIS204: The Medieval World

• Wim Blockmans and Peter Hoppenbrouwers, Introduction to Medieval Europe, 300-1550 (Routledge), 3rd (2017) or 4th (2023) edition

HIS302: Australian Politics, Culture and Religion since 1788

LIT103: Introduction to Ancient Greek Literature

LIT203: Medieval Literature

LIT301: Selected Texts in Twentieth-Century Literature

LIT305: From Jonathan Swift to T.S. Eliot

PHI103: Socrates and the Examined Life

• Plato, Republic, trans. Allan Bloom (Basic Books, 2016)

PHI203: Aristotelian, Thomistic and Kantian Ethics

• Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins (University of Chicago Press, 2011)

PHI301: Modern Philosophy

PHI303: Philosophy of Language

PHI306: Close Reading of a Modern Philosophical Text
No textbook

SCI308: Formal Logic

No textbooks for theology units, please consult your unit outlines.

LAN101

We will be using the following textbook for this course: Hans H. Ørberg, Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata : Pars I Familia Romana. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2010. (ISBN (HB): 9781585104239; ISBN (PB): 9781585104208). This is an immersive approach to the study of Latin. You will need the book for every class and for assessments.

LAN102 LAN203 LAN204

We will continue to use the following textbook: Hans H. Ørberg, Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata : Pars I Familia Romana. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2010. (ISBN (HB): 9781585104239; ISBN (PB): 9781585104208).

LAN301

We will be reading from the following authors: Cicero, Lucretius, Sallust, Catullus. PDF copies of the readings will be made available when the semester starts.

If you are reading an ancient text for the first time, the best translation is the one which engages your attention.  Guidance on specific translations has already been given. Please contact your lecturer for more information.

• CICERO, Pro Caelio (collected in: Cicero, Defence Speeches (tr. Berry) (Oxford)
• LUCRETIUS, On the Nature of the Universe
• SALLUST, Conspiracy of Catiline (most translations of Sallust contain all his surviving works)

In preparation for LAN302 you should read:

• VIRGIL, The Aeneid
• LIVY, Ab Urbe Condita I-V (published as The Early History of Rome by Penguin)
• AUGUSTINE, The Confessions

In addition, a deep familiarity with the Book of Psalms—as well as the New Testament—in Latin or English, will be helpful for reading the Latin text of the Church Fathers.

A general history of Rome with good coverage of the classical period is Mary Beard’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile Books, 2016).

LAN302

We will be reading from the following authors: Virgil, Livy, Jerome, Augustine. PDF copies of the readings will be made available when the semester starts.

• VIRGIL, The Aeneid
• LIVY, Ab Urbe Condita I-V (published as The Early History of Rome by Penguin)
• AUGUSTINE, The Confessions

A general history of Rome with good coverage of the classical period is Mary Beard’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile Books, 2016).

LAN311

We will be reading VIRGIL, The Eclogues. A PDF copy of the text will be made available when the semester starts.

In preparation you should re-read The Aeneid and read the Georgics.

LAN312

We will be reading CICERO the Cato Maior de Senectute and Laelius de Amicitia. PDF copies of the readings will be made available when the semester starts.

In preparation you should read Cicero’s Catilinarian speeches available in any collection of his political speeches.

GRE101

We will be using the following textbook: Donald J. Mastronarde, Introduction to Attic Greek (second edition), University of California Press, 2013. (ISBN: 9780520275713) Please note that this textbook is the best available for the work you need to do outside of class.

GRE102 GRE201 GRE202

We will continue to use the following textbook: Donald J. Mastronarde, Introduction to Attic Greek (second edition), University of California Press, 2013. (ISBN: 9780520275713).

GRE301

We will be reading from the following authors: Homer, Plato, Lysias, Euripides. PDF copies of the readings will be made available when the semester starts.

If you are reading an ancient text for the first time, the best translation is the one which engages your attention.  Guidance on specific translations has already been given. Please contact your lecturer for more information.

For GRE301 you should read:

• HOMER, The Iliad
• PLATO, First Tetralogy (usually collected as “The Death of Socrates” etc., i.e. Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)

In preparation for GRE302 you should read:

• HOMER, The Odyssey
• HERODOTUS, The Histories
• AESCHYLUS, The Oresteia

A good general history of Greece is A. R. Burn’s Pelican History of Greece (1966), later republished as The Penguin History of Greece (1990).

GRE302

We will be reading from the following authors: Homer, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sappho. PDF copies of the readings will be made available when the semester starts.

• HOMER, The Odyssey
• HERODOTUS, The Histories
• AESCHYLUS, The Oresteia

A good general history of Greece is A. R. Burn’s Pelican History of Greece (1966), later republished as The Penguin History of Greece (1990).

Please consult your unit outlines.