Semester 1 2025
Please see below for a list of textbooks required for each unit.
Most units also require a unit reader. Readers cost $15-45 each and will be available for purchase at the start of the semester.
A limited number of book grants are available for undergraduate students halfway through the year. Please keep an eye on your student email for further details from the Associate Dean of Studies at this time.
HIS103: Introduction to Ancient Greece
TBA
HIS204: The Medieval World
- Wim Blockmans and Peter Hoppenbrouwers, Introduction to Medieval Europe, 300-1550 (Routledge), 3rd (2017) or 4th (2023) edition
- Unit reader
HIS301: Topics in Twentieth Century History
TBA
HIS302: Australian Politics, Culture and Religion since 1788
TBA
LIT103: Introduction to Ancient Greek Literature
TBA
LIT203: Medieval Literature
- Anonymous. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Trans. Simon Armitage. Norton or Faber. ISBN: 9780393334159
- Anonymous. The Mabinogion. Trans. Sue Townsend. Penguin. ISBN: 9780140443226
- Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue. A Norton Critical Edition. ISBN: 978-1-324-00056-3
- Dante, The Divine Comedy. Trans Robin Fitpatrick. Penguin, 2012. ISBN: 9780141197494
LIT301: Selected Texts in Twentieth-Century Literature
TBA
LIT304: Shakespeare
TBA
PHI103: Socrates and the Examined Life
- Plato, Republic, trans. Allan Bloom (Basic Books, 2016)
- No unit reader
PHI203: Aristotelian, Thomistic and Kantian Ethics
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
- Unit reader
PHI301: Modern Philosophy
TBA
PHI303: Philosophy of Language
TBA
SCI308: Formal Logic
TBA
THE103: Introduction to the Old Testament
TBA
THE201: Sacramental Theology
TBA
THE304: Social and Public Theology
TBA
THE305: The History and Theology of Sacred Art
TBA
LAN101, LAN102, LAN 203, LAN204
We will be using the following textbook: Hans H. Ørberg, Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata : Pars I Familia Romana (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2010). This is an immersive approach to the study of Latin. You will need the book for every class and for assessments.
LAN301
A unit reader will be available for purchase at the beginning of the semester. The unit reader is required from week 1 onwards.
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).
GRE101, LAN102, GRE201, GRE202
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.
GRE301
A unit reader will be available for purchase at at some point. Until then texts will be provided.
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. We will be using the same unit reader as the one prescribed for GRE301 in semester 1.
For GRE301 you should read:
HOMER, The Iliad
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).
Please consult your unit outlines.