Textbooks
Please see below for a list of textbooks required for each unit.
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.
Semester 2 2026
HIS304
- Ian Davidson, The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny, Pegasus Books, 2018
- Isaac Kramnick (ed), The Portable Enlightenment Reader, New York: Penguin, 1996
- Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State, any translation
- Karl Marx, Selected Writings, ed. Lawrence H. Simon (Indianapolis & Cambridge: Hackett Publishing, 1994)
- Max Weber, Economy and Society, trans. Keith Tribe (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 2019)
LIT102
- The Aeneid by Virgil (trans. by Robert Fagels)
- On the Nature of Things by Lucretius (trans by A.E. Stallings)
- Classical Literary Criticism. ed by Murray (Penguin Classics, 2000)
LIT204
- Richard II by William Shakespeare (not Richard III)
- Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
- As You Like It by William Shakespeare
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- King Lear by William Shakespeare
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
LIT303
- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (1942)
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
- A Harp in the South by Ruth Park (1948)
- A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt (1960)
Poems to be distributed in class
PHI104
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, any translation
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).
RED503
Educating in Christ, by Gerard O’Shea
RED504
Cavalletti, Sofia. The History of the Kingdom of God Part 1. From Creation to Parousia. Chicago: LTP, 2011.
RED502
Cavalletti, Sofia. The History of the Kingdom of God Part 2. Liturgy and the Kingdom of God. (Chicago: LTP, 2011).
Resources for all other units will be provided to you directly.