Textbook List for Semester 1 2021

HIS101: Western Societies from Antiquity to the Present

No textbook required

HIS203: Early Church and Roman Empire

• Warren H. Carroll, A History of Christendom, Vol.1, The Founding of Christendom, Front Royal, VA.: Christendom Press, 2004
• Warren H. Carroll, A History of Christendom, Vol.2, The Building of Christendom, Front Royal, VA.: Christendom Press, 1987

HIS303: Humanists and Reformers

• Bard Thompson, Humanists and Reformers: A History of the Renaissance and Reformation, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Cambridge UK: Eerdmans, 2007 (http://www.eerdmans.com/Products/6348/humanists-and-reformers.aspx)

HIS304: Enlightenment Europe and the Creation of the Modern World

• Ian Davidson, The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny (Pegasus Books, 2018)
  Isaac Kramner, ed. The Portable Enlightenment Reader (Penguin Books, 1996)

LIT101: Composition and Literature

• Aesop. Fables. (trans. S.A. Handford). London: Puffin, 1994.
• Homer. The Odyssey (trans. Robert Fagles). London: Penguin, 1996.
• Plato. The Republic (intro. By Melissa Lane). London: Penguin,
• Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. London: Penguin, 2005.
• LIT101 Subject Reader (including selected Myths and Fairy Tales from a variety of sources)

LIT201: Literature of the Western World: Medieval and Renaissance

• Dante, The Divine Comedy (trans. Robin Kirkpatrick). Penguin, 2012. ISBN: 9780141197494
• Chaucer, Geoffrey. Troilus and Criseyde (trans. Nevill Coghill). Penguin, 1971. ISBN: 9780140442397
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (trans. Simon Armitage). London: Faber and Faber, 2008. ISBN: 9780571223282
• Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. London: Penguin, 2015. ISBN: 9780141396507
• Shakespeare, William. King Lear. London: Penguin, 2015. ISBN: 9780141396460
• Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus. London: Signet Classics, 2010. ISBN: 9780451531612

LIT301: Search for Meaning

• F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. Penguin.
• William Faulkner.  As I Lay Dying. Vintage.
• Ernest Hemingway. Fiesta: or The Sun Also Rises. Vintage.
• Arthur Miller. The Death of a Salesman. Penguin.
• Subject Reader including poems and short stories by selected authors

LIT302: Australian Literature

• Carey, Peter. True History of the Kelly Gang. UQP, 2000.
• Tranter, John. The Floor of Heaven. UQP, 2007.
• Williamson, David. The Club. Currency Press, 2013.
• LIT302: Australian Literature Reader

PHI101: Introduction to Philosophy

No textbook required

PHI201: Medieval Philosophy

• Edward Feser, Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction (Heusenstamm: Editiones Scholasticae, 2014)

PHI301: Modern Philosophy

No textbook required

PHI303: Philosophy of Language

No textbook required

THE101: Theological Foundations of Christian Culture

No textbook required

THE201: Sacramental Theology

No textbook required

THE301: Theology of the Post-Conciliar Era

No textbook required

THE303: Moral and Sexual Integrity

No textbook required

SCI303: History and Philosophy of Science

• Peter Godfrey-Smith, Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.
• Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Fourth Edition, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

SCI305: Human Biology I

No textbook required

GRE101: Classical Greek I

• Donald J. Mastronarde, Introduction to Attic Greek (second edition) University of California Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780520275713 (Please note that you must have a copy of the second edition.)
• The dictionary of Classical Greek recommended for this course is: James Morwood and John Taylor (eds.), Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University, 2002

Note that a different dictionary will be recommended for later courses in Greek, although Morwood & Taylor is still useful as a quick reference.

It is necessary that you possess a copy of the textbook but you do not need to own any dictionary.

GRE201: Classical Greek III

• Donald J. Mastronarde, Introduction to Attic Greek (second edition) University of California Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780520275713 (Please note that you must have a copy of the second edition.)

Students wishing to pursue study in Greek further may like to consider acquiring the full size “LSJ”: Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, revised by Sir Henry Stuart Jones, Roderick Mackenzie et al. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996) – or any later edition. Otherwise the following two derivatives of LSJ are more than adequate for this course:

•  Henry George Liddell & Robert Scott, A lexicon abridged from Liddell and Scott’s Greek- English lexicon, (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1992) [Many editions]
•  Henry George Liddell & Robert Scott, An intermediate Greek-English lexicon : founded upon the seventh edition of Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English lexicon, (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1992) [Many editions].

LAN101: Classical Latin I

• Sharpley, G.D.A. The Complete Latin Course, 2nd Edition, Routledge, Oxford, 2014

LAN203: Classical Latin III

• Sharpley, G.D.A. The Complete Latin Course, 2nd Edition, Routledge, Oxford, 2014

LAN301: Language and Culture in Late Republican Rome

• A unit reader will be available for purchase at the beginning of semester. The unit reader is required from Week 1 onwards.