Classical Greek

Stage 6 Continuers Syllabus Resources

The new Continuers syllabus may be implemented with minimal variation in the resources currently used, though additional items may be added as they are identified. The following list has been developed by practising teachers of Classical Greek.

The list of general resources is not definitive and has been provided for guidance only.

PRINT RESOURCES

· Dictionaries

Berry, G R, The Classic Greek Dictionary (Greek–English, English–Greek), Follett Publishing Company, Chicago, 1927 (1958).

Liddell, H G & Scott, R, Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford University Press, 1843 (1983).

Liddell, H G & Scott, R, Greek–English Lexicon (Abridged Edition), Oxford University Press, 1986.

Various, The Oxford Classical Dictionary, (background resource material), Oxford University Press, 1949 (1968).

· Grammar Texts

Abbott & Mansfield, A Primer of Greek Grammar, Duckworth Press, New York, 1977 (1995).

Goodwin, W W, A Greek Grammar, St Martin’s Press, New York 1965.

· Language Texts for Students

Preliminary Course – Suggested Texts

Antrich, J, & Usher, S (eds), The Persian Expedition, Bristol Classics Press, 1978

ISBN 0 9065 1511 4

Ferguson, J (ed) Euripides: Hippolytus, Bristol Classics Press, 1984. ISBN 0 8629 2074 4

Horn, T (ed) Selections from the Hellenica of Xenophon, Bristol Classics Press, 1978.

Kennedy, E C (ed), Four Greek Authors – Extracts from Homer, Antiphon, Euripides and Thucydides, Bristol Classics Press, 1996. ISBN 1 8539 9501 0

Kennedy, E C (ed), Scenes from Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris, Bristol Classics Press. 1981. ISBN 0 9065 1597 1

Sidwell, K (ed) Lucian: Selections, Bristol Classics Press, 1986. ISBN 0 9065 1536 X

Tierney, M (ed) Euripides: Hecuba, Bristol Classics Press, 1994. ISBN 0 9065 1517 3.

HSC Course – Texts

Waddell, W G (ed) Herodotus Book II, Bristol Classics Press , 1998. ISBN 1 8539 9185 6

Shuckburgh, E S (ed) Herodotus Book VI, Bristol Classics Press, 1984. ISBN 0 8629 2165 1

*Campbell, M, A Greek Prose Reading Course for Post-beginners, Bristol Classics Press, 1997.

- Unit 1. Forensic Oratory. Lysias: ‘On the Murder of Eratosthenes’ ISBN 1-85399-537-1

- Unit 2. Philosophy. Plato: ‘Crito’ ISBN 1-85399-535-X

- Unit 3. Demosthenes: ‘Third Philippic’ ISBN 1-85399-539-8

- *Unit 4. Thucydides: ‘Events at Pylos and Sphacteria’ ISBN 1 8539 9540 1

McQueen E I (ed) Herodotus Book VI Bristol Classical Press, 1999. ISBN 1 8539 9586 X

Crees, J H E, & Wordsworth, JC (eds) 1982, Thucydides Book IV 1-41, Bristol Classics Press

Graves, C E (ed) Thucydides Book IV, Bristol Classics Press, 1982.

Dover, K J (ed) Thucydides Book VII, Bristol Classics Press, 1999. ISBN 1 8539 9517 8

*Burnet, J (ed) Plato: Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates and Crito, Oxford University Press, 1982.

Allan, D J (ed) Plato: Republic I, Bristol Classics Press 1993. ISBN 1 8539 9254 2

Adams, C D, (ed), Lysias: Eight Speeches, 12, 16, 19, 22, 24, 25, 32, 34, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1976. ISBN 0 8061 1396 0

Shuckburgh, E S, (ed), Lysias: Five Speeches, 10, 12, 14, 19, 22, Bristol Classical Press, 1994.

ISBN 0 9065 1544 0

Edwards, M (ed) Lysias: 5 Speeches, Bristol Classical Press, 1999. ISBN 1 8539 9447 2

Jebb, R C (ed), Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus, Bristol Classical Press, 1981.

ISBN 0 8629 2002 7

Webster, T B L (ed), Sophocles: Philoctetes, Cambridge University Press, 1985.

ISBN 0 5210 9888 4

Denniston, J D (ed), Euripides: Electra, Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN 0 1987 2094 7

Elliott, A (ed), Euripides: Medea, Oxford University Press, 1989. ISBN 0 1991 2006 4

Dover, K J (ed) Aristophanes: Clouds (abridged edition), Oxford University Press, 1980.

ISBN 0 1981 4395 8

Dover, K J (ed) Aristophanes: Frogs (student edition), Oxford University Press, 1994.

ISBN 0 1981 5071 7 (paperback ISBN 0 1987 2175 7 (hardback)

*Stanford, W B (ed) Aristophanes: Frogs, Bristol Classical Press, 1993. ISBN 0 8629 2115 5

Note: Where more than one edition of a text is listed, an asterisk denotes the edition from which the HSC examination will be set.

· Texts for Teacher Reference

Easterling, P E & Knox, B M W (eds), Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Cambridge University Press, 1989

- Vol 1: Greek Literature

- Vol 2: Greek Drama (ISBN 0 5213 5982 1)

- Vol 3: Philosophy, History and Oratory (ISBN 0 5213 5983 1)

The above text contains a lucid discussion of, and extensive bibliographies for, all the Greek authors prescribed for the HSC course.

NON-PRINT RESOURCES

· Internet Sites

Elementary Greek

www.theology.edu/greek01.htm

Images of Orality and Literacy in Greek Iconography of the Fifth, Fourth and Third Centuries BCE

ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~awiesner/oralit.html

Differences Between Classical and Hellenistic Greek ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~jtreat/koine/classical.html

Ariadne's Hellenic Greek Civilization Page

http://www.greekcivil.ariadne-t.gr/default.html

EAIEE1/4 - Lexicon Greek–English — English–Greek

www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon

DIDASKALIA Ancient Theater Today

www.warwick.ac.uk/didaskalia

EAWC Ancient Greece

http://eawc.evansville.edu.grpage.htm

Classical Political Theory Web Sites

http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfcjh/wiu/web/classica/classica.htm

CLASSICS COURSE CLA 212 MYTHOLOGY Home Page

http://www.princeton.edu/~rhwebb/myth.html

The Internet Classics Archive the History of Herodotus

http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.sum.html

Geography in Herodotus

http://classics.holycross.edu/courses/Ancient_science/proposed/schedules/Geo_in_Herodotus.html

Herodotus

www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/hero.htm

Thucydides and the Writing of History by Mark Rutkus

http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/english/People/Ulman.1/courses/E574C/Projects/Rutkus/Thuc.html

Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity

www.perseus.tufts.edu/~gcrane/thuc.HC_ToC.html

Generic Revolution

http://web.reed.edu/academic/departments/Humanities/Hum110/ThucLecture95.html

Sources for Thucydides

www.perseus.tufts.edu/Thucydides/

Thucydides

http://history.hanover.edu/ancient/thucyd.htm

Exploring Plato’s Dialogues: Introductory Comments

plato.evansville.edu/

Plato’s Republic

www.utm.edu/research/iep/text/plato/rep/rep.htm

D. Anthony Storm’s Web Site on Plato

209.63.222.24/dstorm/plato/index.html

Plato

http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/worldlit/lit/plato.html

Hellas Multimedia – Greek Fonts Support – Greek CD-ROMs – Greek Software – Greek Mythology & Encyclopedia

www.hellasmultimedia.com/mythology/mythe.htm

Ancient Greek - The Master Page

http://kenwoodward.ne.mediaone.net/greek/template/XAMPLE13.HTM

Diotima

http://www.uky.edu/AS/classics/medeahyposcholia.html

The Internet Classics Archive – The Clouds by Aristophanes

classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Aristophanes.html

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This resource list will be regularly up-dated. Suggestions in respect of additional resources will be most welcome and should be forwarded to the Inspector Languages, Curriculum Branch, Office of the Board of Studies, GPO Box 5300, Sydney, 2001.

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