Resource list for Latin Continuers Stage 6

This resource list has been compiled to support the current Stage 6 Latin Continuers Syllabus.

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This list is not definitive and is provided for guidance only.

Feedback including suggested additional resources should be forwarded to the Inspector Languages, NESA.

Print resources

Dictionaries and Grammars

Adkins, L, & Adkins, J, Dictionary of Roman Religion, Facts on File Inc, USA, 1996.

Allen, W S, Vox Latina, Cambridge University Press, 1965.

Gildersleeve, B L, & Lodge, G, A Latin Grammar, (3rd edition), 1965.

Glare, P G W (ed). Oxford Latin Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1994.

Griffin, R, The Cambridge Latin Grammar, Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Hornblower, S, & Spawforth, A, The Oxford Classical Dictionary, (3rd edition) Oxford University Press, 1995.

Lewis, C T,  & Short, C, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1879.

Lewis, C T, Elementary Latin Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1904.

Morwood, J, The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1994.

Mountford, J, Kennedy’s Revised Latin Primer, Longman, Hong Kong, 1962.

Palmer, L T, The Latin Language, Bristol Classical Press, 1954.

Platner, S B, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, 1929.

Scottish Classics Group, The Latin Language, Oliver and Boyd, 1989.

Woodcock, E, A New Latin Syntax, Bristol Classical Press, 1959.

Textbooks suitable for the Preliminary course

Balme, M, & Morwood, J, The Oxford Reader, Oxford University Press, 1999.

Scottish Classics Group, Ecce Romani Book V, Oliver and Boyd, 1986.

Scottish Classics Group, Ecce Scriptores Romani, Oliver and Boyd, 1994.

Prescribed texts

Austin, R G (ed), Pro M Caelio, Oxford University Press, New York, 1988.

Donkin, E H, Pro Roscio Amerino, Bristol Classical Press, 1987.

Gould, H & Whiteley, J, Cicero: In Catilinam I & II, Bristol Classical Press, 1982.

Gould, H & Whiteley, J, Livy: Book 1, Bristol Classical Press, 1987.

Williams, R D (ed), Aeneid Books I-VI, Bristol Classical Press, 1973.

Williams, R D (ed), Aeneid Books VII-XII, Bristol Classical Press, 1973.

Translations of prescribed texts

de Selincourt, A, Livy: The Early History of Rome, Penguin Classics, Great Britain,1964.

Grant, M, Cicero: Selected Political Speeches, Penguin Classics, Great Britain, 1978.

Grant, M, Cicero: Murder Trials, Penguin Classics, Great Britain, 1978.

West, D, Virgil: The Aeneid: A New Prose Translation, Penguin Classics, Great Britain, 1991.

Reading list for Preliminary and HSC courses

Virgil

Anderson, W, The Art of the Aeneid, Bristol Classical Press, London, 1969.

Camps, W A, An Introduction to Virgil’s Aeneid, Oxford, 1969.

Commager, S, Virgil: Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice Hall Inc, New Jersey, 1966.

Dudley, D R (ed), Virgil: Studies in Latin Literature and its Influence, London, 1969.

Fordyce, C J, P Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Libri VII-VIII, Oxford University Press, 1977.

Gransden, K W, Aeneid Book VIII, Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Gransden, K W, Virgil: The Aeneid, Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Griffin, J, Virgil, Oxford Classical Press, 1986.

Hardie, P R, Virgil’s Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium, 1986.

Heinze, R, Virgil’s Epic Technique (English translation of German original 1928), 1995.

Jenkins, R, Classical Epic: Homer and Virgil, Bristol Classical Press, London, 1992.

Knight, W, Roman Virgil, Peregrine Books, 1966.

Levi, P, Virgil: His Life and Times, St Martin’s Press, New York, 1999.

Martindale, C, Virgil and His Influence: Bimillennial Studies, Bristol Classical Press, London, 1984.

Martindale, C, The Cambridge Companion to Virgil, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Nussbaum, G, Virgil’s Metre: A Practical Guide for Reading Hexameter Poetry, Duckworth, London, 1986.

O’Hara, J, Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil’s Aeneid, 1990.

Otis, B, Virgil: a Study in Civilized Poetry, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1963.

Petrini, M, The Child and the Hero: Coming of Age in Catullus and Vergil, 1997.

Putnam, M, The Poetry of the Aeneid, Harvard University Press, 1965.

Putnam, M, Virgil’s Aenedi: Interpretation and Influence, 1995.

Quinn, K, Virgil’s Aenedi: A Critical Description

Williams, R D,  Aeneas and the Roman Hero, Macmillan Educational, 1973.

Williams, R D, An Introduction to Virgil’s Aeneid, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney, 1977.

Williams, R D, The Aeneid of Virgil: A Companion to the Translation of C. Day Lewis with Introduction, Commentary and Glossary, Bristol Press, 1985. ISBN 1 8539 9496 0

Livy

Dorey, T A,  Livy: Studies in Latin Literature and its Influence, London, 1971.

Feldherr, A, Spectacle and Society in Livy’s History, 1998.

Lipocsky, G, A Historiographical Study in Livy, Bks. 6-10, 1981.

Luce, T J, Livy:The Composition of this History, Princeton, 1977.

Miles, G, Livy: Reconstructing Early Rome, 1995.

Ogilvie, R M, A Commentary on Livy Books 1-5, Oxford, 1965.

Walsh, P G, Livy: His Historical Aims and Methods, Cambridge, 1961.

Cicero

Clarke, M L, Rhetoric at Rome: A Historical Survey, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966.

Dorey, T A, Cicero: Studies in Latin Literature and its Influence, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965.

Kennedy, G, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World 300 BC – AD 300, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1972.

Lacey, W, & Wilson, B, Res Publica: Roman Politics and Society According to Cicero, Bristol Classical Press, 1978.

Mitchell, T, Cicero: The Senior Statesman, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1991.

Mitchell, T, Cicero: The Ascending Years, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1979.

Moles, J, Plutarch: Lives. The Life of Cicero, Aris & Phillips, Wiltshire, 1988.

Shackleton Bailey, D, Cicero, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1971.

Stockton, D, Cicero: a Political Biography, Oxford University Press, 1970.

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