HONOUR SCHOOL OF LITERAE HUMANIORES
Paper III.1: Greek Literature of the Fifth Century B.C. FOR THOSE TAKING
FINALS IN 2006 AND 2007
* Please note: the syllabus has changed for those beginning Greats in Trinity Term 2006.
The texts that have been dropped will be Pindar, Ol. 7 and Py. 8, Hdt. 3.118–60,
Thuc. 3, and Aristophanes, Clouds; one text is added, Aristophanes,
Thesmophoriazusae. The bibliography below applies to the syllabus that will be
examined in 2006 and 2007 Finals. T hose taking Finals in 2008 should consult
the separate bibliography bibgklit2008.
1.
AUTHORS
(i)
Pindar, Olympians 1, 7; Pythians 1, 8, 9
Text:
Bowra, OCT
Translation:
Bowra, Penguin; F. Nisetich (Baltimore, 1980)
Commentaries: Gildersleeve (New York, 1885) [Olympians and Pythians, C. Carey
(New York, 1981) [Pythian 9], D. E. Gerber (Toronto, 1982) [Olympian 1], M. M.
Willcock (Cambridge, 1995) [Olympian 7], S. Instone (Warminster, 1996), [Olympian
1 and Pythian 9]. Olympians 1 and 7 are also covered by W. J. Verdenius,
Commentaries on Pindar Vols 1 and 2 (Leiden, 1987-8). All the prescribed poems are
treated in G. M. Kirkwood, Selections from Pindar (Chico, Ca., 1982), B. Gentili and
P. Bernadini, Le Pitiche (Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, 1995)
Articles
D. C. Young, 'Pindaric Criticism' in W. M. Calder III and J. Stern, Pindar und
Bacchylides (Darmstadt, 1970), 1-95
H. Lloyd-Jones, 'Pindar', PBA 68 (1982) 140-63 (reprinted in his Academic Papers,
1990)
L. Woodbury, 'Cyrene and the teleute of marriage in Pindar's Ninth Pythian Ode',
TAPA 112 (1982) 245-58
M. Heath and M. Lefkowitz, 'Epinician performance', CP 86 (1991), 173-91
C. Carey, 'The victory ode in performance: the case for the chorus', CP 86 (1991),
192-200
D. Steiner, ‘Indecorous dining, indecorous speech: Pindar’s first Olympian and the
poetics of consumption’, Arethusa 35 (2002), 297-314.
Books
R. W. B. Burton, Pindar’s Pythian Odes: essays in interpretation (Oxford 1962).
Includes a chapter on each ode.
D. C. Young, Three Odes of Pindar (Leiden, 1968): discusses Olympian 7.
W. Mullen, Choreia: Pindar and Dance (Princeton, 1982)
E. L. Bundy, Studia Pindarica (repr. Berkeley, 1986)
M. Lefkowitz, First-Person Fictions: Pindar's Poetic 'I' (Oxford, 1991)
L. Kurke, The Traffic in Praise (Princeton, 1991)
S. Hornblower, Thucydides and Pindar (Oxford, 2004)
A.P. Burnett, Pindar’s Songs for Young Athletes of Aegina (Oxford, 2005), ch. 14 on
Py. 8
Arethusa 37 (2004), The Poetics of Deixis in Alcman, Pindar, and Other Lyric contains
articles on Pind. Ol. 1 (L. Athanassaki, 317-41), Pyth. 8 (R. P. Martin, 343-63), and
Pyth. 9 (N. Felson, 365-89).
B. Currie, Pindar and the Cult of Heroes, (Oxford, 2005), esp. 1.--84
(ii)
Euripides, Hippolytus
Text:
OCT, ed. Diggle
Translation:
Loeb, ed D. Kovacs (1995); Aris and Phillips, ed. M. R.
Halleran (1995); Penguin, J. Davie (1996)
Commentaries: W. S. Barrett (Oxford, 1964); M. R. Halleran (Warminster, 1995).
The commentary has a full list of articles on the play on pp. 56-9
Articles
B. M. W. Knox, 'The Hippolytus of Euripides', YCS 13 (1952) 1-31, reprinted in
Knox, Word and Action (Baltimore, 1979) and in E. Segal, ed., Oxford Readings in
Greek Tragedy (Oxford, 1983)
R. P. Winnington-Ingram, 'Hippolytus: A Study in Causation', in Euripide
[Entretiens Hardt 6] (Geneva, 1960) 171-91
S. Goldhill, Reading Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 1986) 107-37
J. Griffin, 'Characterization in Euripides: Hippolytus and Iphigenia in Aulis', in C.
Pelling, ed., Characterization and Individuality in Greek Literature (Oxford, 1990), 12849
G. O. Hutchinson, ‘Euripides’ other Hippolytus’, ZPE 149 (2004), 15-28.
Books
C. Collard, Euripides [Greece and Rome New Surveys 14] (Oxford, 1981)
D. J. Conacher, Euripidean Drama (Toronto, 1967)
J. L. Gregory, Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians (Ann Arbor, 1991)
S. Mills, Euripides: Hippolytus (Duckworth, 2002).
J. Mossman (ed.), Oxford Readings in Euripides (Oxford, 2003).
(iii)
Sophocles, Ajax
Text:
Translation:
Lloyd-Jones and Wilson, OCT
Loeb, Lloyd-Jones
Commentaries: R. C. Jebb (Cambridge, 1896), W. B. Stanford (London, 1963); A.
Garvie (Warminster, 1998).
Articles
B. M. W. Knox, 'The Ajax of Sophocles', HSCP 65 (1961) 1-37, reprinted in Knox,
Word and Action (Baltimore, 1979)
P. Burian, 'Supplication and hero-cult in Sophocles' Ajax', GRBS 13 (1972) 151-6
O. P. Taplin, 'Yielding to forethought: Sophocles' Ajax' in Arktouros, ed. G.
Bowersock et al. (Berlin, 1979), 122-9
M. Heath, The Poetics of Greek Tragedy (London, 1987), 165-208
A. Henrichs, 'The tomb of Aias and the prospect of hero cult in Sophokles',
ClassAnt 12 (1993), 165-80
C. Gill, Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy and Philosophy (1996), 204-16
Books
B. M. W. Knox, The Heroic Temper (Berkeley/Los Angeles, 1964)
K. Reinhardt, Sophocles (Eng. tr., Oxford, 1979)
R. P. Winnington-Ingram, Sophocles: An Interpretation (Cambridge, 1980)
C. P. Segal, Tragedy and Civilization: A Study of Sophocles (Cambridge, Ma., 1981)
M. Whitlock Blundell, Helping Friends and Harming Enemies (Cambridge, 1989)
J. Griffin (ed.) Sophocles Revisited (Oxford 1999): includes e.g. R. Parker on
Sophoclean religion, J. Griffin on ‘Sophocles and the Democratic Polis’
J. Hesk, Sophocles: Ajax (Duckworth, 2003)
(iv)
Aristophanes, Clouds
Text:
K. J. Dover (Oxford, 1968)
Translation:
A. H. Sommerstein (Warminster, 1982)
Commentaries: K. J. Dover (Oxford, 1968), A. H. Sommerstein (Warminster, 1982)
Articles
C. Segal, 'Aristophanes' Cloud-Chorus', Arethusa 2 (1969) 143-61
M. Nussbaum, 'Aristophanes and Socrates on learning practical wisdom', YCS 26
(1980) 43-97
M. S. Silk, 'Aristophanes as a lyric poet', YCS 26 (1980) 99-151
M. S. Silk, 'The autonomy of comedy', Comparative Criticism 10 (1988) 3-37
(Both of Silk’s articles are reworked and combined with much further work in his
book Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy [Oxford 2001])
E. C. Kopff, 'The date of Aristophanes, Nubes II', AJP 111 (1990) 318-29
Books
K. J. Dover, Aristophanic Comedy (London, 1972)
P. Cartledge, Aristophanes and his Theatre of the Absurd (Bristol, 1990)
T. K. Hubbard, The Mask of Comedy: Aristophanes and the Intertextual Parabasis
(Ithaca, 1991)
A. M. Bowie, Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy (Cambridge, 1993)
M.S. Silk, Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy (Oxford 2001)
(v)
Herodotus III, 1-88, 118-160
Text:
Hude, OCT
Commentary:
How and Wells (Oxford, 1912), D. Asheri et al (Milan,
1990; Italian)
Translations:
Penguin, A. De Selincourt rev. Marincola, 1996; Grene
(Chicago, 1987); R. Waterfield, with intr. and notes by C.Dewald (World’s
Classics, Oxford 1998)
Articles
C. Sourvinou-Inwood, ' "Myth" and History: on Herodotus III.48 and 50-53',
Opuscula Athenensia 17 (1988) 167-82, reprinted in her 'Reading' Greek Culture
(Oxford, 1991)
J. Redfield, 'Herodotus the tourist', CPh 80 (1985) 97-118
K. Raaflaub, 'Herodotus, political thought, and the meaning of history', Arethusa 20
(1987) 221-48
R. Fowler, ‘Herodotus and his contemporaries’, JHS 116 (1996) 62-87
C.B.R.Pelling, ‘East is East and West is West—or are they? National Stereotypes in
Herodotus’ Histos 1 (1997)
[online at http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1997/index.html]
C.B.R. Pelling, ‘Speech and action: Herodotus’ debate on the constitutions’, PCPS
48 (2002), 123–58.
Books
F. Hartog, The mirror of Herodotus (Berkeley, 1988)
D. Fehling, Herodotus and his 'Sources' (Leeds, 1989)
J. Gould, Herodotus (London, 1989)
D. Lateiner, The Historical Method of Herodotus (Toronto, 1989)
R. Thomas, Herodotus in Context (Cambridge 2000)
T. Harrison, Divinity and History: the Religion of Herodotus (Oxford 2000)
J. Marincola, Greek Historians (Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics 31,
2001) ch.1.
E. Bakker, I. de Jong, and H. van Wees (eds.), Brill’s Companion to Herodotus (Leiden
etc 2002), e.g. chs. by Boedeker, Saïd, Raaflaub, Fisher, Hornblower, Osborne.
C. Dewald and J. Marincola (eds.), Cambridge Companion to Herodotus (Cambridge,
forthcoming)
(vi)
Thucydides III.1-85
Text:
Translation:
Commentary:
(Warminster, 1994)
OCT (Stuart-Jones/Powell)
P. J. Rhodes, Aris and Phillips, 1994
S. Hornblower [Books I-III] (Oxford, 1991); P. J. Rhodes
Articles
A. Andrewes, 'The Mytilene Debate: Thuc. 3.36-49', Phoenix 16 (1962) 64-85
R. P. Winnington-Ingram, 'ta; devonta eijpei'n: Cleon and Diodotus', BICS 12 (1965)
70-82
C. Macleod, Chapters 10-13 in Collected Essays (Oxford, 1983)
S. Hornblower, 'Narratology and narrative techniques in Thucydides' in id., ed.,
Greek Historiography (Oxford, 1994), 131-66
[full bibliographies are to be found in the commentaries of Hornblower and
Rhodes]
Books
H. D. F. Kitto, Poiesis (Berkeley, 1966), 257-354
J. H. Finley, Three Essays on Thucydides (Cambridge, Ma., 1967)
P. A. Stadter, ed., The Speeches in Thucydides (Chapel Hill, 1973)
W. R. Connor, Thucydides (Princeton, 1984)
S. Hornblower, Thucydides (London, 1987)
T. C. B. Rood, Thucydides: Narrative and Interpretation (Oxford, 1998)
S. Hornblower, Thucydides and Pindar (Oxford, 2004)
J. Marincola, Greek Historians [see under ‘Herodotus’] ch. 2.
II.
THE PERIOD
Literary History and Background
A. Lesky, A History of Greek Literature (London, 1966)
B. M. W. Knox and P. E. Easterling, eds., Cambridge History of Classical Literature I
(Cambridge, 1985; now available in separate paperback parts
A. Dihle, A History of Greek Literature (London, 1994)
O. Taplin (ed.) Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Oxford 1999), now
available in two separate parts.
E. Csapo and W.J. Slater, The Context of Ancient Drama (Michigan, 1995)
General Literary Studies
G. Kennedy, The Art of Persuasion in Greece (Princeton, 1962)
B. Vickers, Towards Greek Tragedy (London, 1973)
O. P. Taplin, Greek Tragedy in Action (London, 1978)
S. Goldhill, Reading Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 1986)
S. Goldhill, The Poet’s Voice (Cambridge, 1991)
M. Heath, The Poetics of Greek Tragedy (London, 1987)
P. Easterling (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 1997)
M. S. Silk (ed.), Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond (Oxford, 1996)
C. B. R. Pelling (ed.), Greek Tragedy and the Historian (Oxford, 1997)
C. B. R. Pelling, Literary Texts and the Greek Historian (Routledge, 2000)
J. Marincola, Greek Historians (Greece & Rome New Surveys 31, Oxford 2001)
G. O. Hutchinson, Greek Lyric Poetry: A Commentary on Selected Larger Pieces, 285-91,
321-8, 359-70 (choral lyric), 427-39 (relation of choral and tragic lyric)
C. Sourvinou-Inwood, Tragedy and Athenian Religion (London etc, 2003)
J. Gregory (ed.), A Companion to Greek Tragedy (Blackwell, 2005), esp. 89–95 (C.
Pelling on Hippolytus and Ajax), 317–20 (D. Cairns on Ajax).
Social, Political, Cultural Background
E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley, 1951)
A. Pickard-Cambridge, The Dramatic Festivals of Athens, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1968)
W. K. C. Guthrie, History of Greek Philosophy, vol. III (Cambridge, 1971), esp. Part 1
on the Sophists.
E. R. Dodds, The Ancient Concept of Progress (Oxford, 1973)
K. J. Dover, Greek Popular Morality in the time of Plato and Aristotle (Oxford, 1974)
G. E. R. Lloyd, Magic, Reason and Experience (Cambridge, 1979)
G. E. R. Lloyd, The Hippocratic Writings (Penguin, 1978), introduction.
G. Kerferd, The Sophistic Movement (Cambridge, 1981)
S. Goldhill and R. Osborne (edd.), Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy
(Cambridge, 1999)
S. Hornblower, The Greek World, 479-323 B.C. (London, 1983; new edition 2002)
R. G. Osborne, Greece in the Making (London 1996)
R. G. Osborne, Classical Landscape with Figures (London, 1987)
P. E. Easterling and J. V. Muir, Greek Religion and Society (Cambridge, 1985)
R. C. T. Parker, Athenian Religion: A History (Oxford, 1996)
W. Burkert, Greek Religion (Oxford, 1985)
C. Farrar, The Origins of Democratic Thinking (Cambridge, 1988)
N.R.E. Fisher, Hybris (Warminster, 1992)
S. C. Pomeroy, Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves (New York, 1975)
R. Just, Women in Athenian Law and Life (London, 1989)
C. Bérard et al., A City of Images: iconography and society in Ancient Greece (Lausanne,
1989)
E. Hall, Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition Through Tragedy (Oxford, 1989)
J-P. Vernant and P. Vidal-Naquet, Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece (New York,
1990)
J. J. Winkler and F. I. Zeitlin, eds., Nothing to do with Dionysos? (Princeton, 1990)
C. Sourvinou-Inwood, 'Reading' Greek Culture (Oxford, 1991)
Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. V, second edition (Cambridge, 1992), esp. the
chapter by M. Ostwald on 'Athens as a cultural centre' (306-69)
F. Graf, Greek Mythology (Baltimore, 1993)
P.J. Rhodes, ‘Nothing to do with democracy: Athenian drama and the polis’, JHS
123 (2003), 104–19.
Revised Nov. 2005