POSSIBLE SUMMER READING

GENERAL

Jones, Peter. Vote For Caesar: How The Ancient Greeks And Romans Solved The Problems Of Today. Orion, 2008.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. I, ed. Arthur Clough. New York: Modern Library, 2001.
_____. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. II, ed. Arthur Clough. New York: Modern Library, 2001.

GREECE: PRIMARY SOURCES

Strassler, Robert B., ed. Landmark Herodotus: The Histories. New York: Pantheon, 2007.
_____, ed. Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War. New York: Free Press, 1998.
_____, ed. Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika. New York: Pantheon, 2009.

GREECE: SECONDARY SOURCES

Cahill, Thomas. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter. New York: Anchor, 2004.
Cartledge, Paul. Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities. New York: Oxford, 2009.
_____. Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece. New York: Vintage, 2004.
_____. Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World. New York: Vintage, 2007.
Connelly, Joan Breton. Portrait of A Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece. Princeton: Princeton, 2009.
Davidson, James. Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens. New York: Harper Collins, 2009.
Gere, Cathy. Tomb of Agamemnon. Cambridge: Harvard, 2006.
Hale, John R. Lords of the Sea: How the Athenian Navy Changed the World. Gibson Square Books, 2010.
Hurwit, Jeffrey M. Acropolis in the Age of Pericles. Cambridge: Cambridge, 2004.
Pomeroy, Sarah B. Spartan Women. New York: Oxford, 2002.

ROME: PRIMARY SOURCES

ROME: SECONDARY SOURCES

Beard, Mary. Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found. Cambridge: Belknap, 2008.
Clarke, John R. Roman Life: 100 B.C. to A.D. 200. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2007.
Heather, Peter. Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians. New York: Oxford, 2007.
Kleiner, Diana E. Cleopatra and Rome. Cambridge: Belknap, 2009.
Mayor, Adrienne. Poison King: The Life and Death of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy. Princeton: Princeton, 2009.
Robert L. O'Connell. Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic. New York: Random House, 2010.
Strauss, Barry. Spartacus War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009.

EARLY CHRISTIANITY

Crossan, John D. In Search of Paul. New York: Harperone, 2005.
_____. Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography. New York: Harperone, 2009,
Denzey, Nicola. Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women. New York: Beacon, 2008.
Freeman, Charles. New History of Early Christianity. New Haven: Yale, 2009.
Hopkins, Keith. World Full of Gods: The Strange Triumph of Christianity. New York: Plume, 2001.
Mack, Burton L. Who Wrote the New Testament: The Making of the Christian Myth. New York: Harperone, 1996.
Wilson, Barrie. How Jesus Became A Christian. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2009.