Pre U Latin 9788 Resource List Version 1

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1 Pre U Latin 9788 Resource List Version 1 Resources taken from the syllabus and Teacher Guide to upload onto CIE websites. All resources listed for an Audience of Teachers and learners All resources SUGGESTED not RECOMMENDED or ENDORSED Latin Literature This highly accessible, user-friendly work provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry. Braund, S ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* 2001 books/details/ / Latin Literature: A History This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. Conte, G B John Hopkins University Press ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* Classical Literature: An Introduction It provides a series of essays on all the major authors of Greek and Latin literature, as well as on a number of writers less often read. Croally, N and Hyde, R ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* 2011 Writing Rome This book aims to chart selected aspects of Rome s resonance in literature and the literary resonance of Rome. Edwards, C Cambridge University Press ISBN (13-digit)* Year published*

2 Roman Literary Culture It examines the changing social and historical content of literary production in ancient Rome and its empire. Fantham, E John Hopkins University Press ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* Literature and Religion at Rome Feeney argues that Roman literature was not irrelevant in the creation of the Roman religious system, but an important element of the dynamic religious culture, with its own status as another form of religious knowledge. Feeney, D Cambridge University Press ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* Allusion and Intertext It represents an attempt to find (or recover) some space for the study of allusion as a project of continuing vitality within an exciting enlarged universe of intertexts. Hinds, S Cambridge University Press ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* Engendering Rome It represents an attempt to restore female characters to visibility in Roman epic and to examine the discursive operations that effect their marginalization within both the genre and the critical tradition it has given rise to. Keith, A M Cambridge University Press ISBN (13-digit)* Year published*

3 Redeeming the Text It applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory (in particular reception-theory, deconstruction, theories of dialogue and the hermeneutics associated with the German philosopher Gadamer) to the interpretation of Latin poetry. Martindale, C Cambridge University Press ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* Roman Literature and Society From the plays of Plautus and Cicero's criminal cases in the 2nd century B.C. to the satires of Juvenal and the histories of Suetonius in the 2nd century A.D., this introductory survey of Roman literature places the major Latin works surviving today against the background of the society in which they were written. Ogilvie, R Harvester Press ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* 1980 Classical Literature: A Concise History This accessible one-volume survey of the literature of Greece and Rome covers the period between Homer around 700 BC and Augustine around AD 410. Rutherford, R Wiley-Blackwell ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* Fifty Key Classical Authors A chronological guide to influential Greek and Roman writers. It is an invaluable introduction to the literature, philosophy and history of the ancient world Sharrock, A and Ashley, R ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* 2001 books/details/ /

4 Literature in the Roman World The focus of this book is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from the beginning of the Roman empire to the end of the classical era. Taplin, O (Editor) Oxford University Press ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* The Nature of Roman Poetry This book analyses the features unique to Roman poetry composed in the period B.C., demonstrating how these features are to be recognised and used as the basis for interpreting individual poems. Williams, G Oxford University Press ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* Aspects of Roman History AD It charts the history of the Roman Imperial period, from the establishment of the Augustan principate to the reign of Trajan, providing a basic chronological framework of the main events and introductory outlines of the major issues of the period. Alston, R ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* 2002 Rome in the Late Republic It outlines the factors that every learner must assess for a proper understanding of the period, from the attitudes of the aristocracy and the role of state religion to the function of political institutions. Beard, M and Crawford, M Duckworth ISBN (13-digit)* Year published*

5 Rome the Cosmopolis Rome stands today for an empire and for a city. The essays gathered in this volume explore some of the many ways in which the two were interwoven. Edwards, C and Woolf, G (eds) Cambridge University Press ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* Reflections of Nero This volume of essays analyses cultural and historical material from and about the Neronian era. Elsner, J and Masters, J ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* 1994 University of North Carolina Press Augustus: The Life of Rome s First Emperor A biography of Augustus (63 BC AD 14). The author presents a careful historical argument for his theory of the life and death of Augustus. Everitt, A Random House ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* 2007 Edition number* Reprint The Roman World Examining the Roman world from an unusual and illuminating angle, this volume explores the central period of the Roman empire from Julius Caesar to Marcus Aurelius. Goodman, M ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* 2012 books/details/ /

6 Caesar Augustus This book presents seven fresh and original views of Caesar Augustus, as the authors of the papers collected here consider the image which he presented of himself, how poets and historians reacted to him, the nature of his rule, and the representation of the newly established monarch among his subjects in the provinces. Millar, F and Segal, E Oxford University Press ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* The Age of Augustus This textbook, comprising an anthology of sources, aims to introduce undergraduates and school learners to the types of texts available through translations of a variety of works presented thematically. Cooley, M (ed) ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* 2003 London Association of Classical Teachers Occasional Research (LACTOR) Intellectual Life in the Late Roman Republic This remarkable book both demonstrates clearly the liveliness and range of intellectual life in the late Roman Republic and assesses them critically Rawson, E Duckworth ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* 1988 Edition number* / Nero The reign of Nero is often judged to be the embodiment of the extravagance and the corruption that have, for many, come to symbolise ancient Rome. Shotter provides a reassessment of this view in this accessible introduction to Nero. Shotter, D ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* 2004 books/details/ /

7 The Fall of the Roman Republic This text examines how the Roman republic was destabilised by the unplanned growth of the Roman Empire. Shotter, D ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* 2005 books/details/ / Tiberius Caesar It provides a concise and accessible survey of the character and life of Tiberius Caesar. Shotter, D ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* 2004 books/details/ / Augustus Caesar Shotter reviews the evidence in order to place Augustus firmly in the context of his own times. Shotter, D ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* 2005 books/details/ / The Roman Revolution It is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus. Syme, R Oxford University Press ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* 1939 (re-issued in 2002) Edition number* Re-issue

8 Tacitus This study places Tacitus in his social and political context, emphasizing that he was not merely a writer of genius but a senator and consul, a man familiar with empire and government. Syme. R Oxford University Press ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* Augustan Rome This well-established introduction to Rome in the Age of Augustus provides a fascinating insight into the social and physical contexts of Augustan politics and poetry, exploring in detail the impact of the new regime of government on society. Wallace-Hadrill, A Bloomsbury ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus Zanker builds an interpretation of Augustan art as a visual language that both expressed and furthered the transformation of Roman society during the rule of Augustus Caesar. Zanker, P University of Michigan Press ISBN (13-digit)* Year published* Web Resources Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: The Internet Classics Archive: The Latin Library:

9 Perseus Digital Library: University of Cambridge Faculty of Classics: resources The Classics Pages: The Joint Association of Classical Teachers: University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences Classics: LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World: VROMA A Virtual Community for Teaching and Learning Classics: Gaius Valerius Catullus: Gaius Valerius Catullus: Salvete Omnes A learner resource for the study of the poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus.

10 Catullus: The Poems: The Cicero homepage: Marcus Tullius cicero Salvete Omnes from the University of Texas: Encyclopaedia Britannica Pro Caelio: Caelio University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences Classics courses: Horace: Theatre database Horace (65 8 BC): Horace (65 8 BC): Ovid s metamorphoses : An introduction and commentary with discussion of myths and links to sources and influence in art and literature

11 The Ovid Project: Metamorphosing the Metamorphoses: Propertius: Sallust BC Roman Historian: Encyclopaedia Britannica Sallust: Bartleby: internet publisher of literature reference and verse providing learners with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge: Gaius Sallustius Crispus: Latin poetry Tibullus: Encyclopaedia Britannica Tibullus: Tibullus Tibullus and Sulpicia: The Poems:

12 The Vergil project resources for learners, teachers and readers of Vergil: The Virgil Home Page texts and web pages: Duke Papyrus Archive: Manuscripts as Historical Documents: vatican_lib/margins_of_past.html Materials for the study of women and gender in the ancient world: Ancient Rome web resources: Rome timeline: Illustrated history of the Roman Empire: empire.net/ University of Virginia Library the Electronic Text Center (Etext):

13 Roman Empire: republic/catiline conspiracy.php Late Roman Republic: roman republic.php University of Texas Department of Classics: Resource List V.1_150514