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Classics Reading List - King's College Cambridge
Classics Reading List - King's College Cambridge
One of the best ways of discovering about the wider world of Classics is to read Omnibus, the journal produced twice a year by the Classical Association for
anyone interested in the ancient world and its reception. Every issue contains a dozen or so short articles on aspects of Classics, most written by those who
teach in universities. And it is free!
A final tip: in school, especially if you study the texts in the original Latin and/ or ancient Greek, you might only get presented with bits and pieces of a text.
We recommend that you make a point of always reading the entire text in an English translation.
In addition, try to get to know the different aspects of our field. There are a lot of resources freely available on the web (links below). Check out:
The Perseus Project: it features many Greek and Latin texts, both in translation and in the original, as well as other resources.
The podcast series ‘Ancient Greece Declassified’.
The YouTube channel Kings and Generals: while perhaps a bit narrowly focused on high politics, it offers a lot of material not just, or even primarily on
Greece and Rome, but the ancient Mediterranean and Near East more generally.
If you have access to a library, try to sample some of the following for basic orientation (but they can also wait until you have arrived at Cambridge):
For Linguistic:
P. H. Matthews, Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2003). [This is a general introduction to the scientific study of language,
not specifically focused on the ancient world – but it should give you a good idea what linguistics is all about.]
James Clackson Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Cambridge, 2015)
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