You should do all assigned reading before each class. Be AWARE that there are ca.75+ pages of readings assigned each week. This task should not be daunting if you ACTIVELY read ca.25+ before each class (ca.1hr). The reading for this course comes in a number of forms — textbooks, primary sources, and a supplementary reader (CR) available on Blackboard.

REQUIRED • PRINT

Garnsey

P. Garnsey. 1996. Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine. W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures. Cambridge University Press. [ISBN 978-0521574334]

• textbook for the course

REQUIRED • ON-LINE

CR

Course Reader

• posted weekly on Blackboard, with links in the extended outline

B&C

K. Bradley and P. Cartledge. 2011. The Cambridge World History of Slavery, I: The Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge University Press.

• pdf on BlackBoard

Orient

A. Richlin. 2005. Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays.

• pdf on BlackBoard

Patterson

O. Patterson. 1982. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. Harvard University Press.

• pdf on BlackBoard

STYLE GUIDES

Hacker Pocket Style Manual

see also her related list of resources specific to Classical Studies

The Economist

Chicago Manual of Style

COURSE READER • SOURCES
The primary source course reader (CR) will be posted on-line weekly, collated from the following and other various sites, all of which have further resources:

A. J. Atsma • Theoi

R. Bagnall et al. • Pleiades

S. Benner and S. Kershaw • Oremus Bible Browser

G. R. Crane et al. • The Perseus Project

P. Hallsal • Internet Ancient History Sourcebook

J. Lindering • Livius: Sources on Ancient History

R. Scaife et al. • Stoa Consortium

A. Smith • Attalus

W. Thayer • Lacus Curtius

In addition, an archive of the PowerPoint slides shown in lecture will be posted on this website, with notes on the readings.

DIGITAL RESOURCES
Please avail yourself of the following whenever possible:

H. Cancik and H. Schneider, eds. (2002- ) Brills New Pauly

S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth, eds. (1996) Oxford Classical Dictionary