Classics Society

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Summer Reading List

Here's the Summer Reading List put together by our faculty panel, in case you're looking for some Classics-related entertainment!

- "Oneirocritica: Interpretation of Dreams" - Artemidorus (Ancient)
- "The Golden Ass" - Apuleius (Ancient)
- "True History" - Lucian (Ancient)
- "Satyricon" - Petronius (Ancient)
- "Letters from a Stoic" - Seneca the Younger (Ancient)
- "Symposium" - Plato (Ancient)
- "Collected Ancient Greek Novels" - B.P. Reardon (Modern; collection of ancient works)
- "The Name of the Rose" - Umberto Eco (Modern; a good novel for basic Latin practice)
- "The Ancient Economy" - Moses I. Finley (Modern; solid historical facts/analysis)
- "Eros the Bittersweet" - Anne Carson (Modern; ancient concepts of love)
- "Memoirs of Hadrian" - Marguerite Yourcenar (Modern; fictional letters of the emperor Hadrian)
- "Imperium" and "Lustrum" - Robert Harris (Modern; fiction centered around the life of Cicero)

                                                  
 

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