Alumni Travel Reading 2018-2019: Journey of Ancient Heroes

Penn Classics Professor, Emily Wilson's critically acclaimed translation of Homer's Odyssey.

In this book, Fox explores the origins of the Greek gods and the spread of classical culture in the Mediterranean world.

Archaeology and the Homeric Epic takes a multi-disciplinary approach - archaeology, philology, anthropology and social history -- and provides a cultural and historical lens through which to read the epics

This work looks at Sicily's Greek and Italian legacy.

Sicily and the Sea highlights the material culture of the island from its Phoenicianand Greek settlers, to the Romans, Byzantines, Moors, and royal houses of Europe.

Norwich explores Sicily's history from its many invaders and conquerors to more contemporary events from crime to romance.

Roller explores knowledge of the world in the Bronze Age and Archaic periods; Greek expansion into the Black Sea and the West; the Pythagorean concept of the earth as a globe; Roman geography; Ptolemy and late antiquity and more.

This book explores the beginnings and development of geographical ideas in Classical antiquity and demonstrates technical methods for describing landscape, topographies and ethnographies.

A major new history of economic life in the ancient Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's imperial supremacy.

Ruden has revised her noted 2008 translation of the Aeneid. The entire work is in iambic pentameter, which is unique in English translations of Virgil's epic poem.

Ferdinand Addis traces the history of the "Eternal City" told through key moments in its history: from tthe story of its founding in 753 BC and across its twenty-seven centuries of existence.

Carthage, destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC, was founded by Phoenician migrants, who settled in the north of what is now Tunisia, around the ninth century BC. It was a central point for trading over sea and over land into the African continent. This book provides an up-to-date review of the ancient city's history, politics, and commerce and its place in the searfaring cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.

An historical and cultural biography of one of Carthage's renowned citizens.

Exploring both written and archaeological evidence, The Carthaginians reveals a complex, multicultural and innovative people whose culture was influenced by North African and Greek cultures and also influenced a large part of the Western Mediterranean.