Guides: Alumni Travel Reading 2018-2019: Journey of Ancient Heroes

Traveling Greece

The Odyssey by Homer; Emily Wilson (Translator)
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. PA4025.A5 W56 2018
ISBN: 9780393089059
Publication Date: 2017
Penn Classics Professor, Emily Wilson's critically acclaimed translation of Homer's Odyssey.
Travelling Heroes:In the Epic Age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. PA4037 .L328 2009
ISBN: 9780679444312
Publication Date: 2009
In this book, Fox explores the origins of the Greek gods and the spread of classical culture in the Mediterranean world.

HathiTrust edition of Life in the Homeric Age (1914) by Seymour, Thomas Day.

Archaeology and the Homeric Epic by Susan Sherratt (Editor); John Bennet (Editor)
ISBN: 9781785702952
Publication Date: 2016
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

Sicily: Culture and Conquest by Dirk Booms; Peter Higgs
Call Number: Fine Arts Library. DG865 .B66 2016
ISBN: 9780714122892
Publication Date: 2016
This work looks at Sicily's Greek and Italian legacy.
Sicily and the Sea by Paulien Retél, editor
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. DG866 .S53 2015
ISBN: 9789462581159
Publication Date: 2015
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.
Sicily : A Short History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra by John Julius Norwich
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. DG866 .N67 2015
ISBN: 9781848548954
Publication Date: 2015
Norwich explores Sicily's history from its many invaders and conquerors to more contemporary events from crime to romance.

The ancient Greek Temple of Hera in Selinunte, also known as "temple E", at Castelvetrano, in Sicily, Italy.
Photo by AdiJapan. Used under a CC BY 2.5 license

Travel list selected and annotated by

Rebecca Stuhr
Librarian for Classical Studies
stuhrreb@pobox.upenn.edu

For more information concerning this Penn excursion, please visit the Penn Alumni Travel website.

Ancient Geography: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome by Duane W. Roller
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. G84 .R65 2015
ISBN: 9781784530761
Publication Date: 2015
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.
Geography in Classical Antiquity by Daniela Dueck
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. G84 .D84 2012
ISBN: 9780521197885
Publication Date: 2012
This book explores the beginnings and development of geographical ideas in Classical antiquity and demonstrates technical methods for describing landscape, topographies and ethnographies.
The Open Sea by J. G. Manning
Call Number: Penn e-book
ISBN: 9781400890224
Publication Date: 2018
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.

The Aeneid by Virgil; David Ferry
ISBN: 9780226450186
Publication Date: 2017
Poet, David Ferry has also translated Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics.
The Eternal City: A History of Rome by Ferdinand Addis
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. DG808 .A44 2018
ISBN: 9781681775425
Publication Date: 2018
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.

<i>Stories of Old Rome: The Wanderings of Aeneas and the Founding of Rome</i> By Charles Henry Hanson. With sixty-two illustrations.1890.

Carthage: Fact and Myth by R. F. Docter, editor, et al.
ISBN: 9789088903113
Publication Date: 2015
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.
Hannibal: A hellenistic Life by Eve MacDonald
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. DG249 .M33 2015
ISBN: 9780300152043
Publication Date: 2015
An historical and cultural biography of one of Carthage's renowned citizens.
The Carthaginians by Dexter Hoyos
Call Number: Van Pelt (Libra) DT269.C34 H69 2010
ISBN: 9780415436441
Publication Date: 2010
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.