Classical Greek
Stage 6 Continuers Syllabus Resources
The new Continuers syllabus may be implemented with minimal variation in the resources currently
used, though additional items may be added as they are identified. The following list has been
developed by practising teachers of Classical Greek.
The list of general resources is not definitive and has been provided for guidance only.
PRINT RESOURCES
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Dictionaries
Berry, G R, The Classic Greek Dictionary (Greek–English, English–Greek), Follett Publishing
Company, Chicago, 1927 (1958).
Liddell, H G & Scott, R, Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford University Press, 1843 (1983).
Liddell, H G & Scott, R, Greek–English Lexicon (Abridged Edition), Oxford University Press, 1986.
Various, The Oxford Classical Dictionary, (background resource material), Oxford University Press,
1949 (1968).
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Grammar Texts
Abbott & Mansfield, A Primer of Greek Grammar, Duckworth Press, New York, 1977 (1995).
Goodwin, W W, A Greek Grammar, St Martin’s Press, New York 1965.
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Language Texts for Students
Preliminary Course – Suggested Texts
Antrich, J, & Usher, S (eds), The Persian Expedition, Bristol Classics Press, 1978
ISBN 0 9065 1511 4
Ferguson, J (ed) Euripides: Hippolytus, Bristol Classics Press, 1984. ISBN 0 8629 2074 4
Horn, T (ed) Selections from the Hellenica of Xenophon, Bristol Classics Press, 1978.
Kennedy, E C (ed), Four Greek Authors – Extracts from Homer, Antiphon, Euripides and Thucydides,
Bristol Classics Press, 1996. ISBN 1 8539 9501 0
Kennedy, E C (ed), Scenes from Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris, Bristol Classics Press.
1981. ISBN 0 9065 1597 1
Sidwell, K (ed) Lucian: Selections, Bristol Classics Press, 1986. ISBN 0 9065 1536 X
Tierney, M (ed) Euripides: Hecuba, Bristol Classics Press, 1994. ISBN 0 9065 1517 3.
HSC Course – Texts
Waddell, W G (ed) Herodotus Book II, Bristol Classics Press , 1998. ISBN 1 8539 9185 6
Shuckburgh, E S (ed) Herodotus Book VI, Bristol Classics Press, 1984. ISBN 0 8629 2165 1
*Campbell, M, A Greek Prose Reading Course for Post-beginners, Bristol Classics Press, 1997.
 Unit 1. Forensic Oratory. Lysias: ‘On the Murder of Eratosthenes’ ISBN 1-85399-537-1
 Unit 2. Philosophy. Plato: ‘Crito’ ISBN 1-85399-535-X
 Unit 3. Demosthenes: ‘Third Philippic’ ISBN 1-85399-539-8
 *Unit 4. Thucydides: ‘Events at Pylos and Sphacteria’ ISBN 1 8539 9540 1
McQueen E I (ed) Herodotus Book VI Bristol Classical Press, 1999. ISBN 1 8539 9586 X
Crees, J H E, & Wordsworth, JC (eds) 1982, Thucydides Book IV 1-41, Bristol Classics Press
Graves, C E (ed) Thucydides Book IV, Bristol Classics Press, 1982.
Dover, K J (ed) Thucydides Book VII, Bristol Classics Press, 1999. ISBN 1 8539 9517 8
*Burnet, J (ed) Plato: Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates and Crito, Oxford University Press, 1982.
Allan, D J (ed) Plato: Republic I, Bristol Classics Press 1993. ISBN 1 8539 9254 2
Adams, C D, (ed), Lysias: Eight Speeches, 12, 16, 19, 22, 24, 25, 32, 34, University of Oklahoma
Press, Norman, 1976. ISBN 0 8061 1396 0
Shuckburgh, E S, (ed), Lysias: Five Speeches, 10, 12, 14, 19, 22, Bristol Classical Press, 1994.
ISBN 0 9065 1544 0
Edwards, M (ed) Lysias: 5 Speeches, Bristol Classical Press, 1999. ISBN 1 8539 9447 2
Jebb, R C (ed), Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus, Bristol Classical Press, 1981.
ISBN 0 8629 2002 7
Webster, T B L (ed), Sophocles: Philoctetes, Cambridge University Press, 1985.
ISBN 0 5210 9888 4
Denniston, J D (ed), Euripides: Electra, Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN 0 1987 2094 7
Elliott, A (ed), Euripides: Medea, Oxford University Press, 1989. ISBN 0 1991 2006 4
Dover, K J (ed) Aristophanes: Clouds (abridged edition), Oxford University Press, 1980.
ISBN 0 1981 4395 8
Dover, K J (ed) Aristophanes: Frogs (student edition), Oxford University Press, 1994.
ISBN 0 1981 5071 7 (paperback ISBN 0 1987 2175 7 (hardback)
*Stanford, W B (ed) Aristophanes: Frogs, Bristol Classical Press, 1993. ISBN 0 8629 2115 5
Note: Where more than one edition of a text is listed, an asterisk denotes the edition from which the
HSC examination will be set.
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Texts for Teacher Reference
Easterling, P E & Knox, B M W (eds), Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Cambridge
University Press, 1989
 Vol 1: Greek Literature
 Vol 2: Greek Drama (ISBN 0 5213 5982 1)
 Vol 3: Philosophy, History and Oratory (ISBN 0 5213 5983 1)
The above text contains a lucid discussion of, and extensive bibliographies for, all the Greek authors
prescribed for the HSC course.
NON-PRINT RESOURCES
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Internet Sites
Elementary Greek
www.theology.edu/greek01.htm
Images of Orality and Literacy in Greek Iconography of the Fifth, Fourth and Third Centuries BCE
ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~awiesner/oralit.html
Differences Between Classical and Hellenistic Greek ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~jtreat/koine/classical.html
Ariadne's Hellenic Greek Civilization Page
http://www.greekcivil.ariadne-t.gr/default.html
EAIEE1/4 - Lexicon Greek–English — English–Greek
www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon
DIDASKALIA Ancient Theater Today
www.warwick.ac.uk/didaskalia
EAWC Ancient Greece
http://eawc.evansville.edu.grpage.htm
Classical Political Theory Web Sites
http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfcjh/wiu/web/classica/classica.htm
CLASSICS COURSE CLA 212 MYTHOLOGY Home Page
http://www.princeton.edu/~rhwebb/myth.html
The Internet Classics Archive the History of Herodotus
http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.sum.html
Geography in Herodotus
http://classics.holycross.edu/courses/Ancient_science/proposed/schedules/Geo_in_Herodotus.html
Herodotus
www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/hero.htm
Thucydides and the Writing of History by Mark Rutkus
http://www.cohums.ohiostate.edu/english/People/Ulman.1/courses/E574C/Projects/Rutkus/Thuc.html
Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity
www.perseus.tufts.edu/~gcrane/thuc.HC_ToC.html
Generic Revolution
http://web.reed.edu/academic/departments/Humanities/Hum110/ThucLecture95.html
Sources for Thucydides
www.perseus.tufts.edu/Thucydides/
Thucydides
http://history.hanover.edu/ancient/thucyd.htm
Exploring Plato’s Dialogues: Introductory Comments
plato.evansville.edu/
Plato’s Republic
www.utm.edu/research/iep/text/plato/rep/rep.htm
D. Anthony Storm’s Web Site on Plato
209.63.222.24/dstorm/plato/index.html
Plato
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/worldlit/lit/plato.html
Hellas Multimedia – Greek Fonts Support – Greek CD-ROMs – Greek Software – Greek Mythology
& Encyclopedia
www.hellasmultimedia.com/mythology/mythe.htm
Ancient Greek - The Master Page
http://kenwoodward.ne.mediaone.net/greek/template/XAMPLE13.HTM
Diotima
http://www.uky.edu/AS/classics/medeahyposcholia.html
The Internet Classics Archive – The Clouds by Aristophanes
classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Aristophanes.html
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This resource list will be regularly up-dated. Suggestions in respect of additional resources will be
most welcome and should be forwarded to the Inspector Languages, Curriculum Branch, Office of the
Board of Studies, GPO Box 5300, Sydney, 2001.
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