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Sorry if you’ve answered this before, but what books do you recommend for people who’re interested in Classical Studies? Thank you!

Hello, Nonny! I apologize for taking so long to get back to your ask. This is a bit of a loaded question, as Classical Studies spans a lot of different things: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, the Ancient Near East, etc. for just the *areas*, and then you have several ancient languages to choose from if you are looking at that, and then there are individual figures to focus on as well as specific works in translation. The posts that I’ve made before that may give you some good ideas on where to start are the following:

Advice for Aspiring Classicist Ask: https://theancientgeekoroman.tumblr.com/post/179847323830/hi-im-a-high-schooler-who-wants-to-pursue-a

Suggested Reading List Ask: https://theancientgeekoroman.tumblr.com/post/179972282550/hey-sorry-to-bother-you-but-i-recently-went-to-a

Where to Start: https://theancientgeekoroman.tumblr.com/post/183617460805/hello-im-a-high-school-student-interested-in (Includes the two links above in this one)

Advice for Studying Classics at University: https://theancientgeekoroman.tumblr.com/post/183612328890/hey-there-im-about-to-start-university-in-the

And this ask is about History/Museum Studies but might be relevant to your interests because these coincide fairly often: https://theancientgeekoroman.tumblr.com/post/183621851835/while-this-might-not-be-your-area-of-expertise

Personally, I would suggest a few books I was required to read for some of my classes. Here are some books I have bought for my classes that I think might be a benefit for you to read through, depending on your interests (and you can usually request these at your library if they don’t own them, both public and college/uni libraries usually take requests when someone wants the book available):

Complete Pompeii (The Complete Series) by Joanne Berry (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/050005150X/)

Herculaneum: Italy’s Buried Treasure by Joseph Deiss (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0892361646/)

The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology of the Major Writings (Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World) by Ronald Mellor (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415527163/)

Latin Literature: A History by Gian Biagio Conte, translated by Joseph Solodow (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801862531/)

Theogony and Works and Days (Oxford World’s Classics) by Hesiod, translated by M. L. West (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/019953831X/)

The World of Pompeii (Routledge Worlds), edited by John J. Dobbins and Pedar W. Foss (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415475775/)

Anything Emily Wilson has translated/written, honestly (I have her Odyssey and Seneca’s Tragedies translations)

I hope all of the above links/suggestions help you and aren’t too overwhelming! Please feel free to send me any follow-up questions.

All the best,

Tychon, the Ancient Geeko-Roman

P.S. My focus is ancient Greece and ancient Rome, but I have a few followers that focus on the Ancient Near East and/or Egypt if I remember correctly, so if any of you want to drop any suggestions for those places/relevant languages, please do!

P.P.S. I know a lot of ancient history/ancient world programs exist and a lot of overlap happens in Classical Studies with Egypt and the Near East, but not every program approaches it that way and will focus solely on Greece/Rome. But there are more programs that give a wider variety that includes all of the ancient world, and that’s why I included the rest above.

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