Supplemental Readings, Story
of the World, Volume 1, Ancient Times
Students should scan over these readings in addition to
fully reading the assigned pages from the text.
High school students should consider reading at least some
of the supplement.
Advanced high school students should read the supplement and
consider selecting on outside book on ancient history to complete this section,
also. I can help with choosing a
book.
I ask that parents understand that primary sources,
particularly, can contain very adult material – history is messy! Please pre-approve books before
assigning them.
The World Until Yesterday, Jared Diamond
Hieroglyphs; Omniglot Web
site
Ancient world, Mesopotamia,
cuneiform; The Alphabet Makers, The Museum of the Alphabet
Mummies, Made in Egypt, Aliki
The Pyramids, Calliope Magazine
Pyramid, David McCaulay
Myth of Osiris, Gilgamesh,
retold; Great Myths of the World,
Padraic Colum
“Book of Job”; New
American Standard Bible (feel free to
use your own translation, please make sure it is a translation and not a
paraphrase)
Usborne Illustrated World
History; The Greeks
Introduction to the Penguin
edition (Mary M. Innes), “Midas and the Golden Touch”; Metamorphoses, Ovid
“Orpheus and Euridyce”; Mythology, Edith Hamilton”
Excerpt; The Children’s Homer, Padraic Colum
Excerpt; The Odyssey, Homer (Dover Thrift edition)
Excerpt; The Republic, Plato (two versions, one translation Richard W.
Sterling and William C. Scott, other translation B. Jowett)
Excerpt; Antigone, Sophocles (Dover Thrift)
“Plague in Athens”, Thucydides
“The Greeks March to the
Sea”, Xenophon
“The Death of Socrates”,
Plato
Introduction excerpt,
excerpt, Book IX, Herodotus (Penguin Classics)
Excerpt; I, Claudius,
Robert Graves (historical fiction,
very difficult themes)
Excerpt; “On the Laws”, Cicero
Excerpt; Caesar
Excerpt; The Siege of Jerusalem, Josephus
Excerpts; Augustus Caesar’s World, 44 BC to AD
14, Genevieve Foster
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