Some Bibliography

I'll be posting bibliographical references on the blog; some are specific to a particular topic, others more general reference works.  Here's a start!

ON DEATH:

• Death, Burial and the Afterlife in Ancient Greece-- a reliable online essay and some great slides of Greek funerary art.
• http://www.colorado.edu/classics/exhibits/GreekVases/essays/200636tburial.ht

Garland, Robert. The Greek Way of Death. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985.

Griggin, Jasper.  Homer on Life and Death.  Oxford, 1983

Morris, Ian.  Burial and the Rise of the Greek City-State. Cambridge, 1987.

Emily Vermeule, Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press 1979). 

Edwards, Catharine. Death in Ancient Rome.  Cambridge 2007 

Hope, V. and Marshall E., Death and Disease in the Ancient City. (an e-book available through UB Libraries catalog)

General Reference works:

Grant, Michael, and John Hazel. Who's Who in Classical Mythology. London: Dent, 1993.

Hornblower, Simon, and Antony Spawforth, eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3d ed., rev. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Howatson, M. C., ed. The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Pedley, John Griffiths. Greek Art and Archaeology. 2d ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.

Pomeroy, Sarah B., et al. Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Robertson, Martin. A History of Greek Art. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.