In addition to the books and articles listed on your syllabus, you may want to consult this bibliography as you prepare your papers.

The Mycenaeans

• E. Vermeule, Greece in the Bronze Age (Chicago 1964)
• J. Chadwick, The Mycenaean World (Cambridge 1976)
• G. Mylonas, Mycenae Rich in Gold (Athens 1983)

Overall Surveys (Post-Mycenaean through Archaic)

• C. G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civilization: 1100-650 B.C. (New York 1961)
• R. J. Hopper. The Early Greeks (London 1976)
• O. Murray, Early Greece (Cambridge, MA 19932)

The Collapse and the Dark Ages

• V. R. d'A. Desborough, The Last Mycenaeans and their Successors (Oxford 1954)
• R. Drews, The End of the Bronze Age (Princeton 1993)
• V. R. d'A. Desborough, The Greek Dark Ages (London 1972)
• A. M. Snodgrass, The Dark Age of Greece: an archaeological survey of the eleventh to the eighth centuries BC (Edinburgh 1971)
• V. R. d'A. Desborough, Protogeometric Pottery (Oxford 1952)
• W. Kraiker & K. Kübler, Kerameikos 1: Die Nekropolen des 12. bis 10. Jahrhunderts (Berlin 1939)
• K. Kübler, Kerameikos 4: Neufunde aus der Nekropole des 11. und 10. Jahrhunderts (Berlin 1943)
• M. R. Popham, L. H. Sackett & P. G. Themelis, Lefkandi I. The Iron Age: The Settlement and the Cemeteries (London 1979-80)
• M. R. Popham, P G. Calligas & L. H. Sackett, Lefkandi II. The Protogeometric Building at Toumha (London 1990,1993)
• E. L. Smithson, "The Protogeometric Cemetery at Nea Ionia, 1949," Hesperia 30 (1961) 147-178
• H. Müller-Karpe, "Die Metallbeigaben der fruheisenzeitlichen Kerameikos- Gräber," JdI 77 {1962) 59-129

The Geometric Period

• J. N. Coldstream, Geometric Greece (London 1977)
• J. N. Coldstream, Greek Geometric Pottery (London 1968)
• B. Schweitzer, Greek Geometric Art (London 1971; tr. from Die geometrische Kunst Griechenlands [Koln 1969])
• J. M. Davison, Attic Geometric Workshops (YCS 16: New Haven 1961)
• E. L. Smithson, “The Tomb of a Rich Athenian Lady, ca. 850 B.C.,” Hesperia 37 (1968) 77-116
• R. Drews, Basileus: the Evidence for Kingship in Geometric Greece (Yale 1983)
• R. Hägg, ed., The Greek Renaissance of the Eighth Century B.C.: Tradition and Innovation (Stockholm 1983)
• W. Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution (Cambridge, MA 1992)

The Greeks Overseas

• J. Boardman, The Greeks Overseas: Their Early Colonies and Trade (London 1980)
• J. M. Cook, The Greeks in Ionia and the East (London 1962)
• J. Boardman, “Early Euboean Pottery and History,” Annuals of the British School at Athens 52 (1957) 1-29
• D. Ridgway, The First Western Greeks (Cambridge 1992)
• T. J. Dunbabin, The Western Greeks (Oxford 1948)
• J. Boardman & N. G. L.Hammond, edd., Camdridge Ancient History III part 3: The Expansion of the Greek World, Eight to Sixth Centuries B.C. (Cambridge 19822) 1-233
• A. J. Graham, Colony and Mother City in Ancient Greece (Manchester 1964)

Homer

• G. S. Kirk, The Songs of Homer (Cambridge 1962)
• A. B. Lord, The Singer of Tales (Cambridge, MA 1960)
• M. Parry, The Making of Homeric Verse (A. Parry, ed.: Oxford 1971)
• A. Parry, “Have we Homer’s Iliad?” YCS 20 (1966) 175-216
• R. Finnegan, Oral Poetry (Cambridge 1977)
• A. J. B. Wace & F. Stubbings, edd., A Companion to Homer (London 1962)
• T. B. L. Webster, From Mycenae to Homer (New York 1964)
• H. L. Lorimer, Homer and the Monuments (London 1950)
• N. Felson, Regarding Penelope (Princeton 1994)
• M. I. Finley, The World of Odysseus (London 19782)
• J. M. Redfield, Nature and Culture in the Iliad: The Tragedy of Hector (Chicago 1975)
• J. Griffin, Homer on Life and Death (Oxford 1980)
• S. L. Schein, The Mortal Hero (Berkeley 1984)
• J. Griffin, “The Epic Cycle and the Uniqueness of Homer,” JHS 97 (1977) 39-53
• A. Severyns, Le cycle épique dans l’école d’Aristarque (Liège 1928)
• A. Lesky, A History of Greek Literature (tr. London 1966) 14-90

Hesiod

• M. L. West, Hesiod: Theogony (Oxford 1966) and Hesiod: Works & Days (Oxford 1978)
• P. Walcott, Hesiod and the Near East (Cardiff 1966)

The Archaic Period: History and Politics

• L. H. Jeffery, Archaid Greece: the City States c. 700-500 B.C. (London 1976)
• A. M. Snodgrass, Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment (Berkeley 1980)
• M. M. Austin & P. Vidal-Naquet, Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece (Berkeley 1977; tr. from Économies et sociétés en Grèce ancienne [Paris 19732])
• A. W. Johnston, The Emergence of Greece (New York 1976)
• A. R. Burn, The Lyric Age of Greece (London 1960)
• R. Sealey, A History of the Greek City States, ca. 700-388 B.C. (Berkeley 1976)
• A. Andrewes, The Greek Tyrants (London 1956)
• W. G. Forrest, The Emergence of Greek Democracy (New York 1966)
• C. G. Starr, The Economic and Social Growth of Early Greece (Oxford 1977)
• C. G. Starr, Individual and Community: The Rise of the Polis, 800-500 B.C. (Oxford 1986)
• J. B. Salmon, Wealthy Corinth: A History of the City to 338 B.C. (Oxford 1984)
• R. A. Tomlinson, Argos and the Argolid (Ithaca 1972)
• W. G. Forrest, A History of Sparta: 50-192 B.C. (New York 1968)
• P. Cartledge, Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300-362 B.C. (London 1979)
• L. F. Fitzhardinge, The Spartans (London 1980)
• V. Ehrenberg, From Solon to Socrates (London 19732)
• C. Hignett, A History of the Athenian Constitution (Oxford 1952)
• J. M. Camp, The Athenian Agora (London 1986)

The Archaic Period: Literature, Art, and Thought

• H. Fränkel, Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy (Oxford 1975; tr. from Dichtung und Philosophie des frühen Griechentums)
• A. W. H. Adkins, Merit and Responsibility (Oxford 1960)
• E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley 1951)
• C. M. Bowra, Greek Lyric Poetry (Oxford 19612)
• A. J. Podlecki, The Early Greek Poets and their Times (Vancouver 1984)
• C. M. Bowra, Pindar (Oxford 1964)
• W. Burkert, Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical (Cambridge, AM 1985)
• J. M. Hurwit, The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 100-480 B.C. (Ithaca 1985)
• G. M. A. Richter, Archaic Greek Art (Oxford 1949)
• J. Charbonneaux, R. Martin, F. Villard, Archaic Greek Art: 620-480 B.C. (London 1971; tr. from Grèce archaique [Paris 1968])
• K. Friis Johansen, Les vases sicyoniens (Copenhagen 1923)
• H. Payne, Necrocorinthia (Oxford 1931)
• D. A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period (Berkeley 1988)
• S. P. Morris, The Black and White Style (New Haven 1984)
• J. D. Beazley, The Development of the Attic Black-Figure (Berkeley 1951)
• J. Boardman, Athenian Black-Figure Vases (New York 1974)
• J. Boardman, Athenian Red-Figure Vases (New York 1975)
• J. Boardman, Greek Sculpture: the Archaic Period (New York 1978)
• G. M. A. Richter, Kouroi (New York 19703)
• G. M. A. Richter, Kourai (New York 1968)
• H. Payne & G. Mackworth-Young, Archaic Marble Sculptures from the Acropolis (London 1936)
• B. Ridgway, The Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture (Princeton 1977)
• L. H. Jeffery & A. Johnston, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece (Oxford 1990)
• T. Gantz, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (Baltimore 1993)
• K. Schefold, Myth and Legend in Greek Art (London 1966; tr. from Frühgriechische Sagenbilder [Munich 1964])
• K. Schefold, Götter- und Heldensagen der Griechen in der früh- und hocharchaischen Kunst (Munich 1993p; this is a much revised and expanded version of the previous item)
• K. Schefold, Gods and Heroes in Late Archaic Greek Art (Cambridge 1992; tr. From Götter- und Heldensagen der Griechen in der spätarchaischen Kunst [Munich 1978])