Summer 2022 · Torch: U.S. · DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION IN CLASSICS EDUCATION
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READING LIST:
Books and literature play a large role in studying the classics, as they inform a student’s view of both Greco-Roman antiquity and their own place in the field. The books listed below strive to offer new perspectives, to bring voices to the previously voiceless, and to dismantle white, elite notions of Greece and Rome. Retellings of myths expose injustices as what they are, and novellas written in Latin make the language more accessible to all students.
Retellings
- Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
- Circe, Madeline Miller
- Medea, Christa Wolf
- Ariadne, Jennifer Saint
- A Thousand Ships, Natalie Haynes
- The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker
- Oh My Gods, Philip Freeman
- Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
- Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie
- XO, Orpheus, Kate Bernheimer
- Oreo, Fran Ross
- The Bacchae of Euripides, Wole Soyinka
Scholarship, Commentary, Criticism
- Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age, Donna Zuckerberg
- Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation, Matthew P. Loar, Carolyn MacDonald, Dan-el Padilla Peralta
- The Classical Debt, Johanna Hanink
- Antigone Rising, Helen Morales
- Ulysses in Black, Patrice Rankine
- African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison, Tracy Walters
- Re-rooting the classical tradition: new directions in black classicism, Classical Receptions Journal
- Race: Antiquity and its Legacy, Denise McCoskey
Latin language
- Mārcus magulus (+ Audiobook)
- Rūfus lutulentus (+ narration)
- Quīntus et nox horrifica (+ Audiobook)
- Poenica purpurāria (+ narration)
- Pīsō perturbātus (+ narration)
- Drūsilla in Subūrā (+ narration)
- Rūfus et arma ātra (+ Audiobook)