Classics Department

Extension Activities/Reading Lists

Key Stage 3

Latin and Classical Civilisation (2nd and 3rd form)

Pompeii – Peter Connelly

The Rotten Romans

The Groovy Greeks

 The Silver Pigs (1989) 
 Shadows in Bronze (1990) 
 Venus in Copper (1991) 
 The Iron Hand of Mars (1992) 
 Poseidon's Gold (1993) 
 Last Act in Palmyra (1994) 
 Time to Depart (1995) 

 A Dying Light in Corduba (1996) 
 Three Hands in the Fountain (1997) 
 Two for the Lions (1998) 
 One Virgin Too Many (1999) 
 Ode to a Banker (2000)
 A Body in the Bath House (2001)
 The Jupiter Myth (2002)         
 The Accusers (2003)         
 Scandal Takes a Holiday (2004)        
 See Delphi and Die (2005)
 Saturnalia (2007)

Key Stage 4

Latin/Greek/Classical Civilisation (4th and 5th form)

Ovid ‘Metamorphoses’ – The ultimate guide to Classical mythology.

Oedius the King – Sophocles

Antigone – Sophocles

Lysistrata – Aristophanes

An Introduction to Greek Art – Susan Woodford

Key Stage 5

Latin/Greek/Classical Civilisation (6th form)

Greek Tragedy – an Introduction – Marion Baldock

The Aeneid – Virgil

The Iliad – Homer

The Odyssey – Homer

Amores – Ovid

The Histories – Herodotus

Medea – Euripides