Reading Lists from OCR for A Level Classical Civilisation

See p61-66 of the Specification for suggested reading for each unit. 

Podcasts

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b077x8pc

More to follow…

 Documentaries (all available in the department, or on Youtube)

Genius of the Ancient World: Socrates

Athens: The Truth about Democracy

Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth

Delphi: Bellybutton of the Ancient World

Rome’s Invisible City

Who were the Greeks?

Akala’s Odyssey (BBC Four)

Wider Reading

Fiction

Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker

Circe, Madeleine Miller

The Song of Achilles, Madeleine Miller

Mythos, Stephen Fry

Heroes, Stephen Fry

The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood

Homer’s Odyssey, Simon Armitage

Homer’s Odyssey, Emily Wilson

The Last Days of Troy, Simon Armitage

A Thousand Ships, Natalie Haynes

Non-Fiction

SPQR, Mary Beard

More to be added…