Lattimore’s powerful version of The Oresteia and Seth Benardete’s translation of The Persians.

Kennell, N. M. Spartans: A New History (Chichester 2010): an excellent introduction to what we know
(as opposed to what we think we know) about the society of ancient Sparta and how it got that way.

Rhodes, P. J. A History of the Classical Greek World, 478–323 bc (Malden, MA 2006): a masterful
survey of Greek history from the end of the Persian Wars to the death of Alexander the Great.

Stockton, D. The Classical Athenian Democracy (Oxford and New York 1990): a clearly written and
well-organized introduction to the development of democracy in Athens, with detailed descriptions of the
workings of the various democratic institutions.

Taplin, O. Greek Tragedy in Action (Berkeley and Los Angeles 1978): a stimulating introduction to the
Attic tragedies as works for the theater, rather than as texts to be read, with much attention paid to
Aeschylus’ Oresteia.

Whitby, M. (ed.) Sparta (New York 2002): a collection of essays and excerpts from larger works by
prominent scholars, illustrating the variety of recent approaches taken in the controversies surrounding
much of Spartan society.

Suggested Internet Resources

Dēmos: Classical Athenian Democracy (stoa.org/projects/demos/home, accessed March 29, 2016) is an
ongoing digital encyclopedia of classical Athenian democracy intended for a wide audience, with
detailed essays by leading experts.

Ostracism (agathe.gr/democracy/practice_of_ostracism, accessed March 29, 2016), part of the
introduction to democracy on the web-site of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, is an
account of the practice of ostracism illustrated with some of the thousands of ostraka discovered in the
excavations at the Athenian agora.

Theatre History in Europe: Architectural and Textual Resources Online (theatron.org, accessed March
29, 2016) features interactive real-time walkthroughs of highly accurate 3D models of theatres, including
the theater of Dionysus in Athens.

Greek Theatre (youtu.be.com/playlist?list=PL92A79B953255FD6B, accessed March 29, 2016) is a
series of four fine videos from the Open University, with a focus on Aeschylus’ Persians, in which two of
the leading authorities on Greek drama introduce the performance tradition of Greek tragedy from the fifth
century until today.

The Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama is an Oxford-based research project that focuses
on the performance tradition of ancient drama, with a web-site (apgrd.ox.ac.uk, accessed March 29,
2016) that contains numerous resources for the study of Greek tragedy and its reception.