Thursday, May 1, 2014

Summer Reading

With summer just around the corner (and my schedule becoming too hectic to plan out a better post) I decided to share a reading list comprised of some of my favorite works. Happy reading!

Ancient Authors

Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War

Xenophon - Hellenika

Aristotle - Politics & The Constitution of the Athenians

Arrian - Anabasis of Alexander

Varro - On Agriculture

Historical Theory and Methodology

Machiavelli - The Prince & Discourses on Livy

Hegel - Introduction to the Philosophy of History

Marx - The German Ideology & 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon 

Max Weber - The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations

Lenin - State and Revolution

M.I. Finley - The Ancient Economy & Ancient History: Evidence and Models

G.E.M. de Ste. Croix - The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World