The Graduate Manual

Conspectus of Requirements for the Ph.D.

The formal requirements for the Ph.D. set by the Graduate School are: at least six semesters of tuition; fulfillment of the residence requirement (at least two consecutive semesters of full-time registration); passing of the Preliminary Examination; an acceptable dissertation; and a final examination by the student's Ph.D. committee.

These requirements, as administered by the Department and combined with additional departmental requirements, produce the following general rules of procedure, summarized chronologically below:

  • Semesters 1-5: courses;
  • Successful completion of two Qualifying Examinations (Reading List Examinations in ancient Greek and Latin for students in literature and history; one Reading List Examination and the Archaeology Qualifying Examination for students in archaeology). At least one examination must be passed by the beginning of the second year. The second must be taken and passed by the beginning of the third year.
  • Students will also complete the German and French/Italian Qualifying Examinations by Sept. 1 of the third year (recommended progress: one by Sept. 1 of the second year, and the other by Sept. 1 of the third year). With the permission of the DGS, students whose research plans make it appropriate may substitute another language for French (e.g. Spanish, Modern Greek);
  • By May 1 of the third year, each student will have completed the Preliminary Examination (articulated in a sequence of examinations outlined below);
  • In the seventh semester, each student will submit a prospectus of dissertation research, which will be discussed formally with and approved by the student's Ph.D. committee. Recommended progress: first draft of prospectus to dissertation director by Sept. 15; submission of prospectus, approved by director, to committee by Nov. 1; successful defense of prospectus by Thanksgiving;
  • During the second and third years, students will be required to contribute in some way to the teaching mission of the department, either as a teaching assistant or a grader in one of our larger courses. After successfully completing the Preliminary Examination, i.e. during the fourth through final year, each student will teach under the supervision of a member of the faculty, normally one course per semester;
  • Submission of completed dissertation within two years (maximum four years) of completion of the Preliminary Examination. The final examination by the student's committee will take the form of a two-hour defense of the dissertation.

Departmental support is contingent on students’ satisfactory progress, which is defined as follows:  students successfully complete exams and other requirements according to schedule; students avoid incompletes, taking no more than two in any one semester and finishing any incomplete within three weeks of the course’s end; graded course work averages above a B.

Requirements for the M.A.

The Department does not offer an independent M.A. program, but a M.A. may be awarded in two distinct circumstances:

  1. Students admitted to the Ph.D. track who can offer compelling reasons for obtaining a M.A. degree may request this of the department. If this is approved, upon successful completion of the Preliminary Examination the student requests the Ph.D. committee to submit a Non-Thesis Examination card to the Graduate School.
  2. Students who decide, or are advised, to leave the program before completion of the Ph.D. may receive a terminal M.A. degree, after completing 39 hours of course credit (of which at least 30 must be graded, with an average evaluation of at least B+) and completing a M.A. examination set by the Department. The M.A. examination will consist of the PhD Qualifying Examination in either Greek or Latin or Archaeology, and will be read and judged by a committee of three department members appointed by the Director of Graduate Studies.

Distribution of Course Work

The normal course load will be four courses per semester for the first year, three or four per semester in the second year (students may take three courses when holding a Teaching Assistant position in the department), and usually three in the first semester of the third year.

Course choices will be made with the advice and consent of the Director of Graduate Studies. Students in Literature and History are expected to take at least one Greek and at least one Latin course per semester, and over the course of the first five semesters a minimum of six courses in ancient history and archaeology. Recommended: at least one Greek history/archaeology course and at least one Roman history/archaeology course per year. Students in Archaeology are expected to take at least two courses in archaeology or related disciplines and one language course per semester, and over the course of the first five semesters a minimum of five courses in either Greek or Latin. (The sixth semester, when students are taking the Preliminary Examination, is usually without formal coursework.)

Taking courses outside the department is permitted and encouraged, with the following stipulations: courses not obviously pertaining to classical studies are permissible only after students pass both the Qualifying Examinations, and all choices must be approved by the DGS. Further, the student must be making satisfactory progress toward a Duke degree in Classical Studies.

Direction of Work During Progress Toward the Ph.D.

The Director of Graduate Studies is the advisor to all graduate students, and is to be informed of any needs, problems, or proposed changes in program as they arise. In addition, each incoming student will be assigned a faculty mentor for the first year, ideally to meet at least twice a month with the student. The Department encourages students to establish working ties with all faculty members whose interests and expertise may be especially helpful to them, and to identify one faculty member as a particular mentor.

By Sept. 15 of students’ third year (and no later than 60 days before the first examination) the DGS will form a Preliminary Exam Committee consisting of five faculty members, which will administer and read all preliminary exams that year. Well before that (preferably late spring / early summer of the second year), students should have chosen the subjects for the two Special Preliminary Exams, in consultation with the DGS and after discussion with the appropriate faculty. If a Special Preliminary exam is to be set by faculty outside the Preliminary Exam Committee, the faculty member(s) will be added to the individual student’s committee. Students can expect response to their exams within two weeks of each exam.

Before students begin the dissertation, preferably by July 1 before the start of the fourth year, they must consult with the Director of Graduate Studies on the formation of a Ph.D. committee, comprising at least four faculty members, and reflecting the direction of their research. This Ph.D. committee does not have to be the same as the Preliminary Exam Committee, and not all members of it need to be drawn from the Department of Classical Studies at Duke. Only one member may be from outside Duke. By the rules of the Graduate School, one member must be a Minor Area representative. The composition of the Ph.D. committee, whose members serve as readers and examiners of the dissertation, may change over time if necessary, but only in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies. The director of the dissertation serves as chair of the Ph.D. committee.

Examinations

Examinations (apart from those set in individual courses) will consist of a diagnostic language test in reading Greek and/or Latin (one hour each language, and ungraded), given before the student's initial enrollment to determine appropriate placement in language courses, and:

  • Qualifying Examinations in reading Greek and Latin (the "Reading List Examinations": each three hours; may be taken separately) or, for students in archaeology, a Reading List Examination in one language, and the Archaeology Qualifying Examination;
  • Qualifying Examinations in reading scholarly German and either French or Italian (each by in-class assessment or translation exam lasting two hours; may be taken separately);
  • the Preliminary Examination (whose parts, length and schedule are outlined below).
A) Qualifying Examinations: Reading List and Archaeology Qualifying Examination.

The Reading List Examinations in Greek and Latin and the Archaeology Qualifying Examination are administered by a committee of at least two faculty members appointed by the Director of Graduate Studies, and are usually offered twice annually, in August (the week before classes start) and in the first full week of April. Examinations may be arranged for December by petition to the DGS. Students in Literature and History take both Reading List Examinations; students in archaeology take one Reading List Examination and the Archaeology Qualifying Examination. At least one of these qualifying examinations must be taken by the second semester of the first year, except if granted a waiver by the DGS, and passed by the beginning of the second year. The second must be taken and passed by the beginning of the third year, and preferably by the second semester of the second year. Failure to pass both Qualifying Examinations by the beginning of the third year may result in termination or placement on the terminal M.A. track. A student may appeal to the faculty through the DGS for an exception to these rules, but such appeals will only rarely be granted.

Reading Lists Examinations are set for 3 hours and consist of six passages of prose and poetry for translation, taken from the Reading List (see below for lists). Poetry passages are about 25 lines long; prose passages about 20 lines long (as per an OCT text). The student is expected to have read and thoroughly understood all of the works on the Reading Lists. The examinations will allow students to demonstrate mastery of the texts that appear on the lists, as well as their abilities to translate accurately Latin and/or Greek. The Archaeology Qualifying Exam, paralleling the Greek and Latin Reading Lists, will consist of ten unidentified examples of images, videos, digital reproductions or 3D models, drawn from a list provided in advance to the candidates and included in the manual. Students will be expected first to identify the image and then to analyze and contextualize it, by explaining its archaeological and historical or cultural significance as well as its relationship to a corpus of material in context. The intent is to test basic knowledge of specific archaeological material, and the critical skills needed to understand and contextualize such material. This may include commenting on and discussing the technologies used to reconstruct or render the example they are being asked to consider.

B) Qualifying Examinations (modern languages)

All candidates for the PhD are required to demonstrate competence in at least two modern languages, German and usually French or Italian, as a prerequisite for preliminary certification. With the permission of the Director of Graduate Studies, students whose research plans make it appropriate may substitute another language for French/Italian. Students should complete the language requirement as soon as possible. They are expected to have passed one exam not later than the final day of the Fall semester in the second year and the other by the same time in the third year. Failure to pass both modern languages by December of a student’s third year may result in placement on the terminal M.A. track.

Competence in a modern languages will be demonstrated in one of two ways:

(1) In class. Instructors will indicate on their syllabi the languages that they are willing to assess and the mechanisms they are willing to use to do so. This might entail, e.g., in-class presentation on a student-chosen or faculty-assigned reading, one-on-one out-of-class discussion of the same, required use of scholarship in papers, timed translation--whatever the faculty member agrees to offer in consultation with the DGS. The DGS will maintain a list of examples of assessments with an eye to ensuring that options on offer are comparable. Students will declare their intention to prove competency in class by means approved by instructor and DGS. The instructor will assess the exercise and report the results to the DGS.

(2) By exam. For any case in which faculty offerings and student needs and desires do not align, students will be free to take a 2-hour written examination. The examination will consist of translating accurately and completely a piece of scholarship of 750 words or more in the designated language. A dictionary may be used. Translation software may not be used. Two faculty members will read the examination. In either case, should a student fail the examination, faculty will review the examination with the student and explain where improvement is needed. The exams can be retaken without penalty.

Graduate students should initiate discussions about modern language requirements with the DGS and their faculty mentor when they arrive on campus, and should begin necessary language study as soon as practicable. Subventions for summer Language for Reading Knowledge courses are available.

C) Preliminary Examination

The Preliminary Examination is divided into two parts, the General Examinations and the Specials. The General Examinations are designed to test breadth of knowledge of classical antiquity, and the Specials more profound knowledge and control in two particular scholarly or content domains. The Dissertation Special is meant to help define students’ dissertation plans, the Open Special to help develop depth in a second, preferably unrelated, area.

The General Examinations will be administered by a five-member committee appointed by the Director of Graduate Studies. General Ph.D. exams will be offered the first M-F-W after Spring Break in the third year; in the extraordinary event that an exam has to be repeated, exams will be offered on the first M-F-W after May 1. Deliverables for the two Specials may be turned in any time before April 15 of the third year. The Preliminary Exam Committee, supplemented if necessary by the student’s Special directors, will evaluate all Preliminary Exams, including the Specials.

The Preliminary Examination as a whole consists of the following parts:

1) General Examinations:

A & B:  Major general examinations (two; each three hours).  If the student has chosen the Literature track, the two major general exams are in Greek and Latin literature.  For those in the History track, the two major general exams are Greek and Roman history. For those in the Archaeology track, the two major general exams are in Roman and Greek Archaeology. “Greek and Latin literature” is understood as comprising the authors, genres (etc.) within the span from Homer through Late Antiquity. “Greek and Roman history” is understood as comprising the period from the Mycenaean age through Late Antiquity, and includes political and social history, as well as certain aspects of material culture. “Roman and Greek archaeology” is understood as comprising the period from the Late Bronze Age to Late Antiquity in Italy, Greece, and the regions affected by Greek and Roman expansion. Each Major exam has two parts: three essay questions (chosen from at least four), each to be answered in 50 minutes, and identifications (usually a choice of 10 from a larger number listed) to be completed in 30 minutes. The Major exams test for (a) factual knowledge; (b) understanding of the limitations of the sources; and (c) mastery of pertinent secondary scholarship.
C:  The Minor general examination (three hours) is either in ancient histories or in ancient literatures (the Greek and Roman/Latin components are taken together). This exam has two parts: three essay questions (chosen from at least 5), each to be answered in 45 minutes, and identifications (usually a choice of 10 from a larger number listed), to be completed in 45 minutes. The Minor exams place greater emphasis on factual knowledge and the limitations of the ancient sources. Students on the Archaeology track must notify the DGS in advance as to which minor they choose to take.

The major and minor general examinations will be offered once each Spring within a period of eight days (as above) and are to be taken as a group. The student's committee may call for a supplementary oral examination or other check to follow promptly upon completion of the major and minor general examinations.  Extraordinarily a student may be asked to repeat one or more of the major or minor general examinations; this retake must be successfully passed by the first week of May of the third year.

2) Specials:

The Dissertation Special offers an opportunity to make significant progress in identifying a viable dissertation project. So, a student who wants to write a dissertation on a subject to do with Plotinus may choose, in consultation with the faculty director, to devote that Special to Plotinus or to neoplatonism more broadly. The precise frame is a matter for discussion between student and faculty director. In any case, the Dissertation Special is meant to help identify, define, and jump-start the dissertation, and to lay the groundwork for the prospectus in particular. The Open Special offers an opportunity to develop significant strength in a secondary, preferably unrelated, subject, for the purpose of further exploration in research or teaching. For the Open Special a student may want to explore an area not directly covered in the general examinations (e.g., Roman law), a scholarly discipline or technical specialty (e.g., epigraphy, palaeography, numismatics), an area within the scope of the general examinations (e.g. Roman architecture) but studied in greater depth than would otherwise be the case, or a related area outside of Classics (e.g., medieval history); students in archaeology may choose to focus on a period and region and its main sites, a scholarly discipline or technical specialty (e.g., digital archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics), an area within the scope of general examinations (e.g., Greek pottery, gender archaeology), or a related area outside of Classics (e.g., Punic archaeology, Medieval archaeology). The required work product for both Specials is to be determined by student and faculty director, in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies. Some will want to take an exam, some to write a research paper or analytic overview of scholarship, some to produce a defined set of teaching materials. In all cases, however, deliverables must be consistent with the goals of the two exercises: to accelerate progress toward the dissertation and to develop significant depth in a secondary area. The student's committee may call for a supplementary oral examination or other check promptly upon submission of either or both Specials.

In accordance with the regulations of the Graduate School, all students will be expected to have completed the Preliminary Examination by the end of the sixth semester. The graduate school further stipulates that in case of failure in any portion of the Preliminary Examination, only one retake of that portion will be permitted.

Teaching as a Component of Graduate Education

As an introduction to teaching and as part of their stipend package, students will serve as Graders/Teaching Assistants one semester in both their second and third years. Further, as part of their package of financial support, students will serve as instructors in undergraduate courses, usually one each term during the fourth through final years. This teaching, which whenever possible will involve experience with both civilization and language courses, will be supervised by an experienced faculty member who will be available to help in the preparation and execution of the course and will observe, evaluate, and advise.

The Dissertation

Students are expected to have identified an area of specialization and made initial explorations within it under the guidance of their intended dissertation director by the time they have completed the Preliminary Examination. Before the start of the seventh semester they will have established, in consultation with the DGS, a Ph.D. Committee of at least 4 members, preferably 5. A majority of members must be Duke faculty, but not all Duke faculty need to be drawn from the Department of Classical Studies. By the rules of the Graduate School, one member must be a Minor Area representative. 

By September 15 of the seventh semester the student should submit a first draft of the dissertation prospectus to her/his advisor. By November 1, the student is to submit to the Ph.D. committee a dissertation prospectus, approved by the dissertation director; the student may meet with members of the committee for advice in advance of submission. Committee members are to receive the prospectus at least two weeks before the scheduled defense, and the prospectus meeting must be undertaken successfully by Thanksgiving. If the committee considers that the prospectus is not fully developed or is deficient in some other way, it may ask the student to rethink and resubmit the prospectus, after incorporating ideas and material from the prospectus discussion. The dissertation prospectus must pass by February 15 of the student’s fourth year.

By Sept. 15 of the student’s fifth year (but preferably within the student’s fourth year), the student will submit a chapter to all members of the Ph.D. Committee, and will meet two weeks later to discuss progress on the dissertation with the Committee. If the committee considers that the chapter is not satisfactory, it may ask the student to rethink and resubmit the chapter, after incorporating ideas and material from the discussion. A satisfactory dissertation chapter must be approved by February 15 of the student’s fifth year. After the initial chapter discussion committee members may, but are not obligated to, read drafts of further dissertation chapters. The candidate is expected to provide drafts of all the chapters (with the bibliography) no later than six weeks before the submission date set by the graduate school for that semester. The final draft of the dissertation (with bibliography, and in correct format) should be distributed to all committee members at least two weeks before the dissertation defense. (See Graduate School website for current formatting guidelines). Committee members with serious objections to the dissertation must notify the advisor in advance of the defense.

Failure to submit a satisfactory prospectus or first chapter by the specified deadlines may result in termination or placement on the terminal M.A. track.

When the dissertation has been completed to the satisfaction of the advisor, the Director of Graduate Studies will arrange the dissertation examination. This will take the form of a two-hour defense consisting of a 15-minute presentation by the candidate followed by questions from the committee. After the committee has deliberated in private, the candidate will be invited back to discuss the outcome.

The Graduate School expects the acceptance of the dissertation within two calendar years after completion of the Preliminary Examination, but sets the maximum time limit at four years. A copy of the dissertation must be submitted to UMI/ProQuest on or before March 25 preceding the May commencement, ten days before the end of the Duke summer session for a September degree, or ten days before the end of the fall semester for a December degree. The electronic dissertation must be submitted to UMI/ProQuest and the format accepted at least two weeks before the scheduled date of the student's examination. Except in unusual circumstances approved by the Dean, a final examination will not be scheduled when the university is not in session. A student must be registered during the term that he/she takes the final examination. Refer to the Graduate School Ph.D. requirements page for further details.

Financial Support

The Department of Classical Studies supports for five years all students to whom we have offered admission and who are making satisfactory progress toward the Ph.D. Students beyond the fifth year are not guaranteed additional support, but are often successful in competing for teaching or other awards, including the departmental Competitive Teaching Fellowship, competitive graduate school fellowships, and a range of internal and external funding opportunities. 

Students will be paid from the Department's instructional budget at the rate current during the terms when they are teaching. Although we strongly encourage all Ph.D. students to complete the dissertation in a timely fashion, some may not be able to finish by the end of the fifth year of graduate study; therefore, it is important to be aware of and pursue other sources of support for the further period required.

Other sources of funding within the Department include:

  1. Research assistantships, often connected with individual professor's grants;
  2. Summer teaching in the Department: Intensive Beginning Greek and Latin are regularly offered and are entrusted to advanced graduate students, and certain Classical Studies courses may be as well.

Possible sources of funding outside the Department have included:

  • Teaching in the University Writing Course, Duke’s freshman writing program;
  • Tutoring area high school students or Duke undergraduates in Latin;
  • Competitive fellowships available to the American School in Athens and the American Academy in Rome;
  • Competitive fellowships, particularly for dissertation research and writing, offered by Duke and by a number of institutions and foundations.

Smaller sums of money may be made available by the Graduate School and the Department to aid students attending and participating in conferences and meetings of professional associations.

The Director of Graduate Studies, will share information about available resources within and outside the Department, and the Graduate School provides a wealth of information on funding opportunities.

Expectations

The Department has high expectations of the candidates it admits to its Ph.D. program. The terms above convey only part of our expectations. We ask that you prepare not only for classes, but read widely beyond your assignments in primary and secondary sources. We expect you to engage the full range of your intellectual gifts in your work, to exercise all your curiosity, tempered by all your self-discipline, in assimilating and thinking about an immense field of learning. In return, as your teachers (and fellow students of the ancient world), we commit ourselves to making available to you all the resources, facilities, and skills at our command to help your intellectual growth. We stand ready to match your efforts with our own in the common enterprise of learning.

Reading Lists for Examinations

GREEK

  • Homer: Iliad 1, 9, 16, 24; Odyssey 1, 9-11; Hymns 2
  • Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days 1-285
  • Greek Lyric Poetry (selections from David A. Campbell's anthology): Archilochus, Sappho, Alcaeus, Mimnermus, Tyrtaeus, Solon
  • Pindar: Olympian 1, Pythian 4
  • Presocratics (from Kirk-Raven-Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers, 2nd. ed.): Heraclitus, Parmenides
  • Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Eumenides
  • Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus
  • Euripides: Alcestis, Troades, Bacchae
  • Aristophanes: Clouds, Lysistrata
  • Herodotus: 1; 6.94-140; 7
  • Gorgias:  Helen
  • Hippocrates: Sacred Disease
  • Thucydides: 1; 2.35-65, 5.84-116; 7
  • Xenophon: Hellenica 1.1; 2.2-4
  • Lysias: 1, 12
  • Demosthenes: Olynthiac 1, adv. Leptinem
  • Isocrates: Panegyricus
  • Plato: Apology, Crito, Phaedrus, Symposium, Republic 1
  • Aristotle: Poetics, Politics 1
  • Menander:  Dyscolus
  • Apollonius:  Argonautica III
  • Theocritus:  I, VII, XI, XV
  • Callimachus:  Hymns II; Aetia Frs. 1-2,  67-75, 110
  • Polybius: 6
  • Gospel of Mark
  • Plutarch:  Pericles
  • Lucian: Somnium
  • Herodian:  VII
  • John Chrysostom: Contra ludos

LATIN

  • Plautus: Amphitruo; Miles Gloriosus
  • Terence: Adelphoe
  • Catullus:  all
  • Lucretius: 1
  • Cicero:  In Catilinam 1; De Officiis; Pro Milone; Caelio; Letters Ad Atticum 1. 2, 5, 11, 13; 2. 14; 3. 3, 13; 4. 3, 5, 10, 12, 15; 5. 1, 14; 6. 6; 7. 4, 10; 8. 13; 9. 11, 18; 11. 4, 5; 12. 15, 16, 32; 13. 10, 11, 33A, 42, 52; 14. 1, 13B, 21; 15. 1A, 11, 16A, 27; 16. 6, 9; Ad Familiares 5. 1, 2, 12, 16; 6. 14, 24; 7. 1, 4, 5, 6, 16, 22, 28; 9. 10, 23, 24, 26; 10. 3; 12. 3, 22; 13. 27; 14. 2, 7, 12, 18, 20; 15. 1, 18; 16. 14, 24; Ad Quintum Fratrem 2. 4, 9, 10
  • Caesar: Bellum Gallicum 1
  • Sallust: Bellum Catilinae
  • Livy: 1
  • Augustus:  Res Gestae Divi Augusti
  • Vergil: Eclogues 1,4; Georgics 1; Aeneid
  • Horace: Odes 1.3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 21, 22, 24, 29, 31, 34, 35, 37, 38; 2.1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18; 3.1-6, 9, 13, 21, 29, 30; 4.3, 7; Satires 1.1, 4, 6, 10; Epistles I, II 2
  • Tibullus:  I, II
  • Propertius:  I
  • Ovid: Metamorphoses 1, 6, 8, 10; Amores 1
  • Persius:  I
  • Lucan:  1
  • Seneca:  Thyestes; Epistles 40, 47, 77, 79, 88, 90, 114
  • Petronius:  Cena Trimalchionis
  • Juvenal: 1, 3, 8, 10
  • Pliny the Younger: Letters 1.6, 12; 2.17, 20; 3.1, 16, 21; 4.2; 6.16, 20; 7.4, 9; 9.36; 10.96, 97
  • Martial:  I
  • Tacitus: Annals 1, 14; Agricola
  • Suetonius: Caesar
  • Apuleius: Golden Ass 4. 28-6. 24 (Cupid and Psyche)
  • Tertullian: Apology
  • Ammianus Marcellinus:  14
  • Historia Augusta:  Hadrian
  • Augustine:  Confessions 3, 8
  • The Medieval Latin selections on “The Christian Life,” Section 2 of F.E. Harrison, Millenium: A Latin Reader, A.D. 374–1374

Archaeology

Greek
  • Barrett, J., and P. Halstead, eds. 2004. The Emergence of Civilization Revisited..
  • Barringer, J. 2014. The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece.
  • Biers, W. 1996. The Archaeology of Greece. 2nd ed.
  • Blake, E. and A.B. Knapp, eds. 2005. The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory.
  • Boardman, J. 2016. Greek Art. 5th ed.
  • Dickinson, O. 2006. The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC.
  • Higgins, R. A. 1997. Minoan and Mycenaean Art.
  • Neer, R. 2011. Greek Art & Archaeology.
  • Osborne, O. 1998. Archaic and Classical Greek Art.
  • Pedley, J. G., 2011. Greek Art and Archaeology.
  • Pollitt, J. J. 1986. Art in the Hellenistic Age.
  • Stewart, A. 2009. Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art.
  • Whitley, J. 2001. The Archaeology of Ancient Greece.
Roman
  • Adam, J.-P. 1994. Roman Building: Materials and Techniques.
  • Alcock, S. E. and Osborne, R. (eds.) 2012. Classical Archaeology.
  • Carandini, A., Carafa P., (eds.) 2017. Atlas of Ancient Rome.
  • Clarke, J. R. 1991. The houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: ritual, space, and decoration.
  • Evans, J. D. (ed.) 2013. A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic.
  • Friedland, E. A, Sobocinski, M. G. and Gazda, E. K (eds), 2015. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture.
  • Izzet, V. 2007. Archaeology of Etruscan Society.
  • Kleiner, D.E.E. 1992. Roman Sculpture.
  • Kleiner, F. 2018, A History of Roman Art (second edition).
  • MacDonald, W. L. 1982. The Architecture of the Roman Empire (Vol. 2).
  • MacIntosh Turfa, J. 2013, The Etruscan World. Part II, III, V, VII.
  • Smith, R.R.R., 1987. “The Imperial Reliefs of the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias.” JRS 77,  88-138.
  • Stewart, P., 2008. The Social History of Roman Art.
  • Torelli, M., 1982. Typology and Structure of Roman Historical Reliefs.
  • Zanker, P., 1988. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus.
  • Zanker, P. 2010. Roman art.
3D Models