Need ancient lit. book list to go with Spiegovel's Ancient (West. Civ.) book.

[Whitney in KY]

I need to compile my own reading list (for a non-reader) in the 9th/10th grader.

Does such a thing exist already?

Thanks so much.

Whitney

[emubird]

If you're looking for easier selections, the 5th grade of the Tanglewood curriculum has some ideas:

 

http://www.tanglewoodeducation.com/grade5.htm

 

There are some meatier suggestions here:

http://home.comcast.net/~tjlm/20072008T12.html

 

We've just picked a few things here and there that looked interesting. A Greek play, Gilgamesh, The Iliad, parts of the Bible. We mean to do The Odyssey, but it hasn't happened so far.

 

We've also done some modern fiction about the ancients:

Lavinia

The Penelopiad

The Red Tent

 

There are (for some reason) a lot of mysteries based in Rome. Saylor wrote a few. There is also one called The Silver Pigs, and a few others that I'm not remembering. I only read one of the Saylor books and wasn't terribly impressed, but it might appeal to others.

 

We also watched a number of documentaries and fictional TV shows:

I, Claudius

HBO Rome

In Search of the Trojan War (Michael Wood)

Helen of Troy (Bettany Hughes)

The Greeks

Cleopatra (with Elizabeth Taylor)

Troy

these were just some of them

 

A lot of these have questionable content, so you might want to preview. (Actually, HBO Rome is beyond questionable.)

[Cedarmom]

Have you thought about taking the regular book lists ( from sonlight, WTM ) and just getting the audio version? My son is a reader, but we did this for several books, and found it very helpful.

[emubird]

We've done a lot of reading out loud for the classics. When we did Oedipus, we each took a part. As there are generally only 3 characters on stage at a time, this works with a small group.