Classics as a Cross-Curricular Core in the Middle School
Austin Preparatory School

Roy Burrell, The Greeks
Roy Burrell, The Romans

Both of these texts provide a middle school background for the ancient world. They are filled with illustrations, comic strips and creative "interviews" with selected characters describing the life of a typical Greek/Roman.

Usborne (Illustrated) History of the Ancient World

This illustrated guidebook to the ancient world is filled with highly detailed drawings of buildings, landscapes, maps and much more. An excellent resource for supplementary handouts.

Boardman, Griffin and Murray, The Roman World

This college level textbook is a narrative history of the Roman world. It includes great chapters on literature periods of the Golden Age and the Silver Age and is a great resource for teachers to obtain needed background information.

Gëza Alfoldy, The Social History of Rome

This book is also an excellent resource for teachers searching for information especially relating to legal evolution, the social war and class conflict.

Basil Davenport, The Portable Roman Reader

This book provides selected excerpts from a variety of Roman literary figures. Great for extended use in the classroom.

Ronald Mellor, The Historians of Ancient Rome

This edited book of selections from Roman historians from Livy to Tacitus and others is great for drawing on Roman perceptions of specific events one may use in the classroom.

History Through Art, volumes 1-3-available on video and CD-ROM

This chronological video sequence details the minute and far-reaching changes of art and architecture through the ancient world and the series concludes in the 20th Century. Volumes one through three, however, run from Greece to the Middle Ages.