Audio Visual Resources

The Roman Society's Imago database is a collection of over 1300 images - photographs of sites, monuments, inscriptions and objects from Rome and the Roman world which can be used for teaching and research,  but not for publication. 

The Library holds a small selection of audio and video cassettes, CDs, and DVDs, but does not have listening, recording, or viewing facilities. However, items are available for loan to members of the Hellenic and Roman Societies for a period of one month. The collection is held in the Library Office and may be requested from the Library desk or by sending an email to iclass.enquiries@london.ac.uk  Our selection of audio-visual material is small compared to what is available. An online database of Audio-visual resources for Classics has been created by Dr Janice Siegel - but note that this is no longer maintained.

Audio cassettes

Aristophanes. Birds / read in ancient Greek by Stephen G. Daitz 2 sound cassettes + book with text in English and Greek (The living voice of Greek and Latin series) Guildford, Conn. : J. Norton Pub., 1983

Arvanitaki, F. and Panteloglou, L. Akou na deis, kaseta akoustikes katanoeses gia zenoulossous. 1.  Cassette to accompany book.  Athens: Certosa, 1998

Baty, C.W.  On reading the classics aloud. Tunbridge Wells, Kent] : Discourses, [197-?]  1 cassette and 1 pamphlet.

Cambridge Latin Course. / spoken by C. Ballantyne et al. Recordings for Units I, IIA, IIB, IIIA and IIIB. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986

Carmina Latina: Alcuin, Catullus, Horace, Ovid, Petronius, Propertius, Tibullus and Virgil. A songbook of Latin poetry / translated with an introduction by George Sharpley.  Book and sound cassette. Bristol: Multilingua, 1998  Now published by Lingua (UK), The Old Rectory, Twigworth, Gloucester, GL2 9PQ. 

Cicero. Selections from Cicero / read in Latin by R. P. Sonkowsky. (The living voice of Greek and Latin series) Guildford, Conn.: J. Norton Pub., 1984

Daitz, S. G. The pronunciation and reading of classical Latin: a practical guide. 2 sound cassettes with booklet. (The living voice of Greek and Latin series)  Guildford, Conn. : J. Norton Pub., 1984
    
Daitz, S. G. The pronunciation and reading of ancient Greek: a practical guide. 2nd ed.  2 sound cassettes with booklet. (The living voice of Greek and Latin series)  Guildford, Conn. : J. Norton Pub., 1984

Daitz, Stephen G. A recital of ancient Greek poetry / read in English translation and ancient Greek by Stephen G. Daitz. Includes book with foreword and text in English and Greek.  (The living voice of Greek and Latin series). Guildford, Conn. : J. Norton Pub., 1978

Daitz, Stephen G. Selections from the Greek orators / read in the ancient Greek by Stephen G. Daitz.  Includes book with text in English and Greek. (The living voice of Greek and Latin series)  Guildford, Conn. : J. Norton Pub., 1988

Dimitriva , D  Papaheimona, M. Ellenika tora.  Greek now: dialogues, texts, exercises, grammar, vocabulary. / by D. Dimitriva and M. Papaheimona. 1 +1. 2nd ed. (2 cassettes to accompany book)
Athens: Ammos, 1987

Dobson, John H. Learn New Testament Greek. Lessons 1-14 / read by John Dobson and Elizabeth Bridger. Swindon: Bible Society, 1988
     
Euripides. Hekabe / read in ancient Greek by Stephen G. Daitz.  2 sound cassettes + book with text in English and Greek. (The living voice of Greek and Latin series)Guildford, Conn. : J. Norton Pub., 1981

Homer. The Iliad of Homer / read in Engish by Derek Jacobi. Unabridged extracts translated by Robert Fagles. 6 sound cassettes with 1 introductory booklet by Robert Fagles. Running time 9 hours. (London] : Penguin Audiobooks, 1993.

Homer. The Iliad of Homer / read in ancient Greek by Stephen G. Daitz. Part 1: Books 1-6. Part 2: Books 7-12. Part 3: Books 13-18. Part 4: Books 19-24.  24 sound cassettes with 4 facing booklets (1 for each part). (The living voice of Greek and Latin series.)  Guildford, Conn. : J. Norton Pub., 1990
     
Homer. The Odyssey of Homer / read in ancient Greek by Stephen G. Daitz. Part 1: Books 1-6. Part 2: Books 7-12. Part 3: Books 13-18. Part 4: Books 19-24.  24 sound cassettes with 4 facing booklets (1 for each part)  (The living voice of Greek and Latin series.) Guildford, Conn. : J. Norton Pub., 1995-8

Jenkins, I. The second sight of the Parthenon Frieze / commentary written and spoken by Ian Jenkins.  3 sound cassettes to accompany book.  London: British Museum Press, 1998

Joint Association of Classical Teachers Greek course. Speaking Greek: the pronunciation of ancient Greek with extracts from ... Reading Greek. 'The sounds of Greek' by W.S.Allen. / readings by D. Raeburn (and others) Cambridge: [JACT and Cambridge UP), 1981

Lawson, W. Sounds of the Roman world: Carnyx. / W. Lawson: panpipes, trumpet. G. Lawson: lute, reed-pipes. (Music from archaeology, 2)  Cambridge: Archaeologica Musica, 1986

Open University. Unit A292. Greek colonisation / Dr. A. J. Graham ; Athenian Empire and Peloponnesian League / R. Meiggs ; Democracy and oligarchy / W. G. Forrest ; Alcibiades / J. Ferguson ; Coinage / Dr. C. Kraay ; Classical painting / Prof. J. P. Barron ; Euripides / S. Barlow ; Science / Dr G. Lloyd ; Rhetoric / G. Cawkwell ; Greek warfare / Prof. N. Hammond ; Plato: The Republic / Prof. G. Kerford ; Aristophanes / Prof. D. MacDowell ; Two red-figure artists / J. Boardman ; Sculpture: colour and texture / R. M. Cook ; Aristotelian way of life / J. Barnes ; Platonic and Aristotelian traditions / A. Quinton. Milton Keynes: Open University, 199-

Open University: A295 Arts: a second level course. Homer: poetry and society. / produced by M. Noble and T. Coe.  Audio A: Advice and skills. Audio B: Interactive exercises. Audio C: Source material. 5 sound cassettes. Milton Keynes: Open University, 1992

Phinney, Ed et al. Salvete! Cassette to accompany the book.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Plato. Plato's portrait of Sokrates, Apology, Krito, Phaido / read in the ancient Greek by Stephen G. Daitz. Includes book with text in English and Greek  (The living voice of Greek and Latin series)  .Guildford, Conn. : J. Norton Pub., 1988

Plato. The Republic / read by Bruce Alexander; translated and abridged by Tom Griffiths. 4 sound cassettes. Franklin, Tenn. : Naxos AudioBooks, 2000

Sonkowsky, Robert P. Selections from Catullus and Horace / read in classical Latin by Robert P. Sonkowsky. Includes book with text in English and Greek. (The living voice of Greek and Latin series). Guildford, Conn. : J. Norton Pub., 1988
 
Virgil. Selections from Vergil / read in classical Latin by Robert P. Sonkowsky. 2 sound cassettes with booklet. (The living voice of Greek and Latin series)  Guildford, Conn. : J. Norton Pub., 1985

Wood, Michael. In search of the Trojan War / read by G. Dulieu.  8 cassettes.  Oxford: Oasis Audio Books, 1985

 

CDs

L'acqua degli dei : immagini di fontane, vasellame, culti salutari e in grotta / [redazione del catalogo: Donatella Zinelli]. Marghera (Venezia) : Logo libri ; Montepulciano (Siena) : Le balze, c2003.
187 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm 1 compact disc. Accompanies the exhibition catalogue.

Architekturdenkmäler der spätantiken und frühbyzantinischen Zeit im Hauran. 1, Azr'a (Zora) by Marcell Restle
Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung ; 31 )
Wien : Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012.

Architekturdenkmäler der spätantiken und frühbyzantinischen Zeit im Hauran. 2 Saqqa (Sakkaia-Maximianupolis) by Marcell Restle. (Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung 40)
Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2016.

Homer. The Iliad of Homer / read in English by Anton Lesser. 3 CDs with 1 introductory notes by Perry Keenlyside. Total running time 3 hours 56 mins.
(The Great Epics) [s.l.]: Naxos Audiobooks, 1995.

Homer Iliad / translated and narrated by Stanley Lombardo. Las Vegas, NV: Parmenides Audio, 2006. 12 CDs, 15 hours, unabridged.

Homer. The Odyssey / read in English by Anton Lesser. 3 CDs with 1 introductory notes by Perry Keenlyside. Total running time 3 hours 55 mins.
(The Great Epics) [s.l.]: Naxos Audiobooks, 1995.

Homer Odyssey / translated and narrated by Stanley Lombardo. Las Vegas, NV: Parmenides Audio, 2006. 10 CDs, 12.25 hrs, unabridged.

Homer and Hesiod Translated by D.N.Maronites. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony and Works. Read in Modern Greek.
Thessaloniki : Enteukteriou, 2001. 1 sound disc (59 min., 18 sec.) Includes booklet.

Latin anthology: verse recordings. For use by individual students; Copying, networking or replicating prohibited.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009 1 sound disc

Music of Byzantium: Byzantine Music 1261-1557.   Sung by Capella Romana. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004 1 sound disc

Musique de la Grèce antique. / Atrium Musicae de Madrid & Gregorio Paniagua. France : Harmonia Mundi, [2000], p1979. 1 sound disc (52' 39)

The mystery of do-re-mi. Published in association with "Horace's Odes and the mystery of do-re-mi" by Stuart Lyons (Aris & Philips, 2007).
Perivale : Signum Classics, p2007. 1 sound disc (8 min., 34 sec.)

Mythology on Greek vases / by Susan Woodford. Congleton Old Vicarage Publications, 1997. Photo CD-ROM contains the illustrations from Mythology on Greek vases / by Susan Woodford (in stock) and Symposia and women on Greek vases / by Peter Evans and Lyle Eveille (not held) 2nd ed. First published 1985, ISBN: 094781888x

Ovidio, Fasti, 3 [CD format, 657 pages]. [1], Commento filologico e critico-interpretativo ai vv. 1-516 / Ed. Francesco Ursini. Fregene : Edizione Spolia c2009.)

Pax romana: peaceful music from the age of Rome [sound recording]. Worton, Oxon : Classical communications, c2006. 1 sound disc (63') + 1 insert (4 p. ; 12 cm.)

Plutarch. Greek lives: Lycurgus, Themistocles, Pericles, Alcibiades, Lysander, Alexander, Demosthenes, Pyrrhus / read in English by Nicholas Farrell with Steve Hodson.
6 CDs with introductory notes by David Timson. Total running time 7 hours 31 mins.  (Biography) [s.l.]: Naxos Audiobooks, 2003.

Reading Latin Poetry aloud: a practical guide to two thousand years of verse / by Clive Brooks. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2007.
2 audio CDs in case + 12 p. booklet.

A selection of Greek verse / Reader: Ian McAuslan. Godolphin and Latymer School Ancient Greek Breakfast Club, [2006] 1 sound disc and an accompanying booklet

Somnia imperii / David Marshall. "Roman music...evoking dreams of empire"  Cambridgeshire, England : David Marshall, 2002.  1 sound disc (70 min.)

Speaking Greek: [two CDs illustrating the sound of ancient Greek based on the Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Reading Greek 2007, second edition].
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2008. [2 audio CDs in case ; 12 p. booklet (12 x 12 cm).

Synaulia: music from ancient Rome. Vol. 1: Wind instruments. Seggiano, [Italy] : Amiata Records, p1996. 1 sound disc (59 min., 28 sec.)

Synaulia: music from ancient Rome. Vol. 2: String instrumentsFlorence : Amiata Records, p2002. 1 sound disc (63 min., 36 sec.)

Tales from Ovid / by Ted Hughes. Read by Ted Hughes, unabridged. (Penguin audiobooks) 3 CDs, London: Penguin, 2000. Running time 3 hours

Trojan women [sound recording] / adapted by David Stuttard (2001) after Euripides (415 BCE). Actors of Dionysus

Virgil. The Aeneid / read in English by Paul Scofield, with Jill Balcon, Toby Stephens and cast. Verse translation by C.Day Lewis. 4 CDs with introductory notes by James Burbidge. Total running time 5 hours 16 mins. (The Great Epics) [s.l.]: Naxos Audiobooks, 2002.

DVDs

Alexander. Director’s cut / directed by Oliver Stone. [London]: Warner Bros., 2005

The face of Tragedy / Actors of Dionysus. Key scenes from Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides including Oedipus the King, Agamemnon, Medea and Electra. 70 minutes. 1997

Herculaneum : diari del buio e della luce / regia Marcellino de Baggis.

Leontinoi : memorie da una città dimenticata. Scuola di specializzazione in archeologia, Università degli studi di Catania. 2006

Meet the Romans presented by Mary Beard. 2012 3 episodes on  2 DVDs

Monte San Mauro : da Maktorion a Euboia, un'anonima città dei Greci di Sicilia Scuola di specializzazione in archeologia, Università degli studi di Catania, 2006

The other Pompeii: Life and death in Herculaneum presented by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. (As seen on BBC) 2013

Rome: the complete first season. 12 episodes on 6 DVD's. 2006

Triumph over time (1947): The American School of Classical Studies at Athens in post-war Greece / Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan. Athens: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, c2007

Video cassettes

Aeschylus. Agamemnon. (Stage production) London: Aquila Productions, 199- ; distributed by Film Counselors Associates, Inc.

Ancient Greece: a journey back in time. (Lost treasures of the ancient world) [England]: Cromwell Productions, c1999

Aristophanes. Frogs / performed by The London Small Theatre Company. [London]: [s.n.], 199- ; distributed by Film Counselors Associates, Inc.

Aristophanes. Wasps. (Stage production) London: Aquila Productions, 199- ; distributed by Film Counselors Associates, Inc.

Boudicca. Queen of the Iceni. (The History Makers). Castle Home Video, 2000 ; Cromwell Films Ltd.

Cumae: the history and archaeology of the town and its surrounding territory / ed. Antonio Di Casola. Naples: Pubblicomit, 1998. English version

Etruschi in Umbria. Perugia: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Umbria, 2001

The fall of the Roman empire / Bronston-Roma Productions; director, Anthony Mann. [U.K.]: 4Front Video, p1964, c1997

Maros, V. E tragodia tou Aiyaiou: polemoi - epanastaseis, exories - diktatories - kaoxe - nikes kai ettes / BNM Productions. Athens: National Bank of Greece, 1988

Mattusch, Carol C. Myth, man and metal: bronze sculpture of ancient Greece and Rome. A lecture by C. C. Mattusch
(Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Video Lecture Series, Vol. 3). Cincinnati: Institute for Mediterranean Studies, 1996

The Odyssey. [England] : Warner Vision International [distributor], 2001. 1 videocassette (VHS) (ca. 178 min.) Starring Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Isabella Rossellini, Vanessa Williams.

Oki, H. La musique grecque antique. 1. Reconstitutions. 2. Données. Yokohama: NTSC, 1990. Only for use with American and Japanese television

Open University A295 Arts: a second level course. Homer: poetry and society. Videocassette 1: Telling stories; Framing the questions Part I. Videocassette 2: Framing the questions Part II; Truth, imagination and value; Resource material / produced by M. Noble and T. Coe. Milton Keynes: Open University, 1992

PERSEUS demonstration video. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 199-

Runciman, S. Bridge to the East / produced and directed by L. Carras ; readings by A. Bates. London: Amaranthos Films, 1987

Sophocles. Ajax. (Stage production) London: Aquila Productions, 199- ; distributed by Film Counselors Associates, Inc.

The Sphakia Survey (Greece). Television survey. Videocassette I: Methods. Videocassette II: Results
[Oxford]: Oxford Educational Technology Resources Centre, 1995

Storia di Palermo. Dalle origini al periodico punico-romano / diretta da R. La Duca ; regia e sceneggiatura S. Savona ; musica M. Alessi. Palermo: L'Epos, 1999

Thomas, A. C. Roman writing unravelled. [The Author], 1987