Reading Lists

This list represents the minimum of reading in Greek literature the department wishes a MA candidate to have completed before taking the History of Greek Literature and Greek Translation Examinations. The texts highlighted in bold should be read in the original Greek and constitute the reading list for the Greek Translation exams. The other texts should be considered necessary background for the History of Greek Literature exam. Further reading, in the original or in English, is always appropriate and encouraged.

Aeschylus – Agamemnon 1-263; Oresteia
Apollonius of Rhodes – Argonautica i.1-39; iii.1-489; Arg. III
Aristophanes – Frogs 738-1533; Clouds, Frogs, Lysistrata, Knights
Aristotle – Poetics
Callimachus – Aetia I.1, Hymn to Apollo
Demosthenes – On the Crown (199-217, 256-67), On the Crown
Euripides – Medea 410- 1080; Medea, Bacchae, Hippolytus
Herodotus – I. (1-68 ), II, VI-IX
Hesiod – Theogony 1-236; Works and Days 1-212; Theogony, Works and Days
Homer – Iliad I; Odyssey I; Iliad, Odyssey
Lyric Poetry – Solon, Sappho (Selections in Campbell)
Lysias – XII.1-47
Pindar – Ol. 1, 6
Plato – Apology, Euthyphro, Phaedo, Symp., Rep.
Sophocles – OT 151-910; Oedipus Tyrannus, Ajax, Antigone
Theocritus – Id. I
Thucydides – I.1-22, II.1-65, All

This list represents the minimum of reading in Latin literature the department wishes a MA candidate to have completed before taking the History of Latin Literature and Latin Translation Examinations. The texts highlighted in bold should be read in the original Latin and constitute the reading list for the Latin Translation exams. The other texts should be considered necessary background for the History of Latin Literature exam. Further reading, in the original or in English, is always appropriate and encouraged.

Caesar – Bellum Gallicum I.30-53, VI.11-28, All
Catullus – Carm. 1-5, 7-8, 10-11, 13, 46, 49, 51, 64, 72, 76, 83, 85, 93, 101, All
Cicero – Pro Arch. 1-2, 12-32, In Cat. I, III, Som. Scip.= De Re Pub. 6.9-17, In Cat. II, IV, De Amicitia
Horace – Odes I.1, 4, 9, 14, 19, 24, 27, 37, 38, II.14, 18, III.4, 13, 26, 30, Epodes 7, 13, 16, Odes, Ars Poetica
Juvenal – Satires 3; All
Livy – AUC proem, Bk. I.1-7, 25-26, 29; XXI.1-4; AUC I-VI, XXI-XXII, XXX
Lucretius – De Rerum Natura I.1-101; III.1-30; V.1-54;

De Rerum Natura Books I, III, V
Ovid – Metamorphoses I. 253-415, IV. 55-166, VI.1-145, VIII.183-235, X.1-63, XIV.101-153, XV.745-879, Amores I. 1,6,9, III. 1, 15, Metamorphoses, Fasti I, Amores I
Petronius – Cena Trimalchionis
Plautus – Miles Gloriosus 1-410, Amphitryo
Sallust – Bellum Catilinae 1-16, Bellum Catilinae
Suetonius – Lives of Caesar and Augustus
Tacitus – Annals I.1-15, Annals, Agricola
Terence – Adelphi 1-208, 288-354, 855-881, Eunuchus
Vergil – Aeneid (I, II, IV); Eclogues (1, 4, 6), Aeneid, Eclogues, Georgics I, II

This list represents the categories, authors, and texts that the Department considers central to the discipline and expects PhD candidates to control as professional classicists. Candidates should read everything on the list before taking the History of Literature examinations. Further reading, in the original or in English, is always appropriate and strongly encouraged. While the History of Literature examinations expect familiarity with the categories, authors, and works on the list, they are not confined to them and assume supplementary reading in standard histories of Greek and Latin literature.

This list applies for graduate students entering in fall 2013 and later.

Archaic Epos
Homer – Iliad and Odyssey
Hesiod – Theogony, Works and Days
Homeric – Hymns Demeter, Apollo, Hermes, Aphrodite

Archaic Lyric, as in West IEG, Page LGS (OCT) and SLG (1974)
Archilochus including Cologne Papyrus #7511 (in West, Delectus ex Iambis et Elegis Graecis #196a)
Callinus
Tyrtaeus
Semonides
Alcman
Mimnermus
Solon
Stesichorus including “The Lille Stesichorus” (in West, SSLG, Davies, PMGF, Campbell, Loeb)
Sappho
Alcaeus
Ibycus
Anacreon
Xenophanes
Phocylides
Demodocus
Theognis 1-254, 341-54, 667-82
Hipponax
Simonides
Scolia (ed. Campbell 1976)

Epinician Lyric
Bacchylides 3, 5, 16, 17
Pindar

Presocratics (B fragments in D-K6 unless otherwise indicated)
Thales A12-14
Anaximander 1
Xenophanes (as above)
Heraclitus 1, 2, 10, 12, 30-1, 40, 45, 48, 50, 51, 54-5, 57, 60-2, 67, 80, 88, 90-1, 93, 102, 107, 111, 113-5, 123, 125
Parmenides 1-9
Empedocles (Inwood, Poems of E., rev. ed.) 1-28, 38, 61-2, 64, 66-7, 106
Anaxagoras 1-12
Protagoras 1-4
Gorgias – Helen

Tragedy
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides – Alc., Ba., El., HF, Hipp. Ion, I.T., Medea, Suppl., Tro., Cyclops

Comedy
Aristophanes
Menander – Dyscolus

Historical Texts
Herodotus
Thucydides
Xenophon – Hellenica 1 and 2, [Ath. Pol.]
Aristotle – Ath. Pol.
Polybius 1, 2, 6

Oratorical Texts
Antiphon – Murder of Herodes
Andocides – On the Mysteries
Lysias – 1, 2, 12, 22
Demosthenes – On the Crown, Against Neaera, Philippics 1 and 3
Aeschines – Against Ctesiphon
Isocrates-  Panegyricus, Antidosis, Against the Sophists, Helen, Busiris

Socratic Philosophy
Plato – Apol., Phaedo, Smp., Phaedr., Rep.
Xenophon – Apol., Smp., Mem. 1
Aristotle – Poetics, N.Eth, Pol. 1, Metaph. 1

Hellenistic Poetry
Theocritus
Callimachus – Hymns (Zeus, Apollo) and Epigram 28 as in Pfeiffer, Aetia and Epigrams as in Hopkinson’s anthology (CUP)
Apollonius of Rhodes
Epigrams as in Hopkinson’s anthology (CUP)

Imperial
[Longinus] – On the Sublime
Longus – Daphnis and Chloe
Lucian – Menippus, True History, Lucius or the Ass, Dialogues of the Dead
New Testament, Mark
Plutarch – Pericles, Demosthenes, Alexander, Anthony, Mor. 14d-37b (Listening to Poets), and Cicero (in part to compare parallel lives)
Libanius – Oration 13
Eunapius – Lives of the Sophists

This list represents the categories, authors, and texts that the Department considers central to the discipline and expects PhD candidates to control as professional classicists. Candidates should read everything on the list before taking the History of Literature examinations. Further reading, in the original or in English, is always appropriate and strongly encouraged. While the History of Literature examinations expect familiarity with the categories, authors, and works on the list, they are not confined to them and assume supplementary reading in standard histories of Greek and Latin literature.

This list applies for graduate students entering in fall 2013 and later.

Early Poetry and Drama
Ennius – Annales, longer fragments
Plautus – Rudens, Menaechmi, Miles Gloriosus, Pseudolus, Amphitruo, Aulularia
Terence – Adelphoe, Andria, Phormio
Lucilius – longer fragments (Loeb ROL vol. 3)

Early Prose
XII Tables 1, 3, 46, 8, 10 (Loeb ROL vol.1)
Cato – De Agri Cultura, Origines 1, 9-12, 18, 71, 77, 83, 95 (Peter)
Gracchus – frr. 16-22, 26-8, 39-44, 47-61 (Malcovati)

Cicero
Cicero – Pro Archia, In Catilinam 1-3, Phil. 2, Pro Milone, Pro Caelio, Pro Lege Manilia, Letters (Shackleton Bailey Select 1980), Philippics 1-2, Verrines, De Oratore, Brutus, De Legibus, De Re Publica

Historical Writing
Cato – as above
Caesar – BG, BC
Sallust – Catilina, Iugurtha
Livy – 1, 2-10, 21-2, 30
Tacitus – Ann., Agricola, Histories
Suetonius – Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula
Ammianus Marcellinus – 14, 15-18

Republican Poetry
Lucretius
Catullus

Augustan Poetry
Virgil
Horace – Odes, Ep. 1.6, 2.1, Sat. 1, Ars poetica
Tibullus – El. 1.1, 7, 10, 2.1, 4
Propertius –  1, 4
Ovid – Metamorphoses, Amores, Ars Amatoria 1, 3, Tristia II, Fasti

Neronian Literature
Seneca – Medea, Phaedra, Thyestes, Apocolocyntosis, De Ira, De Clementia, Ep. 7, 12, 47, 51, 56, 86, 114, 122
Lucan
Petronius Cena

Satire
Lucilius and Horace (as above)
Persius – prologue and 1
Juvenal

Flavian and Antonine Literature
Martial – Spect. 1-2, 9(7), 20(17), Epigr. preface, Bk. 1.1-4, 9-10, 12-3, 15-6, 20, 29, 32, Bk. 2, 8.55, 73, 9, 10.1-2, 12.57, 94, 13.3, 14.2
Statius
Quintilian – 1 and 10
Pliny the Younger – Ep. 1.1, 5-6, 2.1, 3.5, 7, 16, 21, 4.14, 5.8, 6.16, 20, 7.17, 27, 33, 8.20, 9.6, 7, 10, 33, 10.96-7
Apuleius – Metamorphoses, Apology

Later Imperial
Ausonius – Mosella
Symmachus – Laudatio 2 (ed. Seeck)
Prudentius – preface, Psychomachia 1-309
Julian – Misopogon
Jerome – Vulgate: Mark; Epistle 22
Augustine – Confessions 1

The translation examination tests the candidate’s ability to read representative texts from the following authors.

Aeschylus – Agamemnon 1-263 (11 OCT)
Eumenides 566-1047 (17 OCT) [28 0CT]
Apollonius of Rhodius – Argonautica i.1-39; iii.1-489 [24 OCT]
Aristophanes –Frogs 738-1533 [24 OCT]
Aristotle – Nic. Eth. I.1-5 [c. 6 OCT]
Bacchylides – 5 [c. 5 OCT]
Callimachus – Aetia 1.1; Hymn to Zeus (Hopkinson’s Hellenistic Anthology G&Y) (105 ll) [c. 5 OCT]
Demosthenes – On the Crown 1-11, 196-210, 256-69 [11 OCT]
Euripides – Medea 410- 1080) [26 OCT]
Greek Anthology – Asclepiades, Callimachus, Meleager (in Gow and Page, Anthologia Palatina) AP 5.6, 64, 152, 169, 177; 6.301, 351; 7.80, 182, 196, 217, 318b, 417, 451, 453, 476; 12.132b, 134
 [5 OCT]
Herodotus – I.1-68, VII.1-19 [51 OCT]
Hesiod – Theogony 1-236; Works and Days 1-212 [21 OCT]
Homer – Iliad IX [25 OCT]; Odyssey XIX, XXIII.1-296 [31 OCT] [56 OCT]
Homeric Hymns – Demeter [17 0CT]
Isocrates – Panegyricus 1-56 [c.12 OCT]
Longus – Daphnis and Chloe I. prologue, 1-6; II.1-8, 32-38; III.15-19; IV.1-6, 37-40 [12 OCT]
Lyric Poetry – Selections in Campbell: Archilochus, Semonides VII, Alcman I, Solon, Sappho, Alcaeus, Cologne Papyrus #7511 (in West, Delectus ex Iambis et Elegis Graecis #196a), “The Lille Stesichoros” (in West, SSLG, Davies, PMGF, Campbell, Loeb) 
 [c. 47 OCT]
Lysias – XII.1-47 [11 OCT]
Menander – Dysc 1-80, 666-757; Epitr. 42-418 [14 OCT]
Pindar – Ol. 1, 2, 7; P. 3 [21 OCT]
Plato – Apol. [34 OCT]
Sophocles – OT 151-910 [26 OCT]
Theocritus – Id. 1, 7, 13 [14 OCT]
Thucydides – I.1-23, 66-88, and 139-44; II.65; V.84-116; VI.1-32; VII.70-87 [c 50 OCT]
Xenophon – Apology [c.7 OCT]

VERSE: Total 343 OCT

PROSE: Total 194 OCT

GRAND TOTAL 537 OCT

The translation examination tests the candidate’s ability to read representative texts from the following authors.

Apuleius – Metamorphoses I.1-10; IV.28-35 [c.15 OCT]
Caesar – BG I.1, 30-50; BC I.1-9 [22 OCT]
Catullus – 1-22, 50, 63, 64, 70, 76, 85, 101 [40 OCT]
Cicero – Pro Archia 1-2, 12-32; In Catilinam I, III; Pro Caelio 33-40, 77-80; Somnium Scipionis = De Re Pub. 6.9-17; De Amicitia 1-15; Ep. ad Atticum I.14; Ep. ad Fam. V.12, 14. [c 50 OCT]
Horace – Odes I.1, 4, 9, 11, 14, 22, 37 II. 14 III.1, 13, 30 IV. 7 Sat. I.4, 9 [33 OCT]
Juvenal – Satires I.3 [12 OCT]
Livy – AUC Preface, Bk. I.1-7, 25-26, 29; Bk. V.51-54; Bk. XXI.1-4 [26 OCT]
Lucan – Bellum Civile II.1-233 (with Fanthams’ Green and Yellow) [8 OCT]
Lucretius – De Rerum Natura I.1-101; II.1-88, III.1-30; IV.1-25; V.1-54; VI.1-42 [12 OCT]
Martial – Epigr. II.8, 9, 91, 92 III.2 IV.30 VIII.55 X.4, 5, 47 XII.18 (with Watsons’ G&Y) [5 OCT]
Ovid – Met. I.1-150, 452-567, IV.55-166, VI.1-145, VIII.183-235, XIV.101-153, XV.745-879; Ars Amatoria I.1-100; Amores I.1, 5, 9; III.1, 9; Fasti I.1-62, IV.1-132 [53 OCT]
Petronius – Satyrica 28-46 [c. 16 OCT]
Plautus – Miles Gloriosus 1-410 [c.15 OCT]
Pliny Minor – Epistulae VI.16 and X.96-7 [6 OCT]
Propertius – Elegies I.1, 2, 3; IV.1, 7; Tibullus – 1.1, 1.10, 2.1; Sulpicia – all [20 OCT]
Sallust – Bellum Catilinae 1-16, 51-61 [c. 24 OCT]
Seneca – Thyestes 1-622 (with Tarrant’s comm.) (21 OCT); Ep. 18, 47, 61, 114 (20 OCT) [41 OCT]
Statius – Silvae 2.2, 2.5 (with Newland’s G&Y) [5 OCT]
Suetonius – Augustus 1-9, 97-99 [7 OCT]
Tacitus – Annales I.1-15; XIV.29-39; XV.33-70; XVI. 33-35; Agricola 1-4, 19, 29-34, 42-46 [53 OCT]
Terence – Adelphoe 1-208, 288-354, 855-881 [14 OCT]
Tibullus –  (20 OCT pp with Propertius)
Vergil – Ecl 1; Georg. I.1-70, IV.315-414; Aeneid I, VI [60 OCT]

VERSE: Total 305 OCT

PROSE: Total 239 OCT

GRAND TOTAL 544 OCT