Greek and Latin Reading Lists for the MA in Classics: Ancient History Option

The following lists represent minimal reading for the Master's degree. The choices allowed on the lists and any requests for substitutions should be given to the Graduate Director at least one semester before the qualifying examinations. Students are encouraged to enlarge the list according to their own interests.

Greek Authors

Aeschylus, Persae <1076> = {36}
Andocides, On the Mysteries {62}
Aristophanes, Lysistrata <1320> = {44}
Aristotle, Politics 1 {25}
Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 1; 2; 3 {28}
Euripides, Medea <1419> = {47}
Greek Lyric Poets: as follows from D. A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poets (St. Martin's Press, 1967): Archilochus 1-3, 5A, 22, 53, 55-56, 60, 74, 77, 79A; Tyrtaeus 1; Semonides 7; Alcman 1; Theognis 19-26, 39-68, 77-78, 113-14, 173-92, 237-54, 503-10, 667-82, 783-88; Mimnermus 1-2, 5; Solon 1, 3, 5, 19, 24; Sappho 1, 5, 16, 31, 47, 55, 81b, 96; Alcaeus 6, 34a, 42, 129, 326, 357; Ibycus 282a; Anacreon 348, 357-59, 388, 417; Xenophanes 1-2; Simonides 520-21, 531, 542, 581, 76D, 83D. <1113> = {37}
Herodotus 1 {118}
Hesiod, Works and Days 1-316 = {11}
Homer, Iliad 1; 9; 24 <2128>; Odyssey 1; 9; 23 <1382> = <TOTAL 3510> = {117}
Homeric Hymn: To Demeter <495> = {17}
Isocrates, Panegyricus {49}
Lysias 12 (Against Eratosthenes) {11}
Pindar, Olympian 1 <116> = {4}
Plato, Apology {34}; Republic 1 {34} = {68}
Plutarch, Solon {40}
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus <1530> = {51}
Thucydides 1 {88}
Meiggs-Lewis, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions, 2nd ed. (Oxford 1988) 1, 5, 23, 2

Latin Authors

Caesar, Gallic Wars 1 {32}; Civil War 1.1-33 {20} = {52}

Catullus 1-11, 13, 29, 31, 34, 36, 37, 42, 45, 46, 49-51, 63-66, 68 <1,236> = {41}

Cicero, Pro Caelio {40}; Second Philippic {48}; In Catilinam 1 {14}; Epistulae (as in Shackleton Bailey, Select Letters, Cambridge, 1980) 1-7, 9, 11, 12, 15, 18-20, 23- 24, 27, 32-35, 38, 41, 48, 52, 54, 62, 63, 67-69, 74-75; {ca. 50}; De Oratore 1.1-73 {18}; De Republica (as in James Zetzel, Cambridge, 1995) 6.9-29 (Somnium Scipionis} {8} = {178}

Horace, Epodes 2; 16; Odes 1; Satires 1.1, 1.9; 2.6 <1,328> = {44}

Juvenal, Satires 1; 10 <537> = {18}

Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Praef.; 1; 21 {70, 65} = {135}

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.1-502 = {ca. 18}

Martial, Epigrammata: Book 1: Praef., 1-4, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 20, 29, 32; Book 2: Epist.; Book 8: 55, 73; Book 9: Epist.; Book 10: 1, 2; Book 12: Epist., 57, 94; Book 13: 3; Book 14: 2 <ca. 268> = {9}

Ovid, Metamorphoses 1; Amores 1 <1,554> = {52}

Petronius, Satyrica 26.7-78 (Cena Trimalchionis) {56}

Plautus, Pseudolus <1,355> = {45}

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 6.16, 20; 7.27; 10.96-97 {12}

Propertius 1 (all) <734> = {24}

Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 1-16; Bellum Jugurthinum 1-8 {17}

Seneca, Epistulae Morales 7, 12, 56, 114 {18}

Suetonius, Claudius {31}

Tacitus, Annales 1; 4; 14.1-17 {90}; Agricola {30} = {120}

Terence, Adelphoe <997> = {33}

Tibullus 1.1; 2.5 <200> = {7}

Vergil, Aeneid 1-8; 12 <7,255> = {242}

Inscriptions:

SC de bacchanalibus (ILLRP 511) <30 lines>
Laudatio 'Turiae'(ILS 8393) <69 lines>
Res Gestae divi Augusti <35 chapters = ca. 225 lines>
Senatus consultum de Pisone patre <176 lines>
Lex de imperio Vespasiani (ILS 244 = Crawford, Roman Statutes I 39) <39 lines>