Reading Lists for the MA in Classics

for candidates emphasizing Greek

<900> = number of lines [ / 30 = ] {30} = number of pages

(You may also view the old MA reading list.)

Greek authors

Aeschylus, Agamemnon <1673 lines> = {55}

Andocides, On the Mysteries {62}

Aristophanes, Clouds {53}

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1; 10; Politics 1 {22, 24, 25} {71}

Callimachus: as in Neil Hopkinson, A Hellenistic Anthology (Cambridge, 1988), including Epigrams; also Epigr. 28 Pfeiffer (= Anth. Pal.12.43) {13}

Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 1, 2, 3 {28}

Euripides, Medea {57}

Greek Lyric Poets: as in David A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poets (St. Martin's Press, 1967) pages 1-100; P. Colon. 7511 (the "Cologne Archilochus": text in Page, Supplementum Lyricis Graecis; text and commentary in Degani-Burzacchini, Lirici Greci, Florence, 1908 and in J.M. Bremer et al., Some Recently Found Greek Poems, Leiden, 1987); Simonides frag. 11 West2 {103}

Herodotus 1; 2.1-50, 69-73, 86-91, 99-134; 6.94-120; 7.1-19 {184}

Hesiod, Theogony 1-210 {9}

Homer, Iliad 1; 9; 22-24 {124}; Odyssey 1; 9-12; 21-23 {147}

Homeric Hymn 5 (To Aphrodite) {10}

Isocrates, Panegyricus {49}

Lysias, Against Eratoshenes {11}

Pindar, Olympian 1, 14;Nemean 5, 7 {16}

Plato, Apology {34}; Republic 1; 10 {34, 39} {107}

Plutarch, Solon 1-4, 8-10, 14-19, 31-32 {20}

Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus {34}

Theocritus, Idylls 1 {8}

Thucydides 1-2.65 {120}

Latin Authors

Caesar, Civil War 1.1-33 {20}

Cicero, Pro Caelio {40};In Catilinam 1 {14}; Shackleton Bailey, Select Letters, (Cambridge 1980) 1, 7, 11, 15, 18, 24, 27, 48, 52, 63 {ca. 20} {72}

Horace, Odes 1 <876> {29}

Juvenal 1 <171> = {6}

Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Praef.; 1.1-31, 56-60 {57}

Ovid, Amores 1 <774> = {26}

Petronius 26.7-38, 71-78 {18}

Plautus, Pseudolus <1,335> = {45}

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 6.16, 20; 10.96-97 {9}

Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 1-16 {12}

Tacitus, Annales 1 {46}; Agricola 1-13, 30-34, 43-46 {16} {62}

Vergil, Aeneid 1; 2; 4; 6; 8; 12 <756 + 804 + 705 + 901 + 731 + 952> = <4,849> = {162}

Greek prose: 602 pages Latin prose: 250 pages

Greek verse: 616 pages Latin verse: 268 pages

Total: 1736