Reading Lists for the MA (MAT) in Classics

for candidates emphasizing Latin

The following lists represent minimal reading for the Master's degree. The lists will generally remain the same for all students. Substitutions may sometimes be made after consultation with the Graduate Director and approval by the Graduate Faculty. Students are encouraged to enlarge the list according to their own interests.

Students who want their degrees to reflect a balance between Latin and Greek should consult the Graduate Director in order to work out a special reading list.

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

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

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}; Pro Archia {14}; 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} {192}

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 <1,117> = {37}

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, 4.55-189; Amores 1 TOTAL <1,688> = {56}

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}

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

Terence, Adelphoe <997> = {33}

Tibullus 1.1; 2.5 <200> = {7}

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

Greek authors (not applicable to the MAT degree)

Aristophanes, Clouds {53}

Aristotle, Politics 1 {25}

Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 1-3 {28}

Euripides, Medea {57}

Greek Lyric Poets: Selections in D. A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poets (St. Martin's Press, 1967): pages 1-2, 8-9, 13 (no. 7)-15, 27 (nos. 1-2), 29-33, 37, 38-39, 43-44, 59, 62, 73-74, 79-80, 87-88, 91-92 {24}; 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 {27}

Herodotus 1.1-139 {80}

Hesiod, Theogony 1-210 {9}

Homer, Iliad 1; 24 {49}; Odyssey 1; 23 {40}

Lysias, Against Eratoshenes {11}

Pindar, Olympian 1 {6}

Plato, Apology {34}

Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus {34}

Thucydides, 1.1-88, 118-46 {72}

For candidates emphasizing Latin:

Latin prose: 602 pages Greek prose: 251 pages

Latin verse: 556 pages Greek verse: 275 pages

Total: 1711 [1,684 pages (= 2 x 615 + 2 x 260 = 1/3 of Ph.D. list)]