The following lists represent minimal reading for the Doctor'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.

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

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

Aeschylus, Oresteia <3823> = {127}

Andocides, On the Mysteries {61.5}

Apollonius, Argonautica 1.1-22; 3 <1429> = {18}

Aristophanes, Clouds; Frogs <3044> = {101}

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1; 2; 3; 6; 10; Politics 1; Poetics {176}

Callimachus: selections in Neil Hopkinson, A Hellenistic Anthology (Cambridge, 1988), including Epigrams, and Epigr. 28 Pfeiffer (= Anth. Pal.12.43) <401> = {13}

Bacchylides: as in Campbell (see under "Greek Lyric Poets") <547> = {18}

Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 1; 2; 3; On the Crown {125}

Euripides, Medea; Hippolytus; Bacchae <4277> = {143}

Greek Lyric Poets: as in D. A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poets (St. Martin's Press, 1967); 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 West. <1963> = {65}

Herodotus 1; 2.1-50, 69-73, 86-91, 99-134; 6.94-120; 7.1-19, 100-105, 201-39; 8.57-110 {300}

Hesiod, Theogony 1-210; Works and Days 1-316 <526> = {18}

Homer, Iliad 1; 2.1-493; 3; 6; 9; 16-24; Odyssey 1; 5-6; 9-12; 16-17; 21-23 <14,701> = {490}

Homeric Hymn: To Demeter <495> = {17}

Isocrates, Panegyricus {49}

Longus, Daphnis and Chloe 1 (all); 4 (all) {21}

Lucian, Menippus {10}

Lysias 12 (Against Eratosthenes) {11}

Menander, Dyskolos <969> = {53}

Pindar, Olympians 1, 14; Nemeans 5, 7; Pythians 1, 8; Isthmians 1 <795> = {27}

Plato, Apology {34}; Symposium {69}; Crito {17}; Gorgias {115}; Republic 1; 10 {34, 39} {309}

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

Polybius, Histories 6.11-18; 10.2-3; 38.1-3.8; 39.8 {15}

Protagoras: B fragments, as in H. Diels and W. Kranz, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (19526), vol. 2

Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus; Antigone; Ajax <4303> = {143}

Theocritus, Idylls 1, 7, 11, 15 <539> = {18}

Thucydides 1-2.65; 3.1-50, 70-85; 4.1-41; 5.1-20, 84-116; 6.8-32; 7.65-87 {252}

Xenophon, Memorabilia 1 {30}

Meiggs-Lewis, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions2 (Oxford 1988) 1, 5, 23, 24, 26, 33, 41, 54, 94 <237> = {8}

Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1 (all); 2.7-10, 21-30; 4.27-35; 5.21-24; 6.20-24; 9.5-13; 11.23-30 {52}

Caesar, Gallic Wars 1 {32}; Civil War 1 {48} {80}

Catullus: all poems <2,311> = {77}

Cicero, Pro Caelio {40}; Second Philippic {48}; Pro Archia {14}; In Catilinam 1, 4 {27}; De Imperio Cn. Pompei {30}; 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}; Tusculan Disputations 1 {71}; De Re Publica 1, 6 (selections, as in James Zetzel, Cambridge, 1995) {34}; De Oratore 1 {75} {Total: 389}

Ennius: longer fragments of the Annales, ed. Skutsch <approx. 120 lines> = {4}

Horace, Epodes 1, 2, 7, 9, 16 <228>; Odes 1-4 <3,014>; Satires 1 (all) <1,030); 2.1, 6, 7 <321>; Epistles 2.1 (Letter to Augustus), 2.3 (Ars Poetica) <746> TOTAL <5,339> = {178}

Juvenal, Satires 1, 3, 6.1-285, 10 <1,144 > = {38}

Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Praef., 1 (all), 6 (all), 21 (all) {227}

Lucan, Civil War 1, 7 <1,567> = {52}

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1 (all); 3 (all); 4.962-1287; 5.772-1457 <3,223> = {107}

Martial, Liber de Spect. 1-2, 9(7), 15 (13), 20 (17); 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. 650> = {20}

Ovid, Metamorphoses 1 (all); 4.55-189; 8.1-444, 611-878; 14.527-608, 805-851; 15.745-879 <1,890>; Amores 1 (all) <774>; Tristia 4.10 <132> TOTAL <2,796> = {93}

Persius, Prol.; 1 <148> = {5}

Petronius, Satyrica 1-90 {90}

Plautus, Pseudolus; Amphitruo <2,481> = {83}

Pliny, Epistulae 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; 10.96-97 {37}

Propertius, ed. Goold (Loeb): 1 (all); 2.1, 7, 34; 3.1, 3, 4, 5, 9; 4 (all) <2,172> = {72}

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1 {50}

Sallust, Bellum Catilinae; Bellum Jugurthinum 1-8 {61}

Seneca, Epistulae Morales 7, 12, 47, 51, 56, 86, 114, 122 {36}; Medea <1,027> = {34} {70}

Tacitus, Agricola {30}; Dialogus de oratoribus {40}; Histories 1 {55}; Annales 1.1-2.26; 4.1-12, 32-67; 6.18-30, 50-51; 11.23-38; 12.58-13.25; 14.1-65 (all); 15.38-65; 16.18-35 {183} {Total = 308}

Terence, Adelphoe <997> = {33}

Tibullus, 1 (all); 2.1, 2.5 <1,022> = {34}

Vergil, Eclogues <829>; Georgics 1 (all); 4 (all) <1,080>; Aeneid <9,896>. Total <11,805> = {394}

Late Latin (after 300 C.E.): 25 pages of selections (total) from at least two of the following: Augustine, Confessions 1, 8, 10; Ammianus Marcellinus 14, 15; Ausonius; Carmina Burana, Claudian; Macrobius; Sidonius Apollinaris; Symmachus.

List totals:

Greek prose: 1,350 pages Greek verse: 1,280 pages

Latin prose: 1,355 pages Latin verse: 1,210 pages

Total: 5,195 pages [5,250 (= 3 pages per day x 350 days/ year x 5 years

or 4 pages per day x 263 days/year x 5 years

or 4 pages per day x 330 days/year x 4 years.]