Reading lists: M.A., M.A.T., and Ph.D.
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The faculty has devised six separate reading lists to facilitate successful performance on the various comprehensive exam options (listed below):
Reading Lists for the MAT in Latin
Caesar, Gallic Wars 1; Civil War 1.1-33
Catullus 1-11, 13, 29, 31, 34, 36, 37, 42, 45, 46, 49-51, 63-66, 68
Cicero, Pro Caelio; Second Philippic; Pro Archia; In Catilinam 1; 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; De Oratore 1.1-73; De Republica (as in James Zetzel, Cambridge, 1995) 6.9-29 (Somnium Scipionis)
Horace, Epodes 2; 16; Odes 1; Satires 1.1, 1.9; 2.6
Juvenal, Satires 1; 10
Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Praef.; 1; 21
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1
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
Ovid, Metamorphoses 1, 4.55-189; Amores 1
Petronius, Satyrica 26.7-78 (Cena Trimalchionis)
Plautus, Pseudolus
Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 6.16, 20; 7.27; 10.96-97
Propertius 1 (all)
Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 1-16; Bellum Jugurthinum 1-8
Seneca, Epistulae Morales 7, 12, 56, 114
Tacitus, Annales 1; 4; 14.1-17; Agricola
Terence, Adelphoe
Tibullus 1.1; 2.5
Vergil, Aeneid 1-8; 12
Reading Lists for the M.A. in Classics
Greek authors
Andocides, selections from On the Mysteries, On the Peace in R.C. Jebb, Selections from The Attic Orators
Aristophanes, Clouds
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1; Politics 1 Callimachus: as in Neil Hopkinson, A Hellenistic Anthology (Cambridge, 1988), including Epigrams; also Epigr. 28 Pfeiffer (= Anth. Pal.12.43)
Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 1, 2, 3
Euripides, Medea
Greek Lyric Poets: as in David A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poets (St. Martin's, 1982) pages 1-32 (through Solon 1), 40-82 (through Theognis 182), 87-100, plus Appendix, pages 463-466 (Archilochus, P. Colon. 7511, Stesichorus S15 ii Page, Alcaeus S262 Page); frag. 11 West
Herodotus 1; 6.94-120
Hesiod, Theogony 1-210
Homer, Iliad 1; 9; 22, 24 {92}; Odyssey 1; 9, 11; 21-23
Homeric Hymn 5 (To Aphrodite)
Isocrates, selections from Antidosis, Panegyricus, Areopagiticus in R.C. Jebb, Selections from The Attic Orators
Lysias, Against Eratosthenes
Pindar, Olympian 1, 14; Nemean 5; Isthmian 2
Plato, Apology ; Republic 1; 10
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus
Theocritus, Idylls 1
Thucydides 1, 2.34-54
Latin Authors
Caesar, Gallic Wars 1.1-29; Civil War 1.1-33
Catullus 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11, 31, 34, 45, 49, 50, 51, 64
Cicero, Pro Caelio; In Catilinam 1; Epistulae (as in Shackleton Bailey, Select Letters, Cambridge, 1980) 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 15, 18, 19, 20, 24, 27, 32, 33, 38, 48, 52, 54, 67, 68, 74, 75; De Oratore 1.1-29; De Republica (as in James Zetzel, Cambridge, 1995) 6.9-29 (=Somnium Scipionis)
Horace, Odes 1; Sat. 1.1; Ep. 16
Juvenal, Sat. 1
Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Praef.; 1
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.1-448, 921-950
Martial, Epigrammata: Book 1: 1.1-4, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 20, 29, 32; 8.55, 73; 12.57, 94
Ovid, Met 1.1-252, 348-567; Amores 1
Petronius, Satyrica 26.7-60, 71-78 (excerpts from Cena Trimalchionis)
Plautus, Pseudolus
Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 6.16, 20; 7.27; 10.96-97
Propertius 1 (all)
Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 1-16; Bellum Jugurthinum 1-8
Seneca, Epistulae Morales 12, 114
Tacitus, Annales 1; 14.1-17; Agricola
Terence, Adelphoe
Tibullus 1.1; 2.5
Vergil, Aeneid 1; 2; 4; 6; 8; 12
Reading lists for M.A. in Classics: Interdisciplinary Classics and Ancient History option
Greek Authors
Aeschylus, Persae
Andocides, On the Mysteries
Aristophanes, Lysistrata
Aristotle, Politics 1
Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 1; 2; 3
Euripides, Medea
Greek Lyric Poets: as follows from D. A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poets (St. Martin's Press, 1982): 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.
Herodotus 1
Hesiod, Works and Days 1-316
Homer, Iliad 1; 9; 24; Odyssey 1; 9; 23
Homeric Hymn: To Demeter
Isocrates, Panegyricus
Lysias 12 (Against Eratosthenes)
Pindar, Olympian 1
Plato, Apology; Republic 1
Plutarch, Solon
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus
Thucydides 1
Meiggs-Lewis, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions, 2nd ed. (Oxford 1988) 1, 5, 23, 2
Latin Authors
Caesar, Gallic Wars 1; Civil War 1.1-33
Catullus 1-11, 13, 29, 31, 34, 36, 37, 42, 45, 46, 49-51, 63-66, 68
Cicero, Pro Caelio; Second Philippic ; In Catilinam 1; 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; De Oratore 1.1-73; De Republica (as in James Zetzel, Cambridge, 1995) 6.9-29 (Somnium Scipionis}
Horace, Epodes 2; 16; Odes 1; Satires 1.1, 1.9; 2.6
Juvenal, Satires 1; 10
Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Praef.; 1; 21
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.1-502
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
Ovid, Metamorphoses 1; Amores 1
Petronius, Satyrica 26.7-78 (Cena Trimalchionis)
Plautus, Pseudolus
Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 6.16, 20; 7.27; 10.96-97
Propertius 1 (all)
Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 1-16; Bellum Jugurthinum 1-8
Seneca, Epistulae Morales 7, 12, 56, 114
Suetonius, Claudius
Tacitus, Annales 1; 4; 14.1-17; Agricola
Terence, Adelphoe
Tibullus 1.1; 2.5
Vergil, Aeneid 1-8; 12
Inscriptions: SC de bacchanalibus (ILLRP 511); Laudatio 'Turiae' (ILS 8393); Res Gestae divi Augusti; Senatus consultum de Pisone patre; Lex de imperio Vespasiani (ILS 244 = Crawford, Roman Statutes I 39)
Reading Lists for the Ph.D. in Classics
Greek Authors
Aeschylus, Oresteia
Andocides, On the Mysteries
Apollonius, Argonautica 1.1-22; 3
Aristophanes, Clouds; Frogs
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1; 2; 3; 6; 10; Politics 1; Poetics
Callimachus: selections in Neil Hopkinson, A Hellenistic Anthology (Cambridge, 1988), including Epigrams, and Epigr. 28 Pfeiffer (= Anth. Pal.12.43)
Bacchylides: as in Campbell (see under "Greek Lyric Poets")
Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 1; 2; 3; On the Crown
Euripides, Medea; Hippolytus; Bacchae
Greek Lyric Poets: as in D. A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poets (St. Martin's Press, 1982); 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.
Herodotus 1; 2.1-50, 69-73, 86-91, 99-134; 6.94-120; 7.1-19, 100-105, 201-39; 8.57-110
Hesiod, Theogony 1-210; Works and Days 1-316
Homer, Iliad 1; 2.1-493; 3; 6; 9; 16-24; Odyssey 1; 5-6; 9-12; 16-17; 21-23
Homeric Hymn: To Demeter
Isocrates, Panegyricus
Longus, Daphnis and Chloe 1 (all); 4 (all)
Lucian, Menippus
Lysias 12 (Against Eratosthenes)
Menander, Dyskolos
Pindar, Olympians 1, 14; Nemeans 5, 7; Pythians 1, 8; Isthmians 1
Plato, Apology; Symposium; Crito; Gorgias; Republic 1; 10
Plutarch, Solon 1-4, 8-10, 14-19, 31-32
Polybius, Histories 6.11-18; 10.2-3; 38.1-3.8; 39.8
Protagoras: B fragments, as in H. Diels and W. Kranz, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1952/6), vol.2
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus; Antigone; Ajax
Theocritus, Idylls 1, 7, 11, 15
Thucydides 1-2.65; 3.1-50, 70-85; 4.1-41; 5.1-20, 84-116; 6.8-32; 7.65-87
Xenophon, Memorabilia 1
Meiggs-Lewis, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions 2 (Oxford 1988) 1, 5, 23, 24, 26, 33, 41, 54, 94
Latin Authors
Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1 (all); 2.7-10, 21-30; 4.27-35; 5.21-24; 6.20-24; 9.5-13; 11.23-30
Caesar, Gallic Wars 1; Civil War 1
Catullus: all
Cicero, Pro Caelio; Second Philippic; Pro Archia; In Catilinam 1, 4; De Imperio Cn. Pompei ; 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; Tusculan Disputations 1; De Re Publica 1, 6 (selections, as in James Zetzel, Cambridge, 1995); De Oratore 1
Claudian, In Eutropium 1
Ennius: longer fragments of the Annales, ed. Skutsch
Horace, Epodes 1, 2, 7, 9, 16; Odes 1-4; Satires 1 (all); 2.1, 6, 7; Epistles 2.1 (Letter to Augustus), 2.3 (Ars Poetica)
Juvenal, Satires 1, 3, 6.1-285, 10
Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Praef., 1 (all), 6 (all), 21 (all)
Lucan, Civil War 1, 7
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1 (all); 3 (all); 4.962-1287; 5.772-1457
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
Ovid, Metamorphoses 1 (all); 4.55-189; 8.1-444, 611-878; 14.527-608, 805-851; 15.745-879; Amores 1 (all); Tristia 4.10
Persius, Prol.; 1
Petronius, Satyrica 1-90
Plautus, Pseudolus; Amphitruo
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
Propertius, ed. Goold (Loeb): 1 (all); 2.1, 7, 34; 3.1, 3, 4, 5, 9; 4 (all)
Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1
Sallust, Bellum Catilinae; Bellum Jugurthinum 1-8
Seneca, Epistulae Morales 7, 12, 47, 51, 56, 86, 114, 122; Medea
Symmachus, Relatio 3
Tacitus, Agricola; Dialogus de oratoribus; Histories 1; 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
Terence, Adelphoe
Tibullus, 1 (all); 2.1, 2.5
Vergil, Eclogues; Georgics 1 (all); 4 (all); Aeneid
Reading Lists for the Ph.D. in Classics: Interdisciplinary Classics and Ancient History option
Greek Authors
Aeschylus, Agamemnon; Persae
Andocides, On the Mysteries
Antiphon, from R.C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators III
Apollonius, Argonautica 1.1-22; 3
Aristophanes, Lysistrata; Frogs
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1; Politics 1; Poetics; Ath. Pol. 1-45
Arrian, Anabasis 1.1-16
Bacchylides: as in Campbell (see under "Greek Lyric Poets")
Callimachus: selections in Neil Hopkinson, A Hellenistic Anthology (Cambridge, 1988), including Epigrams, and Epigr. 28 Pfeiffer (= Anth.Pal.12.43)
Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 1; 2; 3; On the Crown
Euripides, Medea; Hippolytus; Bacchae
Greek Lyric Poets: as in D. A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poets (St. Martin's Press, 1982); 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., Hellenica Oxyrhynchia VI(I)-VIII(III), XV(X)-XXII(XVII)
Herodotus 1; 2.1-50, 69-73, 86-91, 99-134; 6.94-120; 7.1-19, 100-105, 201-39; 8.57-110
Hesiod, Theogony 1-210; Works and Days 1-316
Homer, Iliad 1; 2.1-493; 3; 6; 9; 16, 18, 22-24; Odyssey 1; 6; 9-11; 17; 21; 23
Homeric Hymn: To Demeter
Isaeus, R.C. Jebb, from Selections from the Attic Orators I-II
Isocrates, Panegyricus
Longus, Daphnis and Chloe 1 (all); 4 (all)
Lucian, Menippus
Lysias 12 (Against Eratosthenes); 13 (Against Agoratus); from R.C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators, Lysias I-IV
Menander, Dyskolos
Pindar, Olympians 1; Nemeans 5, 7; Pythians 1, 8; Isthmians 1
Plato, Apology; Symposium; Crito; Republic 1; 10
Plutarch, Solon; Themistocles; Sulla
Polybius, Histories 6
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus; Antigone
Theocritus, Idylls 1, 7, 11, 15
Thucydides 1-2.65; 3.1-50, 70-85; 4.1-41; 5.1-20, 84-116; 6.8-32; 7.65-87
Xenophon, Memorabilia 1; Hellenica 1-2.2; "Old Oligarch"
Papyri: G. Milligan, Selections from the Greek Papyri (Cambridge 1912) 1, 4, 5, 10, 12, 19, 24, 30, 38, 45, 47, 51, 53
Inscriptions:
Meiggs-Lewis, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions 2 (Oxford 1988) 1, 5, 8, 10-11, 14-15, 23-24, 26, 31, 33, 41, 45-46, 52, 54, 58, 65, 69, 70, 73, 86, 94
M.N. Tod, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions, Vol. II (Oxford 1948): 118, 123, 142, 162, 177, 189, 202, 204, 205
Hesperia Supp. 29, pp. 4-5
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 26.72; 28.60
Staatsverträge des Altertums 3.428; 446; 476
F. Sokolowski, Lois Sacrées des cités grecques (Paris 1969): 18A-B; 65.1; 116
H.W Pleket, Epigraphica I: 2, 9, 10, 14, 22, 41; Epigraphica II: 1, 3, 6
R. Sherk, Roman Documents from the Greek East (Baltimore 1969) 2, 15, 23, 31, 33
Latin Authors
Ammianus Marcellinus 14.6; 16.10.1-12, 25.3-5
Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1 (all); 2.7-10, 21-30; 4.27-35; 5.21-24; 6.20-24; 9.5-13; 11.23-30
Caesar, Gallic Wars 1; Civil War 1
Catullus: all poems
Cicero, Pro Caelio; Second Philippic; In Catilinam 1, 4; De Imperio Cn. Pompei ; 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; Brutus; De Re Publica 1, 6 (selections, as in James Zetzel, Cambridge, 1995); Verrines I
Ennius: longer fragments of the Annales, ed. Skutsch
Historia Augusta, Life of Hadrian
Horace, Epodes 1, 2, 7, 9, 16; Odes 1-4; Satires 1 (all); 2.1, 6, 7; Epistles 2.1 (Letter to Augustus), 2.3 (Ars Poetica)
Juvenal, Satires 1, 3, 6.1-285, 10
Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Praef., 1 (all), 6 (all), 21 (all)
Lucan, Civil War 1, 7
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.1-502; 3; 4.962-1287; 5.772-1457
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
Ovid, Metamorphoses 1; Amores 1; Fasti 4; Tristia 4.10
Persius, Prol.; 1
Petronius, Satyrica 1-90
Plautus, Pseudolus; Amphitruo
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; Panegyricus 1-37
Propertius, ed. Goold (Loeb): 1 (all); 2.1, 7, 34; 3.1, 3, 4, 5, 9; 4 (all)
Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1
Sallust, Bellum Catilinae; Bellum Jugurthinum 1-8; Histories FF 1.55, 1.77, 2.47, 2.98,
3.48, 4.69 M
Seneca, Epistulae Morales 7, 12, 47, 51, 56, 86, 114, 122; Medea
Suetonius, Claudius
Symmachus, Relatio 3
Tacitus, Agricola; Dialogus de oratoribus; Histories 1; 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
Terence, Adelphoe
Tertullian, De Spectaculis
Tibullus, 1 (all); 2.1, 2.5
Vergil, Eclogues; Georgics 1 (all); 4 (all); Aeneid 1-8, 12
Inscriptions:
SC de bacchanalibus (ILLRP 511)
Lex Repetundarum and Lex Agraria (Crawford, Roman Statutes I 1 and 2)
Laudatio 'Turiae' (ILS 8393)
Res Gestae divi Augusti
Tabula Siarensis and Hebana (Lex Valeria Aurelia) (Crawford, RS I 24)
Tabula Heraclensis (Crawford, RS I 24)
Lex Colonia Genetivae Iuliae (Crawford, RS I 25)
Senatus consultum de Pisone patre
Lex de imperio Vespasiani (ILS 244 = Crawford, RS I 39)
"Mactar Harvester" (ILS 7457)
Allia Potestas (epitaph) (CIL 6.37965 = CLE 1988)