Purpose
To provide the student with an organized program of steady reading in Latin and Greek in order to improve and perfect the command of the languages.
Timing
It is expected that the student will finish reading the list by the end of the second year of the Ph.D. program. The list is designed to be manageable if the student maintains a regimen of daily reading.
Examinations
At the end of the winter term of the second year and no later than the beginning of the fall term of the third year, the student is expected to take two Qualifying Examinations, one in Greek and one in Latin. Each examination will consist of a total of four passages. Three passages will be taken from the reading list, one will NOT be from the list.
Latin Reading List
Apuleius |
Cupid and Psyche |
Augustine |
Confessions 5 |
Augustus |
Res Gestae |
Cato |
De Agricultura 1-5 |
Catullus |
all |
Cicero |
Philippic II; Pro Caelio; De Oratore I; Pro Lege Manilia; Somnium Scipionis |
Horace |
Odes Books I-III; Sat. I, 1, 4, 10; Ars Poetica |
Juvenal |
3, 4, 10 |
Livy |
Book I, Book V |
Lucan |
Bellum Civile II |
Lucretius |
Book I |
Ovid |
Met. XIII; Amores I; Heroides 1, 9 |
Petronius |
Cena Trimalchionis |
Plautus |
Amphitryo; Menaechmi |
Propertius |
Book I; Book III 1-5 |
Sallust |
Catiline |
Seneca |
Thyestes; De Ira I; Ad Lucilium 51, 56, 114 |
Statius |
Silvae 2.7 |
Suetonius |
Claudius |
Tacitus |
Annales Books 1, 14; Historiae I; Dialogus de Orat. |
Terence |
Eunuchus |
Virgil |
Aeneid; Eclogues (all); Georgics IV |
Greek Reading List
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Agamemnon; Eumenides |
Apollonius |
Argonautica III |
Aristophanes |
Acharnians, Frogs |
Aristotle |
Poetics; Politics I |
Callimachus |
Aetia I, 1-2; epigrams; Baths of Pallas |
Demosthenes |
On the Crown |
Euripides |
Medea; Orestes; Helen |
Gorgias |
Helen |
Greek Lyric |
Campbell's selections of Archilochus, Alcman, Stesichorus, Solon,Sappho, Alcaeus,Xenophanes, Anacreon, Simonides, Bacchylides |
Herodotus |
Book I; VII. 1-155; IX |
Hesiod |
Theogony 1-964; Works and Days |
Homer |
Iliad, Books 1, 2 (1-483), 3, 6, 9, 16, 18, 22, 24; Odyssey, Books 8-12, 19, 23-24; Hymn to Aphrodite |
Isocrates |
Helen |
Lucian |
Timon |
Lysias |
I, VII, XII |
Menander |
Samia |
Pindar |
Olymp. 1, 2, 7; Pyth. 1, 2, 8; Nem. 7 |
Plato |
Republic 1; Gorgias; Plato on Poetry (ed. Murray) |
Sophocles |
Antigone; Oedipus the King |
Theocritus |
I, II, VII, XI, XV |
| Thucydides | Books I-II, III 1-83, VI |
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Oeconomicus |
Please note that additional study materials can be found in the Resources folder of the "Classics Tools" CTools site accessible to all current students.
