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Classical
Studies: PhD Reading List
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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. These passages will be taken from the reading list,
one will NOT be from the list.
| Latin
Reading List |
| Apuleius |
Cupid
and Psyche |
| Augustine |
Confessions
I-II |
| Catullus |
entire |
| Cicero |
In
Catilinam I, Pro Milone, Philippic
II, Letters (Shackleton Bailey selection),
De Natura Deorum I |
| 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; Book III |
| Ovid |
Met.
XIII; Amores I |
| Petronius |
Cena
Trimalchionis |
| Plautus |
Amphitryo,
Menaechmi |
| Propertius |
Book
I; Book III 1-5 |
| Sallust |
Catiline |
| Seneca |
Thyestes |
| Tacitus |
Annales
Books III, XIII-XVI; Historiae I |
| Terence |
Andria;
Eunuchus |
| Vergil |
Aeneid
(entire); Eclogues(all); Georgics IV |
| Greek
Reading List |
| Aeschylus |
Agamemnon;
Eumenides |
| Apollonius |
Argonautica
III |
| Aristophanes |
Acharnians,
Frogs |
| Aristotle |
Poetics;
Ath. Pol. |
| Callimachus |
Hymn
to Apollo; Aetia I, 1-2; epigrams |
| Demosthenes |
On
the Crown |
| Euripides |
Medea,
Orestes, Ion |
| 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
I-482; Works and Days 1-382 |
| Homer |
Iliad,
Books 1, 2 (1-483), 3, 6, 9, 16, 18, 22, 24; Odyssey,
Books 8-12, 19-24 |
| Isocrates |
Antidosis |
| Lucian |
Philopseudes |
| 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;
Philoctetes |
| Theocritus |
I,
II, VII, XI, XV |
| Thucydides |
Books
I-II, III 1-83, VI |
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