Reading List I: Greek. The following are to be read for the translation examination in Greek.
Aeschylus Agamemnon; Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica 3; Aristophanes Frogs; Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics 1; Callimachus Hymns 2, 6; Demosthenes De corona (18); Euripides Hippolytus, Bacchae; Herodotus Books 1, 7; Hesiod Theogony; Homer, 12 books of the Iliad and 12 books of the Odyssey; Gorgias Helen; Lysias 1, 12; Menander Dyscolus; Pindar Ol. 1, Pyth. 8, Nem. 7, Isth. 7; Plato Symposium, Republic 1; Plutarch Pericles; Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus; Theocritus Idylls 1, 2, 7; Thucydides Book 1; Xenophon Hellenica 1
Reading List II: Greek. The following are to be read for the Greek and Latin literature examination. In cases where specific works are not prescribed, the student’s own choices must be approved by the Director of Graduate Studies the semester before taking the exam.
Aeschylus, 3 plays; Aristophanes Acharnians or Clouds + 2 others; Aristotle Poetics; Callimachus Aetia frags. 1–2, 67–75, Epigrams (numbered as in Page EG) 2–5, 8, 11, 14–15, 29–30, 34, 38, 43, 45, 51–53, 56, 59, 67; Demosthenes, one Phil., one Olynth.; Epigrams: Asclepiades 1, 6, 11, 20–22, 31–33; Hedylus 11, Posidippus 9, 24, Dioscorides 17, 22, Antipater Sidonius 11, 36–40, Meleager 6, 9, 13, 29–36, 40–51, 103, Philodemus 23 (numbered as in Page EG); Euripides, 3 plays (including one romance and one war play); Herodas, one mime; Herodotus Book 8; Hesiod Works and Days; Homer, the rest of Iliad and Odyssey; Homeric Hymns 2, 5; Isocrates Against the Sophists or Helen; Lucian one set of dialogues (may substitute equivalent length selection from romance); Lyric: selections as in new Campbell; Pindar Ol. 2, 6, 7, 11, 14, Pyth. 1, 3, 9, 10, Nem. 6, 8, Isth. 8; Plato Protagoras, Phaedrus, one dialogue on death of Socrates; Plutarch Antony; Sophocles Oedipus Coloneus plus 2 others; Theocritus, 3 Idylls, Epigrams 13–15 (numbered as in Page EG); Thucydides 2.34–65, 3.35–85, 5.26, 84–116, 6.8–32, 7.84–8.1; Xenophon Symposium
Reading List I: Latin. The following are to be read for the translation examination in Latin.
Caesar Civil Wars 3; Catullus all; Cicero pro Cael., pro Arch., in Cat. 1, 3, de Senec.; Horace Odes 1–3, Sat. 1.1, 4, 5, 10; Juvenal 1, 3, 4, 10; Livy Books 1, 21; Lucan Book 7; Lucretius Books 1, 2.1–293; Ovid Amores 1, Metam. 1, Tristia 4.10; Plautus Amphitruo; Pliny Epistles 6.16, 6.20; Propertius Book 1; Sallust Catiline; Seneca Thyestes; Tacitus Agricola, Annals 1.1–2.26, 4.1–12, 32–67, 6.18–30, 50–51; Terence Adelphoe; Tibullus 1.1, 3, 5, 10; 2.1, 5; Vergil Eclogues, Aeneid
Reading List II: Latin. The following are to be read for the Greek and Latin literature examination. In cases where specific works are not prescribed, the student’s own choices must be approved by the Director of Graduate Studies the semester before taking the exam.
Apuleius, one book of Metamorphoses or Cupid & Psyche section; Archaic Latin Twelve Tables; Augustus Res Gestae; Caesar one book of Gallic Wars; Cato fragments of orations and Origines; Cicero in Pis., two Phil., letters as in Shackleton Bailey’s small edition, de Orat. 1, de re pub.; Ennius fragments of the Annales; Horace Odes 4, Epodes, Ars Poetica; Livy, one book + fragments of book 120; Lucretius Books 3, 4.1058–1287, 5, 6.1138–1286; Martial, one book; Nepos Life of Atticus; Ovid, two Heroides, Met. 5, 6 or 8, 7, 10, 15, Tristia 1 or 2; Persius prologue and Satire 1; Petronius Cena Trimalchionis or selection of equivalent length; Plautus, one play; Pliny, letters as in Sherwin-White’s small edition; Propertius 2.1, 10., 12, 15, 3.1–5, Bk. 4; Sallust Jugurtha; Seneca Epistles 7, 12, 47, 51, 56, 86, 88, 108, 114, 122, Apocolocyntosis; Statius, two poems from Siluae; Suetonius one life; Tacitus Dialogus, Histories 1 or 3, Annals 11. 23–38, 12.58–13.25, 14.1–65, 15.38–65, 16.18–35; Vergil Georgics
