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CLASSICS TRICAMPUS PROGRAM
REQUIRED READING LISTS

Updated March 24, 2006

The works listed below should be read prior to taking comprehensive doctoral examinations. It is a matter of program policy that items for the translation portions of the comprehensive doctoral examinations are to be taken from the above list. However, students are also advised that special arrangements for modifications in this list may be made in consultation with the Graduate Advisor

GREEK AND ROMAN HISTORY READING LISTS

For Roman history the required texts are:

Boatwright, Gargola and Talbert, The Romans from Village to Empire, NY, Oxford, 2004
Brown P. , The World of Late Antiquity from Marcus Aurelius to Muhammad, London 1971
Cornell, T.J. The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (1000-264 BCE) London and New York, 1995.
Wells, C. The Roman Empire, Cambridge, MA 1992, second edition
Crawford, M. The Roman Empire, Cambridge, MA 1992, second edition

For the Greek exam the prescribed texts are: S. Pomeroy et al., Ancient Greece; R. Osborne, Greece in the Making, 1200-479; S. Hornblower, The Greek World, 479-323. and G. Shipley, The Greek World after Alexander (Routledge, 2000).

GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGE READING LISTS

GREEK

Author Work

Apollonius Argonautica, Books 3,4

Aeschylus Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides, Prometheus, Persians

Aristophanes Frogs, Lysistrata

Aristotle Politics, Book 1, Poetics, Nicomachean Ethics 8,9

Demosthenes Philippic 3, On the Crown

Euripides Bacchae, Hippolytus, Medea, Trojan Women

Herodotus Books 1, 7 and 8 (2 Optional)

Hesiod Theogony, Works and Days

Homer IIiad, Odyssey

Isocrates Panegyricus, Helen

Lysias Orations 1 and 7

Menander Dyscolus

Pindar Olympian 1, 2; Pythian 1, 2, 4

Plato Phaedo, Symposium, Republic 1, 10, Apology

Plutarch Life of Alexander, Caesar

Polybius Book 6

Sophocles Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Electra

Theocritus Idylls 1, 2, 11, 17, 18

Thucydides Histories, Books 1 and 2 (Books 6-7 optional)

Lyric Poets Campbell's edition

LATIN

Author Work

Ammianus Marcellinus Books 15-16

St. Augustine Confessions, Book 8

Caesar Bellum Gallicum 1, Bellum Civile 1

Catullus All

Cicero Verrine 1, De Oratore 1, De Republica 1 Letters in How & Clark, Catilinarian 1, Pro Milone 1

Horace Odes, Books 1-3; Epistles 2 (including Ars Poetica), Satires 1

Jerome Letters 127 and 128 (Loeb lettering)

Juvenal Satires 1, 3, 6, 10

Livy Books 1 and 2 (optional 20, 21)

Lucan Book 1

Lucretius Books 1, 5

Martial Selections in Post's edition

Ovid Metamorphoses 1 and 10, Amores 1, Heroides, Ars Amatoria

Petronius Cena Trimalchionis

Plautus Menaechmi, Miles

Pliny Selections from the Letters (White's ed.) Vesuvius letters

Propertius Books 1, 2, 3

Quintilian Book 10

Sallust Bellum Catilinae

Seneca Medea, De brevitate vitae, Trojan Women, Letters

Suetonius Augustus

Tacitus Annales, Book 1 ; Agricola; Histories, Book 1 (optional 4)

Terence Andria, Eunuchus

Tibullus Book 1

Vergil Aeneid; Eclogues; Georgics, Books 1 and 4

Author	Work
Apollonius	Argonautica, Books 3,4
Aeschylus	Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides, Prometheus, Persians
Aristophanes	Frogs, Lysistrata
Aristotle	Politics, Book 1, Poetics, Nicomachean Ethics 8,9
Demosthenes	Philippic 3, On the Crown
Euripides	Bacchae, Hippolytus, Medea, Trojan Women
Herodotus	Books 1, 7 and 8 (2 Optional)
Hesiod	Theogony, Works and Days
Homer	IIiad, Odyssey
Isocrates	Panegyricus, Helen
Lysias	Orations 1 and 7
Menander	Dyscolus
Pindar	Olympian 1, 2; Pythian 1, 2, 4
Plato	Phaedo, Symposium, Republic 1, 10, Apology
Plutarch	Life of Alexander, Caesar
Polybius	Book 6
Sophocles	Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Electra
Theocritus	Idylls 1, 2, 11, 17, 18
Thucydides	Histories, Books 1 and 2 (Books 6-7 optional)
Lyric Poets	Campbell's edition

Author	Work
Ammianus Marcellinus	Books 15-16
St. Augustine	Confessions, Book 8

Caesar	Bellum Gallicum 1, Bellum Civile 1
Catullus	All
Cicero	Verrine 1, De Oratore 1, De Republica 1 Letters in How & Clark, Catilinarian 1, Pro Milone 1
Horace	Odes, Books 1-3; Epistles 2 (including Ars Poetica), Satires 1
Jerome	Letters 127 and 128 (Loeb lettering)
Juvenal	Satires 1, 3, 6, 10
Livy	Books 1 and 2 (optional 20, 21)
Lucan	Book 1
Lucretius	Books 1, 5
Martial	Selections in Post's edition
Ovid	Metamorphoses 1 and 10, Amores 1, Heroides, Ars Amatoria
Petronius	Cena Trimalchionis
Plautus	Menaechmi, Miles
Pliny	Selections from the Letters (White's ed.) Vesuvius letters
Propertius	Books 1, 2, 3
Quintilian	Book 10
Sallust	Bellum Catilinae
Seneca	Medea, De brevitate vitae, Trojan Women, Letters
Suetonius	Augustus
Tacitus	Annales, Book 1 ; Agricola; Histories, Book 1 (optional 4)
Terence	Andria, Eunuchus
Tibullus	Book 1
Vergil	Aeneid; Eclogues; Georgics, Books 1 and 4

CLASSICS TRICAMPUS PROGRAM REQUIRED READING LISTS

CLASSICS TRICAMPUS PROGRAM
REQUIRED READING LISTS