UNDERGRADUATE READING LIST FOR CLASSICS CONCENTRATORS

Classical Archaeology | Greek and Roman History | Medieval Latin

Undergraduate Reading List
for Classical Archaeology Concentrators

Greek Authors (to be read in the original):

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Aristophanes: Frogs

Demosthenes: First Philippic

Euripides: Bacchae

Herodotus: I.1-14, 29-33, 46-92

Homer: Iliad I, XVIII lines 478-608, XXII lines 1-374, XXIV; Odyssey IX, XI

Lyric poetry: the following selections from David A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry: Archilochus 1, 2, 3, 6, 22, 60, 74; Semonides 1; Alcman 26, 89; Solon 1, 3, 22; Stesichorus (all); Sappho 1, 16, 31, 44, 104a, 111, 115, Fr. Adesp. 976; Alcaeus 326, 332, 335, 338, 347, 350, 357; Anacreon 348, 356, 357, 358, 395, 413, 417; Simonides (all); Bacchylides 5; Scolia 884, 889, 890, 892, 893

Lysias: 1

Pausanias: X.8.6-12.3

Plato: Ion

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

Theocritus: 1

Thucydides: I.1-23

Latin Authors (to be read in the original):

Catullus: 1, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 31, 32, 46, 64, 101

Cicero: Verrine 4; Letters 3, 15, 16, 19, 31, 54, 64, 65, 69 (numbered as in D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Cicero, Select Letters)

Horace: Odes I.1, 9, 22, 34, 37, 38; II.3, 6; III.1, 2, 5, 13, 30; IV.7; Sermones I.5, 9; II.6

Juvenal: 3

Livy: I.1-26

Lucretius: V.925-1457

Martial: I.1-4, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 20, 29, 32

Ovid: Metamorphoses I.452-567; VIII.155-235; X.243-297

Pliny the Elder: Natural History XXXIV.9-19; XXXV.1-11, 50-53; XXXVI.101-120, 184-189

Pliny the Younger: Letters VI.16; X.96, 97 (= A. N. Sherwin-White, Fifty Letters of Pliny, # 25, 47, 48)

Tacitus: Annals I.1-15; XIV.1-16

Virgil: Aeneid I, VI, VIII

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