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UNDERGRADUATE READING LIST FOR CLASSICS CONCENTRATORS

(updated 9/04)

 General Examinaton | Greek and Latin Authors

Classical Archaeology | Greek and Roman History | Medieval Latin

Greek Authors

  • Homer: Iliad I, IX, XVIII lines 478-608, XXII, XXIV; Odyssey IX-XII

  • Hesiod: Works and Days lines 1-292; Theogony lines 1-210, 453-616

  • Homeric Hymn to Demeter

  • Lyric Poetry: The following selections from David A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry: Archilochus (all); Callinus (all); Tyrtaeus (all); Semonides 1; Alcman 26, 89; Mimnermus (all); 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; Ibycus 286, 287; Anacreon 348, 356, 357, 358, 395, 413, 417; Xenophanes 1, 2; Theognis 19-254; Simonides (all); Bacchylides 5; Carmina Pop. 848; Scolia 884, 889, 890, 892, 893

  • Pindar: Olympian 1; Pythian 8; Nemean 6; Isthmian 8

  • Aeschylus: Agamemnon

  • Herodotus: I.1-92

  • Sophocles: Antigone; Oedipus Rex

  • Euripides: Bacchae

  • Aristophanes: Clouds

  • Thucydides: I.1-23, 139-end; II.34-65; VII.84-87

  • Lysias: 1

  • Isocrates: Helen sections 16-38; Panegyricus sections 26-33, 47-50

  • Plato: Apology; Phaedo beginning to 63c7, 114d1 to end; Republic beginning to 341b2

  • Xenophon: Memorabilia I.i-ii.48; II.i.22-34

  • Demosthenes: First Philippic

  • Aristotle: Poetics 1448b4-1456a32 (Chapters 4-18)

  • Theocritus: 1, 11

  • Callimachus: Aetia I Fragment 1 lines 1-38; Epigrams 2, 18, 21, 25, 27, 28, 35, 41, 43 (Numbered as in Pfeiffer's edition)

  • Apollonius Rhodius: I.1-22; III.1-298; IV.350-390>

    Latin Authors

  • Ennius: Annales 32-48, 80-100, 109, 409-416 (Numbered as in Loeb series edition, Remains of Old Latin I, ed. Warmington)

  • Plautus: Menaechmi

  • Terence: Adelphoe

  • Lucretius: I.1-448, 921-950; II.1-61; III.1-30, 830 to end; V.925 to end

  • Catullus: 1-16, 22, 28, 30-36, 38, 39, 44-46, 49-51, 58, 62, 64, 68, 70, 72, 75, 76, 82-87, 92, 93, 95, 96, 99, 101, 109

  • Cicero: In Catilinam I; Somnium Scipionis (from De Republica); Pro Caelio; Letters 1, 3, 6, 15, 18, 19, 20, 24, 27, 33, 34, 38, 52, 63, 67, 68, 69 (Numbered as in D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Cicero, Select Letters)

  • Caesar: Bellum Civile I.1-15

  • Sallust: Bellum Catilinae 1-26, 50 to end

  • Horace: Epode 16; Odes I.1-7, 9, 14, 17, 20, 22, 24, 28, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38; II.3, 6, 7, 14, 20; III.1-6, 13, 26, 30; IV.1, 7, 13; Sermones I.1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10; II.6; Epistulae I.7, 19

  • Virgil: Eclogues 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10; Georgics I.1-159, 438 to end; II.458 to end; IV.1-7, 315 to end; Aeneid I, II, IV, VI, VIII, XII.697 to end

  • Livy: I.1-26, 56.6 to end; XXI.1-16, 31-38

  • Propertius: I.1, 3, 5, 6, 11, 18-20; II.1, 10, 15; III.1-3; IV.7, 11

  • Tibullus: I.1, 3, 5; II.1

  • Ovid: Amores I.1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 13; II.7; III.9, 15; Metamorphoses I.1-252, 348-567

  • Seneca: Epistulae 7, 12, 56

  • Lucan: I.1-182; VII.1-134, 647-727

  • Petronius: Satyricon 61-62, 111-112

  • Martial: I.1-4, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 20, 29, 32; VIII.55, 73; XII.57, 94

  • Juvenal: 1, 3, 10

  • Pliny: Letters VI.16; VII.33; X.96, 97

  • Tacitus: Agricola 1-4, 42-46; Annales I.1-15; IV.1-12, 32-41; XII.58-69; XIII.11-21; XIV.1-16

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