UNDERGRADUATE READING LIST FOR CLASSICS CONCENTRATORS

Classical Archaeology | Greek and Roman History | Medieval Latin

Undergraduate Reading List
for Greek and Roman History Concentrators

Greek Authors (to be read in the original):

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; Callinus (all); Tyrtaeus (all); Solon 1, 3, 22; Alcaeus 326, 332, 335, 338, 347, 350, 357; Xenophanes 1, 2; Theognis 39-68, 87-92, 113-4, 155-8, 183-92, 667-82; Simonides 531; 11, 15, 16 West; Bacchylides 3; Scolia 893 and 907

Pindar: Pythian 1

Aeschylus: Persians

Herodotus: I.1-14, 29-33, 46-92; VI.94-117

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

Aristophanes: Lysistrata

Thucydides: I.1-23, 139-end; II. 34-46, 59-65; III.35-85

Lysias: 1

Xenophon: Anabasis I.1-2.5; II.5 to end; III.1

Demosthenes: First Philippic

Plutarch: Life of Alexander 1-15, 26-7, 73-7

Latin Authors (to be read in the original):

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

Catullus: 1, 4, 5, 12, 14, 22, 28, 44, 49, 57, 93, 94, 95, 101, 113

Cicero: In Cat. I; letters, as in Shackleton Bailey's Cicero, Select Letters: 3, 6, 11, 15, 19, 20, 33, 34, 37, 63, 67, 69, 70, 74, 76, 77

Caesar: Bell. Gall. VII.68-80; Bell. Civ. I.1-15

Sallust: Bell. Cat. 1-26, 50 to end; Jug. 1-16

Virgil: Aen. IV, VI, VIII, XII.697 to end

Livy: I.1-26, 56.6 to end, VI.34-42; XXI.1-16, 31-38

Ovid: Met. XV.622-870

Lucan: I.1-182

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

Pliny: letters, as in Sherwin-White's Fifty Letters of Pliny, Nos. 41-50

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

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