PRELIMINARY READING LIST FOR CLASSICS GRADUATES [= [c]]

THE COMMON READING LIST

(This list is required for all graduate students in the field of Classics, except those in the concentration of Classical Archaeology.)

This list gives the prescribed texts for the common part of ‘Q’ examination, which must be passed by the end of May in the second year. The selection represents a small sample of Greek and Latin writing of different genres, styles and periods. No substitutions can be made for the texts on this list.

This common list will constitute at least 1/2 of total reading-list each student must prepare for the Q-exams (the proportion varies according to the concentration and Special Committee chosen by the student). Students are advised to read this portion of the reading list in their first year of graduate study; reading about one unit a week will leave the summer to study Homer and Virgil.

The additional individual reading list (based on the concentration reading lists) should be determined, in consultation with the student’s Special Committee, by the end of the first year.

Greek

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Aristophanes: Frogs

Aristotle: NE I

Euripides: Bacchae

Gorgias: Helen

Hellenistic : Selected poems1

Hesiod: Theogony

Herodotus: I

Homer: Iliad [XIX-XXIV], Odyssey [XIX-XXIV] [from 2007]

Lyrici : Selected poems2

Lysias: I, VII, XII, XXIV

Menander: Dyscolos

Pindar: O. I-III, P. I & III, Is. I

Plato: Symposium

Plutarch: Delphic Oracles [How to listen to poets] [from 2007]

Sophocles: OT

Thucydides: II

Xenophon: Apology, Symposium

Latin

Archaic: Selected fragments3

Apuleius: Cupid & Psyche

Catullus: 1-68

Caesar: Bellum Civile III

Cicero: In Catilinam I & III, Pro Caelio, Selected letters4

Horace: Ars P, Odes III

Juvenal: I, X.

Livy: I

Lucan: VII

Lucretius: III

Ovid: Metamorphoses I

Petronius: Cena

Plautus: Pseudolus

Propertius: I

Sallust: Catilina

Seneca: Letters 7, 24, 47, 56, 88, 90, 114, 122

‘Seneca’: Thyestes

Tacitus: Agricola

Terence: Eunuchus

Virgil: Aeneid [VII-XII] [from 2007]

1 Callimachus, Apollonius, Moschus & epigrams in N. Hopkinson, A Hellenistic Anthology (Cambridge 1988) & Theocritus Idylls I & VII.

2 The selections in G. O. Hutchinson Greek Lyric Poetry (Oxford 2001), except the tragic excerpts, & Archilochus in D.A. Campbell’s Greek Lyric Poetry (Bristol 1982).

3Accius Brutus; Andronicus Odusia ; Caecilius Plocium ; Cato De falsis pugnis ; Ennius Ann . I, Andromache , Medea ; Epitaphs of the Scipios; Salian & Arval Hymns; Lucilius virtus fr.; Lutatius Catulus epigrams , Naevius Bellum Poenicum , Tarentilla, Cum Metellis Altercatio ; Pacuvius fortuna & profectio frr., Porcius Licinius epigrams , Valerius Aedituus epigrams , Volcacius Sedigitus iudicium comicorum fr. [Texts available in the department.]

4 Letters 3, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 29, 45, 48, 51, 52, 63, 66, 70, 73 in Shackleton Bailey’s Cicero: Select Letters (Cambridge 1980) [= A1.2, A1.13, F14.2, A4.5, F5.12, F7.1, F7.5, F7.6, A5.1, F13.1, F15.1, F15.6, F9.18, F9.26, F7.26, F5.16, A13.52, A14.1, A15.11, A16.6].

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