M.A. Classical Language and Literature Reading List

GREEK

HOMER
Iliad 1, 6, 9, 24

ARCHAIC POETRY AND EPINICIAN
Pindar, Olympian 1, Pythian 1, Nemean 1, Isthmian 1

TRAGEDY
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus
Euripides, Bacchae

COMEDY AND HELLENISTIC POETRY
Aristophanes, Frogs

HISTORIANS
Herodotus 1 
Thucydides 2

PHILOSOPHY
Plato, Apology, Crito, Republic 1

ORATORY
Lysias 1, 12 
Demosthenes, On the Crown 1-125

LATIN

REPUBLICAN POETRY
Plautus, Pseudolus ed. Gratwick
Terence, Adelphoe ed. Martin
Catullus, 1-60, 63, 64, 67-85 ed. Quinn

VIRGIL
Eclogues 1, 4, 5, 8, 10 ed. Coleman
Aeneid 2 ed. Austin
Aeneid 6 ed. Fletcher

OTHER AUGUSTAN POETRY
Horace, Odes 3 ed. Williams or West
Horace, Ars Poetica ed. Rudd
Ovid, Amores 1 ed. Barsby
Ovid, Metamorphoses 8 ed. Hollis, 10 ed. Anderson

POST-AUGUSTAN POETRY
Lucan, Civil War 8 ed. Mayer
Juvenal, Satires 1-5 ed. Braund

HISTORIOGRAPHY
Livy, Ab Vrbe Condita 1 ed. Ogilvie
Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 1-32 ed. Ramsey
Tacitus, Annals 4 ed. Martin & Woodman

ORATORY AND RHETORIC
Cicero, Pro Archia ed. Cerutti 
Cicero, In Catilinam 1, 2 ed. Dyck

LETTERS AND PHILOSOPHY
Cicero, De Republica 6 = 'Somnium Scipionis' ed. Zetzel
Pliny, Letters, selection ed. Sherwin-White

OTHER PROSE
Seneca, Apocolocyntosis ed. Eden
Petronius, Satyricon = 'Cena Trimalchionis' 26.7-46 ed. Smith