Ph.D Classical Language and Literature List
GREEK
HOMER
Iliad 1, 6, 9, 24 (West, Teubner)
Odyssey 6, 7, 8, 9, 19 (Allen, OCT)
ARCHAIC POETRY
Hesiod, Works and Days 1-382 (Solmsen, OCT)
Pindar, Olympian 1, Pythian 1, Nemean 1, Isthmian 1 (Kirkwood)
Archaic Poetry, selection (Campbell: Archilochus 1, 2, 3, 5A, 6, 7; Alcman 1; Sappho 1, 16, 31; Alcaeus 34A, 38A, 42; Solon 3)
TRAGEDY
Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Page, OCT)
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, Philoctetes (Lloyd-Jones and Wilson, OCT)
Euripides, Alcestis, Bacchae (Diggle, OCT)
COMEDY
Aristophanes, Wasps (MacDowell), Frogs (Dover)
Hellenistic Poetry, selection (Hopkinson)
HISTORIANS
Herodotus 1, 6 (Hude, OCT)
Thucydides 2, 6 (Jones, OCT)
Xenophon, Anabasis 1 (Marchant, OCT)
PHILOSOPHY
Plato, Apology, Crito (Duke et al., OCT), Republic 1 (Slings, OCT)
Aristotle, Poetics (Kassel, OCT)
ORATORY
‘Old Oligarch’, Constitution of the Athenians (Marchant, OCT)
Gorgias, Helen (Diels-Kranz)
Lysias 1, 12 (Hude, OCT)
Demosthenes, On the Crown 1-125 (Butcher, OCT)
OTHER PROSE
Luke, Gospel (Aland, Aland & Metzger)
Plutarch, Moralia 608b-612b (Consolatio ad Uxorem) (Pohlenz-Sieveking, Teubner)
LATIN
REPUBLICAN POETRY
Plautus, Pseudolus (Lindsay, OCT)
Ennius, Annales 1-3, 29, 47 (Skutsch)
Terence, Adelphoe (Lindsay, OCT)
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3 (Bailey, OCT)
Catullus, 1-60, 63, 64, 67-85 (Thomson, 1997)
VIRGIL
Eclogues 1, 4, 5, 8, 10 (Mynors, OCT)
Georgics 4 (Mynors, OCT)
Aeneid 1.1-493, 2, 4, 6 & 8 (Mynors, OCT)
OTHER AUGUSTAN POETRY
Horace, Sermones 1. 4, 5, 8, 9 (Klinger), Odes 3 (Wickham, Garrod, OCT), Ars Poetica (Rudd)
Propertius, 1.1-3, 16 and 4.1, 4, 7, 11 (Camps)
Tibullus 1.1, 2, 5, 7 (Postgate, OCT)
Sulpicia (Tib. 4.7-12) (Postgate, OCT)
Ovid, Amores 1 (Kenney), Ars Amatoria 1 (Kenney), Metamorphoses 8 & 10 (Tarrant, OCT)
POST-AUGUSTAN POETRY
Seneca, Thyestes (Zwierlein, OCT)
Lucan, Civil War 8 (Shackleton-Bailey, Teubner)
Martial, selection (Watson & Watson)
Statius, Silvae 4.1-2 (Courtney, OCT)
Juvenal, Satires 1-5 (Braund)
HISTORIOGRAPHY
Caesar, Gallic Wars 6 (Seel, Teubner)
Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 1-32 (Reynolds, OCT)
Livy, Ab Vrbe Condita 1 (Ogilvie, OCT)
Suetonius, Domitian (Jones)
Tacitus, Agricola (Ogilvie & Richmond), Annals 4 (Fisher, OCT)
ORATORY
Cato, For the Rhodians (Malcovati, ORF)
Cicero, In Catilinam 1, 2 (Maslowski, Teubner), Pro Archia (Kasten, Teubner), Brutus 1-12, 248-62, 313-33 (Douglas)
Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.85-131(Russell, Loeb)
LETTERS
Cicero, Letters, selection (Shackleton-Bailey)
Cicero, De Republica 6 (Somnium Scipionis) (Zetzel)
Seneca, Moral Epistles (Motto)
Pliny, Letters, selection (Sherwin-White)
OTHER PROSE
Cato, De Agri Cultura, Preface, 1-5 (Mazzarino, Teubner)
Seneca, Apocolocyntosis (Eden)
Petronius, Satyricon 26.7-46 (Cena Trimalchionis) (Smith)
Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1 (Helm, Teubner)
Augustine, Confessions 1 (O’Donnell)
