Ph.D Classics: Ancient History Reading List (emphasis Latin)
GREEK
HOMER
Iliad 1, 6, 9, 24 (West, Teubner)
ARCHAIC POETRY
Pindar, Olympian 1, Pythian 1, Nemean 1, Isthmian 1 (Kirkwood)
TRAGEDY
Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Page, OCT)
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus (Lloyd-Jones and Wilson, OCT)
Euripides, Bacchae (Diggle, OCT)
COMEDY
Aristophanes, Frogs (Dover)
HISTORIANS
Herodotus 1 (Hude, OCT)
Thucydides 2 (Jones, OCT)
PHILOSOPHY
Plato, Apology, Crito (Duke et al., OCT), Republic 1 (Slings, OCT)
ORATORY
Lysias 1, 12 (Hude, OCT)
Demosthenes, On the Crown 1-125 (Butcher, OCT)
LATIN
REPUBLICAN POETRY
Plautus, Pseudolus (Lindsay, OCT)
Terence, Adelphoe (Lindsay, Kauer, OCT)
Catullus, 1-60, 63, 64, 67-85 (Thomson 1997)
VIRGIL
Eclogues 1, 4, 5, 8, 10 (Mynors, OCT)
Georgics 4 (Mynors, OCT)
Aeneid 2, 6, 8.608-731 (Mynors, OCT)
OTHER AUGUSTAN POETRY
Horace, Sermones 1. 4, 5, 8, 9 (Klinger, Teubner), Odes 3 (Wickham, Garrod, OCT), Ars Poetica (Rudd)
Propertius, 1.1-3, 16 and 4.1, 4, 7, 11 (Camps)
Ovid, Amores 1 (Kenney, OCT), Ars Amatoria 1 (Kenney, OCT), Ovid, Metamorphoses 8 & 10 (Tarrant (OCT)
POST-AUGUSTAN POETRY
Lucan, Civil War 8 (Shackleton-Bailey, Teubner)
Juvenal, Satires 1-5 (Braund)
Martial, selection (Watson & Watson)
Statius Silvae 4.1-2; 5.4 (Courtney, OCT)
REPUBLICAN PROSE
Cato, For the Rhodians (Malcovati, ORF), De Agri Cultura, Preface, 1-5 (Mazzarino, Teubner)
Caesar, Gallic Wars 6 (Seel, Teubner)
Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia, Pro Archia (Kasten, Teubner), In Catilinam 1, 2 (Maslowski, Teubner)
HISTORIOGRAPHY
Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 1-32 (Reynolds, OCT)
Livy, Ab Vrbe Condita 1 (Ogilvie, OCT)
Velleius Paterculus 2.57-107
Tacitus, Annals 1, 4, 14 (Fisher, OCT), Histories 1
IMPERIAL BIOGRAPHY
Suetonius, Augustus (Shuckburgh)
Tacitus, Agricola (Ogilvie & Richmond)
Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Hadrian
Ammianus Marcellinus (TBA)
LETTERS
Cicero, De Republica 6 (Somnium Scipionis) (Zetzel), Letters, selection (Shackleton-Bailey)
Pliny, Letters, selection (Sherwin-White)
OTHER IMPERIAL PROSE
Seneca, Apocolocyntosis (Eden), De Clementia
Petronius, Satyricon 26.7-46 (Cena Trimalchionis) (Smith)
Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.85-131 (Peterson)
Apuleius, Apologia
INSCRIPTIONS
Some Fasti Capitolini
Res Gestae Divi Augusti (Brunt)
Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre (AJP 1999)
