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Reading List

Reading List

Substitutions are allowed at the discretion of the exam committee.

Latin Reading List

Apuleius

Cupid and Psyche

Augustine

Confessions I-II

Catullus

Entire

Cicero

In Catilinam I, Pro Milone, Philippic II, Letters (Shackleton Bailey selection), De Natura Deorum I

Horace

Odes Books I-III; Sat. I, 1, 4, 10; Ars Poetica

Juvenal

3, 4, 10

Livy

Book I; Book V

Lucan

Bellum Civile II

Lucretius

Book I; Book III

Ovid

Met. I, XIII; Amores I

Petronius

Cena Trimalchionis

Plautus

Amphitryo, Menaechmi

Propertius

Book I; Book III 1-5

Sallust

Catiline

Seneca

Thyestes

Tacitus

Annales Books XV

Tibullus

Terence

Entire

Andria; Eunuchus

Vergil

Aeneid (entire); Eclogues(all); Georgics IV

Greek Reading List

Aeschylus

Agamemnon; Eumenides

Apollonius

Argonautica III

Aristophanes

Acharnians, Frogs

Aristotle

Poetics; Ath. Pol.

Callimachus

Hymn to Apollo; Aetia I, 1-2; epigrams

Demosthenes

On the Crown

Euripides

Medea, Orestes, Ion

Greek Lyric

Campbell's selections of Archilochus, Alcman, Stesichorus, Solon, Sappho, Alcaeus, Xenophanes, Anacreon, Simonides, Bacchylides

Herodotus

Book I; VII. 1-155; IX

Hesiod

Theogony I-482; Works and Days 1-382

Homer

Iliad, Books 1, 2 (1-483), 3, 6, 9, 16, 18, 22, 24; Odyssey, Books 8-12, 19-24

Isocrates

Antidosis

Lucian

Philopseudes

Lysias

I, VII, XII

Menander

Samia

Pindar

Olymp. 1, 2, 7; Pyth. 1, 2, 8; Nem. 7

Plato

Republic 1; Symposium; Apology; Plato on Poetry (ed. Murray); Apology

Sophocles

Antigone; Philoctetes

Theocritus

I, II, VII, XI, XV

Thucydides

Books I-II