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Ph.D. Reading Lists

Latin Reading Lists

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Ammianus

History Bks 26,31

Apuleius         

Cupid and Psyche (Met. Bks 4.28-6.24)

Augustine

Confessions 5

Augustus

Res Gestae

Ausonius

Mosella

Caesar

de bello Gallico I, VI 

Cato

de Agricultura 1-5

Catullus

all

Cicero

Philippic I, Pro Caelio, de Oratore I, de Natura Deorum I

Horace

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

Juvenal

Satires 3, 4, 10

Livy

Books I, XXII

Lucan

Bellum Civile II

Lucretius

de Rerum Natura III

Ovid

Met. I, VIII; Amores I; Heroides 7

Petronius

Cena Trimalchionis (Satyricon 26-78)

Plautus

Amphitruo, Menaechmi 

Propertius

Book I, Book III.1-5

Sallust

Catilina

Seneca

Thyestes, de Ira, ad Lucilium, 51. 56, 114 

Statius

Silvae 2.7

Suetonius

Claudius

Symmachus &         
Ambrose       

Letters on the Altar of Victory

Tacitus

Annales 1, Historiae I, Dialogus de Orat. 

Terence

Adelphoe

Tertullian de Spectaculis

Virgil

Aeneid Bks 1-2, 4, 6, 8, 12; Eclogues; Georgics 4

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Greek Reading Lists

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Aeschylus                         

Agamemnon; Eumenides

Apollonius

Argonautica III

Aristophanes

Acharnians, Frogs

Aristotle

Poetics; Politics I

Callimachus

Aetia I, 1-2; epigrams; Baths of Pallas

Demosthenes

On the Crown

Euripides

Medea; Orestes; Helen

Galen Exercise with a Small Ball, That the Best Doctor is also a Philosopher

Gorgias

Helen

Greek Lyric

Aleman 1 
Anacreon

(all selected fragments in Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry [rev. ed. 2002])

Archilochus Cologne Epode, Telephus Elegy
Bacchylides 3, 5, 17, 18
Corinna 654
Ibycus 282
Sappho 1, 16, 44, Tithonus Poem (fr. 58), Brothers Poem
Semonides 1, 7
Simonides 542, 543
Solon 1, 3, 24
Theognis 39-52, 53-68
Tyrtaeus
Xenophanes 1, 2
Heliodorus

Aithiopika I

Herodotus

Books I, VI,  IX

Hesiod

Theogony 1-964; Works and Days

Hippocratic Corpus

On the Art

Homer

Iliad 1, 3, 6, 16, 18, 22, 24; Odyssey 5,9-12, 23; Hymn to Aphrodite

Isocrates

Helen

Longus

Daphnis and Cloe Book 1 

Lysias

I (On the Murder of Eratosthenes), VII (Before the Areopagus: Defense in the Matter of the Olive Stump), XII (Against Eratosthenes) 

Menander

Samia

Pindar

Olympian 1, 2, 7; Pythian 1, 6, 8; Nemean. 8

Plato

Republic 1 (356c), Phaedrus, Ion, Republic 376e-398b9; Republic 595-608b10 (= Murray, Plato on Poetry [1996]) 

Plotinus

Enneas 5.8.1-2

Plutarch

How to Study Poetry

Sophocles

Antigone; Oedipus the King

Theocritus

II, VII, XI, XV

Thucydides Books I, II, VI, VII


Xenophon

Oeconomicus

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