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Latin Reading Lists
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| Ammianus | History Bks 26,31 |
| Apuleius |
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| 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 & |
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 Nicomachean Ethics I |
| Callimachus | Aetia I, 1-2 Epigrams (Pfeiffer) Baths of Pallas |
| Chariton | Callirhoe Bk I |
| Demosthenes | On the Crown |
| Euripides | Medea Orestes Helen |
| Galen | On Exercise with a Small Ball That the Best Doctor is also a Philosopher |
| Gorgias | Helen |
| Greek Lyric | Alcman 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 |
| Herodotus | Book 1 Book VI Book IX |
| Hesiod | Theogony 1-964 Works and Days |
| Hippocratic Corpus | On the Art |
| Homer | Iliad 1 Iliad 3 Iliad 6 Iliad 16 Iliad 18 Iliad 22 Iliad 24 Odyssey 5 Odyssey 9-12 Odyssey 23 Hymn to Aphrodite |
| Isocrates | Helen |
| Longus | Daphnis and Chloe 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 Olympian 2 Olympian 7 Pythian 1 Pythian 6 Pythian 8 Nemean 8 |
| Plato | Republic 1 (356c) Phaedrus Ion; Republic 376e-398b9; Republic 595-608b10 (= Murray, Plato on Poetry [1996]) |
| Plotinus | Ennead 1.6, 5.8.1-2 |
| Plutarch | How to Study Poetry |
| Sophocles | Antigone Oedipus the King |
| Theocritus | I II VII XI XV |
| Thucydides | Book I Book II Book VI Book VII |
| Xenophon | Oeconomicus |
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