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 & |
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 |
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Oeconomicus |
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