Reading List
(N.B.: This list applies for graduate students entering before the fall of 2004 or later. The reading list for students admitted in 2004 and after is available here.)
The following list is intended to provide explicit guidance to candidates for the Ph.D. in Classics over their course of study.
Greek
- Aeschylus
- Alcaeus
- Alcman
- Anacreon
- Andocides, On the Mysteries
- Antiphon, On the Murder of Herodes
- Apollonius Rhodius, selections
- Archilochus
- Aristophanes, selected comedies
- Aristotle, Poetics, Constitution of the Athenians, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics 1
- Bacchylides
- Callimachus, Hymns, Aitia
- Demosthenes, Philippics, Olynthiacs, On the Crown
- Euripides, Alcestis, Bacchae, Medea, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra
- Heraclitus
- Herodotus
- Hesiod, Works and Days, Theogony
- Homer, Iliad, Odyssey, Hymns
- Isocrates, Panathenaicus
- Longinus, De Sublimitate
- Lysias, Against Eratosthenes, Epitaphios, Against Andocides, On the Fig Tree, For Mantitheus
- Menander, Dyskolos
- Mimnermus
- Parmenides
- Pindar
- Plato, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Gorgias, Republic, Phaedrus
- Plutarch, Solon, Perikles
- Polybius 1-2, 6
- Sappho
- Simonides
- Sophocles
- Theocritus
- Thucydides
- Tyrtaeus
- Xenophon, Hellenica
Latin
- Ammianus 15-18
- Apuleius, Metamorphoses
- Caesar, Bellum Civile, Bellum Gallicum
- Cato, De Agri Cultura
- Catullus, Carmina
- Cicero, Letters (ed. How or Tyrell or Stockton), In Catilinam 1-4, Philippics 1-2, Pro Archia, Pro Milone, Pro Sulla, Pro Caelio, De Amicitia, De Republica, De Oratore, Brutus, De Natura Deorum, Tusculans, De Officiis
- Claudian, In Eutropium
- Ennius
- Horace, Odes 1-4, Epodes, Satires, Ars Poetica, Epistles
- Juvenal, Satires 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15
- Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 1-10, 21-22
- Lucan, Pharsalia 1
- Lucilius
- Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
- Martial, Epigrams, selected
- Ovid, Metamorphoses, Ars Amatoria, Fasti
- Persius, Satires
- Petronius, Cena Trimalchionis
- Plautus, Menaechmi, Miles Gloriosus, Amphitruo, Rudens
- Pliny the Younger, Epistles 10
- Propertius, Carmina
- Quintillian, Institutio Oratoria 1, 10
- Sallust, Catilina, Jugurtha
- Seneca the Younger, Phaedra, Medea, Oedipus, De Ira, De Clementia
- Suetonius, Vitae Caesarum
- Tacitus, Agricola, Annales 1-4
- Terence, Andria, Phormio
- Tibullus, Carmina 1-2
- Virgil, Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid