M.A. Reading Lists in Greek and Latin

Reading List in Greek

Epic

• Homer, Iliad, Books 1-4, 6, 9, 11, 16-18, 22, 24
  OR
  Odyssey, Books 1-6, 9-12, 19, 23, 24
• Homeric Hymn to Demeter
• Hesiod, Theogony

Lyric

• Selections of Lyric Poets (Campbell)
• Pindar, Olympian 1; Pythian 1, 3

Drama

• Aeschylus, Agamemnon
• Sophocles, Oidipous Tyrannos, Antigone
• Euripides, Hippolytos, Bakchai
• Aristophanes, Frogs

History

• Herodotos, Book 1
• Thucydides, Books 1, 2
• Xenophon, Anabasis, Books 1, 2

Philosophy

• Plato, Apology; Republic, Book 1
• Aristotle, Poetics

Oratory

• Lysias, Against Eratosthenes
• Demosthenes, On the Crown
• Isokrates, Panegyrikos

Hellenistic Poetry

• Callimachos, Hymns to Apollo, Delos; Aitia, "prologue"

Reading List in Latin

Epic

• Vergil, Aeneid, Eclogues
• Ovid, Metamorphoses, Books 1, 8, 15

Lyric

• Catullus, Carmina
• Horace, Odes, Books 1-3

History

• Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, Books 1, 6, 7
  OR
  Bellum Civile, Books 1-3
• Livy, Books 1, 21
• Sallust, Catiline
• Tacitus, Annales, Books 1, 2
• Augustus, Res Gestae

Rhetoric

• Cicero, In Catilinam I-IV, Pro Caelio

Epistulae

• Cicero (for selections, see DGS)
• Pliny (for selections, see DGS)

Drama

• Plautus, Menaechmi, Amphitryo
• Terence, Adelphoe

Satire

• Horace, Satire, 1.1
• Juvenal, 1, 3

Elegy

• Tibullus, Book 1
• Propertius, Book 1
• Ovid, Amores, Book 1

Philosophy and Religious Writing

• Augustine, Confessions (selections in Campbell and McGuire)
• Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Book 1
• Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, Book 1