Reading List for M.A. in Classic Languages
I. ANCIENT AUTHORS:
| Aeschylus |
Agamemnon; Libation Bearers; Eumenides |
| Aristophanes |
Clouds; Lysistrata |
| Aristotle |
Poetics |
| Caesar |
Bellum Gallicum: Book 1 |
| Catullus |
Carmina |
| Cicero |
In Catilinam I; Somnium Scipionis |
| Euripides |
Alcestis; Hippolytus; Bacchae |
| Herodotus |
Histories: Books 1, 7 |
| Hesiod |
Theogony; Works and Days |
| Homer |
Iliad; Odyssey |
| Homeric Poems |
Demeter |
| Horace |
Odes: Book 1; Satires: Book 1.1, 1.4, 1.9, 1.10 |
| Juvenal |
Book 1: Satires 1, 3 |
| Livy |
Ab urbe condita: Books 1, 21 |
| Lucan |
Bellum civile: Book 1 |
| Lucretius |
De rerum natura: Book 3 |
| Lyric Poetry |
Sappho's Lyre. Diane Rayor, transl. (Berkeley, 1991) |
| Ovid |
Metamorphoses: Books 1, 8 |
| Petronius |
Cena Trimalchionis |
| Pindar |
Olympians 1, 7 |
| Plato |
Apology; Republic: Book 1 |
| Plautus |
Mostellaria |
| Pliny the Younger |
Epistulae: Books 6.16, 6.20; 10.96, 10.97 |
| Plutarch |
Pericles |
| Propertius |
Carmina: Book 1 |
| Sallust |
Bellum Catilinae |
| Sophocles |
Oedipus the King; Antigone |
| Suetonius |
Divus Augustus |
| Tacitus |
Annales: Books 1 |
| Terence |
Eunuchus |
| Thucydides |
Peloponnesian War: Books 1, 6, 7 |
| Vergil |
Aeneid |
Read
the entire list in translation. This section of the exam will be allotted one hour;
students will be asked to identify and discuss the significance of several
passages. In
addition to identifying the quotation from the particular work, the answer
must also reflect a knowledge of the author and his or her contribution to
Classical literature.
II. MODERN SCHOLARSHIP: Handbooks
A. Reading List for Historical Contexts:
for Greece:
1. J.B.Bury and R. Meiggs, A History of Greece to the Death
of Alexander the Great. 4th edition. New York: 1975.
2. S. Pomeroy, S. Burstein, W. Donlan, and J. Tolbert, Ancient
Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History. Oxford: 1998.
3. R. Osborne, Greece in the Making, 1200-479 BC.
London: 1996.
for Rome:
1. M. Cary and H.H. Scullard, A History of Rome. 3rd
edition. New York: 1975.
2. Colin Wells, The Roman Empire. 2nd
edition. London: 1992.
3. Mary Beard and Michael Crawford, Rome in the Late
Republic. 2nd edition. London: 1999.
Read four of the six books listed. This section of the exam
will be allotted two hours; students will be asked to give short answer identifications
and to answer one in-depth essay question.
B. Reading List for Mythology and Religion:
for Greece:
1. W. Burkert, Greek Religion. Cambridge, MA: 1985.
2. T. Gantz, Early Greek Myth. Baltimore: 1993. Chapters
1 (pp. 44-56), 2,7,8,10, 11, 12, and 15.
for Rome:
1. D. Feeney, Literature and Religion at Rome: Cultures,
Contexts, and Beliefs. Cambridge: 1998.
2. J. Bremer and N. Horsfall, Roman Myths and Mythography.
London: 1987.
Read three of the four books listed. This section of the exam
will be allotted two hours; students will be asked to give short answer
identifications and to answer one in-depth essay question.