Reading List for M .A . in Greek
I. ANCIENT AUTHORS:
| Aeschylus |
Agamemnon; Libation Bearers; Eumenides; Prometheus Bound |
| Apollonius Rhodius |
Argonautica: Books 1, 3 |
| Aristophanes |
Acharnians; Clouds; Lysistrata; Wasps |
| Aristotle |
Poetics; Politics: Book 3; Eudemian Ethics: Book 7; Metaphysics: Book 1 |
| Callimachus |
Hymns 2, 4, 6 |
| Demosthenes |
Philippics 3 |
| Euripides |
Alcestis; Hippolytus; Medea; Bacchae; Cyclops; Trojan Women |
| Herodotus |
Histories: Books 1, 6, 7 |
| Hesiod |
Theogony; Works and Days |
| Homer |
Iliad; Odyssey |
| Homeric Poems |
Demeter; Apollo; Aphrodite |
| Lyric Poetry |
Sappho's Lyre. Diane Rayor, trans. (Berkeley, 1991) |
| Lysias |
Speech 12 |
| Pindar |
Olympians 1, 7; Pythians 1, 8, 9 |
| Plato |
Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Republic: Book 1, 5, 10 |
| Plutarch |
Pericles |
| Sophocles |
Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone; Philoctetes |
| Theocritus |
Poems 10 and 15 |
| Thucydides |
Peloponnesian War: Books 1, 2, 6, 7 |
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:
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. (Selections)
Read all three selections on the list. This section of the exam
will be allotted 90 minutes; students will be asked to give short answer
identifications and to answer one in-depth essay question.
B. Reading List for Mythology and Religion:
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.
Read both selections on the list. This section of the exam
will be allotted 90 minutes; students will be asked to give short answer
identifications and to answer one in-depth essay question.