Reading Lists for Examinations

Reading Lists for Examinations

GREEK

  • Homer: Iliad 1, 9, 16, 24; Odyssey 1, 9-11; Hymns 2
  • Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days 1-285
  • Greek Lyric Poetry (selections from David A. Campbell's anthology): Archilochus, Sappho, Alcaeus, Mimnermus, Tyrtaeus, Solon
  • Pindar: Olympian 1, Pythian 4
  • Presocratics (from Kirk-Raven-Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers, 2nd. ed.): Heraclitus, Parmenides
  • Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Eumenides
  • Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus
  • Euripides: Alcestis, Troades, Bacchae
  • Aristophanes: Clouds, Lysistrata
  • Herodotus: 1; 6.94-140; 7
  • Gorgias:  Helen
  • Hippocrates: Sacred Disease
  • Thucydides: 1; 2.35-65, 5.84-116; 7
  • Xenophon: Hellenica 1.1; 2.2-4
  • Lysias: 1, 12
  • Demosthenes: Olynthiac 1, adv. Leptinem
  • Isocrates: Panegyricus
  • Plato: Apology, Crito, Phaedrus, Symposium, Republic 1
  • Aristotle: Poetics, Politics 1
  • Menander:  Dyscolus
  • Apollonius:  Argonautica III
  • Theocritus:  I, VII, XI, XV
  • Callimachus:  Hymns II; Aetia Frs. 1-2,  67-75, 110
  • Polybius: 6
  • Gospel of Mark
  • Plutarch:  Pericles
  • Lucian: Somnium
  • Herodian:  VII
  • John Chrysostom: Contra ludos

LATIN

  • Plautus: Amphitruo; Miles Gloriosus
  • Terence: Adelphoe
  • Catullus:  all
  • Lucretius: 1
  • Cicero:  In Catilinam 1; De Officiis; Pro Milone; Caelio; Letters Ad Atticum 1. 2, 5, 11, 13; 2. 14; 3. 3, 13; 4. 3, 5, 10, 12, 15; 5. 1, 14; 6. 6; 7. 4, 10; 8. 13; 9. 11, 18; 11. 4, 5; 12. 15, 16, 32; 13. 10, 11, 33A, 42, 52; 14. 1, 13B, 21; 15. 1A, 11, 16A, 27; 16. 6, 9; Ad Familiares 5. 1, 2, 12, 16; 6. 14, 24; 7. 1, 4, 5, 6, 16, 22, 28; 9. 10, 23, 24, 26; 10. 3; 12. 3, 22; 13. 27; 14. 2, 7, 12, 18, 20; 15. 1, 18; 16. 14, 24; Ad Quintum Fratrem 2. 4, 9, 10
  • Caesar: Bellum Gallicum 1
  • Sallust: Bellum Catilinae
  • Livy: 1
  • Augustus:  Res Gestae Divi Augusti
  • Vergil: Eclogues 1,4; Georgics 1; Aeneid
  • Horace: Odes 1.3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 21, 22, 24, 29, 31, 34, 35, 37, 38; 2.1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18; 3.1-6, 9, 13, 21, 29, 30; 4.3, 7; Satires 1.1, 4, 6, 10; Epistles I, II 2
  • Tibullus:  I, II
  • Propertius:  I
  • Ovid: Metamorphoses 1, 6, 8, 10; Amores 1
  • Persius:  I
  • Lucan:  1
  • Seneca:  Thyestes; Epistles 40, 47, 77, 79, 88, 90, 114
  • Petronius:  Cena Trimalchionis
  • Juvenal: 1, 3, 8, 10
  • Pliny the Younger: Letters 1.6, 12; 2.17, 20; 3.1, 16, 21; 4.2; 6.16, 20; 7.4, 9; 9.36; 10.96, 97
  • Martial:  I
  • Tacitus: Annals 1, 14; Agricola
  • Suetonius: Caesar
  • Apuleius: Golden Ass 4. 28-6. 24 (Cupid and Psyche)
  • Tertullian: Apology
  • Ammianus Marcellinus:  14
  • Historia Augusta:  Hadrian
  • Augustine:  Confessions 3, 8
  • The Medieval Latin selections on “The Christian Life,” Section 2 of F.E. Harrison, Millenium: A Latin Reader, A.D. 374–1374

Archaeology

Greek
  • Barrett, J., and P. Halstead, eds. 2004. The Emergence of Civilization Revisited..
  • Barringer, J. 2014. The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece.
  • Biers, W. 1996. The Archaeology of Greece. 2nd ed.
  • Blake, E. and A.B. Knapp, eds. 2005. The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory.
  • Boardman, J. 2016. Greek Art. 5th ed.
  • Dickinson, O. 2006. The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC.
  • Higgins, R. A. 1997. Minoan and Mycenaean Art.
  • Neer, R. 2011. Greek Art & Archaeology.
  • Osborne, O. 1998. Archaic and Classical Greek Art.
  • Pedley, J. G., 2011. Greek Art and Archaeology.
  • Pollitt, J. J. 1986. Art in the Hellenistic Age.
  • Stewart, A. 2009. Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art.
  • Whitley, J. 2001. The Archaeology of Ancient Greece.
Roman
  • Adam, J.-P. 1994. Roman Building: Materials and Techniques.
  • Alcock, S. E. and Osborne, R. (eds.) 2012. Classical Archaeology.
  • Carandini, A., Carafa P., (eds.) 2017. Atlas of Ancient Rome.
  • Clarke, J. R. 1991. The houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 : ritual, space, and decoration.
  • Izzet, V. 2007. Archaeology of Etruscan Society.
  • Kleiner, D.E.E. 1992. Roman Sculpture.
  • MacDonald, W. L. 1982. The Architecture of the Roman Empire (Vol. 2).
  • MacIntosh Turfa, J. 2013, The Etruscan World. Part II, III, V, VII.
  • Smith, R.R.R., 1987. “The Imperial Reliefs of the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias.” JRS 77,  88-138.
  • Stewart, P., 2008. The Social History of Roman Art.
  • Torelli, M., 1982. Typology and Structure of Roman Historical Reliefs.
  • Zanker, P., 1988. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus.
3D Models