Classical Archaeology Concentration: Classics Reading List

Classical Archaeology Concentration: Classics Reading List

This is the reading list required for students in the Classical Archaeology concentration in preparation for

the Third-Year language examination.

GREEK

Euripides: Bacchae

Hesiod: Theogony

Herodotus: I

Homer: Iliad 22-24, Odyssey 20-22

Lysias: I, VII, XII, XXIV

Plato: Symposium

Sophocles: OT

Thucydides: II

Xenophon: Symposium

LATIN

Apuleius: Cupid & Psyche

Catullus: 1-20 selected, 63, 64

Caesar: Bellum Civile III

Cicero: In Catilinam I & III, Selected letters [3, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 29, 45, 48, 51, 52,

63, 66, 70, 73 in Shackleton Bailey, Cicero: Select Letters (Cambridge 1980) = A1.2, A1.13, F14.2, A4.5,

F5.12, F7.1, F7.5, F7.6, A5.1, F13.1, F15.1, F15.6, F9.18, F9.26, F7.26, F5.16, A13.52, A14.1, A15.11,

A16.6].

Juvenal: I

Livy: I

Ovid: Metamorphoses I

Petronius: Cena

Sallust: Catilina

Tacitus: Agricola

Virgil: Aeneid 9-12