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