Classics Reading List
This is the reading list required by all concentrations, except Classical archaeology, for the “Q” Examination.
Greek
Aeschylus: Agamemnon
Aristophanes: Frogs
Aristotle: NE I
Euripides: Bacchae
Gorgias: Helen
Hellenistic : Selected poems [Callimachus, Apollonius, Moschus & epigrams in N. Hopkinson, A Hellenistic Anthology (Cambridge 1988) & Theocritus Idylls I & VII]
Hesiod: Theogony
Herodotus: I
Homer: Iliad XIX-XXIV, Odyssey XIX-XXIV
Lyrici: Selected poems [The selections in F. Budelmann, Greek Lyric: a selection (Cambridge 2018), & Archilochus, Tyrtaeus, Mimnermus, Theognis, and Bacchylides 17 in D. A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry (Bristol 1982)]
Lysias: I, VII, XII, XXIV
Menander: Dyscolos
Pindar: O. I-III, P. I & III, Is. I
Plato: Symposium
Plutarch: How to listen to poets
Sophocles: OT
Thucydides: II
Xenophon: Apology, Symposium
Latin
Archaic: Selected fragments [Accius Brutus; Andronicus Odusia; Caecilius Plocium; Cato De falsis pugnis; Ennius Ann . I, Andromache, Medea; Epitaphs of the Scipios; Salian & Arval Hymns; Lucilius virtus fr.; Lutatius Catulus epigrams, Naevius Bellum Poenicum, Tarentilla, Cum Metellis Altercatio; Pacuvius fortuna & profectio fr., Porcius Licinius epigrams, Valerius Aedituus epigrams, Volcacius Sedigitus iudicium comicorum fr.]
Apuleius: Cupid & Psyche
Catullus: 1-68
Caesar: Bellum Civile III
Cicero: In Catilinam I & III, Pro Caelio, 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].
Horace: Ars Poetica, Odes III
Juvenal: I, X.
Livy: I
Lucan: VII
Lucretius: III
Ovid: Metamorphoses I
Petronius: Cena
Plautus: Pseudolus
Propertius: I
Sallust: Catilina
Seneca: Letters 7, 24, 47, 56, 88, 90, 114, 122
‘Seneca’: Thyestes
Tacitus: Agricola
Terence: Eunuchus
Virgil: Aeneid VII-XII