Reading List

Concentration in Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics

Greek

Aeschylus: Agamemnon
Aristophanes: Frogs
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 G. O. Hutchinson, Greek Lyric Poetry (Oxford
2001), except the tragic excerpts, & Archilochus in D. A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry
(Bristol 1982)]
Pindar: O. I-III, P. I & III, Is. I
Plato: Symposium
Sophocles: OT
Thucydides: II
Xenophon: Apology, Symposium
Selection of Inscriptions (from Buck, Greek Dialects)

Latin

Appendix Probi
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.]
Catullus: 1-68
Caesar: Bellum Civile III
Cato: De agri cultura 141
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].
Gospel of John 6.51-69 [Vetus Latina codex Palatinus, e from J.N. Adams, Anthology of Informal Latin 428–444]
Horace: Ars Poetica, Odes III
Livy: I
Lucretius: III
Petronius: Cena
Plautus: Pseudolus
Sallust: Catilina
Tacitus: Agricola
Terence: Eunuchus
Virgil: Aeneid VII-XII

Secondary Literature

Fortson, Benjamin. 2009. Indo-European Language and Culture. 2nd edition. Blackwell. Malden MA.
Weiss, Michael. 2017. Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin. 2nd edition. Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press.
Weiss, Michael. Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Ancient Greek (manuscript).

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