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In the ancient world the single-author lexicon was a valued tool, of which fragments are preserved for Plato, Homer, the attic orators, Hippocrates and others. 19th and 20th century attempts to modernize the enterprise required years to assemble, and mostly failed; the few that succeeded are mostly lists of numeric references with little interpretation, yet are still highly prized.

Classics faculty are the editors of the series Cornell Studies in Classical Philology published by Cornell University Press. It comprises monographs on a wide range of subjects within the field of classical studies, including literature, history, art, and archaeology.

Classical Archaeology and Art Q Reading List (9/1/17)Defining the Subject

Classical Archaeology Concentration: Classics Reading ListThis is the reading list required for students in the Classical Archaeology concentration in preparation forthe Third-Year language examination.GREEKEuripides: BacchaeHesiod: TheogonyHerodotus: IHomer: Iliad 22-24, Odyssey 20-22Lysias: I, VII, XII, XXIVPlato: SymposiumSophocles: OTThucydides: IIXenophon: SymposiumLATIN

Reading List for the concentration in Greek and Latin Languages and LinguisticsGREEKAeschylus: AgamemnonAristophanes: FrogsEuripides: BacchaeGorgias: HelenHellenistic : Selected poems [Callimachus, Apollonius, Moschus & epigrams in N.Hopkinson, A Hellenistic Anthology (Cambridge 1988) & Theocritus Idylls I & VII]Hesiod: TheogonyHerodotus: IHomer: Iliad XIX-XXIV, Odyssey XIX-XXIVLyrici : Selected poems [The selections in G. O. Hutchinson, Greek Lyric Poetry (Oxford

Classical Archaeology First-Year Exam: History and Culture of the Ancient Mediterranean

Classics Reading ListThis is the reading list required by all concentrations, except Classical archaeology, for the “Q” Examination.GreekAeschylus: AgamemnonAristophanes: FrogsAristotle: NE IEuripides: BacchaeGorgias: HelenHellenistic : Selected poems [Callimachus, Apollonius, Moschus & epigrams in N. Hopkinson, A Hellenistic Anthology (Cambridge 1988) & Theocritus Idylls I & VII]Hesiod: TheogonyHerodotus: IHomer: Iliad XIX-XXIV, Odyssey XIX-XXIV

Plato and Aristotle remain at the center. But at Cornell, the study of Ancient Philosophy has expanded to include later Platonists like Plotinus and Simplicius, as well as the rich tradition of Skepticism from Pyrrho to Sextus, and the rival schools of Epicurus and the Stoics. Latin authors from Cicero to Augustine show the transmission of Greek culture into the Roman world. Traditional philological skills and up-to-date analytical approaches combine to yield new insights into familiar texts.

Religion is a major research focus for many faculty in Classics, ranging from the cults of the Greek cities to the religions of Rome and its empire, from early Christianity to Late Antiquity, and covering the whole Mediterranean world and beyond. Faculty study the meaning of religion, its impact on social life, its role in the constitution of identity, its expression in visual and material culture.

Greek and Latin came to dominate the ancient Mediterranean world; their greatest texts--from Homer’s epics to the drama, history and philosophy of fifth century Athens, and from Cicero through Virgil  to Augustine—have remained engaging, provocative and instructive ever since, especially through the lenses of new theoretical perspectives and broader contexts.

Cornell is a thriving center for intermedial approaches to antiquity, especially the study of relations between texts and objects. Our faculty have published widely on the concept of “ekphrasis” in ancient literature (whether in scientific treatises, poetry or art history), as well as the relationship between image and text more broadly. Many of us have a special interest in the relationship between literary texts and inscriptions – from inventories and civic documents to epigrams and songs.

The Marzuolo Archaeological Project (MAP) is an international and interdisciplinary fieldwork project investigating the rural craft site of Podere Marzuolo (ca. 2 ha) in southern Tuscany (Italy), which was occupied between the 1st century BC and the 3rd century AD. Preliminary excavations at the site in 2012–13 (under the aegis of the Roman Peasant Project) have yielded exceptionally fine-grained evidence for the production of Roman terra sigillata pottery – the Roman empire’s most emblematic table wares – in a multi-craft context.

The Classical Works Knowledge Base (CWKB) assembles data about 1,550 ancient Greek and Latin authors (5,200 texts) and also contains the linking heuristics to the passage level for these texts.It allows you to resolve most citations of ancient Greek and Latin texts (whether in a canonical, abbreviated form or in a modern language) and to find an expression for it in the following full-text services:

Cornell University Library hosts many squeezes collected during the Cornell Expedition to Asia Minor and the Assyro-Babylonian Orient (1907-1908). The main focus of the Expedition was on pre-classical history and archaeology and they made copies of numerous hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions (called Hittite inscriptions at the time), many newly discovered, which were published in 1911.

Cornell is lucky enough to possess an extensive daktyliotheca ("gem cabinet"), purchased from the German manufacturer Gustav Eichler (1801-77) during the 19th century and given to the university by its first president, Andrew Dickson White. Based on a collection in the Berlin Museum, it includes almost two thousand plaster casts of Greek, Roman and Egyptian seal-stones, as well as replicas of Medieval, Renaissance and Neoclassical medallions. 

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