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THE GRADUATE MANUAL

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
I. Conspectus of Requirements for the Ph.D. II. Summary Chronological Table of Progress Toward the Ph.D. III. Requirements for the MA
IV. Distribution of Course Work V. Direction of Work During Progress Toward the Ph.D VI. Teaching as a Component of Graduate Education VII. Examinations VIII. The Dissertation IX. Finances X. Conclusion XI. Reading Lists

XI. READING LISTS

Reading lists for Examinations

GREEK
Homer: Iliad 1, 9, 16, 24; Odyssey 1, 9-11; Hymns 2, 5

Hesiod: Theogony

Greek Lyric Poetry (selections from David A. Campbell's anthology): Archilochus, Sappho, Alcaeus, Mimnermus, Tyrtaeus, Solon

Pindar: Olympian 1, Pythian 4

Presocratics (from Kirk-Raven-Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers, 2nd. ed.): Heraclitus, Parmenides

Aeschylus: Prometheus, Libation Bearers

Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Electra

Euripides: Alcestis, Troades, Electra

Aristophanes: Clouds, Lysistrata

Theocritus: 1

Herodotus: 1; 6, 94-140, 7

Gorgias:  Helen

Hippocrates: Sacred Disease

Thucydides: 1; 2.35-65, 5.84-116; 7

Xenophon: Anabasis 1, Memorabilia 1, 2.1; Hellenica 1.1; 2.2-4

Lysias: 1, 12

Demosthenes: Olynthiac 1, De Corona

Isocrates: Panegyricus

Plato: Apology, Crito, Gorgias, Republic 1

Aristotle: Politics 1

Menander:  Dyscolus

Apollonius:  Argonautica III

Theocritus:  I, VII, XI, XV

Callimachus:  Hymns II; Aetia Frs. 1-2.  67-75, 110

Polybius: 6

Gospel of Mark

Plutarch:  Pericles

Lucian: Somnium

Herodian:  VII

John Chrysostom: Contra ludos

 

LATIN
Plautus: Amphitruo; Miles Gloriosus

Terence: Adelphoe

Catullus:  all

Lucretius: 1

Cicero:  In Catilinam 1;  De Officiis; Pro Milone; Caelio; Letters Ad Atticum 1. 2, 5, 11, 13; 2. 14; 3. 3, 13; 4. 3, 5, 10, 12, 15; 5. 1, 14; 6. 6; 7. 4, 10; 8. 13; 9. 11, 18; 11. 4, 5; 12. 15, 16, 32; 13. 10, 11, 33A, 42, 52; 14. 1, 13B, 21; 15. 1A, 11, 16A, 27; 16. 6, 9;  Ad Familiares 5. 1, 2, 12, 16; 6. 14, 24; 7. 1, 4, 5, 6, 16, 22, 28; 9. 10, 23, 24, 26; 10. 3; 12. 3, 22; 13. 27; 14. 2, 7, 12, 18, 20,; 15. 1, 18; 16. 14, 24; Ad Quintum Fratrem 2. 4, 9, 10

Caesar: Bellum Gallicum 1

Sallust: Bellum Catilinae

Livy: 1

Augustus:  Res Gestae Divi Augusti

Vergil: Eclogues 1,4; Georgics 1; Aeneid

Horace: Odes 1.3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 21, 22, 24, 29, 31, 34, 35, 37, 38; 2.1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18; 3.1-6, 9, 13, 21, 29, 30; 4.3, 7; Satires 1.1, 4, 6, 10; Epistles I, II 2

Tibullus:  I, II

Propertius:  I

Ovid: Metamorphoses 1, 6, 8, 10; Amores 1

Persius:  I

Lucan:  1

Seneca:  Thyestes; Epistles 40, 47, 77, 79, 88, 90, 114

Petronius:  Cena Trimalchionis

Juvenal: 1, 3, 8, 10

Pliny the Younger: Letters 1.6, 12; 2.17, 20; 3.1, 16, 21; 4.2; 6.16, 20; 7.4, 9; 9.36; 10.96, 97

Martial:  I

Tacitus: Annals 1, 14; Agricola

Suetonius: Caesar

Apuleius: Golden Ass 4. 28-6. 24 (Cupid and Psyche)

Tertullian: Apology

Ammianus Marcellinus:  14

Historia Augusta:  Hadrian

Augustine:  Confessions 3, 8

The Medieval Latin selections on “The Christian Life,” Section 2 of F.E. Harrison, Millenium: A Latin Reader, A.D. 374–1374