Ph.D Reading List for Classical Archaeology Majors

Greek

• Aeschines: Against Ctesiphon (159-end)
• Aeschylus: Persians
• Aristophanes: Lysistrata
• Demosthenes: Olynthiacs1; On the Crown (199-end); Phillipics 1
• Euripides: Bacchae
• Herodotus: Books I, VII, VIII
• Hesiod: Works and Days
• Homer: Iliad I, III, VI, IX, XVI, XVIII, XXI, XXII, XXIV; Odyssey I, V, VI, IX-XIII, XIX, XXII-XXIV
• Homeric Hymns: Hymn to Demeter
• Lyric Poetry: the selection in Campell
• Lysias: 1
• New Testament: Luke
• Pausanius: Books I, X
• Plato: Apology, Symposium
• Plutarch: Alexander
• Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus
• Theocritus: 7
• Thucydides: Books I, II, III (70-85), V (84-116), VI (8-23), VII (84-87), VIII (1)
• Xenophon: Hellenica I
• Inscriptions: Nos. 1, 2, 5, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21, 23, 25, 26, 33, 37, 41, 44, 54, 58, 67, 69, 74, 79, 95 in Meiggs and Lewis

Latin

• Augustus: Res Gestae
• Caesar: Bellum Gallicum I
• Catullus: All
• Cicero: Fourth Verrine, Letters (the selection in Shackleton BaileyÕs school edition)
• Horace: Odes, Satires I, Epistles II 2
• Juvenal: 1, 3, 4, 10
• Livy: Books I, II, XXI
• Lucan: Book VII
• Lucretius: Books I (1-126), VI (1138-1286)
• Ovid: Amores I, Ars Amatoria I, Metamorphoses I, Tristia IV. 10
• Petronius: Cena Trimalchionis
• Plautus: Miles Gloriosus
• Pliny the Elder: N. H. XXXIII-XXXVII
• Pliny: Epist. I 1 and X 96, 97
• Propertius: Book IV
• Quintilian: Book X
• Sallust: Catiline
• Seneca: Medea
• Suetonius: Augustus
• Tacitus: Histories I, Annals XIII-XVI
• Terence: Adelphoe
• Virgil: Eclogues, Georgics I and IV, Aeneid
• Vitruvius: Books III, IV, VI, VII
• Inscriptions: the selection in Gordon, Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy