Reading Lists for Ph.D. students in Classics
(for students entering in 2007/8 or before)

Greek

• Aeschines: Against Ctesiphon (159-end)
  
• Aeschylus: Oresteia, Prometheus
  
• Apollonius: Book III
  
• Aristophanes: Clouds, Frogs
  
• Aristotle: Poetics
  
• Callimachus: Aitia, frr. 1-2; 67-75; Hymn 2
  
• Demosthenes: Olynthiacs 1; On the Crown (199-end); Phillipics 1
  
• Epigrams (Hellenistic): the selection in Hopkinson
  
• Euripides: Bacchae, Medea, Hippolytus
  
• Herodotus: Books I, VII, VIII
  
• Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days
  
• Homer: Iliad I, III, VI, IX, XVI, XVIII, XXI, XXII, XXIV; Odyssey I, V, VI, IX-XIII, XIX, XXII-XXIV
  
• Lyric Poetry: the selection in Campell
  
• Lysias: 1, 12
  
• Menander: Dyscolos
  
• New Testament: Luke
  
• Pindar: Olympians 1, 2, 14; Pythians 1, 8, 10; Nemeans 6, 7, 8, 10; Isthmians 7, 8
  
• Plato: Apology, Gorgias, Symposium, Republic 10
  
• Plutarch: Alexander
  
• Sophocles: Antigone, Ajax, Oedipus Tyrannus
  
• Theocritus: 1, 2, 7
  
• Thucydides: Books I, II, III (70-85), V (84-116), VI (8-23), VII (84-87), VIII (1)
  
• Xenophon: Hellenica I
  

• Apuleius: Metamorphoses I
• Augustus: Res Gestae
• Caesar: Bellum Gallicum I, Bellum Civile
• Catullus: All
• Cicero: Catilinarians, Pro Archia, Pro Caelio, In Pisonem, Pro Milone, Phillippics 2, Brutus, Letters (the selection in Shackleton BaileyÕs school edition)
• Horace: Odes, Epodes, Satires I, Epistles I, II 2
• Juvenal: 1, 3, 4, 10
• Livy: Books I, XXI
• Lucan: Books I, VII
• Lucretius: I, III, V, VI (1138-1286)
• Ovid: Amores I, Ars Amatoria I, Metamorphoses I, VIII,Tristia IV. 10
• Persius: 1
• Petronius: Cena Trimalchionis
• Plautus: Casina, Miles Gloriosus
• Pliny: Epist. I 1 amd X 96, 97
• Propertius: Books I and IV
• Quintilian: Book X
• Sallust: Catiline
• Seneca: Medea, Thyestes, Ep. 7, 47, 114
• Suetonius: Augustus
• Tacitus: Histories I, Annals XIII-XVI
• Terence: Adelphoe, Andria
• Tibullus: Book I
• Virgil: Eclogues, Georgics I and IV, Aeneid