Reading List for PhD candidates in Classical Archaeology
The major language translation examination (see under General Examinations) will be based on the following list. Students are also urged to read widely in translation from authors and works not included in the list.
Students may petition the graduate committee to make substitutions of items on the reading list in two categories:
- Substitutions of a work by the same author, provided that the substituted material is roughly of the same length and parallel in genre, and
- A work of one author on the list for a work of another, or a work of an author not on the list for an author on the list, provided that the substituted material is roughly of the same length and parallel in genre. Petitions should be submitted to the graduate committee in advance of the regular advising meeting at the beginning of the semester, no later than the beginning of the term in which the student will sit the General Examinations (normally the spring term of the second year). Petitions will be discussed with the student at this advising meeting and the approved list will be used as the basis for the written translation examinations.
Greek Literature
- Aeschylus: Agamemnon
- Aristophanes: Frogs
- Aristotle: Poetics
- Demosthenes: Philippics 1
- Epigrams (numbered as in Page, Epigrammata Graeca): Callimachus II–V, VIII, XI, XIV–XV, XXIX–XXX, XXXIV, XXXVIII, XLIII, XLV, LI–LIII, LVI, LIX, LXVII, Posidippus IX, XXIV
- Euripides: Bacchae
- Herodotus: 1
- Hesiod: Theogony
- Homer: Iliad 1, 18, 22, 24; Odyssey 1, 7, 9, 19
- Inscriptions: R. Meiggs and D. Lewis, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions #23 (Themistocles Decree), 93 (epigram for a Lycian dynast), J. H. Oliver, Greek Constitutions #2 (rescript on tomb-violation)
- Lyric poetry: selections from Sappho, Alcaeus, Archilochus, and Simonides, as in D. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry
- Lysias: 1
- Pausanias: 1, 5
- Philostratus the Younger: Imagines
- Plato: Symposium
- Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus
- Theocritus: 1, 7
- Thucydides: 1; 6.72–105; 7.1–17, 21–24, 36–87
Latin Literature
- Augustus: Res Gestae
- Catullus: 63, 64, 66
- Cicero: letters, as in D. R. Shackleton Bailey's Select Letters; Fourth Verrine Oration
- Horace: Satires I
- Juvenal: 3
- Lex de imperio Vespasiani, as in M. Crawford's Roman Statutes
- Livy: 1, 6
- Martial: 1, 14
- Ovid: Metamorphoses 10
- Petronius: Satyrica 26.7–78
- Pliny the Elder: Natural History 34–35
- Pliny the Younger: Epistulae 1.1, 3, 15; 2.1, 6, 17; 3.5, 6, 16, 19, 21; 4.28, 30; 5.6, 11; 6.16, 20; 7.24; 8.8; 9.7, 33, 36; 10.61, 62, 70, 71, 90, 91, 96, 97
- Propertius 1
- Scriptores Historiae Augustae: Life of Hadrian
- Seneca: Epistulae Morales 7, 12, 47, 51, 56, 86, 88
- Statius: Silvae 1.1, 3; 2.2; 4.6
- Suetonius: Life of Nero
- Tacitus: Annals 14
- Virgil: Aeneid 4, 6, 8
- Vitruvius: De Architectura 1