Modern Greek Reading List
Reading List for PhD Candidates in Modern Greek
The works on this list are in chronological order.
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, or an anonymous text for another anonymous work, 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.
Modern Greek Literature
- Διγενὴς Ἀκρίτης (Escorial version; ed. E. Jeffreys)
- Πτωχοπροδρομικά (Poems B, Γ; ed. H. Eideneier)
- Καλλίμαχος καὶ Χρυσορρόη (ed. C. Cupane)
- Bergadis, Ἀπόκοπος
- Ἡ βοσκοπούλα
- G. Chortatsis, Ἐρωφίλη Α 1-340, Β 1-162, Ε435-674
- G. Chortatsis, Πανώρια Α1-280, Ε187-422
- Θυσία τοῦ Ἀβραάμ
- A. Kornaros, Ἐρωτόκριτος Α.1-370, 631-714, Ε 1155-1540
- N. Loukanis, Ὁμήρου Ἰλιάς
- Th. Montseleze, Εὐγένα
- I. Moisiodax, Ἀπολογία
- D. Philippides and G. Konstantas, Γεωγραφία νεωτερική (selections)
- Adamantios Korais: selections from his letters; Introduction to his edition of Heliodorus’ Aethiopica; Παπατρέχας (ed. A. Angelou)
- A. Christopoulos, Γραμματικὴ τῆς Αἰολοδωρικῆς, ἤτοι τῆς ὁμιλουμένης τωρινῆς τῶν Ἑλλήνων γλώσσας; selected poems
- Iakovos Rizos-Neroulos, Κορακιστικά
- I. Vilaras, Η ρομέηκη γλόσα; selected poems
- D. Solomos, Poems, Διάλογος
- A. Kalvos, selected poems
- P. Soutsos, Λέανδρος
- D. Vyzantios, Βαβυλωνία
- A. Rangavis, Ὁ συμβολαιογράφος
- A. Matesis, Ὁ βασιλικός
- I. Makriyiannis Ἀπομνημονεύματα (Hestia Publishers): Book One, Chapter One; Book Three, Chapter Six.
- G. Vizyenos, «Τὸ ἁμάρτημα τῆς μητρός μου»; «Μοσκὼβ-Σελήμ»
- G. Psycharis, Τὸ ταξίδι μου
- A. Papadiamantis, selected stories
- A. Karkavitsas, Ὁ ζητιάνος
- K. Parren, Ἡ χειραφατημένη
- K. Palamas, Ὁ δωδεκάλογος τοῦ γύφτου (A, E, IB), Φοινικιά
- A. Sikelianos, Ὁ ἀλαφροΐσκιωτος
- C. P. Cavafy, poems of the canon
- N. Politis (ed.), Ἐκλογαὶ ἀπὸ τὰ τραγούδια τοῦ ἑλληνικοῦ λαοῦ
- G. Chatzopoulos, Φθινόπωρο
- D. Voutyras, selected short stories
- K. Theotokis, Ὁ κατάδικος
- K. Karyotakis, poems
- M. Polydouri, poems
- S. Myrivilis, Ἡ ζωὴ ἐν τάφῳ
- N. Kazantzakis, Ἀσκητική; Ὀδύσσεια, Book 24; Ὁ Χριστὸς ξανασταυρώνεται
- G. Seferis, Στροφή; Μυθιστόρημα; Κίχλη; Δοκιμές (selections)
- G. Theotokas, Ἐλεύθερο πνεῦμα; Λεωνῆς
- E. Venezis, Νούμερο 31328
- K. Politis, Eroica
- M. Axioti, Δύσκολες νύχτες
- G. Ritsos, Ἐπιτάφιος; Τέταρτη διάσταση
- R. Dawkins, Forty-Five Stories from the Dodecanese (tales 1-17)
- O. Elytis, Τὸ ἄξιον ἐστί; Ἑτεροθαλῆ; Ἀνοιχτὰ Χαρτιά (selections)
- M. Chatzilazarou, selected poems
- M. Iordanidou, Λωξάντρα
- S. Tsirkas, Ἡ λέσχη
- K. Tachtsis, Τὸ τρίτο στεφάνι
- A. Alexandrou, Τὸ κιβώτιο
- N. Kalas, Ὁδὸς Νικήτα Ράντου
- E. Vakalo, Τοῦ κόσμου
- M. Douka, Ἀρχαία σκουριά
- T. Mastoraki, Ιστορίες για τα βαθιά
- M. Karapanou, Ο υπνοβάτης
- K. Dimoula, Χαίρε ποτέ
- K. Angelaki-Rouk, Όταν το σώμα
- Th. Valtinos, Στοιχεία για τη δεκαετία του '60
- R. Galanaki, Ελένη ή ο κανένας