COMMON READING LIST
Each semester, the department offers prepared translation exams based on the following lists:.
GREEK
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Apollonios, Argonautica, Book 3
Aristophanes, Frogs
Aristotle, Poetics; Politics, Book 1
Callimachus, Hymns 2, 5, Aetia frr. 1-2 Pfeiffer, Epigrams
Demosthenes, Philippics 3
Euripides, Medea, Bacchae
Gorgias, Helen
Greek narrative epigraphy:
Osborne-Rhodes, Greek Historical Inscriptions 131 (Athenian regulations for Chalkis)
SEG 41.1003-4 (Teos and Antiochos III)
SEG 39.1243 (Late Hellenistic decree from Klaros)
Herodotus, Book 1, proem + chs. 1–5; Book 3 (in entirety)
Hesiod, Theogony 1-962; Works and Days 1-335 + 618-94
Homer, Iliad, Books 1, 3, 6, 9, 18 (368-617), 24; Odyssey, Books 1, 6, 9-12, 19, 22
Homeric Hymn 5 To Aphrodite
Isocrates, Areopagiticus
Longus, Daphnis and Chloe, Book 1
Lucian, True Histories, Book 1
Lyric Selections in Campbell ed. Greek Lyric Poetry: Archilochus, Callinus, Tyrtaeus,
Semonides, Alcman, Mimnermus, Solon, Stesichorus, Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus,
Anacreon, Xenophanes, Theognis, Hipponax, Simonides, Corinna, Bacchylides, Praxilla
Lysias, Against Eratosthenes (12)
Menander, Samia
Pindar, Olympian 1; Pythian 1, 2.
Plato, Protagoras; Symposium
Plutarch, How to Study Poetry
Sophocles, Antigone, Oedipus the King
Theocritus, Idylls 2, 7, 11
Thucydides, Histories, Book 1, chs 1-23 + 139-146; Book 2, chs. 1-79.
Xenophon, Memorabilia, Book 1
LATIN
Apuleius, Cupid and Psyche
Augustus, Res gestae
Catullus, entire
Cicero, Pro Caelio; Catilinarians 1; De oratore 1; Somnium Scipionis; Tusculan Disputations 5
Horace, Odes 1-4; Satires 1.1, 4-6, 9, 10; Epodes 1, 16; Ars Poetica
Juvenal, Satires 1, 3
Laudatio Turiae
Livy, Histories 1, 21
Lucan, Pharsalia 7
Lucretius, De rerum natura 1, 3
Martial, Epigrams 2.8, 2.20, 2.77, 2.91-2, 3.2, 4.30, 4.72, 6.64, 9.18, 10.4, 10.5, 12.15
(= nos. 1-12 incl. 9a and 9b [hence 13 epigrams in all] in L. and P. Watson, Martial: Select Epigrams (Cambridge)).
Ovid, Amores 1; Ars Amatoria 1; Metamorphoses 8; Tristia 2
Petronius, Cena Trimalchionis
Plautus, Pseudolus
Pliny, Letters (nos. 3, 5, 6, 14, 19, 22, 25, 26, 38, 47, and 48 in Sherwin-White, ed., Selected Letters)
Propertius, Elegies 1.1-3, 19-22, 3.1-5, 4.1, 6-8, 11
Sallust, Bellum Catilinae
Seneca, Epistles (nos. 1, 7, 12, 47, 86, 114 in C. Edwards, Seneca: Selected Letters (Cambridge);
Thyestes
Statius, Achilleid 1-378
Sulpicia
Tacitus, Histories 1; Annals 4; Dialogus de oratoribus
Terence, Adelphoe
Tibullus, Elegies 1.1, 1.3, 1.10, 2.5
Virgil, entire
For the reading list prior to Fall 2024, Please click here.