Reading List

Ph.D. Qualification (a.k.a.“M.Phil.” or “Reading List”) Exams are based on the following reading lists, using the editions indicated.

GREEK

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Page (OCT)

Apollonius, Argonautica, Book 3

Hunter (Cambridge, GY)

Aristophanes, Frogs

Wilson (OCT)

Aristotle, Poetics; Politics, Book 1

Kassel (OCT); Ross (OCT)

Callimachus, Hymns 2, 5, Epigrams; Aetia frr. 1-2 Pfeiffer,

Hymns, Epigrams: Pfeiffer (OCT); Aetia: Harder (Oxford)

Demosthenes, Philippics 3

Dilts (OCT)

Euripides, Medea, Bacchae

Diggle (OCT)

Gorgias, Helen

Diels and Krantz 82 F 11

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)

Wilson (OCT)

Hesiod, Theogony 1-962; Works and Days 1-335 + 618-94

Solmsen (OCT)

Homer, Iliad, Books 1, 3, 6, 9, 18 (368-617), 24; Odyssey, Books 1, 6, 9-12, 19, 22

Allen (OCT)

Homeric Hymn 5: To Aphrodite

Faulkner (Oxford)

Isocrates, Areopagiticus

Mandilaras (Teubner 2003)

Longus, Daphnis and Chloe, Book 1

Reeve (Teubner)

Lucian, True Histories 1 (13)

Macleod (OCT)

Lyric Selections in Campbell ed. Greek Lyric Poetry

Elegy and Iambus: Archilochus, Callinus, Hipponax, Mimnermus, Semonides,

Simonides, Solon, Theognis, Tyrtaeus, Xenophanes

+ Archilochus 196a West (Cologne Epode) and Telephus fragments 17a Swift

+ Simonides Plataea Poem frs. 10-17 West

Lyric: Alcman, Stesichorus, Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Corinna, Praxilla, Bacchylides

Lysias, Against Eratosthenes (12)

Carey (OCT)

Menander, Samia

Sandbach (OCT)

Pindar, Olympian 1; Pythian 1, 2.

Maehler and Snell (Teubner)

Plato, Protagoras; Symposium

Burnet (OCT)

Plutarch, How to Study Poetry 3, 39-79

Hunter and Russell (Cambridge GY)

Sophocles, Antigone, Oedipus the King

Lloyd-Jones (OCT)

Theocritus, Idylls 2, 7, 11

Gow (Cambridge)

Thucydides, Histories, Book 1, chs 1-23 + 139-146; Book 2, chs. 1-79.

Jones (OCT)

Xenophon, Memorabilia, Book 1

Marchant (OCT)

LATIN

Apuleius, Cupid and Psyche

Kenney (Cambridge GY)

Augustus, Res gestae

Cooley (CUP)

Catullus, entire

Mynors (OCT)

Cicero, Pro Caelio

Dyck (Cambridge GY)

Cicero, Catilinarians 1

Dyck (Cambridge GY)

Cicero, De oratore 1

Wilkins (OCT)

Cicero, Somnium Scipionis

Zetzel (Cambridge GY)

Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 5

King (Loeb)

Horace, Odes 1-4; Satires 1.1, 4-6, 9, 10; Epodes 1, 16; Ars Poetica

Wickham/Garrod

(OCT, 2 nd edn)

Juvenal, Satires 1, 3

Braund (Cambridge GY)

Laudatio Turiae:

Wistrand 1976

Livy, Book 1

Ogilvie (OCT)

Livy, Book 21

Walters/Conway (OCT)

Lucan, Book 7

Roche (Cambridge GY)

Lucretius, Books 1, 3

Deuffert (Teubner)

Martial 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

Watson/Watson (Cambridge GY)

Ovid , Amores 1; Ars Amatoria 1

Kenney (OCT; 2nd ed.)

Ovid, Metamorphoses 8

Tarrant (OCT)

Ovid, Tristia 2

Owen (OCT)

Petronius, Cena Trimalchionis

Schmeling (Loeb)

Plautus, Pseudolus

Christenson (Cambridge GY)

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

Heyworth (OCT)

Sallust, Bellum Catilinae

Ramsey (APA edition; OUP)

Seneca, Epistles 1, 7, 12, 47, 86, 114

Edwards (Cambridge GY)

Seneca, Thyestes

Tarrant (APA edition; OUP)

Statius, Achilleid 1-378

Shackleton Bailey (Loeb)

Sulpicia

Postgate (OCT); cf. Tibullus

Tacitus, Histories 1

Damon (Cambridge GY)

Tacitis, Annals 4

Martin/Woodman (Cambridge GY)

Tacitus, Dialogus de oratoribus

Mayer (Cambridge GY)

Terence, Adelphoe

Martin (Cambridge GY)

Tibullus, Elegies 1.1, 1.3, 1.10, 2.5

Postgate (OCT)

Vergil, entire

Mynors (OCT)