COMMON READING LIST
Each semester, the department offers prepared translation exams based on the following lists.
**New Reading Lists will go into effect for students entering in Fall 2024 or later. See here.**
GREEK
Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Eumenides
Apollonios, Argonautica Book III
Aristophanes, Clouds, Frogs
Aristotle, Poetics, Nicomachean Ethics 1
Callimachus, Hymns 2, 5, Aetia frgt 1-2 Pfeiffer, Epigrams
Demosthenes, Philippics 1-3
Euripides, Medea, Bacchae
Gorgias, Helen
Herodotus, 1
Hesiod, Theogony all; Works and Days 1-335
Homer, Iliad 1, 6, 9, 16, 18-22, 24; Odyssey 1, 5-12, 18-23
Homeric Hymn 5 To Aphrodite
Isocrates, Helen, Evagoras
Longus, Daphnis and Chloe
Lucian, Icaromenippus, Zeus Refuted
Lyric Selections as in Campbell ed. Greek Lyric Poetry
Lysias, Oration 12
Menander, Samia
Pindar, Olympian 1, 6; Pythian 1, 2, Nemean 7
Plato, Republic II-III, Symposium
Plutarch, Life of Pericles
Sophocles, Antigone, Oedipus the King
Theocritus, Idylls 2,7,11
Thucydides, Histories 1.1-22, 2.34-65, 5. 84-115, 6.8-32, 7. 72-87
Xenophon, Memorabilia I
LATIN
Apuleius, Cupid and Psyche
Caesar, Bellum Gallicum 1
Catullus, entire
Cicero, Pro Archia; Pro Caelio; Catilinarians 1-4; De oratore 1; Somnium Scipionis; Tusculan Disputations 5; Letters (nos. 3, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 42, 43, 44, 61, 63, 66, 67, 69, 74, 76 in Shackleton-Bailey, ed., Selected Letters)
Horace, Odes 1-4; Satires 1.1, 4-6, 9, 10, 2.6; Epodes 1, 16; Epistles 2; Ars Poetica
Juvenal, Satires 1, 3, 6, 10
Livy, Histories 1, 5, 21
Lucan, Pharsalia 1, 7
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1, 3, 4.1058-end, 5.772-1457
Martial, Epigrams 2.8, 14, 20, 77, 91, 92; 3.2; 4.30, 67, 72; 6.21, 64; 7.36; 8.55; 9.18; 10.4, 5, 47, 64; 12.15, 18, 31, 57 (= nos. 1-22 in L. and P. Watson, eds., Martial: Select Epigrams (Cambridge)).
Ovid, Amores 1; Ars Amatoria 1; Heroides 1; Metamorphoses 1, 8; Tristia 2
Petronius, Cena Trimalchionis
Plautus, Amphitruo; Pseudolus
Pliny, Letters (nos. 3, 5, 6, 14, 17, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 38, 40, 47, 48 in Sherwin-White, ed., Selected Letters)
Propertius, Elegies 1, 3.1-5, 4
Quintilian, Institutio 10.1
Sallust, Bellum Catilinae
Seneca, Consolatio ad Helviam; Epistles (nos. 5, 7, 18, 77, 88.1-20, 114 in Summers' edition); Apocolocyntosis; Thyestes
Statius, Achilleid 1-378, 560-920
Tacitus, Histories 1; Annals 4; Agricola; Dialogus de oratoribus
Terence, Adelphoe
Tibullus, Elegies 1, 2.5
Virgil, entire