REQUIRED OF ALL CANDIDATES
List authors and works read in the original languages. Please specify whether the entire work was read or what portion was read. You should include reading done outside of formal classes. You may include at the bottom of each list the reading in progress or expected to be completed during the current academic year. For those of you with Near Eastern languages, please indicate the texts you have covered.
If appropriate, also list the reading you expect to complete during the remainder of the current academic year.
SAMPLE READING LIST
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LATIN |
GREEK |
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Author |
Work/Portion Read |
Author |
Work/Portion Read |
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Caesar |
Civil Wars (selections: 15 pages) |
Lysias |
Oration 1 |
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Sallust |
Catiline (half) |
Plato |
Apology |
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Cicero |
Selections from Letters (20 pages) |
Homer |
Iliad, Books 1, 9, 16 |
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Vergil |
Aeneid 1, 4, half of 6 |
Euripides |
Medea Bacchae (omitting choral odes) |
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Catullus |
Selections (most of shorter poems) |
Archaic Lyric |
Campbell selections (about two-thirds of total) |
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Horace |
Odes (14 poems) |
Aristophanes |
Clouds |
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TO BE READ NEXT SEMESTER |
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Lucretius |
2000 lines |
Herodotus |
Selections (45 pages) |