This list is divided into sections (A), (B), and (C), roughly corresponding to Greek 200ABC and Latin 200ABC. This list is not, however, a syllabus of readings for those courses.

Greek	Latin
A Homer: 8 books (at least two books from each epic) Hesiod: 400 verses Lyric: half of Campbell's selection and 200 verses of Pindar Herodotus: 40 pages of Book I, including I.1-5	A Caesar: 1 book Catullus: all Cicero: 1 long oration (e.g. Cael. or Cat. 1-3) Lucretius: Book I or III Plautus: 1 play Sallust: 1 monograph
B Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes: 1 play each Thucydides: 30 pages, including I.20-22, II.34-46 Gorgias: 40 lines Lysias: 12 Demosthenes: 1 speech (may be short, e.g., a Philippic) Other oratory: 5 pages Parmenides: fragments 1 and 8 Plato: one long dialogue (e.g., Phaedo, Symposium or Gorgias)	B Horace: Odes I and Epod. 2, 7, 16 Livy: 1 book Propertius: Book I or III Tibullus: Book I Ovid: 1 book of elegiacs, 1 book of Met. Virgil: 5 Eclogues or 1 book of Georgics, 3 books of Aeneid
C Aristotle: Poetics Menander: 500 verses Callimachus: 200 verses Theocritus: 200 verses Apollonius: 200 verses Lucian: 20 pages Longinus: 10 pages Plutarch: 20 pages of Mor. Chariton, Longus, Heliodorus: 15 pages each	C Horace: 2 Satires Juvenal: 3 Seneca: 1 play and 1 dialogue (De tranq. an. or De brev. vit. ) or equivalent Epist. mor. Pliny: 15 pages of letters (including 6.16, 6.20, 10.96, 10.97) Suetonius: 1 Life Lucan: Book VII Tacitus: 1 book of Annals and 1 minor work