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Graduate Student Conference




Excavations in Albania

 



UCLA Spring Program in Greece

 



Summer Program in Bay of Naples, Italy

 



Excavations at San Martino, Italy

 



Performing Cicero - An Experimental Website
 

Ph.D. Reading Lists

I. Greek

  • Homer: 12 books of each epic
  • Hesiod: 500 verses
  • Homeric Hymns: 250 verses
  • Lyric: all of Campbell's selection
  • 300 verses of Pindar
  • Herodotus: 100 pages, including Book I.1-5
  • Aeschylus: 2 plays (including Agamemnon)
  • Sophocles: 2 plays
  • Euripides: 2 plays
  • Aristophanes: 2 plays
  • Satyr-drama: 200 lines
  • Thucydides: 100 pages, including I.20-22, II.34-46
  • Gorgias: 40 lines
  • Lysias: 12 or speeches totaling 20 pages or more.
  • Xenophon: 1 book from the major works
  • Isocrates: 1 work
  • Demosthenes: 1 speech or speeches totaling 20 pages or more
  • Parmenides: fragments 1 and 8
  • Plato: one long dialogue (e.g., Phaedo, Symposium or Gorgias or three books of Republic); 1 more dialogue (may be short)
  • Aristotle: Poetics; 1 more book
  • Menander: 500 verses
  • Callimachus: 200 verses
  • Theocritus: 200 verses
  • Apollonius: 200 verses
  • Hellenistic Verse: 500 more lines
  • Lucian: 20 pages
  • Longinus: 10 pages
  • Plutarch: 20 pages of Moralia
  • Chariton, Longus, Heliodorus: 15 pages each
  • Polybius: 20 pages from Book VI
  • Imperial Prose: 40 more pages

II. Latin

  • Archaic Latin (fragments listed on website)
  • Caesar: 1 book
  • Catullus: all
  • Cicero: 1 long oration (e.g. Pro Caelio or Cat.1-3); 1 major philosophical book; 1 major rhetorical book, letters in the Shackleton Bailey selection
  • Lucretius: I, III, V
  • Plautus: 2 plays
  • Terence: 2 plays
  • Sallust: 1 monograph
  • Horace: 10 Satires, 3 books of Odes, Epodes, Ars Poetica, 10 letters from Epist. I-II (including 1 from Epist. II)
  • Livy: Preface, Book 1, and one other
  • Propertius: Book I or III
  • Tibullus: Book I
  • Ovid: 1 book of elegiacs, 2 books of Metamorphoses, Ars Amat. 1
  • Virgil: Aeneid: all; Eclogues or Georgics
  • Juvenal: 1, 3, 6, 10
  • Martial: 1 book
  • 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: One Life
  • Lucan: Book VII
  • Petronius: Cena Trimalchionis
  • Tacitus: 3 books of Annals or Histories and 1 minor work.
  • Quintilian: Book X, Chapter 1
  • Apuleius: Metamorphoses 4.28-6.30
  • 800 more lines imperial epic (e.g Statius or Valerius Flaccus)