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Appendix D

Reading List: Qualifying Examination in Philology

Passages on the comprehensive examinations in Greek and Latin will be drawn from the following list of texts. A dictionary in the appropriate language will be allowed.

GREEK:

  • Aeschylus: Agamemnon
  • Aristophanes: Frogs
  • Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics 6
  • Demosthenes, On the Crown
  • Euripides: Bacchae, Medea
  • Hellenistic Poetry: N. Hopkinson, Hellenistic Anthology I-VII, IX-XII, and XXVI (nos. 4,5,7,9,15,18,20,25,26,31,32)
  • Herodotus: book 1
  • Hesiod: Theogony
  • Homer: Iliad 1, 6, 9, 18, 24; Odyssey 1, 11, 19; Homeric Hymns 2, 3, 4
  • Isocrates: Against the Sophists
  • Lyric poets: click here for selections from D.A. Campbell's Greek Lyric Poetry
  • Lysias: Orations 7 and 12
  • Pindar: Olympian 1, Pythian 3
  • Plato: Apology, Crito, Euthyphro
  • Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannos
  • Thucydides: books 1.1-23; 2.34-65; 5.84-116
  • Xenophon: Economicus

LATIN:

  • Caesar: Gallic War 1
  • Catullus: all
  • Cicero: Against Catiline 1; On Behalf of Archias; On Behalf of Caelius; On Friendship
  • Horace: Odes 1.1, 1.3-5, 1.9, 1.11, 1.13-14, 1.22-25, 1.37-38, 2.3, 2.7, 2.10, 2.14, 3.1, 3.5-6, 3.9, 3.12-13, 3.30, 4.1, 4.7, 4.15; Satires 1. 6, 1.9; Ars Poetica
  • Juvenal: Satires 1 and 10
  • Livy: book 1
  • Lucretius: books 1.1-145; 3; 4.1058-1287; 6.1138-1286
  • Ovid: Amores 1; Art of Love 1; Metamorphoses 1-3; Tristia 4.10
  • Petronius: "Trimalchio's Dinner"
  • Plautus: Pseudolus
  • Propertius: book 1 ("Monobiblos"); 4.7 and 4.8
  • Quintilian: book 10.1.46-131
  • Sallust: Catiline
  • Tacitus: Agricola; Annals 1
  • Terence: Adelphoi
  • Tibullus: Elegies 1.1 and 1.10; 2.5
  • Vergil: Eclogues; Georgics 4; Aeneid 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12

Next: Short Literary Identifications (Philology)

INDEX

Preliminary Remarks

Sections:

  1. Requirements for Graduate Admission
  2. Advisement
  3. Emphasis in Classical Archaeology (includes information on all M.A. examinations)
  4. Emphasis in Classical Philology (includes information on all M.A. examinations)
  5. Emphasis in Ancient History (includes information on M.A. examinations)
  6. Emphasis in Latin Pedagogy (includes information on M.A. examinations)
  7. Satisfactory Academic Progress
  8. The M.A. Thesis
  9. Ph.D. Students Earning the M.A. in Classics

Appendices:

  1. Worksheet: Classical Archaeology Emphasis
  2. Worksheet: Classical Philology Emphasis
  3. Reading List: Comprehensive Examination (Archaeology)
  4. Reading List: Qualifying Examinations (Philology)
  5. Short Literary Identifications (Philology)
  6. Ancient History Comprehensive Examination
  7. Ph.D. Students Wanting the M.A. (Archaeology)
  8. Ph.D. Students Wanting the M.A. (Philology)
  9. Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students in Residence
  10. Thesis Worksheet
  11. Worksheet: Ancient History Emphasis
  12. Worksheet: Latin Pedagogy Emphasis
  13. Style Sheet for Graduate Seminar Papers and Theses
  14. Guide for Course Handouts and PowerPoint Presentations
  15. Check List for Submitting a Final Paper

 

 

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