Submit Reading for Graduate Application

Applicant's Reading in Latin and Greek

REQUIRED OF ALL CANDIDATES

List classical authors and works read in the original languages (omit selections in first-year textbooks; include works in progress in the current fall term). Please specify whether the entire work was read or what portion was read. You should include reading done outside of formal classes as well as for classes you took or audited. If appropriate, also list the reading you expect to complete during the remainder of the current academic year.

SAMPLE READING LIST

LATIN

 
GREEK

Author

Work/Portion Read

Author

Work/Portion Read

Caesar

Civil Wars (selections: 15 pages)

  

Lysias

Oration 1

Sallust

Catiline (half)

  

Plato

Apology

Cicero

Selections from Letters (20 pages)

  

Homer

Iliad, Books 1, 9, 16

Vergil

Aeneid 1, 4, half of 6

  

Euripides

Medea

Bacchae (omitting choral odes)

Catullus

Selections (most of shorter poems)

  

Archaic Lyric

Campbell selections (about two-thirds of total)

Horace

Odes (14 poems)

  

Aristophanes

Clouds

TO BE READ NEXT SEMESTER

Lucretius

2000 lines

  

Herodotus

Selections (45 pages)