M.A. READING LISTS

 These lists form the basis of the Translation Examinations for the M.A., which test competence in the Greek and Latin languages. They are not intended to limit the candidate's reading, but to indicate the range of authors and works in which linguistic competence is expected. Passages on the examinations will be drawn from these lists.

M.A. in Greek
 Greek Readings
Archaic Poetry.  Homer: 10 books
Hesiod and Homeric Hymns: 1000 lines
iambus and elegy: 400 lines
lyric (excluding Pindar): 400 lines
Pindar: 400 lines
Drama Tragedy 5 plays (must include one each by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides)
Comedy 2 plays (must include one by Aristophanes)
 History and Oratory  Historians: 200 OCT pages (must include at least 75 pages of Herodotus and 75 pages of Thucydides)
Orators: 80 OCT pages (must include one whole speech each by Lysias and Demosthenes)
 Philosophy  200 OCT pages (must include at least 75 pages of Plato and 75 pages of Aristotle)
Hellenistic poetry  500 lines (must include at least one whole Idyll of Theocritus)
Prose by other authors  100 OCT pages

M.A. in Latin
 Latin Readings
.Lyric, Elegy, Epigram  Catullus: 1000 lines
Horace: 1000 lines
Ovid: 500 lines
Propertius and Tibullus: 1000 lines
Martial: 200 lines
 Epic  7 books (must include one each by Lucretius
and Ovid and four by Vergil)
 Drama  Tragedy: 1 play
Comedy: 3 plays (must include one each by
Plautus and Terence)
 Other Poetry Satire  1000 lines (must include one each by Horace and Juvenal)
Vergil, Eclogues and Georgics: 1000 lines (must include one whole Eclogue and Georgic)
Other Poetry: 500 lines
Classical Prose  At least OCT 50 pages each by: Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Sallust, Suetonius, Tacitus
Letters: 50 pages
 Other Prose 80 OCT pages
 Later Latin  60 OCT pages of prose and/or poetry after 193 A.D

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