These lists form the basis of the Translation Examinations for the Ph.D., 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.
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| Greek Readings | |
| Aeschylus | Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides |
| Apollonius of Rhodes | Argonautica, Book 3 |
| Aristophanes | Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Frogs |
| Aristotle | Ethics 1 and 3, Politics 1 and 7, Athenaion Politeia |
| Callimachus | Aetia, fro 1-2, 67-75110: Hymn 2, Epigrams |
| Demosthenes | Philippics 1 and 3; Olynthiacs 1 |
| Euripides | Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Bacchae |
| Gorgias | Helen |
| Herodotus | Books 1.1-130, 7, 8 |
| Hesiod | Theogony, Works and Days |
| Hippocrates | Airs, Waters, Places |
| Homer | Iliad, Odyssey |
| Homeric Hymns | Hymns 2, 5 |
| Isocrates | Panegyricus |
| Lyric Poets | As in D. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry |
| Lysias | 1, 12 |
| Menander | Dyskolos |
| Pindar | Olympians 1, 2, 7, 14; Pythians 1,8, 10, Nemeans 6,7, 8, 10, |
| Plato | Apology; Crito; Symposium; Republic 6, 7, 10 |
| Plutarch | Alexander |
| Polybius | Book 6 |
| Sophocles | Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus |
| Theocritus | Idylls 2, 7, 11, 13 |
| Thucydides | Book 1; 2.34-65; 3, 5.84-116; 6 |
| Xenophon | Hellenica 1, Athenaion Politeia |
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| Latin Readings | |
| Apuleius | 4.28-6.24 |
| Caesar | B.G. 1, B.C. 3 |
| Catullus | all |
| Cicero | Cat. 1-4, Pro Caelio, Pro Archia, Phil. 2, Somnium Scripionis, De Officiis 1.1-60, De Senectute, De Oratore 1, Letters as in D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Selected Letters |
| Ennius | Annals |
| Horace | Odes, Epodes, Carmen Saeculare, Satires 1,2.6; Epistles 1; Ars Poetica |
| Juvenal | Satires 1, 3, 6, 10 |
| Livy | Ab Urbe Condita, Book 1,21 |
| Lucan | Pharsalia, Books 1, 7 |
| Lucretius | De Rerum Natura, Books 1,3, 6 |
| Martial | Epigrams, Book 1 |
| Ovid | Heroides 1, 4, Amores 1,2. 1,3.7, 9, 15 Metamorphoses 1, 8, 10, Tristia 1, 4.10 |
| Persius | Satire 1 |
| Petronius | Satyricon 1-118 |
| Plautus | Menaechmi, Amphituo, Rudens, Mostellaria |
| Pliny | Epistles 1.1, 20; 2.1; 3.5, 7, 16, 19, 21; 4.14; 5.8; 6.16, 20; 7.17, 27, 33; 10.96,97 |
| Propertius | Book 1, 2.1, 8, 10-13, 15, 26, 34; 3.1-5; 4.3, 7, 11 |
| Quintilian | Institutio Oratoria 10.1.1-131 |
| Sallust | Catiline |
| Seneca | Thyestes, Epistles 7, 12, 47, 51, 86, 88, 108, 114, 122, Apocolocyntosis |
| Suetonius | Augustus |
| Tacitus | Agricola; Annales 1, 4, 6, Dialogus, Histories, Book 1 |
| Terence | Adelphoe; Heauton Timoroumenos |
| Tibullus | Books 1 and 2 |
| Vergil | Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid |
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