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Latin Texts Plautus, Menaechmi, Captivi; Casina; Persa; Pseudolus. Terence, Eunuchus; Adelphoi; Hecyra. Sallust, Bellum Jugurthi Latin Texts Plautus, Menaechmi, Captivi; Casina; Persa; Pseudolus. Terence, Eunuchus; Adelphoi; Hecyra. Sallust, Bellum Jugurthinum; Coniuratio Catilinae. Cicero, in Vatinium; pro Sulla; pro Sestio; pro Caelio; pro Milone. Livy, Ab urbe condita, Books 21-30. Horace, Satires; Epistles. Petronius, Satyrica. Seneca, De clementia; Apocolocyntosis; De brevitate vitae. Martial, Epigrams, Books 5 and 8. Juvenal, Satires. Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Tacitus, Agricola; Annals; Histories. Apuleius, Metamorphoses. Ammianus Marcellinus, Books 20-26. Claudian, in Rufinum; in Eutropium; De bello Gothico. Secondary literature S. H. Braund, Beyond anger: a study of Juvenal’s third book of satires, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Erich Burck, Das Geschichtswerk des Titus Livius, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, 1992. 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Aristophanes, Ekklesiazusae; Knights; Frogs; Lysistrata; Acharnians. Demosthenes, On the crown; Meidias; On the Peace; Olynthiacs. Lysias, 1, 3, and 7. Apollodorus, Neaira [=Ps.-Demosthenes, 51]. Menander, Dyskolos. Xenophon, Agesilaos; Cyropaideia; Poroi. Polybius, Histories. Theocritus, Idylls. Epictetus, Discourses. Plutarch, Consolation to his wife; Advice to the bride and groom; on garrulity. Dio Chrysostom, Discourses, 40-49. Lucian, Alexander or the false prophet; Peregrinus; Anacharsis; The Ship; The Dream. Secondary literature Robert B. Branham, Unruly eloquence: Lucian and the comedy of traditions, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989. K. J. Dover, Lysias and the corpus Lysiacum, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. Arthur M. Eckstein, Moral vision in the Histories of Polybius, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. V. Ehrenberg, The people of Aristophanes: a sociology of Attic comedy, 2nd ed. rev. & enlarged, Oxford: Blackwell, 1951. Edith Hall, Inventing the barbarian: Greek self-definition through tragedy, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Debra Louise Hamel, Trying Neaira: the true story of a courtesan’s scandalous life in ancient Greece, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Simon Hornblower, Thucydides and Pindar: historical narrative and the world of epinikian poetry, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Steven Johnstone, Disputes and democracy: the consequences of litigation in ancient Athens, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. C. P. Jones, The Roman world of Dio Chrysostom, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978. A. A. Long, Epictetus: a Stoic and Socratic guide to life, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Clifford Orwin, The humanity of Thucydides, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Mark Payne, Theocritus and the invention of fiction, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Sarah B. Pomeroy (ed.), Plutarch’s advice to the bride and groom, and a consolation to his wife, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Christopher Robinson, Lucian and his influence in Europe, London: Duckworth,1979. Tim C. B. Rood, Thucydides: narrative and explanation, Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1998. Yun Lee Too, The rhetoric of identity in Isocrates: text, power, pedagogy, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Ariana Traill, Women and the comic plot in Menander, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Tim Whitmarsh, Greek literature and the Roman Empire: the politics of imitation, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Ian Worthington (ed.), Demosthenes: statesman and orator, New York and London: Routledge, 2000. John Zumbrunnen, Silence and democracy: Athenian politics in Thucydides’ history, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. .
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