Readings in Greek Homer • Iliad 1, 6, 9, 16, 22, 24 • Odyssey 1, 9-12 • The whole of both poems in English Hesiod, or Lyric, either of the following: • Hesiod, Works & Days 1-201 and Theogony 1-210 • David Campbell, ed., Greek Lyric Poetry, selections of: o Archilochus (including Cologne fragmentAppendix) o Mimnermus o Sappho (1, 16, 31, 55, 104a, 105a, 105c, 130) o Anacreon (357, 358, 395, 417) o Solon Drama • In Greek, one play from each dramatist: o Aeschylus, Agamemnon or Prometheus Bound o Sophocles, Oedipus Rex or Antigone o Euripides, Medea or Bacchae o Aristophanes, Clouds or Frogs • In English, at least six plays from among: o Aeschylus, Oresteia o Sophocles, Ajax and Oedipus at Colonus o Euripides, Alcestis, Hecuba, Helen, and Hippolytus o Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lysistrata, and Birds Herodotus, Histories 1 or 6 Thucydides, History 6 or 7; the whole History in English Plato, either of the following: • Republic 10 • Apology and Crito • The whole Republic in English Hellenistic Poetry, from Neil Hopkinson, A Hellenistic Anthology: • Theocritus, Idyll 11 (= HA ix) • Aratus, Phaenomena 1-18, 96-136 (= HA vi-vii) • Callimachus, Hymn 5 (= HA iii) • Funerary and Amatory Epigrams (= HA xxvi, 1-24) Readings in Latin Comedy In Latin, two plays from among: • Plautus, Aulularia, Mostellaria, and Pseudolus • Terence, Adelphoe, and Phormio In English, three other plays: Catullus, Poems 1-16, 31-42, 44-46, 49-51, 58, 64, 76, 101 Lucretius, De rerum natura 1. 1-58 (Proem), 5.925-1420 (Anthropology) Cicero, two from among: • Pro Caelio • Somnium Scipionis • David Stockton, Thirty-five Letters of Cicero Caesar, Gallic War 1 Virgil, Aeneid 2, 4, 6, 8, 12; the whole Aeneid in English. Horace, selected poems: • Odes 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.9, 1.15, 1.22, 1.37 • Odes 2.3, 2.13, 2.14, 2.16 • Odes 3.5, 3.11, 3.13, 3.21, 3.30 Odes 4.7 • Satires 2.6 Elegy, selected poems: • Propertius 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.10, 3.1, 3.3, 4.1, 4.7 • Tibullus 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.10, 2.5 • Ovid, Amores 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.9, 1.13, 2.19, 3.2 Ovid, selections from Metamorphoses: • 1.452-567 (Apollo and Daphne) • 3.138-253 (Actaeon) • 3.339-510 (Echo and Narcissus) • 4.55-166 (Pyramus and Thisbe) • 6.1-145 (Arachne) • 8.153-235 (Daedalus and Icarus) • 10.243-97 (Pygmalion) • 10.298-502 (Myrrha) • 11.410-748 (Ceyx and Alcyone) Livy, Histories 1 or 21 Tacitus, Annals 15 Novel, either of the following: • Petronius, Satyricon 26-78 (Trimalchio) • Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.28-6.24 (Cupid and Psyche) Supplementary Reading List As general background to the study of classical antiquity, we strongly recommend that you read some basic works on the political and social history of Greece and Rome, especially if you have never taken a course on those subjects. The books below are recent classics that we like, but there are many available; feel free to make substitutions. For Greece • Robin Osborne, Greece in the Making, 1200-479 BC • Simon Hornblower, The Greek World, 479-323 BC • Loren J. Samons, ed. Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles • Greek social history: e.g. J.N. Davidson, Courtesans & Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens For Rome • Harriet Flower, Roman Republics • Colin Wells, The Roman Empire • Ronald Syme, The Roman Revolution • Roman social history: e.g. Robert Knapp, Invisible Romans; Potter & Mattingly, Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire (esp. good on religion, demography, & spectacles); Michael Peachin, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Social Relations; T. Wiseman, Catullus and His World For literary history • Gian Biagio Conte, Latin Literature: A History • Tim Whitmarsh, Ancient Greek Literature .