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MA Reading List and Exams

All MA students are expected to complete the following readings lists. Beginning in Fall 2021听it will be mandatory to complete these lists as a required component of the MA program. Students entering the program in FA 2021听will be required to complete the readings, and will be required to pass written exams based on the material as part of the program.听

捆绑SM社区 MA Reading List

Greek

  • Homer
    • 滨濒颈补诲听1, 16, 22, 24
    • 翱诲测蝉蝉别测听1, 9, 11, 24
    • Hymn to Demeter 补苍诲听Hymn to Apollo
  • Sophocles
    • Antigone听补苍诲听Trachiniae
  • Plato
    • Symposium 补苍诲听Phaedrus听

Latin

  • Vergil
    • Eclogues: 1, 6
    • Georgics听4
    • Aeneid: 1, 4, 6, 12
  • Ovid
    • Amores: 1
    • Ars Amatoria: 1
    • Metamorphoses: 1, 7, 10, 13
  • Cicero
    • In Catilinam 1 and 2
    • pro Milone
    • Philippics 2

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Note: MA (non-thesis) students who enter the program in the Accelerated Track may, in consultation with the MA program advisor, request to be tested only on Homer 补苍诲听Plato, Vergil 补苍诲听Cicero.

In Translation (texts are to be read in the Loeb, Penguin, and/or Oxford World Classics editions)

1-23 reflect the authors and texts which are to be read for the Greek Literature portion of the test. 24-44 reflect the authors and texts which are to be read for the Roman Literature portion of the test.

  1. Aeschylus: Oresteia, Persians
  2. Apollonius: Argonautica
  3. Aristophanes: Lysistrata, Frogs, Clouds
  4. Aristotle: Poetics, Rhetoric, Nicomachean Ethics 1
  5. Callimachus: Hymn to Pallas, Hymn to Delos, Aetia
  6. Demosthenes: Or. 9 (Third Philippic), On the Crown
  7. Euripides:听Hippolytus, Medea, Alcestis, Cyclops
  8. Herodotus: all
  9. Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days
  10. Homer: Iliad, Odyssey, Homeric Hymns听to Apollo, Demeter, Aphrodite
  11. Isocrates: Panegyricus, Antidosis
  12. Longus: Daphnis and Chloe
  13. Lucian: Vera Historia, De Historia Scribenda
  14. Lyric: All
  15. Lysias: On the Murder of Eratosthenes
  16. Menander: Dyscolus
  17. Pindar: Olympian 1, 6, 7, 14; Pythian 1, 2, 4, 6, 8; Nemean 7
  18. Plato: Phaedrus, Symposium, Republic,Apology, Phaedo, Republic
  19. Plutarch: Life of Alexander and Life of Caesar
  20. Sophocles: all
  21. Theocritus: all
  22. Thucydides: all
  23. Xenophon: Hellenica, Anabasis, Apology
  24. Apuleius: Metamorphoses
  25. Augustine: Confessions
  26. Caesar: Bellum Civile and Bellum Gallicum
  27. Catullus: all
  28. Cicero: Pro Archia; Pro Caelio; Philippic 2,In Catilinam, De Oratore, De Republica.
  29. Horace: all Odes, Satires andArs Poetica
  30. Juvenal: all
  31. Livy: Books 1-5, 21-30
  32. Lucan: all
  33. Lucretius: all
  34. Ovid: Amores 1, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, Metamorphoses, Fasti
  35. Petronius: all
  36. Plautus: Menaechmi, Aulularia, Pseudolus
  37. Propertius: all
  38. Quintilian: Book 10
  39. Sallust: Bellum Catilinae
  40. Seneca: Thyestes, Medea, Phaedra.
  41. Statius: Thebaid all.
  42. Tacitus: Annals all, Histories 1-2
  43. Terence: Adelphoe, Heautontimoroumenos, Phormio
  44. Virgil: all

General Scholarship

Students will read the relevant portions of the following texts in order to contextualize their readings of the primary sources:

  • Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature. Edited by P. Easterling and BMW. Knox. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
  • Cambridge History of Classical Literature volume 2, Latin Literature. Edited by听E. J. Kenney,听W. V. Clausen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
  • Dover, K. J., ed. Ancient Greek Literature, 2nd ed, with contributions by M.L. West, J. Griffin, E.L. Bowie. Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • Conte, G. B. Latin Literature. A History. Translated by Joseph B. Solodow. Revised by Don Fowler and Glenn W. Most. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
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MA Examinations

Greek and Latin Translation and Literature听Exams

The Greek and Latin Exams will each take 3.5听hours to complete. Students will translate multiple passages into clear and precise English. There will be a degree of choice over which passages a student may translate. For the literature portion of the exam students will answer quote identifications 补苍诲听three essays on the primary sources (there will be choice). The answers should be broadly conceived and take into account the relevant information from the secondary readings. It is advisable that students prepare for the exam according to generic developments of Greek and Latin literature, in addition to exhibiting an awareness of cultural and historical contexts of the primary sources. Specific examples from the primary sources should be cited and discussed in the answers. In addition to the essay questions there will be 10 identification passages, chosen from the primary sources. Students will Identify the author, the text and write a short response contextualizing the text and discussing its broader significance in terms of Greek and Latin literary history.

Tests will be given on the second Friday of September, January, and May each academic year. Students will relay to the graduate advisor which test they are planning to take and the advisor will set each test. Each test will be three hours in length and will be taken pass/fail. If a student fails a test, then the student must retake the test within 8 weeks. Under exceptional circumstances students can request another date of examination.鈥� All tests are double graded鈥�.

Note: MA (non-thesis) students who enter the program in the Accelerated Track may, in consultation with the MA program advisor, request to be tested only on Homer 补苍诲听Plato, Vergil听and Cicero. They will be expected to write the Greek and Latin Literature Exam.

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