Ph.D Classics: Ancient HistoryReading List (emphasis Greek)

GREEK

HOMER AND HESIOD
Hesiod, Works and Days 1-382 (Solmsen, OCT)
Homer, Iliad 1, 6, 9, 24 (West, Teubner)
Homer, Odyssey 6, 9 (Allen, OCT)

ARCHAIC POETRY AND EPINICIAN
Selections from Campbell: Archilochus 1, 2, 3, 5A, 6, 7; Alcman 1; Sappho 1, 16, 31; Alcaeus 34A, 38A, 42; Solon 3, 5, 19; Ibycus 286; Anacreon 358; Mimnermus 1, 13; Theognis 39-52
Pindar, Olympian 1, Pythian 1, Nemean 1, Isthmian 1 (Kirkwood)

TRAGEDY AND COMEDY

Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Persians (Page, OCT)
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus (Lloyd-Jones and Wilson, OCT)
Euripides, Bacchae, Trojan Women (Diggle, OCT)
Aristophanes, Wasps (MacDowell), Frogs (Dover)

HISTORIANS
Herodotus 1, 6 (Hude, OCT)
Thucydides 2, 6 (Jones, OCT)
Xenophon, Anabasis 1 (Marchant, OCT)
Old Oligarch, Constitution of the Athenians (Marchant, OCT)

ARISTOTLE
Politics 1 (OCT)
Athenaion Politeia 1-41 (Teubner)

PHILOSOPHY
Plato, Apology, Crito (Duke et al., OCT), Republic 1 (Slings, OCT)

ORATORY
Lysias 1, 12 (Hude, OCT)
Demosthenes, On the Crown 1-125 (Butcher, OCT)
Gorgias, Helen

GREEK WRITERS UNDER ROME
Polybius Book 6.11-18
Plutarch, Lives, Solon and Alexander (Teubner)
Diodorus Siculus Book 16.65-83
Arrian, Anabasis 2.11.4-10 (Battle of Issus)

INSCRIPTIONS
Some inscriptions from:
R. Meiggs and D. Lewis, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century B.C., Revised Edition (Oxford, 1989).
P.J. Rhodes and R. Osborne, Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC (Oxford, 2003).

LATIN

REPUBLICAN POETRY
Plautus, Pseudolus (Lindsay, OCT) 
Terence, Adelphoe (Lindsay, Kauer, OCT)
Catullus, 1-60, 63, 64, 67-85 (Thomson, 1997)

VIRGIL
Eclogues 1, 4, 5, 8, 10 (Mynors, OCT) 
Aeneid 2, 6 (Mynors, OCT) 

OTHER AUGUSTAN POETRY
Horace, Odes 3 (Wickham, Garrod, OCT), Ars Poetica (Rudd)
Ovid, Amores 1 (Kenney, OCT), Metamorphoses 8 & 10 (Tarrant, OCT) 

POST-AUGUSTAN POETRY
Lucan, Civil War 8 (Shackleton-Bailey, Teubner)
Juvenal, Satires 1-5 (Braund)

HISTORIOGRAPHY
Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 1-32 (Reynolds, OCT)
Livy, Ab Vrbe Condita 1 (Ogilvie, OCT)
Tacitus, Annals 4 (Fisher, OCT)

ORATORY AND RHETORIC
Cicero, Pro Archia (Kasten, Teubner), In Catilinam 1, 2 (Maslowski, Teubner)

LETTERS AND PHILOSOPHY
Cicero, De Republica 6 (Somnium Scipionis) (Zetzel)
Pliny, Letters, selection (Sherwin-White)

OTHER PROSE
Seneca, Apocolocyntosis (Eden)
Petronius, Satyricon 26.7-46 (Cena Trimalchionis) (Smith)