Yale's undergraduate classics' program reading list

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Just putting this here for the reference of anyone who's interested. The original is found here: https://classics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/downloads/YaleUndergraduateReadingList.pdf.

Also, Yale offers a Greek history course, here: https://oyc.yale.edu/NODE/76. I couldn't get the download link to function, but it seems all course materials are available in the tabs found on that first page.

Undergraduate Reading List

Department of Classics

Approved by the Department 30 October 2006

Corrected April 13, 2011
 

Ancient Greek

Homer Iliad 1, 6, 9; Odyssey 4, 9

In English: Iliad and Odyssey (all)

Homeric Hymns Demeter in Greek

In English: Aphrodite, Apollo, and Hermes

Hesiod Works and Days 1-247; Theogony 1-232

In English: Works and Days, Theogony (all)

Archilochus 1, 2, 3, 6, 22, 74

In English: all selections in A. Miller, Greek Lyric

Sappho 1, 16, 31, 44

In English: all selections in A. Miller, Greek Lyric

Solon 1 and 24

In English: all selections in A. Miller, Greek Lyric

Simonides 542, 121D, 92D

In English: all selections in A. Miller, Greek Lyric

Bacchylides 3 and 18

In English: all selections in A. Miller, Greek Lyric

Pindar Ol. 1 In English: selections of Odes in A. Miller, Greek Lyric: Olympian 2, 12,

13, 14, Pythian 1, 3, 8, 10, Nemean 5, 10, Isthmian 5, 6, 7

Aeschylus Eumenides;

In English: Oresteia

Sophocles Oedipus Rex

In English: Ajax, Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus

Euripides Medea

In English: Hippolytus and Bacchae

Aristophanes Clouds

In English: Frogs, Birds, Lysistrata

Herodotus 1.1-92

In English: 6-9

Thucydides 2.1-65;

In English: 1, the rest of 2, 6, and 7

Plato Republic I, Ion, Crito

In English: Republic, Apology, Symposium

Aristotle EN I

In English: Poetics (all)

Lysias 1

In English: 12

Demosthenes First Philippic

Apollonius Argonautica selections in N. Hopkinson, A Hellenistic Anthology: 1.536-58,

1.1153-71, 3.744-824, 4.1629-88

In English: Argonautica (all)

Callimachus Selections in N. Hopkinson, A Hellenistic Anthology: Reply to the Telchines

(fr. 1), Acontius and Cydippe (frr. 67+75), The Bath of Pallas (Hymn 5), The

Hymn to Zeus (Hymn 1)

Theocritus 1 and 15

In English: 7 and 11

Plutarch Alcibiades

In English: Alexander; Coriolanus & Comparison of Coriolanus and

Alcibiades

Additional English readings

Lyric poetry, selections of Alcman, Alcaeus, Anacreon, and Theognis from A. Miller, Greek

Lyric

Antiphon Tetralogies

Menander Dyscolus

Lucian selected Dialogues of the Gods in L. Casson, Selected Satires of Lucian, 2,

4, 6, 7, 9, 20, 24; The Dream or Lucian’s Career, The Death of Peregrinus

Longus Daphnis and Chloe

Undergraduate Reading list for Latin

Plautus: Menaechmi

In English: Aulularia, Amphitryo

Terence: Adelphoe

Ennius: Annales 34-50, 72-91, 96, 268-286 (as numbered in O. Skutsch's Annals of

Quintus Ennius)

Catullus: 1-16, 22, 28, 30-36, 44-46, 49-51, 58, 62-64, 68, 70, 72, 75, 76, 82-87, 92, 93, 95,

96, 99, 101, 109

Lucretius: De Rerum Natura I.1-448

Caesar: Bellum Civile I

Sallust: Bellum Catilinae

Cicero: In Catilinam 1, Somnium Scipionis

Letters 1, 3, 6, 15, 18, 19, 20, 24, 27, 33, 34, 38, 52, 63, 67-69 (ed. Shackleton

Bailey)

In English: Brutus, Penguin Classics On the Good Life (Trans. Grant)

Horace: Satires 1, Odes 1, Epistles 1

In English: Ars Poetica

Virgil: Eclogues, Aeneid I, IV, VI, XII

In English: Georgics, Aeneid (all)

Tibullus: I.1, 3, 5

Propertius: I.1, 3, 5, 6, 11, 18-20; IV.7-11

Nepos: Atticus

Ovid: Amores 1, Metamorphoses 1

In English: Ars I, Metamorphoses (all)

Livy: praef., I.1-16

In English: Books I and XXI

–– Res Gestae Divi Augusti

Seneca: Phaedra, Letters 7, 47, 56

In English: Apocolocyntosis, Octavia

Lucan: Bellum Civile I.1-182

In English: Books I and VII

Persius: Satire 1

Petronius: Satyricon chapters 26-78 in Latin (Cena Trimalchionis), the rest in English.

Martial: De Spec. 31 and 34; Book I.1-4, 13, 16, 29, 32, 38

Pliny: Letters I.9, VI.16, VII.33, X.96-97

Tacitus: Agricola 1-4, 42-46; Annales I

In English: Annales (all)

Juvenal: Satires 1, 3

In English: 6, 10

Suetonius: In English: Augustus, Nero, Domitian

Apuleius: Metamorphoses 1

In English: Metamorphoses (all)

Ammianus: XVI.1, 5, 10; XXXI.16.7

In English: XIV.5.6-XV.8.16, XVI (all)

Augustine: Confessions I.VIII(13)-XIV(23)

In English: Confessions I (all)

Claudian: In English: In Eutropium 1

Boethius: In English: Consolatio Philosophiae 1

Quintilian: In English: Instit. X.1.85-131