All Classics and Classical Studies majors are expected to have read (in English) and be familiar with the following works for their senior Comprehensive Examination.

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Greek Authors and Recommended Translations

  • Homer
    • Iliad, tr. Lattimore (Chicago)
    • Odyssey, tr. Lattimore (Harper)
  • Aeschylus
    • Oresteia, tr. Lattimore (Chicago) or Lloyd-Jones (California)
  • Sophocles
    • Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, Oedipus Coloneus, tr. Grene and Lattimore, eds. (Chicago)
  • Euripides
    • Medea, Bacchae, Ion, tr. Grene and Lattimore, eds. (Chicago)
  • Aristophanes
    • Clouds, tr. West & West in Four Texts on Socrates (Cornell)
    • Birds, tr. Arrowsmith in Aristophanes: Three Comedies, Arrowsmith, ed. (Michigan)
    • Frogs, tr. Lattimore in Aristophanes: Four Comedies,  Arrowsmith, ed. (Michigan)
  • Herodotus
    • Histories, tr. de Selincourt/Marincola (Penguin)
  • Thucydides
    • Peloponnesian War, (The Landmark Thucydides) tr. Crowley, ed. Strassler (Free Press)
  • Plato
    • Republic, tr. Bloom (Basic Books)
    • Apology, tr. West and West in Four Texts on Socrates (Cornell)
    • Symposium tr. Benardete in The Dialogues of Plato, Segal, ed. (Bantam)
  • Aristotle
    • Poetics, tr. Janko (Hackett)
    • Nicomachean Ethics, tr. Ostwald (Bobbs-Merrill)
    • Politics, tr. Lord (Chicago)

Latin Authors and Recommended Translations

  • Plautus
    • Miles Gloriosus and Menaechmi, tr. Segal (Oxford)
  • Terence
    • Adelphoe and Mother-in-Law, tr. Berg (Hackett)
  • Lucretius
    • De Rerum Natura, tr. Melville (Oxford)
  • Sallust
    • Conspiracy of Catiline, tr. Handford (Penguin)
  • Cicero
    • Republic I, tr. (Loeb)
    • Pro Caelio, tr. Grant (Penguin)
    • 1st Catilinarian, tr. Grant (Penguin)
  • Catullus
    • Carmina, tr. Martin (Johns Hopkins) or Lee (Oxford)
  • Vergil
    • Aeneid, tr. Mandelbaum (Bantam)
  • Horace
    • Odes 1-3, tr. West (Oxford)
  • Livy
    • Books I-V, XXI, and XXII tr. de Selincourt (Penguin)
  • Ovid
    • Metamorphoses, tr. Melville (Oxford)
  • Seneca
    • Thyestes, tr. Fitch (Loeb)
    • On Anger, Cooper and Procope (Cambridge)
  • Petronius
    • Satyricon, tr. Arrowsmith (Meridian)
  • Lucan
    • Civil War, tr. Joyce (Cornell)
  • Juvenal
    • Satires, tr. Green (Penguin) or Rudd (Oxford)
  • Tacitus
    • Annals, tr. Woodman (Hackman)
  • Apuleius
    • Golden Ass, tr. Lindsay (Indiana)