The Ph.D. suggested reading list is designed to serve as a model for Ph.D. candidates preparing for the preliminary examination in Greek and Latin literature. Many candidates, however, will wish to emphasize a particular period or author in accordance with their own interest; while preserving the essential range and bulk of the list, they may use it as a guide to compile their own reading list in consultation with the examining instructor.
- H. Bardon, La Litterature latine inconnue (Paris, 1952)
- M.Fuhrmann, Neues Handbuch der Literaturwissenschaft: Romische Literatur (Frankfurt, 1974)
- E.J. Kenney and W.V. Clausen (edd.), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature II: Latin Literature (Cambridge, 1982)
- R.E. Fantham, Roman Literary Culture from Cicero to Apuleius (Baltimore, 1996)
- T. Habinek, The politics of Latin Literature (Princeton, 1998)
Theater
- G.E. Duckworth, The Nature of Roman Comedy; A Study in Popular Entertainment (Princeton, 1952)
- E. Fraenkel, Elementi plautini in Plauto (Florence, 1960)
- H.D. Jocelyn, The Tragedies of Ennius (Cambridge, 1967)
- A.S. Gratwick, CHCL 77-137
- A.J. Boyle, ed. Seneca Tragicus: RAMUS Essays on Senecan Drama (Berwick, Victoria, 1983)
- R.C. Beacham, The Roman Theatre and its Audience (London, 1991)
Epic
- R. Heinze, Virgils epische Technik (Leipzig and Berlin, 1915; repr. Darmstadt, 1957)
- W.R. Johnson, Darkness Visible (Berkeley, 1976)
- A.S. Gratwick, CHCL 60-76
- O. Stuysch, The Annals of Quintus Ennius (Oxford, 1985)
- P.R. Hardie, Cosmos and Imperium (Oxford, 1986)
- J.B. Solodow, The World of Ovid's Metamorphoses (Chapel Hill, 1988)
- D.C. Freeney, Gods in Epic (Oxford, 1991)
- A.J.Boyle (ed.), Roman Epic (London, 1993)
Didactic
- F. Klinger, Virgils Georgica (Zurich, 1963)
- D. West, The Imagery and Poetry of Lucretius (Edinburgh, 1969)
Lyric and Elegy
- L.P. Wilkinson, Ovid Recalled (Cambridge, 1955)
- E. Fraenkel, Horace (Oxford, 1957)
- W. Wimmel, Kallimachos in Rom (Wiesbaden, 1960)
- L.P. Wilkinson, Golden Latin Artistry (Cambridge, 1963)
- S. Commager, The Odes of Horace (Bloomington, 1967)
- M. von Albrecht and E. Zinn (edd.), Ovid (Darmstadt, 1968)
- G. Williams, Tradition and Originality in Roman Poetry (Oxford, 1968)
- H.P. Syndikus, Die Lyrik des Horaz (Darmstadt, 1972-3)
- M. Hubbard, Propertius (London, 1974)
- F.Cairns, Tibullus: A Hellenistic Poet at Rome (Cambridge, 1979)
- R.O.A.M. Lyne, The Latin Love Poets (Oxford, 1980)
- H.P. Syndikus, Catull: Eine Interpretation (Darmstadt, 1984-5)
- D.F. Kennedy, The Arts of Love: Five Studies in the Discourse of Roman Love Elegy (Cambridge, 1993)
- S.E. Hinds, Allusion and Intertext (Cambridge, 1998)
Historiography
- F.E. Adcock, Caesar as Man of Letters (Cambridge, 1956)
- P.G. Walsh, Livy: His Historical Aims and Methods (Cambridge, 1961)
- A.D. Leeman, Orations Ratio (Amsterdam, 1963)
- R. Syme, Sallust (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1964)
- T.A. Dorey (ed.), Latin Historians (London, 1966)
- T.J. Luce, Livy: The Composition of his History (Princeton, 1977)
- R. Martin, Tacitus (Berkeley, 1981)
- A.J. Woodman, Rhetoric in Classical Historiography: Four Studies (London and Sydney, 1988)
- J. Marincola, Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography (Cambridge, 1997)
Rhetoric
- D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Cicero (London, 1971)
- G.A. Kennedy, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, 300B.C.-300A.D. (Princeton, 1972)
- S. Bartsch, Actors in the Audience (Harvard, 1994)
Satire
- G. Highet, Juvenal the Satirist (Oxford, 1954)
- J.P. Sullican (ed.), Satire (London, 1963)
- N. Rudd, The Satires of Horace (Cambridge, 1966)
- M. Coffey, Roman Satire (London, 1976)
The Novel
- J.P. Sullican, The Satyricon of Petronius (Ann Arbor, 1968)
- J. Winkler, Auctor and Actor: A Narratological Reading of Apuleius' "Golden Ass" (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1985)
- E.J. Kenney (ed.), Cupid and Psyche (Cambridge, 1991)
Greek Literature
General
- W. Schmid and O. Stahlin, Geschichte der griechischen Literatur (Muncih, 1929-48)
- E.R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1951)
- A. Lesky, History of Greek Literature (New York, 1963)
- P.E. Easterling and B.M.W. Knox (edd.), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature I: Greek Literature (Cambridge, 1985)
Epic
- A.B. Lord, The singer of Tales (Cambridge, 1960)
- K. Reinhardt, Die Illias und ihr Dichter (Gottingen, 1961)
- M. Parry, The making of Homeric Verse, ed A. Parry (Oxford, 1971)
- G. Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans (Baltimore, London, 1979)
- W.G. Thalmann, Conventions of Form and Thought in Early Greek Epic Poetry (Baltimore, 1984)
- M.W. Edwards, Homer: Poet of the Iliad (Baltimore, 1987)
- R. Martin, The Language of Heroes (Ithaca, 1989)
- B.B. Powell, Homer and the Origins of the Greek Alphabet (Cambridge, 1991)
- B.B. Powell & I. Morris, A New Companion to Homer (Leiden, 1997)
Lyric
- C.M. Bowra, Greek Lyric Poetry (Oxford, 1961)
- E.L. Bundy, Studia Pindarica (Berkeley, 1962)
- C. Calame, Les choeurs de jeunes filles en Grece archaique (Rome, 1977)
- D.A. Campell, The Golden Lyre (London, 1983)
- B. Gentili, Poetry and its Public in Ancient Greece, Eng. Tr. (Baltimore, 1988)
Theater
- A.W. Pickard-Cambridge, The Dramatic festivals of Athens (Oxford, 1953)
- A.W. Pickard-Cambridge, Dithyramb, Tragedy and Comedy (Oxford, 1962)
Tragedy
- J. Jones, On Aristole and Greek Tragedy (Oxford, 1962)
- G.F. Else, The Origin and Early Forms of Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 1965)
- S. Goldhill, Reading Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 1986)
- P.E. Easterling (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 1992)
- F. Zeitlin, Playing the Other (Chicago, 1996)
- L.K. McClure, Spoken like a Woman (Princeton, 1999)
Aeschylus
- K. Reinhardt, Aischylos als Regisseur und Theologe (Bern, 1949)
- A. Lebek, The Oresteia (Washington, 1971)
- O. Taplin, The Stagecraft of Aeschylus (Oxford, 1977)
- T.G. Rosenmeyer, The Art of Aeschylus (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1982)
Sophocles
- B.M.W. Knox, The Heroic Temper (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1964)
- K. Reinhardt, Sophocles, Eng. tr. (Oxford, 1979)
- R. Burton, The Chorus in Sophocles' Tragedies (Oxford, 1980)
Euripides
A.P. Burnett, Catastrophe Survived (Oxford, 1971)
C. Collard, Euripides, G&R Surveys (Oxford, 1981)
A.N. Michelini, Euripides and the Tragic Tradition (Madison, WI, 1987)
Comedy
- K.J. Dover, Aristopanic Comedy (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1972)
- S.M. Goldberg, The Making of Menander's Comedy (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1980)
- R.L. Hunter, The New Comedy of Greece & Rome (Cambridge, 1985)
- J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (Oxford, 1991)
- A.M. Bowie, Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy (Cambridge, 1993)
Hellenistic Poetry
- U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Hellenistische Dichtung (Berlin, 1924)
- T.G. Rosenmeyer, The Green Cabinet (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969)
- A.W. Bulloch, CHCL 541-621
- G.O. Hutchinson, Hellenistic Poetry (Oxford, 1988)
- R.L. Hunter, The Argonautica of Apollonius: Literary Studies (Cambridge, 1993)
Historiography
- C. Fornara, The Nature of History in Ancient Greece and Rome (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1983)
- W.R. Connor, Thucydides (Princeton, 1984)
- S. Hornblower, Thucydides (Baltimore, 1987)
- F. Hartog, The Mirror of Herodotus (Berkeley, 1988)
- J. Gould, Herodotus (New York, 1989)
- J. Marincola, Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography (Cambridge, 1997)
Philosophy
- W.K.C. Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy (Cambridge, 1962-80)
- A.A. Long, Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics (London, 1974)
- J.L. Ackrill, Aristotle the Philosopher (Oxford, 1981)
- G.B. Kerferd, The Sophistic Movement (Cambridge, 1981)
- G.S. Kirk, J.E, Raven, M. Schilfield, The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge, 1983)
- R. Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge, 1992)
Rhetoric
- G.A. Kennedy, The Art of Persuasion in Greece (Princeton, 1963)
- N. Loraux, The Invention of Athens (Cambridge, 1986)
- S. Usher, Greek Oratory (Oxford, 1999)
Literary Criticism
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G. A. Kennedy (ed.), The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Vol. 1 (Cambridge, 1989)
- S. Halliwell, Aristotle's Poetics (Chapel Hill, 1986)
Ancient Material Culture
- W.R. Biers, The Archaeology of Greece (Ithaca-London, 1996)
- P.L. MacKendrick, The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy, 2nd ed. (New York, 1983)
- P.L. MacKendrick, The Greek Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Greek Lands, 2nd ed. (New York, 1981)
- N.H. Ramage and A. Ramage, Roman Art: Romulus to Constatine, 3rd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)