Department of Classics
Ph.D. Suggested Reading List - Secondary Sources
(Updated 7/18/05)

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.

Latin Literature

General

Theater

Epic

Didactic

Lyric and Elegy

Historiography

Rhetoric

Satire

The Novel

Greek Literature

General

Epic

Lyric

Theater

Tragedy

Aeschylus

Sophocles

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

Hellenistic Poetry

Historiography

Philosophy

Rhetoric

Literary Criticism

Ancient Material Culture