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Reading Lists for the Translations Examinations Greek Aeschylus Agamemnon Andocides On the Mysteries (ed.

MacDowell) Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica 3 (ed. Hunter) Aristophanes Frogs, Clouds Aristotle Poetics and either Nicomachean Ethics 1 or Politics 1 Basilius Pros Tous Neous Callimachus Hymns 2 and 6; Aetia fr. 1-2, 67-75 Pf. (in Hopkinson); epigrams 2 Gow-Page (28 Pfeiffer), 14 (5), 29 (21), 30 (35), 34 (2),35 (11), 46 (19), 54 (1),56 (21), 58 (8) Demosthenes One Philippic Epigrams 40 epigrams in addition to Callimachus (selection from Sens, forthcoming) Euripides Bacchae and one other play; in English 5 more plays Gorgias Helen Herodas 1 mime Herodotus Book 1 AND either 7, 8, or 9 Hesiod Theogony OR Works and Days Hippocratic corpus On the Sacred Disease Homer 12 books of Iliad, 12 books of Odyssey, Hymns 2 and 4 Ignatius of Antioch Letter to the Romans OR 10 pp of Christian martyrs, e.g. Polycarp or Perpetua Libanius Oration 17 Longus Daphnis and Chloe proem and 1 book Lucian True History (44 pp) or How to Write History (32 pp) or Alexander (28 pp) or Icaromenippus (21 pp) Lyric poetry All selection in Campbell Lysias Oration 12 Menander Dyskolos Pindar Ol. 1, 2; Isth. 7 (as in Willcock), Py. 3 Plato Symposium, Republic 1, Crito Plutarch 1 life Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus and one other play Theocritus Idylls 1, 7, 11 Thucydides 1, 2.34-65, 3.35-85, 5.84-116, 6.8-32, 7.84-8.1 Xenophon Symposium OR Hellenica 1 OR equivalent

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