Latin Reading List
(Also the distance-learning M.L. and M.A. reading list)
In addition to the authors listed below, students are urged to read a history of Rome (e.g. M. Cary History of Rome) and a good historical outline of Roman literature (e.g. Cambridge History of Latin Literature).
| Plautus | Menaechmi |
| Terence | Adelphoe |
| Cicero | in Catilinam 1-4; pro Caelio; pro Archia; Somnium Scipionis |
| Caesar | Bellum Gallicum 1:1-29; 5-6 |
| Catullus | Carmina 1-60, 65, 67, 69-116 |
| Lucretius | 1 |
| Sallust | Catilina |
| Vergil | Aeneid 1-6; Georgics 4.315ff; Eclogue 4 |
| Horace | Carmina 1; 4: 2,7; Carmen Saeculare; Sermones 1: 1, 4, 5-6 |
| Livy | 21 |
| Ovid | Ars Amatoria 1; Amores1: 1-5; Metamorphoses 1 |
| Tibullus | 1.10 |
| Propertius | 1: 1, 5, 7, 9, 20, 22; 2: 8-13, 26a, 27, 28b-c; 3: 1, 2, 10, 18, 21; 4: 7, 11 |
| Seneca | Epistulae 65, 88, 114 |
| Petronius | Cena Trimalchionis |
| Pliny the Younger | 3.16; 6.16; 20 |
| Martial | 5.37; 5.47; 10: 30, 62 |
| Juvenal | 3, 6 |
| Tacitus | Annales 1 |
| Apuleius | 1 |
Greek Reading List
In addition to the authors listed below, students are urged to read a history of Greece (e.g. Bury’s History of Greece) and a good historical outline of Greek Literature (e.g. A. Lesky’s A History of Greek Literature)
| Homer | Il. 1, 9, 24; Od.1, 6, 9 |
| Homeric Hymns | 3 (in Apollinem) |
| Hesiod | Erga |
| Lyric | Cambell, Greek Lyric Poetry: Callinus, Tyrtaeus, Mimnermus, Solon, Archilochus, Sappho |
| Pindar | Ol. 1, 2; Pyth.1; Nem. 6; Isthm. 7 |
| Theocritus | Carmina either 15, 16, or 17 |
| Aeschylus | Agamemnon |
| Sophocles | Antigone; Oedipus Tyrannus |
| Euripides | Alcestis; Bacchae |
| Aristophanes | Lysistrata or Frogs |
| Herodotus | 1; 6: 94-104 |
| Thucydides | 1: 2: 35-65 |
| Xenophon | Anabasis 1; Hellenica1: 1, 1-37; 4, 1-23; 5, 10-17; 7, 1-35; 2: 1, 25-32; 2, 1-24 |
| Lysias | 1, 3, 7 |
| Plato | Apologia, Crito, Symposium |
| Aristotle | Poetics 1447-1452 |
Master of Latin Examination
(see below for the distance learning M.L. exam)
The supervisory committee will administer a final oral and written comprehensive exam on the University of Florida campus at the completion of the course work. This examination will consist of: (1) an oral part: a one hour examination on the general field of Latin literature (2) a written part, consisting of one hour each on (a) Latin sight translation and grammar, (b) Roman history and civilization and, only if applicable, (c) the minor, or minors. As preparation for this examination, the supervisory committee will present the student with an individually designed reading list of secondary works in English after admission to the program.
To prepare for this exam use the following reading list:*
For (1) the oral part, the one hour examination on the general field of Latin literature, read a standard history of Roman literature. The Department recommends:
H. J. Rose, A Handbook of Latin Literature
(if unavailable try Moses Hadas, A History of Latin Literature or Michael Grant, Roman Literature)
S.M. Braund, Latin Literature (Routledge: London and New York 2002)
For the written part (b) Roman history and civilization three books are required in the areas to be covered by this heading:
- Roman History: Any standard college level textbook should be sufficient. The Department recommends:
A.E. R. Boak, A History of Rome to 565 AD
(also good and readable are: Fritz M. Heichelheim & C. Yeo, A History of the Roman People; Henry Charles Boren, Roman Society: A Social, Economic, and Cultural History; Thomas W. Africa, The Immense Majesty: A History of Rome and the Roman Empire) G.I.F. Tingay & J. Badcock, These Were The Romans (Dufour Editions; 2nd ed. Chester Springs Pennsylvania 1992) - Roman Art and Architecture: the Department recommends
Nancy H. Ramage & Andrew Ramage, Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine (Prentice Hall; Englewood Cliffs, NJ 2nd ed. 1991, 1996) paper ISBN 0-13-440702-4
(If this is unavailable, try Mortimer Wheeler, Roman Art and Architecture [Praeger paperback/Thames & Hudson 1964]) - Roman Civilization:
Antony Kamm, The Romans: An Introduction (Routledge: London and New York, 2nd ed. 2008)
If you are unable to locate one of the recommended books or suggested alternates, contact your supervisory committee for another choice. If you have selected a minor, your supervisory committee will make a special list for that area
Distance Learning M.L. Examination
The supervisory committee will administer a final oral and written comprehensive exam on the University of Florida campus at the completion of course work. This examination will consist of: (1) an oral part: a one hour examination on the general field of Latin literature; and (2) a written part, consisting of two hours on Roman history and civilization.
To prepare for this exam use the following reading list:
For the oral, one-hour examination on the general field of Latin literature, read a standard history of Roman literature. The Department recommends Gianbiagio Conte, Latin Literature: A History (transl. J.B. Solodow, revised by D. Fowler and G.W. Most), Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
For the written two-hour examination on Roman history and civilization, the Department recommends the following for each subject area:
- Roman History:
A.E. R. Boak, A History of Rome to 565 AD (MacMillan, 1921)
G.I.F. Tingay & J. Badcock, These Were The Romans (Dufour Editions; 2nd ed. 1995) - Roman Art and Architecture:
Nancy Ramage and Andrew Ramage, Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005)
Paul Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (University of Michigan, 1990) - Roman Civilization:
Antony Kamm, The Romans: An Introduction (Routledge, 2nd ed. 2008)
If you are unable to locate one of the recommended books or suggested alternates, contact your supervisory committee for another choice.