Preparing for the M.A. Greek Literature Exam

Poetry

Epic

  • Homer (incl. hymns)
  • Hesiod
  • Apollonius Rhodius

Lyric/Elegiac

  • Pindar
  • Bacchylides
  • Theognis
  • Lyric poets
  • Callimachus
  • Theocritus

Tragedy

  • Aeschylus
  • Sophocles
  • Euripides

Comedy

  • Aristophanes
  • Menander


Prose

History/Biography

  • Herodotus
  • Thucydides
  • Xenophon
  • Plutarch

Philosophy

  • Presocratics
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • Lucian

Oratory

  • Demosthenes
  • Lysias
  • Other orators (e.g. Aeschines, Andocides, Antiphon, Isocrates, Isaeus, Lycurgus)

Other genres

  • Novel
  • Science/medicine
  • Satire/parody