Latin M.A. Reading List (with recommended commentaries)

Revised 2024

• Apuleius   
  • Metamorphoses Book 1
    • May, R. 2013. Apuleius: Metamorphoses Book 1. Oxford: Aris & Phillips.
• Augustus
  • Res Gestae 1-5, 13-16, 19-22, 34-35
    • Cooley, A. E. 2009. Res Gestae Divi Augusti. Text, Translation, and Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Caesar
  • De Bello Gallico Book 1
    • Francese, C. 2011. Caesar: Selections from the Gallic War. Dickinson College Commentaries. https://dcc.dickinson.edu/caesar/book-1/chapter-1-1
• Catullus
  • Carmina 1-8, 10-11, 14, 42, 50-51, 64, 76, 85, 101
    • Garrison, D. H. 2012. The Student’s Catullus. 4th ed. University of Oklahoma Press.
    • Thomson, D. 1997. Catullus. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Cicero
  • In Catilinam 1-2
    • Dyck, A. 2009. Cicero: Catilinarians. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • De Imperio Gn. Pompei
    • Macdonald, C. 1966. De Imperio Gn. Pompei ad Quirites oratio: pro lege Manilia. London: Bristol Classical Press.
    • Gildenhard, I. & L. Hodgson. 2014. Cicero, On Pompey’s Command (De Imperio), 27–49. Dickinson College Commentaries. https://dcc.dickinson.edu/cicero-de-imperio/27
  • De Re Publica 2.1-34, 2.56-63
    • Zetzel, J. 1995. Cicero: De re publica, Selections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Epistulae ad Atticum 1.2, 3.3, 9.18, 12.15, 13.52; ad Familiares 7.5, 7.18, 14.3
    • Shackleton Bailey, D. 1980. Cicero: Select Letters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • Stockton, D. 1969. Thirty-five Letters of Cicero. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • Shackleton Bailey, D. 1999. Letters to Atticus. 4 Vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    • Shackleton Bailey, D. 2001. Letters to Friends. 3 Vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Horace
  • Sermones 1.5, 1.9
    • Gowers, E. 2012. Horace: Satires Book I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Martial
  • Selected Epigrams (Watson), 6, 8, 9a, 15, 19, 20, 27, 30, 32, 44, 52, 56, 64, 68, 69, 83, 85
    • Watson, L. and P. Watson. 2003. Martial: Select Epigrams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Nepos       
  • Hannibal
    • Mulligan, B. 2015. Cornelius Nepos: Life of Hannibal. Dickinson College Commentaries https://dcc.dickinson.edu/nepos-hannibal/preface
• Ovid
  • Metamorphoses 1, 3, 15.832-79
    • Anderson, W. 1998. Ovid’s Metamorphoses Books 1-5. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press/
    • Luck, G. 2017. A Textual Commentary on Ovid, Metamorphoses Book XV. Huelva: University of Huelva.
  • Ars Amatoria 1
    • Hollis, A. 1989. Ovid: Ars Amatoria Book 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Pliny
  • Epistulae 1.6, 2.1, 2.6, 2.17, 7.5, 7.24, 9.6, 10.33-34, 10.38-40
    • Whitton, C. 2013. Pliny the Younger, Epistles Book II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • Shelton, Jo-Ann. 2016. Pliny the Younger: Selected Letters. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci.
• Propertius 
  • Elegiae 2.12, 4.1.1-70
    • Heyworth, S. 2008. Cynthia: A Companion to the Text of Propertius. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Sallust
  • Bellum Catilinae
    • Ramsey, J. 1984. Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Seneca
  • Epistulae 7, 47
    • Edwards, C. 2019. Seneca: Selected Letters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Tibullus
  • Elegiae 2.4
    • Murgatroyd, P. 1995. Tibullus: Elegies II. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Virgil
  • Aeneid 1, 6, 12
    • Williams, R. 1998. Virgil: Aeneid I-VI. London: Bristol Classical Press.
    • Williams, R. 1998. Virgil: Aeneid VII-XII. London: Bristol Classical Press.
    • Ganiban, R. 2008. Vergil: Aeneid I. Indianapolis: Hackett.
    • Johnson, P. 2012. Vergil: Aeneid VI. Indianapolis: Hackett.