Reading List for Greek Ph.D. Translation Exam

Reading list for Greek Ph.D. translation exam

For students matriculating in the Fall 2017 semester and beyond

  • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon
  • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Eumenides
  • Antiphon, 1 (Against the stepmother), 5 (On the murder of Herodes)
  • Apollonius Rhodius, Book 3
  • Aristophanes, Frogs, Lysistrata
  • Aristotle, Poetics
  • Bacchylides 3, 5, 17
  • Callimachus, Hymns 2, 5, 6; Iambus 1
  • Demosthenes, On the Crown (De corona)
  • Euripides, Alcestis, Hecuba, Helen, Trojan Women
  • Herodotus, I, VII, VIII
  • Hesiod, Theogony 1–210, 453–816; Works and Days 1–380
  • Homer, Iliad 1, 3, 11, 16–18; Odyssey 5, 9–12, 23
  • Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Homeric Hymn to Apollo, Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
  • Isocrates, Helen
  • Longus, Daphnis and Chloe book 1
  • Lucian, True History book 1, The Death of Peregrinus
  • Lysias 12, 14, 24, 31, 32
  • Menander, Dyskolos
  • Pindar, Olympians 1 and 6, Pythians 8 and 12, Nemean 9, Isthmian 6
  • Plato, Phaedo, Republic 1, Symposium, Protagoras
  • Plutarch, Life of Pericles
  • Sophocles, Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Philoctetes
  • Theocritus, Idylls 1, 2, 7, 11, 13, 15
  • Thucydides, Books I, VI, VII
  • Xenophon, Hiero, Hellenica II, Symposium