Language Exams - May 2026
| Exam | Date | Time | Room |
| GRK Sight | Tues - May 19 | 13:00 - 16:00 | LI 220 |
| LAT Sight | Wed - May 20 | 13:00 - 16:00 | LI 205 |
| GRK Qualifying | Thu - May 21 | 13:00 - 16:00 | LI220 |
| LAT Qualifying | Fri - May 22 | 13:00 - 16:00 | LI205 |
| Modern Language | Tues - May 12 | 11:00 - 13:00 | LI 103 |
Reading Lists
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon and Choephoroi
- Aeschylus, Eumenides
- Apollonius, Argonautica 3
- Aristophanes, Frogs
- Aristophanes, Lysistrate
- Asclepiades, Epigrams (Sens’ edition)
- Callimachus, Aitia-prologue
- Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo
- Euripides, Bacchae
- Euripides, Medea
- Herondas, Mimiambi 6
- Hesiod, Theogony
- Hesiod, Works and Days
- Homer, Iliad 1, 6, 9, 18, 22, 24
- Homer, Odyssey 1, 6, 9, 19, 22, 23
- Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
- Lyric Poetry: from the edition of Campbell
• Alcaeus: 34A, 38A, 42
• Alcman: 1
• Anacreon: 358, 360, 395
• Archilochus: 1, 2, 5A, 6, 7, 60, 67a, 74, 79a, 88-94, App.
• Bacchylides: 5
• Callinus
• Ibycus: 286
• Mimnermus: all
• Sappho: 1, 2, 16, 31, frs. 58-59 West (the New Sappho)
• Simonides: 531, 543, 83D, 92D
• Solon: 3
• Stesichorus: 185, Appendix 2
• Theognis: 19-26, 183-92, 237-54, 1197-1202
• Tyrtaeus: 9 - Menander, Dyscolus
- Musaeus, Hero and Leander
- Pindar, Olympian 1
- Pindar, Pythian 1 and 4
- Sophocles, Antigone
- Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus
- Theocritus, Idylls 1, 2, 7 and 11
- Antiphon, 1
- Aristotle, Politics 1
- Attic inscriptions:
- Alliance between Athens and Chios, 384/3 BC (RO 20; IG II2 34; Syll.3 142)
- Athens honours Spartocus et al., 347/6 BC (RO 64; IG II2212; Syll.3 206)
- Brea decree (ML 49; IG I3 46)
- Chalkis decree (Meiggs-Lewis [=ML] 52; IG I3 40)
- Charter of the Second Athenian League, 378/7 BC (RO 22; IG II2 43; Syll.3 147)
- Cult of Amphiaraus at Oropus, 4th cent. BC (Syll.3 1004; IG VII 235; LSCG 69; Rhodes-Osborne 27)
- Decelean phratry decrees, 396/5 BC and after (Rhodes-Osborne [=RO] 5; IG II2 1237; Syll.3 927)
- Decree of the genos of the Salaminioi, 363/2 BC (RO 37; SEG 21.527)
- Eleusinian first fruits decree (ML 73; IG I3 78)
- Ephebic oath and the oath of Plataea, mid-4th cent. BC (RO 88)
- Demosthenes, Philippic 1
- Dio Chrysostom, 7 (Euboicus)
- Epigraphic Dossier
- Heliodorus, Aethiopica 1
- Herodotus, 1.0-94, 2.1-98, 3.61-87
- Hippocrates: Airs, Waters, Places
- Isocrates, Euagoras
- Late Antique Letters: Libanius Epp. 12, 35, 369, 493, 610, 678, 758, 760, 802, 811 (Teubner), Julian Epp. 96-98 (Budé), Synesius Epp. 5, 10, 15, 16, 81, 105, 124, 154 (Budé)
- Longus, Daphnis and Chloe 1
- Lucian, Alexander the False Prophet
- Lucian, True History 1
- Lysias, 12 (Ad Eratosthenem) and 2 (Epitaphios)
- Other inscriptions:
- Alexander’s letter to the Chians (Syll.3 283; Rhodes-Osborne 84)
- Amorgos honors Hegesippus and Antippapus, 3rd cent. BC (Syll.3 521; IG XII.7 386; Austin 105)
- Burial laws from Iulis, Ceos, (IG XII.5 593 (Add. p. 332); LSCG 97), 5th cent. BC
- Epidaurian iamata i-xviii (IG IV2.1 121; Syll.3 1168; Rhodes-Osborne 102), 4th cent. BC
- Introduction of Sarapis to Delos (Syll.3 663; IG XI.4 1299, lines 1-29; Austin 151), c. 200 BC
- Letter of Augustus to Knidos, 6 BC (Syll.3 780; IG XII.3 174; RDGE 67; Sherk 103)
- Letter of Eumenes II to Toriaion, 2nd cent. BC (SEG 47. 1745)
- Oaths of loyalty at Itanos (Syll.3 526; Austin 108) and at Dreros (Syll.3 527; Austin 109), both 3rd cent. BC
- Sacrificial calendar, month Batromios, Cos, 4th cent. BC (Syll.3 1025; Rhodes-Osborne 62A; LSCG 151)
- Samos honors Boulagoras, 3rd cent. BC (SEG 1.366; Austin 132)
- Plato, Phaedrus
- Plato, Republic 1
- Plutarch, Alexander 1-23
- Polybius, 3.1-6, 5.1-16, 6.3-18
- Thucydides, 1.1-23, 2.1-65, 3.35-85
- Xenophon, Agesilaus
- Xenophon, Oeconomicus 7-15
- [Xenophon], Old Oligarch
- Catullus, all
- Ennius, Annales 1 frr. xxix, xlvii; 6 fr.ix; 8 fr.xii (Skutsch)
- Horace, Ars Poetica
- Horace, Odes 1 and 3
- Horace, Satires 1, 4, 5, 10
- Juvenal 1-5
- Lucan 1
- Lucretius, De rerum natura 1, 3
- Martial 1
- Ovid, Ars 1
- Ovid, Met. 8
- Ovid, Fasti 4
- Ovid, Tristia 1
- Plautus, Pseudolus
- Propertius 1
- Seneca, Thyestes
- Statius, Siluae 4
- Terence, Eunuchus
- Tibullus 1
- Valerius Flaccus 1
- Virgil, Aeneid 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 12
- Virgil, Eclogues all
- Virgil, Georgics 4
- Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.5.1-10.19
- Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1
- Apuleius, Pro se de magia 1-28
- Archaic Latin Prose (ed. Courtney)
- Augustine, Confessions 1
- Augustus, Res Gestae
- Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae pr; 19.1, 20.1
- Caesar, Bellum Civile 1.1-37
- Cicero, Ad Atticum 16
- Cicero, Ad Familiares 9
- Cicero, De officiis 1.1-60
- Cicero, De oratore 1.1-104
- Cicero, De re republica 6.12-33
- Cicero, Philippic 2
- Cicero, Pro Marcello
- Fronto, Ad M. Caesarem 1.2-6
- Livy, Ab urbe condita pref. and Books 5.1-23, 5.32-55, 39.8-19
- Panegyrici Latini 12(9)
- Passio Perpetuae
- Petronius, Satyrica 26-78
- Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 1
- [Quintilian] Declamationes Maiores 3
- Sallust, Bellum Catilinae
- Selections from Dessau’s Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae
◦ II. Imperial: 96-105; 231-36; 249-53; 320-25; 393-96; 442-47
◦ IV. The Senate: 1044-49; 1174-83
◦ V. Ordo equester: 1375-88
◦ VI. Familia Caesaris: 1660-70
◦ IX. Tituli militares: 2271-79
◦ XI. Tituli sacri: 3781-94; 4227-37
◦ XII. Ludi: 5100-08
◦ XIII. Opera publica: 5572-80
◦ XIV. Municipales 6291-96
◦ XVI. Opifices, artifices: 7682-7714
◦ XVII. Sepulchrales: 7847-61; 8186-91; 8271-86 - Seneca, Consolatio ad Helviam
- Seneca, Epistulae Morales 1
- Seneca Maior, Controversia 1.pr
- Suetonius, Claudius
- Tacitus, Annales 4
- Tacitus, Historiae 1
- Tertullian, Apologeticum 1-9
- Varro, DLL 5.1-13
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