Reading List for the Second-Year Exam
- P. E. Easterling, The Cambridge History of Classical Literature ( Cambridge 1989). The Greek Volume.
- Homeric Epic, pp. 42-91, 106-116
Hesiod, 92-105- Elegy and Iambus, Choral Lyric, and Monody, 117-244
- Major Greek Tragedians, 258-339, 346-354
- Comedy, 358-362, 374-425
- Early Greek Philosophy, 245-257
- Historiography, 426-471
- Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, and Oratory, 478-540
- Hellenistic poetry, 541-621
- Hellenistic philosophy, pages 622-641
- G. B. Conte, Latin Literature: A History (Baltimore 1987)
- Sarah B. Pomeroy, Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History (Oxford 1999)
- Mary T. Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola and Richard J. A. Talbert, The Romans From Village to Empire (Oxford 2004)