CPAS
Reading List: Greek Authors
A. Required
1. Plato:
Apology
Meno
Republic I, II, IV, V 473b 4-VII
2. Aristotle
Physics II (Ross)
Nicomachean Ethics I, II 1-6
B. Options
Candidates and their advisers will agree on a reading list. They will choose 6 out of the 19 options below. Two options will be in the original language, while the other four may be in translation. Options 9 and 11 (Plato and Aristotle) cannot be included among the options in the original language. Substitutions for the texts listed below can be granted only with the advisers’ consent.
1. Archaic Poetry
Homer: Iliad (at least 4 books)
Hesiod: Theogony 1-210
2. Early Greek Philosophy (4 authors from this list)
B Fragments from Diels-Kranz (consult your advisers for a recommended list):
Anaximander
Xenophanes
Heraclitus
Parmenides
Zeno
Empedocles
Anaxagoras
Leucippus, Democritus
3. Tragedy (1 text of Sophocles or Euripides in the original or 1 text for each author in translation)
Aeschylus: Agamemnon or Prometheus Bound
Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus or Antigone
Euripides: Bacchae or Medea
4. Comedy (1 text in the original or both in translation)
Aristophanes: Clouds
Aristophanes: Frogs
5. History (1 text in the original or both in translation)
Herodotus: Histories I
Thucydides: History II
6. Oratory (1 text in the original or both in translation)
Lysias: Against Eratosthenes
Lysias: On the Murder of Eratosthenes
7. The Sophistic Movement (Gorgias and another text in the original or all in translation)
Gorgias (Diels-Kranz B3, B11, B11a, B6)
Antiphon: Second Tetralogy (from Gagarin, Antiphon, The Speeches, Cambridge 1997)
Dissoi Logoi (Diels-Kranz)
8. Xenophon (1 text in the original or both in translation)
Memorabilia I, IV
Apology
9. Plato (3 texts)
Gorgias
Phaedo
Phaedrus
Theaetetus
Timaeus
10. Isocrates (1 text in the original or both in translation)
Against the Sophists
Helen
11. Aristotle
Categories 1-5
On the Soul II 1-5, 12
Nicomachean Ethics III 1-5, VII 1-3
Physics I
Metaphysics Λ
12. Euclid (Teubner)
Elements I
13. Epicurus (Arrighetti, 2nd edition)
Letter to Herodotus
Letter to Menoeceus
Principal Doctrines
14. Pyrrhonian Skepticism (Teubner)
Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism I
15. Stoicism (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries)
Diogenes Laertius: Lives VII 39-160
16. Medicine
Hippocrates: On Ancient Medicine (Loeb)
Galen: On the Sects for Beginners (Teubner)
17.Plutarch (Teubner; 1 text in the original or both in translation)
Moralia 440D-452D (On Moral Virtue)
Moralia 985D-992F (Beasts are Rational)
18. Plotinus (2 texts in the original or all in translation)
Enneads I 6 (On Beauty)
Enneads V 1 (On the Three Primary Hypostases)
Enneads V 9 (On Intellect, the Forms, and Being)
19. Ptolemy (Teubner)
On the Criterion
Reading List: Latin Authors
Candidates and their advisers will agree on a reading list. They will choose 4 out of the 9 options below. At least two options will be from the Philosophy options and in the original, the other two may be from any area and in translation.
1. Philosophy: Cicero (1 text in the original or all in translation)
Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae I, IV, V (Teubner)
Cicero, De natura deorum I-II (Teubner)
De finibus bonorum et malorum (2 books)
2.Philosophy: Lucretius
Lucretius, De rerum natura IV-VI
3. Philosophy: Seneca (1 text in the original or all in translation)
Seneca, De otio, De brevitate vitae
Seneca, Letters (consult your advisers for a selection of about 5 letters)
Seneca, De ira (at least 1 book)
4.Philosophy: Augustine (1 text in the original or all in translation)
Augustine, Confessions (at least 1 book) (O’Donnell)
Augustine, De libero arbitrio II (Corpus Christianorum Series Latina CCSL)
5.Philosophy: Boethius (Moreschini revised edition 2005)
Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae (at least 1 book)
6.Oratory (1 text in the original or all in translation)
Cicero, Pro Caelio
Cicero, Pro Archia
7. Vergil
Aeneid (at least 4 books)
8. Horace
Odes, I
9. Ovid
Metamorphoses, XIII
10. Apuleius (1 text in the original or all in translation)
Metamorphoses (at least 1 book) (Teubner)
De deo Socratis
De Platone et eius dogmate