Applicant's Reading in Ancient Languages

DEPARTMENTAL SUPPLEMENT to Graduate Application
REQUIRED OF ALL CANDIDATES
You may use this on-line form to submit your reading list by e-mail to the AHMA Student Affairs Officer.

List authors and works read in the original languages. Please specify whether the entire work was read or what portion was read (see sample). You should include reading done outside of formal classes. You may include at the bottom of each list the reading in progress or expected to be completed during the current academic year. For those of you with Near Eastern languages, please indicate the texts you have covered.

If appropriate, also list the reading you expect to complete during the remainder of the current academic year.

Enter your name as it appears on your application for graduate admission in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology:

Enter your e-mail address:

Enter your Latin reading (through the end of the current term):

Enter the Latin reading you expect to complete during the remainder of the academic year:

Enter your Greek reading (through the end of the current term):

Enter the Greek reading you expect to complete during the remainder of the academic year:

Enter other languages:

If you are unable to use this form, you may send your list by e-mail to Janet Yonan at casmaadm@berkeley.edu
or by ordinary mail to:
Graduate Admissions
University of California
Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology
7233 Dwinelle Hall, #2600
Berkeley, CA 94720-2600.

SAMPLE READING LIST [back to form]

LATIN

  

GREEK

  

Author

Work/Portion Read

Author

Work/Portion Read

Caesar

Civil Wars (selections: 15 pages)

Lysias

Oration 1

Sallust

Catiline (half)

Plato

Apology

Cicero

Selections from Letters (20 pages)

Homer

Iliad, Books 1, 9, 16

Vergil

Aeneid 1, 4, half of 6

Euripides

Medea

Bacchae (omitting choral odes)

Catullus

Selections (most of shorter poems)

Archaic Lyric

Campbell selections (about two-thirds of total)

Horace

Odes (14 poems)

Aristophanes

Clouds
       

TO BE READ NEXT SEMESTER

      

Lucretius

2000 lines

Herodotus

Selections (45 pages)

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