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Reading List for Comprehensive Examinations
University of Chicago, Department of Classics
Reading list for examination 1
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R. Osborne, Greece in the Making 1200–479 BC.
S. Hornblower, The Greek World 479–323 BC.
G. Shipley, The Greek World After Alexander 323–30 BC.
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part
1 Early Greek Poetry and Part 2 Greek Drama, ed. P. E. Easterling and B. M. W.
Knox.
Kathyrn Gutzwiller, A Guide to Hellenistic Literature.
Laurent Pernot, Rhetoric in Antiquity, pages 1–82.
Anthony Kenny, Ancient Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy
Volume 1.
Edward Hussey, The Presocratics.
Jonathan Lear, Aristotle: The Desire to Understand.
Reading list for examination 2
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K. Bringmann, A History of the Roman Republic.
C. Wells, The Roman Empire.
Averil Cameron, The Later Roman Empire.
Gian Biagio Conte, Latin Literature: A History.
Laurent Pernot, Rhetoric in Antiquity, pages 83–214.
Tim Whitmarsh, The Second Sophistic.
R. W. Sharples, Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics.
L. D. Reynolds and N. G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars.