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Reading List for Incoming Students
Do you hold a place or an offer to read Classics at
If you have, here is the schedule of Greek and Latin texts for study in your first term. (Download as a .pdf here.)
1. 4-YEAR COURSE (PRELIMINARY TO PART 1A OF THE CLASSICAL TRIPOS)
Cicero, Pro Archia
2. 3-YEAR COURSE (PART 1A OF THE CLASSICAL TRIPOS)
2.1 IF YOU HAVE A-LEVEL LATIN, BUT NOT A-LEVEL GREEK:
Lysias 1; Homer, Odyssey 19 line 100-end
Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia; Virgil, Aeneid 8
2.2 IF YOU HAVE A-LEVEL GREEK, BUT NOT A-LEVEL LATIN:
Virgil, Aeneid 8 1-65, 370-731; Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia, sections 1-3, 36-end
Lysias 1; Homer, Odyssey 19 and 20; Ps. Xenophon, Athenaion Politeia
2.3 IF YOU HAVE A-LEVEL GREEK AND LATIN:
Lysias 1; Homer, Odyssey 19 and 20; Ps. Xenophon, Athenaion Politeia
Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia; Virgil, Aeneid 8
The Faculty wants to encourage you to get acquainted with some of these texts before you come up to begin your studies.
Here for you to work your way through is a text of the 'Pro Lege Manilia', with all sorts of helpful annotations.
You will also receive general and individual advice from your Director of Studies in Classics, with suggestions for reading. He or she will have your own circumstances in mind (how much Latin and Greek you have already done, whether you are doing a gap year, still preparing for A Levels, etc.) and the programme of work your College has planned for the first term. You can find out who your Director of Studies in Classics is at your prospective College either from the Faculty website or by contacting the College tutorial office.
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