Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Reading List for Incoming Students

Do you hold a place or an offer to read Classics at Cambridge from 2012?

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, In Catilinam I

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:

Lysias 1; Homer, Odyssey 19 and 20; Ps. Xenophon, Athenaion Politeia

Virgil, Aeneid 8 1-65, 370-731; Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia, sections 1-3, 36-end

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.

Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge has available discount 'packages' of set texts that you will need in your first term in the editions recommended by the Faculty. Tel. 01223-568568 and ask for the Classics Dept.

GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR EXAMS / GAP YEAR