History MA Comprehensive Oral Examination
Abbreviated instructions (full instructions here ): Students not writing a thesis must present themselves for examination in three subfields. Students will take three subfield examinations (written, three hours each) within a one-week period, followed by a onehour oral examination with the Graduate Advisory Committee. For the subfield of
Ancient, students will be expected to synthesize the arguments and evidence of at least
fifteen of the following books and articles. Students interested in this subfield should contact Professor DeForest for guidance. Call numbers at the end of each entry are for copies at the Meriam Library. Books without call numbers have been ordered by the library, but should be requested via Interlibrary Services.
1. Osborne, R. Greece in the Making, 1200-479 BC. 2nd ed. London, 2009. DF220 .O82
2009.
2. Davies, J.K. Democracy and Classical Greece. Cambridge, Mass., 1993. DF214 D37
1993.
3. Walbank, F. W. The Hellenistic World. Rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass., 1993. DF253 W3
1993.
4. Crawford, M. The Roman Republic, Cambridge, Mass., 1993. DG235 C7 1992.
5. Wells, C. M. Roman Empire. 2nd ed. Cambridge, Mass., 1995. DG276 W39 1995.
6. Cameron, A. The Later Roman Empire, Cambridge, Mass., 1993. DG311 C36 1993.
Anderson, G. The Athenian Experiment. Ann Arbor, Mich., 2003. JC73 A5 2003.
Burkert, W. The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the
Archaic Age. Cambridge, Mass., 1992.
Cohen, E. E. The Athenian Nation, Princeton, 2000. (CSUC Ebook)
Drews, R. Basileus: the Evidence for Kingship in Geometric Greece. New Haven, 1983. DF
221.5 D73 1983.

Finley, M. I. Democracy Ancient and Modern, New Brunswick, 1973. JC 79 A8 F5.
Hansen, M. The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes: Structures, Principles,
and Ideology, Cambridge, Mass., 1991. JC79 A8 H33 1991.
Loraux, N. The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City. Cambridge,
Mass., 1986. PA 3264 L6713 1986.
Manville, P. B. The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens. Princeton, 1990. JC75 C5
M36 1990.
Morris, I. Burial and Ancient Society: The Rise of the Greek City-State. Cambridge, 1987.
DF101 M67 1987.
Ober, J. Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology and the Power of the
People. Princeton, 1989. JC79 A8 O24 1989.
Polignac, F. Cults, Territory and the Origin of the Greek City-State. Chicago, 1995.
Robinson, E. W. The First Democracies: Early Popular Government Outside Athens.
Stuttgart, 1997.
Rhodes, P. J. Ancient Democracy and Modern Ideology, London, 2003.
Sinclair, R. K. Democracy and Participation in Athens. Cambridge, 1988. JC79 A8 S56
1988.
Snodgrass, Anthony. Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment. London, 1980. DF 77 S49.
Arnheim, M. T. W. The Senatorial Aristocracy in the Later Roman Empire. Oxford, 1972.
JC85 S4 A75.
Bowersock, G. Augustus and the Greek World. Oxford, 1965. DG279 B68.
Brown, P. Augustine of Hippo: A Biography. Rev. ed., Berkeley, 2000. BR 1720 A9 B7.
Brown, P. Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity.
New York, 1988. BT708 B77.
Brown, P. Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire. Madison,
1992.

Brown, P. The World of Late Antiquity. London, 1971. DG77 B73.
Cameron, A. Circus Factions: Blues and Greens at Rome and Byzantium. Oxford, 1976.
DG95 C3.
Campbell, J. B. The Emperor and the Roman Army. Oxford, 1984. DG 276.5 C26.
Duncan-Jones, R. The Economy of the Roman Empire: Quantitative Studies. 2 nd ed.
Cambridge, 1982. HC39 D885.
Gruen, E. The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome. Berkeley, 1984. DG241.2 G78.
Hopkins, K. Conquerors and Slaves. Cambridge, 1978. HT863 H66 1978.
Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G. Antioch: City and Imperial Administration in the Later Roman
Empire. Oxford, 1972. DS99 A6 L54.
Markus, R. A. The End of Ancient Christianity. Cambridge, 1990.
MacMullen, R. Christianizing the Roman Empire: 100-400. New Haven, 1984. BR 195 E9
M33.
Meeks, W. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. New Haven,
1983. BR 166 M44.
Millar, F. The Emperor in the Roman World. Ithaca, 1977.
Millar, F. The Roman Near East: 31 BC – AD 337, Cambridge, Mass. 1993. DS62.25 M53
1993.
Morley, N. Metropolis and Hinterland: The City of Rome and the Italian Economy, 200 BC
– AD 200. Cambridge, 1996. HC 39 M67 1996.
Syme, R. The Roman Revolution. Oxford 1939. DG 254 S9.
Stark, R. The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History. Princeton, 1996.
Trombley, F. Hellenic Religion and Christianization, 370-529. 2 nd ed. Leiden, 2001.
Zanker, P. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Ann Arbor, 1988. N5760 Z36