Latin Reading List Notes (* Should be read in Latin
1) Livius Andronicus – 270? – 200? BC a) Life: b) Odussia Fragments
2) Gnaeus Naevius – 270? – 201 BC a) Life: b) Bellum Poenicum Fragments
3) Plautus – Comedy – 254-284 BC a) Life: b) Works i) Miles Gloriosus* ii) Casina* iii) Captivi iv) Amphitruo v) Pseudolus vi) Menaechmi
4) Ennius
– Epic Poet – 239 – 169 BC a) Life: b) Works i) Annales 1-120, 173-268, 409-16 ii) Tragedies
(1) Alexander 38-82
(2) Hectoris Lytra 162-201
(3) Medea Exul 253-95 iii) Satires 1-31 iv) Epigrams 7-10
5) Terence – Comedy – 195? – 159 BC a) Life: b) Works i) Adelphoe* ii) All Prologues*
6) Cicero – Statesman and Philosopher – 106-43 BC a) Life: b) Works i) Rhetoric
(1) In Catilinam 1*
(2) Pro Murena
(3) Pro Caelio*
(4) Pro Milone*
(5) Phillipic 2* ii) Philosophy
(1) Somnium Scipionis*
(2) De Oratore 1*

(3) Brutus
(4) De Amicitia*
(5) Tusculan Disputations
(6) De Officiis iii) Letters
(1) Ad Fam. 1.9, 2.4, 4.11-13, 5.1-2, 5.12, 8.3, 9.8, 14.1
(2) Ad Att. 1.17, 3.1, 3.27, 4.1
7) Julius Caesar – General and Statesman – 100–44 BC a) Life: b) Works i) De Bello Gallico [All]
(1) 1* ii) De Bello Civile
(1) 1*
8) Lucretius – Didactic Poet – 99 – 55? BC a) Life: b) De Rerum Natura [All in Translation] i) 1.1-145* Introduction ii) 2.1.61* iii) 3* iv) 6.1138-1286*
9) Catullus – Lyric Poet – 84-54 BC a) Life: b) Works i) Poems
10) Sallust – Historian – 86-34 BC a) Life: b) Works i) Bellum Catilinae* ii) Jugurtha
11) Virgil – Epic and Didactic Poet – 80-19 BC a) Life: b) Works i) Eclogues (1, 4, 6, 10*) ii) Georgics iii) Aeneid
12) Horace – Lyric and Satiric Poet – 65-8 BC a) Life: b) Works i) Satires [All in Translation]
(1) 1.1, 4-6, 9; 2.1, 6* ii) Odes [All in Translation]
(1) 1-2*
(2) 3.1-6*, 13, 30

(3) 4.7* iii) Epodes [All in Translation]
(1) 2, 6, 9 iv) Epistles v) Ars Poetica vi) Carmen Saeculare
13) Livy – Historian – 59 BC – 17 AD a) Life: b) Works i) Preface, 1* ii) 2-5 iii) 21*
14) Tibullus – Elegaic Poet – 54-19 BC a) Life: b) Works i) 1.1, 3, 10* ii) 2.5*
15) Propertius
– Elegaic Poet – 50?-15 BC a) Life: b) Works i) Monobiblos* ii) 3.1, 4.1, 7, 11*
16) Ovid – Epic, Lyric, Elegaic Poet – 43 BC – 17? AD a) Life: b) Works i) Amores 1* ii) Ars Amatoria 1* iii) Metamorphoses [All] 1, 10* iv) Fasti 4 v) Tristia 4.10*
17) Seneca – Philosopher and Tragedian – 4 BC – 65 AD a) Life: b) Works i) Thyestes* ii) De ira 1* (Rest in English) iii) Epistles 1, 7, 12, 21, 47, 77, 114* iv) Medea
18) Persius – Satirist – 34-62 AD a) Life: b) Works i) Prologus* ii) 1*
19) Petronius – Novelist – 27-66 AD a) Life:

b) Satyricon [All in Translation] i) 26.7-78.8* Cena Trimalchionis
20) Lucan – Epic Poet and Orator – 39-65 AD a) Life: b) Works i) Pharsalia ii) 1.1-227* rest of 1 iii) 6 iv) 7*
21) Quintilian – Rhetorician – 35-100 AD a) Life: b) Works i) Institutiones 10
22) Martial – Epigrams – 39? – 103? AD a) Life: b) Works i) Epigrams 1* ii) De Spectaculis
23) Pliny the Younger – Letter Writer and Governor – 61 -112 AD a) Life: b) Works i) Epistulae 1.1* ii) 2.17* iii) 3.5, 16, 21* iv) 6.16, 20* v) 7.5, 24, 27* vi) 9.6, 23* vii) 10.96, 97*
24) Juvenal
– Satirist – fl. 100? a) Life: b) Satires i) 1* ii) 2 iii) 3* iv) 4-5 v) 6* vi) 7-9 vii) 10* viii) Remainder
25) Tacitus
– Historian – 56-117 AD a) Life: b) Works i) Annales
(1) 1, 15*

(2) Rest ii) Historia
(1) 1*
(2) Rest iii) Agricola* iv) Dialogus v) Germania
26) Suetonius – Historian – 69–130? AD a) Life: b) Works i) 12 Caesars ii) De Viris Illustribus iii) De Poetis iv) De Historicis v) De Claris Rhetoribus
27) Apuleius – Philosopher and Novelist – 125-180 AD a) Life: b) Works i) Metamorphoses (4.23-6.24*)
28) Lactantius – Christian Apologist – 240-320 AD a) Life: b) Works i) De ira dei
29) Ammianus Marcellinus – Historian - 325?-390 AD a) Life: b) Works: Sections covering 353-378 AD i) 22.1-7 ii) 22.9-14* iii) 23.1-5 iv) 24.1-25.2 v) 25.3-4* vi) 31.2*
30) Jerome – Theologian and Translator – 347-420 AD a) Life: b) Works i) Letter 127 (Ciceronianus)
31) Prudentius – Christian Poet – 348-410?AD a) Life: b) Works i) Peristephanon 12, 13
32) Augustine – Theologian and Bishop– 354 – 430 AD a) Life: b) Works i) Confessions

(1) 1-10 (8*)
33) Egeria – Pilgrim – fl. 381-384 a) Life: b) Works i) Letter on her Pilgrimage
34) Boethius – Philosopher – 480-525 a) Life: b) Works i) Consolation of Philosophy