Latin Philology Emphasis
AP Latin Component of the Comprehensive Exam
Reading Lists
VERGIL
[Primary Reading: Aeneid 1.1-209, 418-440, 494-578; 2.40-56, 201-249, 268-297, 559620; 4.160-218, 259-361, 659-705; 6.295-332, 384-425, 450-476, 847-899]
Latin Text
Mynors, R. A. B. 1972 (repr. with corrections). P. Vergili Maronis Opera. Oxford.
Commentaries
Austin, R. G. 1964. Virgil: Aeneid II. Oxford.
Horsfall, N. 2008. Virgil, Aeneid 2: A Commentary. Leiden.
Austin, R. G. 1955. Virgil: Aeneid IV. Oxford.
Austin, R. G. 1977. Virgil: Aeneid VI. Oxford.
Ganiban, R. 2008. Vergil: Aeneid Book 1. Newburyport, MA.
Ganiban, R. 2008. Vergil: Aeneid Book 2. Newburyport, MA.
Harrison, S. J. 1997. Virgil: Aeneid 10. Oxford.
Tarrant, R. Virgil: Aeneid 12. Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.
Williams, R. D. 1972. The Aeneid of Virgil, Books 1-6. Basingstoke and London.
Williams, R. D. 1973. The Aeneid of Virgil, Books 7-12. Basingstoke and London.
Secondary Literature
Barchiesi, A. 1997. “Virgilian narrative: Ecphrasis,” in The Cambridge Companion to
Vergil, (ed.) C. Martindale (Cambridge), 271-81.
Benario, H. W. 1967. “The Tenth Book of the Aeneid.” Transactions of the American
Philological Association 98: 23-36.
Bowie, A. M. 1990. “The Death of Priam. Allegory and History in the Aeneid.” Classical
Quarterly N.S. 40: 470-81.
Christenson, D. M. 2002. “Superbia in Vergil's Aeneid: Who's Haughty and Who's Not?”
Scholia 11: 44-54.
Clay, D. 1988. “The archaeology of the temple to Juno in Carthage.” Classical Philology
83: 195-205.
Conte, G. B. 2007. The Poetry of Pathos: Studies in Virgilian Epic. Ed. S. J.
Harrison. Oxford.
Feeney, D. C. 1986. “History and Revelation in Vergil's Underworld.” Proceedings of
the Cambridge Philological Society 32: 1-24.
Fowler, D. 1997. “Virgilian narrative: Story-telling,” in The Cambridge Companion to
Vergil, (ed.) C. Martindale (Cambridge), 259-70.
Galinsky, K. 1994. “How to Be Philosophical About the End of the Aeneid.” Illinois
Classical Studies 19: 191-201.
Horsfall, N. (ed.) 1995. A Companion to the Study of Virgil. Mnemosyne Supplement
151. Leiden. [Chapter 4: “Aeneid,” pp. 101-216; Chapter 5: “Style, language, and meter,”
pp. 217-48].
Horsfall, N. 2006-7. “Fraud as Scholarship: The Helen Episode and the Appendix
Vergiliana.” Illinois Classical Studies 31-32: 1-27.
Keith, A. M. 2000. Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic. Cambridge. [Chapter 3:
“The ground of representation,” pp. 36-64; Chapter 4: “Exordia pugnae: engendering
war,” pp. 65-100].
Moles, J. L. 1984. “Aristotle and Dido's hamartia.” Greece & Rome 31: 48-63.
O'Hara, J. 1993. “Dido as 'Interpreting Character' in Aeneid 4.56-66.” Arethusa 26: 99114.
Parry, A. 1963. “The Two Voices of Vergil's Aeneid.” Arion 2: 266-80.
Pelling C. 1996. “The Triumviral Period,” in The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 10:
The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C–A.D. 69, (eds.) A. K. Bowman, E. Champlin, A. Lintott
(Cambridge), 1-69.
Perkell, C. 1981. “On Creusa, Dido, and the Quality of Victory in Virgil's Aeneid,” in
Reflections of Women in Antiquity, (ed.) H. Foley (New York), 355-77.
Perkell, C. 1997. “The Lament of Juturna. Pathos and Interpretation in the Aeneid."
Transactions of the American Philological Society 127: 257-86.
Putnam, M. 1994. “Virgil's Danaid Ekphrasis.” Illinois Classical Studies 19: 171-89.
Ross, D. O. 2007. Virgil's Aeneid: A Reader's Guide. Oxford.
Stahl, H.-P. 1990. “The Death of Turnus. Augustan Vergil and the Political Rival,” in
Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and his Principate, (eds.) K.
A. Raaflaub and M. Toher (Berkeley), 174-211.
Tarrant, R. 1982. “Aeneas and the Gates of Sleep.” Classical Philology 77: 51-55.
Thomas, R. 1998. “The Isolation of Turnus: Aeneid Book 12,” in Vergil’s Aeneid:
Augustan Epic and Political Context, (ed.) H.-P. Stahl (Swansea) 271-302.
Zetzel, J. 1989. “Romane Memento: Justice and Judgement in Aeneid 6.” Transactions of
the American Philological Association 119: 263-84.
CAESAR
[Primary Reading: Caesar, Bellum Gallicum1.1-7; 4.24-36.1; 5.24-48; 6.13-20]
Text
Seel, O. 1961. C. Iulii Caesaris Bellum Gallicum. Leipzig.
Commentaries
Carrington, R. 2009 (repr.). Caesar: De Bello Gallico V. London.
Ewan, C. 2009 (repr.). Caesar: De Bello Gallico I. London.
John, D. 1969. Caesar: 55 and 54 B.C. Expeditions to Britain (Book IV). London.
Kennedy, E. C. 1982 (repr.). Caesar: De Bello Gallico VI. London.
Tatum, J. A Caesar Reader (includes commentary on selections from Bellum Gallicum 1,
5, 6). Forthcoming, Bolchazy-Carducci.
[Dickinson College Bellum Gallicum site (with explanatory notes on the text)]
Secondary Reading
Billows, R. A. 2009. Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome. New York. [Chapter 6: “The
Conquest of Gaul,” pp. 130-65].
Eden, P. T. 1962. “Caesar’s Style: Inheritance versus Intelligence.” Glotta 40: 74-117.
Goldsworthy, A. 1998. “‘Instinctive Genius’: The Depiction of Caesar the General,” in
K. Welch and A. Powell, eds., Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter: The War Commentaries
as Political Instruments (Swansea) 193-219.
Gilliver, K. M. 2003. Caesar's Gallic Wars, 58-50 BC. London.
Goldsworthy, A. 2006. Caesar: The Life of a Colossus. London. [Part II: Proconsul, 5850 BC (Chapters 9-16), pp. 184-356].
Gotoff, H. C. 1984. “Towards a Practical Criticism of Caesar’s Prose Style.” Illinois
Classical Studies 9: 1–18.
Hall, Lindsay G. H. 1998. “Ratio and Romanitas in the Bellum Gallicum,” in K. Welch
and A. Powell, eds., Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter: The War Commentaries as
Political Instruments (Swansea) 11-44.
Kraus, C. S. 2009. “Bellum Gallicum,” in M. Griffin, ed., A Companion to Julius Caesar
(Oxford) 159-74.
Lendon, J. E. 1999. “The Rhetoric of Combat: Greek Military Theory and Roman Culture
in Julius Caesar's Battle Descriptions.” Classical Antiquity 18: 273-329.
Krebs, C. B. 2006. “’Imaginary Geography’ in Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum,” American
Journal of Philology 127: 111–36.
Pelling, C. B. R. 2005 “Breaking the Bounds: Writing About Caesar,” in B. C. McGing
and J. M. Mossman, eds., The Limits of Ancient Biography (London) 255-79.
Riggsby, Andrew. 2006. Caesar in Gaul and Rome. Austin. [Chapter 2: “The ‘Other’ and
the Other ‘Other’,” pp. 48-71].
Schadee, H. 2008. “Caesar’s Construction of Northern Europe: Inquiry, Contact and
Corruption in De Bello Gallico.” Classical Quarterly 58: 158–80.
Seager, R. 2003. “Caesar and Gaul: Some Perspectives on the Bellum Gallicum,” in F.
Cairns and E. Fantham, eds., Caesar against Liberty? Perspectives on his Autocracy
(Cambridge) 19-34.
Tatum, W. J. 2008. Always I am Caesar. Oxford. [Introduction: “Caesar and Roman
Society: A Very Brief Introduction,” pp. 5-12; Chapter 7: “Great Men and Impersonal
Groundswells: The Civil Wars,” pp. 122–44].
Taylor, L.R. 1949. Party Politics in the Age of Caesar. Berkeley. [Chapter 7: “Catonism
and Caesarism,” pp. 162-82].
Wyke, Maria. 2008. Julius Caesar: A Life in Western Culture. Chicago.