RE A D I N G L I S T S : S U MM ARY
List of most read and studied texts in Ancient Greek and Latin in the USA, UK, Germany, Croatia, Italy and Austria (years 2011 to 2014). #
Open Philology Project: Open Greek and Latin & Historical eLearning
Some things to take into consideration: #
1. The list of texts is narrowed down by this criterion: at least two sources must mention a text for it to be listed.#
2. The texts considered are only those that are read and studied in their original language.#
3. There is no separation between secondary education texts and university level texts. We assume that the difficulty of the texts chosen for
study does not increase from one level to the next.#
4. Reading lists are not always displayed on institution or ministry websites. #
5. This research only includes a limited number of sources. It may function as a template for others. #
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SUMMARY: ALL COUNTRIES CONSIDERED
According to this research, the top 3 most most read Ancient Greek texts are (in order of popularity):#
1. Homer, Odyssey!
in particular: VIII-XII, XVIII, IXX, XX, XXIII-XXIV#
2. Homer, Iliad
in particular: I, III, IV, VI, IX, XXIV#
3. Herodotus, Histories
in particular: I. 1-94, III. 27-117, V, IX#
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According to this research, the top 3 most read Latin texts are:#
1. Vergil, Aeneid
in particular: I, IV, V, VI, VIII, XII#
2. Catullus, Poems (on par with 1.)
in particular: 1-16, 22, 28, 30-36, 44-46, 49-51, 58, 61-68, 70, 72, 73, 75, 76, 82-87, 92,
93, 95, 96, 99, 101, 109#
3. Ovid, Metamorphoses
in particular: IV, XIII#
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SUMMARY: PER COUNTRY CONSIDERED
USA#
According to this research, the most read Ancient Greek texts are:#
- Aristophanes, Frogs & Clouds!
- Aristotle, Poetics#
- Callimachus, Baths of Pallas#
- Euripides, Medea!
- Herodotus, Histories!
- Homer, Iliad & Odyssey & Homeric Hymns#
- Lysias, Death of Erathostenes!
- Sophocles, Antigone & Oedipus!
- Theocritus, Idyllia!
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War!
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According to this research, the most read Latin texts are:#
- Augustine, Confessions#
- Catullus, Poems!
- Cicero, Somnium Scipionis!
- Horace, Odes & Epodes & Satires, Ars Poetica!
- Lucretius, De Rerum Natura!
- Ovid, Metamorphoses & Amores !
- Petronius, Cena Trimalchionis!
- Propertius, Elegies!
- Tacitus, Annales!
- Vergil, Aeneid & Georgics!
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UK#
According to this research, the most read Latin texts are:!
According to this research, the most read Ancient Greek texts are:#
- Ovid, Metamorphoses!
- Homer, Iliad!
- Vergil, Aeneid#
- Homer, Odyssey!
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GERMANY#
According to this research, the most read Ancient Greek texts are:#
According to this research, the most read Latin texts are:!
- Homer, Iliad!
- Vergil, Aeneid!
- Homer, Odyssey!
- Catullus, Poems#
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CROATIA#
According to this research, the most read Ancient Greek texts are:#
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon!
- Apollonius, Argonautica!
- Aristophanes, Frogs!
- Euripides, Medea!
- Herodotus, Histories!
- Hesiod, Works and Days!
- Homer, Odyssey & Homeric Hymns!
- Menander, Epitrepontes!
- Sophocles, Oedipus#
- Xenophon, Anabasis!
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ITALY#
According to this research, the most read Ancient Greek texts are:#
According to this research, the most read Latin texts are:!
- Demosthenes, On the Crown & First Philippic!
- Livy, Ab Urbe Condita!
- Homer, Iliad & Odyssey!
- Catullus, Poems#
- Plato, Crito & Apology of Socrates!
- Theocritus, Idyllia!
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War!
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AUSTRIA#
According to this research, the most read Ancient Greek texts are:!
According to this research, the most read Latin texts are:#
- Apollonius, Argonautica!
- Catullus, Poems!
- Aristophanes, Clouds!
- Livy, Ab Urbe Condita!
- Aristotle, Poetics!
- Ovid, Metamorphoses!
- Euripides, Medea!
- Pliny, Letters!
- Propertius, Elegies!
- Seneca, Ad Lucilium!
- Tacitus, Annales!
- Vergil, Eclogues & Aeneid!
R EA D IN G L I S T S : A N C I E N T G RE EK
List of most read texts in Ancient Greek in the USA, UK, Germany, Croatia, Italy and Austria (years 2011 to 2014). #
Open Philology Project: Open Greek and Latin & Historical eLearning
by Emily Franzini. German research by Maryam Foradi
Note:#
How to narrow down the search? The texts that appear in the table#
are mentioned at least in two different sources
GREEK
Author
Aeschylus
Apollonius
Aristophanes, Frogs
Aristophanes, Clouds
Aristotle
Callimachus
Demosthenes, On the Crown
Demosthenes, First Philippic
Euripides
Gorgias
Herodotus
Hesiod, Theogony
Hesiod, Works and Days
Work
Tot number of places
studied
SOURCES
USA
UK
Germany
Croatia
Italy
Austria
USA
Homeric Hymns
Isocrates
1
0
2
1
0
0
Yale University
2011
Hard copy
Higher Ed
Apollonius
Argonautica. I. 1-22, III
7
3
0
1
1
1
1
Brown University
2012
Higher Ed
Aristophanes, Frogs
Frogs
8
3
0
3
1
0
0
http://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/
brown.edu.academics.classics/files/uploads/
GreekandLatinReadingLists(revisedOct,2012).pdf
Aristophanes, Clouds
Clouds
8
3
1
3
0
0
1
Aristotle
Poetics. I-XV
8
3
0
3
0
1
1
Callimachus
Baths of Pallas
4
3
0
0
0
1
0
Demosthenes, On the Crown
On the Crown
4
1
0
1
0
2
0
Demosthenes, First Philippic
First Philippic
4
1
0
1
0
2
0
Euripides
Medea
11
3
1
5
1
0
1
Gorgias
Helen
3
2
0
0
0
1
0
Herodotus
Histories. I. 1-94, III.
27-117, V, IX
12
3
1
5
1
1
1
Hesiod, Theogony
Theogony 1-264,
404-885
7
2
1
3
0
1
0
Hesiod, Works and Days
Works and Days 1-404
5
2
0
1
1
1
0
Homer, Iliad
I, III, IV, VI, IX, XXIV
17
3
4
7
0
2
1
Homer, Odyssey
VIII-XII, XVIII, IXX, XX,
XXIII-XXIV
18
3
4
7
1
2
1
Homeric Hymns
Aphrodite
6
3
0
1
1
1
0
Isocrates
Pindar, Pythian
Plato, Republic
Plato, Crito
Plato, Symposium
Plato, Apology Socr
Sappho
Sophocles, Antigone
Sophocles, Oedipus
Theocritus
Thucydides
UK
Italy
4,5
9
13,5
18
Panegyricus. 23-39
4
1
0
2
0
1
0
Lysias, Death Erath.
Death of Eratosthenes
11
3
2
4
0
1
1
Menander
Epitrepontes
4
0
0
2
1
1
0
Pindar, Olympian
Book II
3
2
0
0
0
1
0
Pindar, Pythian
Book, I, VIII
5
2
0
2
0
1
0
Plato, Republic
Republic I
3
2
0
0
0
1
0
Plato, Crito
Crito
5
1
1
1
0
2
0
Plato, Symposium
Symposium
7
2
1
3
0
1
0
Plato, Apology Socr
Apology of Socrates
7
2
1
2
0
2
0
Sappho
1, 15, 31, 41
4
1
0
2
0
1
0
Sophocles, Antigone
Antigone
9
3
0
4
0
1
1
Sophocles, Oedipus
Oedipus
11
3
0
5
1
1
1
Theocritus
Idyllia. 1, 2, 4, 7, 11
6
3
0
1
0
2
Thucydides
History of the
Peloponnesian War. I.
1-23, II. 35-46, III.35-50,
82-83, V. 84-116, VI. 8-33
9
3
0
3
0
2
1
Xenophon
Anabasis
5
1
1
2
1
1
0
Xenophon
0
Higher Education
4
Cambridge University
2013-14
http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/pdfs/currentstudents/2013FacultyHandbook.pdf
Higher Ed
University College London
2013-14
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/students/undergraduate/
grek/#2006
Higher Ed
Oxford University (Balliol College)
2014
http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate-admissions/
classics-reading-lists
Higher Ed
University of Exeter
2014
http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/classics/freshersweek/
joining/readinglist/
Higher Ed
OCR A Levels
2012
http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/130264-question-paperunit-f372-classical-greek-verse-and-prose-literature.pdf
Secondary Education
OCR A Levels
2011
http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/62219-question-paperunit-f372-classical-greek-verse-and-prose-literature.pdf
Secondary Ed
Accademia Vivarium Novum
2014
Hard Copy
Higher Ed
University of Padova
2014
http://didattica.unipd.it/offerta/2013/SU/LE0612/2011
Higher Ed
Esame di Stato
2012
http://www.istruzione.it/esame_di_stato/Secondo_Ciclo/ Secondary Ed
tracce_prove_scritte/2012/M492.pdf
Programmi ministerial del Liceo
Classico
2014
http://www.edscuola.it/archivio/norme/programmi/
classico.html
page.35
Secondary Ed
http://www.circe.be/content/view/53/285/lang,it/
Croatia
Pindar, Olympian
Hard copy
Agamemnon
Lysias, Death Erath.
Menander
2012
Aeschylus
Homer, Iliad
Homer, Odyssey
Michigan University
Germany
Austria
University of Zagreb
2014
Hard Copy
Higher Ed
Universität Gießen
2014
http://www.uni-giessen.de/cms/fbz/fb04/institute/
altertum/philologie/studium/minimallektuere
Higher Ed
Universität Freiburg
2014
www.altphil.uni+freiburg.de/downloads/ZPGrListn.pdf/
at_download/file
Higher Ed
Universität Heidelberg
2012
h:p://www.uni+heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/
skph/studium/lektuerekanon_griech.html
Higher Ed
Universität Frankfurt
2014
h:p://www2.uni+frankfurt.de/50041160/SoSe+2014.pdf
Higher Ed
Universität Köln
2014
h:p://ifa.phil+fak.uni+koeln.de/fileadmin/IfA/Studium/
Studium+Erstsemester/LeselisteGriech.pdf
Higher Ed
Universität Mainz
2012
h:p://www.klassphil.uni+mainz.de/Dateien/
Sommer_2012.pdf
Higher Ed
Universität Regensburg
2013
h:p://www.uni+regensburg.de/studium/zentrale+
studienberatung/medien/studiengaenge/griechische+
philologie.pdf
Higher Ed
Universität des Saarlandes
2014
h:p://www.klassphil.uni+saarland.de/sites/studium/
lehre.php?sem=SS14
Higher Ed
Universität Wien
2014
h:ps://kphil.ned.univie.ac.at/sites/default/files/Lekt
%C3%BCrekanon_BA_KPhil_Griechisch.pdf
Higher Ed
R E A D IN G L I S T S : L AT I N
Note:#
How to narrow down the search? The texts that appear in the table#
are mentioned at least in two different sources
List of most read texts in Latin in the USA, UK, Germany, Croatia, Italy and Austria (years 2011 to 2014). #
Open Philology Project: Open Greek and Latin & Historical eLearning
by Emily Franzini. German research by Maryam Foradi
SOURCES-1
L AT I N
Author
Apuleius
Augustine, Conf
Apuleius
Augustine, De Civitate
Caesar, De Bello Gallico
Caesar, De Bello Civili
Catullus
Cicero, Som Scip
Cicero, De re public
Horace, Odes
Horace, Epodes
Horace, Satires
Horace, Ars Poetica
Juvenal
Livy
Lucan, Bellum Civile
Lucan, Pharsalia
Lucretius
Tot number of places
studied
USA
UK
Germany
Croatia
Italy
Austria
USA
Metamorphoses. I, IV.
28-35, V.1-24, VI
8
Augustine, Conf
Confessions. I, V
8
3
0
4
0
1
Augustine, De Civitate
De Civitate Dei. V
2
0
0
1
0
0
1
Caesar, De Bello Gallico
De Bello Gallico. I. 1-37, II,
III, VII
6
0
0
3
0
2
1
Caesar, De Bello Civili
De Bello Civili. I
7
2
0
3
0
1
1
Catullus
1-16, 22, 28, 30-36, 44-46,
49-51, 58, 61-68, 70, 72,
73, 75, 76, 82-87, 92, 93,
95, 96, 99, 101, 109
19
3
2
9
0
3
2
Cicero, Som Scip
Somnium Scipionis==
8
3
0
2
0
2
Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia
Pro Lege Manilia
3
1
0
0
0
2
Cicero, In Catilinam
In Catilinam. I
6
1
2
1
0
2
Cicero, De re public
De re publica
4
0
0
2
0
2
Horace, Odes
Odes. I-III
9
3
0
5
0
1
Horace, Epodes
Epodes. 2, 15
5
3
0
1
0
1
Horace, Satires
Satires. I. 1, 4, 9, 10, II. 6
6
3
0
2
0
1
Horace, Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica
7
3
0
2
0
1
1
Juvenal
1, 2, 3, 7
7
3
0
3
0
0
1
Livy
Ab Urbe Condita. praef., I.
1-16, 21, 24-26, XXI
13
2
0
5
0
4
2
Lucan, Bellum Civile
Bellum Civile. I. 1-82, II, III,
VI
5
2
0
2
0
0
1
Lucan, Pharsalia
Pharsalia. I
2
0
0
2
0
0
Lucretius
De Rerum Natura. I.1-207,
265-345, III.1-58, 830-1075,
V
11
3
0
5
0
2
Epigrams. I, VIII
4
Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia
Cicero, In Catilinam
Work
Martial
2
1
0
0
4
2
0
0
1
0
1
UK
Ovid, Metamor
Ovid, Amores
Plautus
Pliny
Propertius
Sallust
Seneca
Italy
1
Vergil, Eclogues
Vergil, Aeneid
Vergil, Georgics
0
5
10
15
20
Yale University
2011
Hard copy
Higher Ed
Brown University
2012
http://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/sites/
brown.edu.academics.classics/files/uploads/
GreekandLatinReadingLists(revisedOct,2012).pdf
Higher Ed
Cambridge University
2013-14
http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/pdfs/currentstudents/2013FacultyHandbook.pdf
Higher Ed
University College London
2013-14
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/students/undergraduate/
latn/#2008a
Higher Ed
Oxford University (Balliol College)
2014
http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate-admissions/
classics-reading-lists
Higher Ed
University of Exeter
2014
http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/classics/freshersweek/
joining/readinglist/
Higher Ed
OCR A Levels
2012
http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/130268-question-paperunit-f362-latin-verse-and-prose-literature.pdf
Secondary Education
OCR A Levels
2011
http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/65829-question-paperunit-f362-latin-verse-and-prose-literature.pdf
Secondary Ed
Accademia Vivarium Novum
2014
Hard Copy
Higher Ed
Esame di Stato
2011
http://maturita.studentville.it/articoli_esame_maturita-7/
traduzione_versione_di_latino_maturita_2011-1180.htm
Secondary Ed
Esame di Stato
2013
http://www.ilpost.it/2013/06/20/traduzione-versionelatino-quintiliano-maturita-2013/
Secondary Ed
Programmi ministerial del Liceo
Classico
2014
http://www.edscuola.it/archivio/norme/programmi/
classico.html
Secondary Ed
Germany
University of Padova
2014
http://didattica.unipd.it/offerta/2013/SU/
LE0614/2008/000ZZ/1086665
Higher Ed
University of Zagreb
2014
Hard Copy
Higher Ed
Universität Dusseldorf
2014
http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/klassphil/
lektuereliste/
Higher Ed
Universität Gießen
2014
http://www.uni-giessen.de/cms/fbz/fb04/institute/
altertum/philologie/studium/minimallektuere
Higher Ed
Universität Freiburg
2014
www.altphil.uni+freiburg.de/downloads/ZPLListn.pdf/
at_download/file
Higher Ed
Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
2014
http://www.ku.de/fileadmin/1305/Philologie/Lehre/
Materialien/Lektuereempfehlung.pdf
Higher Ed
Universität Erlagen
2011
http://www.latein.uni-erlangen.de/studium/kanon.shtml
Higher Ed
Universität Frankfurt
2014
h:p://www2.uni+frankfurt.de/50041160/SoSe+2014.pdf
Higher Ed
Universität Kiel
2013
http://www.klassalt.uni-kiel.de/de/studium/latinistik/
kursinhalteinformation.pdf
Higher Ed
Universität Köln
2014
http://ifa.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/fileadmin/IfA/
Lektuereliste_Latein__BA_ME.pdf
Higher Ed
1
Atticus
1
0
0
1
0
0
Ovid, Metamor
Metamorphoses. IV, XIII
16
3
3
6
0
2
2
Ovid, Amores
Amores. I, III
13
3
1
7
0
1
1
Ovid, Ars Amatoria
Ars Amatoria
5
1
0
3
Petronius
Satyricon (Cena
Trimalchionis). XXVILXXVIII
10
3
1
5
Plautus
Amphitryo
6
2
1
2
0
1
1
Universität Mainz
2012
h:p://www.klassphil.uni+mainz.de/Dateien/
Sommer_2012.pdf
Higher Ed
Pliny
Letters. I.9, III, VI.16,
9
1
1
5
0
0
2
Universität München
2014
h:p://www.klassphil.uni+muenchen.de/extras/
downloads/index.html
Higher Ed
Propertius
Elegies. I.1, 3, 5, 6, 11,
18-20
13
3
0
8
0
0
2
Universität des Saarlandes
2014
h:p://www.klassphil.uni+saarland.de/sites/studium/
lehre.php?sem=WS13
Higher Ed
Sallust
Bellum Catilinae
7
2
0
4
0
0
1
Universität Wurpal
2014
Higher Ed
Seneca
Ad Lucilium. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6,7, 51, 56, 114
10
2
0
4
0
2
2
h:p://www.latein.uni+wuppertal.de/fileadmin/latein/
Leseliste.pdf
Universität Würzburg
2014
www.klassphil.uni+wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/04010000/
_temp_/Lektuereempfehlungsliste_SS_2014.docx
Higher Ed
Tacitus, Annales
Annales. I, III, XV, XVI
14
3
1
7
0
1
2
Universität Wien
2014
h:ps://kphil.ned.univie.ac.at/sites/default/files/
KANON_LATEIN.pdf
Higher Ed
Tacitus, Agricola
Agricola. 1-4, 42-46
4
1
0
1
0
1
1
Universität Innsbruck
2014
h:ps://kphil.ned.univie.ac.at/sites/default/files/
KANON_LATEIN.pdf
Higher Ed
Tacitus, Germania
Germania
4
0
0
3
0
1
Tibullus
Elegies. I. 1, 3, 5
10
1
0
7
0
1
1
Vergil, Eclogues
I, III, IV, X
11
3
1
4
0
1
2
Vergil, Aeneid
I, IV, V, VI, VIII, XII
19
3
2
10
0
2
2
Vergil, Georgics
II, IV
11
3
1
4
0
2
1
1
0
1
Tacitus, Agricola
Tibullus
Higher Education
http://www.circe.be/content/view/53/285/lang,it/
Croatia
Tacitus, Annales
Tacitus, Germania
Hard copy
Nepos
Ovid, Ars Amatoria
Petronius
2012
1
Martial
Nepos
Michigan University
Austria
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