Program of Study
The Department of Classics at the University of Arizona offers graduate study in Ancient History, Classical Archaeology, Classical Philology, and Latin Pedagogy leading to the Master of Arts degree. Degree requirements include 33 hours of course work, a thesis (or an Action Research Project for the Latin Pedagogy emphasis), and a reading knowledge of French, German, or Italian, in addition to demonstrated proficiency in Greek and Latin (only Latin is required for the Latin Pedagogy emphasis).
Curriculum
A full range of courses is offered in Latin, Greek, classical studies in translation, classical archaeology, ancient history, pedagogy, and ancient philosophy. Students may earn Secondary School Latin Teaching Certification through the Department of Classics and the College of Education or by pursuing the Latin Pedagogy emphasis. Students wishing to pursue a Ph.D. in Classical Art & Archaeology may do so through the Department of Art.
Degree Requirements
Minimum credit hours: 33
- Modem language examination in French, German, or Italian.
- 3 units of methodology.
- Qualifying, (translation) examination in Greek and Latin.
- 12 units of Greek author courses.
- 12 units of Latin author courses.
- 3 units of additional graduate-level work in Archaeology, Greek or Latin.
- Comprehensive examinations in Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and Ancient History.
- 3 units of thesis credit.
Reading List: Qualifying Examination in Philology
Passages on the comprehensive examinations in Greek and Latin will be drawn from the following list of texts. A dictionary in the appropriate language will be allowed.
GREEK:
Aeschylus: Agamemnon
Aristophanes: Frogs
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics 6
Demosthenes, On the Crown
Euripides: Bacchae, Medea
Hellenistic Poetry: N. Hopkinson, Hellenistic Anthology I-VII, IX-XII, and XXVI (nos. 4,5,7,9,15,18,20,25,26,31,32)
Herodotus: book 1
Hesiod: Theogony
Homer: Iliad 1, 6, 9, 18, 24; Odyssey 1, 11, 19; Homeric Hymns 2, 3, 4
Isocrates: Against the Sophists
Lyric poets: click here for selections from D.A. Campbell's Greek Lyric Poetry
Lysias: Orations 7 and 12
Pindar: Olympian 1, Pythian 3
Plato: Apology, Crito, Euthyphro
Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannos
Thucydides: books 1.1-23; 2.34-65; 5.84-116
Xenophon: Economicus
LATIN:
Caesar: Gallic War 1
Catullus: all
Cicero: Against Catiline 1; On Behalf of Archias; On Behalf of Caelius; On Friendship
Horace: Odes 1.1, 1.3-5, 1.9, 1.11, 1.13-14, 1.22-25, 1.37-38, 2.3, 2.7, 2.10, 2.14, 3.1, 3.5-6, 3.9, 3.12-13, 3.30, 4.1, 4.7, 4.15; Satires 1. 6, 1.9; Ars Poetica
Juvenal: Satires 1 and 10
Livy: book 1
Lucretius: books 1.1-145; 3; 4.1058-1287; 6.1138-1286
Ovid: Amores 1; Art of Love 1; Metamorphoses 1-3; Tristia 4.10
Petronius: "Trimalchio's Dinner"
Plautus: Pseudolus
Propertius: book 1 ("Monobiblos"); 4.7 and 4.8
Quintilian: book 10.1.46-131
Sallust: Catiline
Tacitus: Agricola; Annals 1
Terence: Adelphoi
Tibullus: Elegies 1.1 and 1.10; 2.5
Vergil: Eclogues; Georgics 4; Aeneid 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12
