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Appendix G: Philology Emphasis: Short Identifications (Comprehensive Exams in Greek and Latin Literature)

All items can be found in the entries or indices of The Oxford Classical Dictionary,3rd ed. 
(= OCD3); A. Lesky, History of Greek Literature; and G. B. Conte, Latin Literature: A History.

GREEK:

Aeschines

Anthologia Palatina

Anyte

Aratus

Aristophanes of Byzantium

Arrian

Athenaeus

Democritus

didaskalia

Diogenes the Cynic

Dionysus, Artists of

dithyramb

epic cycle

Epicurus

Erinna

Eusebius

Eupolis

Galen

Garland of Philip

Hecataeus (of Miletus)

Heraclitus

Hippocrates (of Cos)

Homeridae

Hypatia

Josephus

logographers

"Longinus"

Longus

Lucian

mime

Neoplatonism

Nonnus

Nossis

novel, Greek

Old Oligarch

parabasis

phlyakes

Polybius

Procopius

Pythagoras

satyr-plays

Second Sophistic

Septuagint

Sophistic movement

sphragis

stichomythia

Strabo

Suidas

Theophrastus

Thespis

Zenodotus

 

 

LATIN:

Alexandrianism

Ammianus Marcellinus

annales maximi

Apocolocyntosis

Appendix Vergiliana

Asianism & Atticism

Atellana

Augustine

Aulus Gellius

Caecilius Statius

cantica

captatio benevolentiae

carmen arvale

clausula

Columella

commentarii

contaminatio

Cornelius Gallus

Decimus Laberius

Ennius

Fabius Pictor

Historia Augusta

Hyginus (mythographer)

Jerome

'Laudatio Turiae'

Livius Andronicus

Lucan

Lucilius Gaius (satirist)

Manlius

Naevius

Neoterics

Nonius

palliata

panegyric

Perpetua

Persius

Pervigilium Veneris

Pliny the Elder

Pomponius Mela

Porcius Cato, Marcus

Priapea

puella docta

Res Gestae

Saturnian verse

Servius

Sulpicia (1)

togata

Varro

Velleius Paterculus

Vitruvius

 

GENERAL:

adynaton

aetiology

anagnorisis

archetype

catharsis

closure

concinnitas/inconcinnitas

declamation

ekphrasis

epic simile

epigram

epistolary literature

epithalamium

epitome

epodes

epyllion

ethopoeia

gnome

hapax legomenon

hypotaxis

imitatio

intertextuality

literary theory & classical studies:

New Criticism

Structuralism

Narratology

Post-Structuralism

Deconstruction

New Historicism

Marxist literary theory

Lacan

Gender Studies

Reception Studies

locus amoenus

palimpsest

paradoxographers

paraklausithyron

parataxis

peripeteia

paroemiographers

polysemy

praeteritio

priamel

programmatic poem

propemptikon

prosopopoeia

recitatio

recusatio

ring composition

scholia

sententia

textual criticism

 

Guidelines for the Master of Arts in Classics