Graduate Program

The most up-to-date information about the Classics degree programs is listed at the following website: www.yale.edu/bulletin/html/grad/clss.html

The Classics website listing of courses offered for 2007-08 is up to date.

Facilities

The extensive materials in the Sterling Memorial Library are supplemented by a Classics Library of over 25,000 volumes, housed in Phelps Hall and accessible to department members at all times. A collection of more than 40,000 slides is also maintained in the Departments of Classics and History of Art. Students may use the archaeological and numismatic collections of the Yale Art Gallery and the collections of papyri and mediaeval manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and extensive databases of texts, images, and scholarly aids.

The Yale University Art Gallery houses the largest university collection of coins and medals in the United States, including some 30,000 coins of the ancient world. The ancient portion of the collection has recently been moved to study facilities (which include a basic library) at 215 Park Street, Room 001; appointments to examine materials can be made at 203-431-1801 (Shannon Beeley, Museum Assistant) or 203-436-4917 (William E. Metcalf, Curator of Coins and Medals).

http://artgallery.yale.edu/pages/collection/study/study_coin.html

Computer facilities, kept in the department's own computer room and in the Classics Library, provide access to machines, some networked, working on a variety of platforms.

External Affiliations
Under the terms of the Exchange Scholar Program, graduate students may spend a term or full academic year at a number of other institutions, including Berkeley, Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Princeton and Stanford, and certain foreign universities.

The department is affiliated with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and the American Academy in Rome.

Masters' Degrees
Students qualify for the M.A. upon satisfactory completion of seven courses, ordinarily with a high-pass average in two successive terms. The Master of Philosophy is awarded to students who have completed all Ph.D. requirements but the dissertation. Only students wishing to proceed to a doctorate should, however, apply for admission.

Financial Assistance
University scholarships and fellowships are available, providing funding for tuition and a stipend, in each case for four years. Details are included in the application materials. In addition, all students in good standing, regardless of the terms of the financial aid offered them at admission, are eligible to apply for dissertation-year fellowships, normally held in the fifth year of study. The department assigns teaching assistantships, normally in the third and fourth years, and it awards travel grants for study and research abroad. All applicants should consider applying for national fellowships such as the Mellon and the Javits Fellowships.

Students may borrow money under terms stipulated by the university and the Federal government.

Summer Language Institute
Yale University offers intensive summer courses in Latin and Greek. Each ten-week course covers a college level grammar and an ancient text, the equivalent of a year's course at Yale. Further details may be obtained from the Summer Program office, summer.program@yale.edu.

Application Procedure
The application is an online process - all policies, procedures, instructions and answers to frequently asked question as well as access to the application can be found at www.yale.edu/graduateschool/admissions Please see this site for the Graduate School Information Viewbook, which can be viewed online, downloaded or mailed.

The University is committed to basing judgments concerning the admission, education, and employment of individuals upon their qualifications and abilities and affirmatively seeks to attract to its faculty, staff, and student body qualified persons of diverse backgrounds. In accordance with this policy and as delineated by federal and Connecticut law, Yale does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment against any individual on account of that individual's sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a special disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era or other covered veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Yale discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.

If you have additional questions, please contact the Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Classics, P.O. Box 208266, New Haven, CT 06520-8266; telephone (203)432-0977, fax (203)432-1079, email dgsclassics@yale.edu.

Ph.D. READING LISTS 2003-2009
These reading lists will serve as the basis of the qualifying examinations for candidates for the Ph.D. in Classical philology who enter the program in the period 2003-2009: note that the department intends to review the lists thereafter.

Candidates in Ancient History and other joint programs should consult the DGS about their specific examinations.

GREEK
SECTION A: To be read in Greek

Homer	Iliad 1, 3, 6, 9, 16-18, 22-24; Odyssey 1-12, 21-23
Homeric hymns	Demeter, Apollo
Hesiod	Erga 1-382; Theogony 1-232, 453-735
Pindar	Ol. 1, 2, 7; Pyth. 1, 2, 3, 4
Lyric poetry	all texts in D. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry (2nd ed.)
Aeschylus	Septem, Oresteia, Prometheus
Sophocles	Ajax, Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus
Euripides	Medea, Hippolytus,¸ Bacchae
Aristophanes	Acharnians, Clouds, Birds, Frogs
Menander	Dyscolus
Herodotus	1 and 7
Thucydides	1, 2.1-65, 7
Plato	Apology, Republic 6, 7, 10; Symposium, Phaedrus
Aristotle	Poetics
Gorgias	Helen
Antiphon	Tetralogies
Lysias	1, 12
Demosthenes	De Corona
Isocrates	Antidosis (omitting self-quotations, which may be read in translation)
Apollonius	Argonautica 3
Callimachus	Hymn to Apollo and all selections in N. Hopkinson, A Hellenistic Anthology
Theocritus	1-7, 11, 15, 22
Lucian	The Death of Peregrinus
Epigrams	all in N. Hopkinson, Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period

SECTION B: May be read in translation

Homer	all
Aeschylus	all
Sophocles	all
Herodotus	all
Euripides	Alcestis,Helen, Ion, Iphigeneia in Aulis, Cyclops
Thucydides	all
Aristophanes	Knights, Wasps, Lysistrata, Wealth
Xenophon	Oeconomicus
Plato	Phaedo, Gorgias, Republic
Aristotle	Nicomachean Ethics 1
Menander	Samia
Theophrastus	Characters
Lucian	Selected Satires of Lucian (ed. L. Casson, Norton Library)
Plutarch	Parallel Lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus (with Synthesis)
Chariton	Chaereas and Callirhoe
Longus	Daphnis and Chloe

Latin
SECTION A: To be read in Latin

Plautus	Aulularia, Menaechmi
Terence	Adelphoe
Ennius	longer fragments of Annales and Medea
Catullus	all
Lucretius	De Rerum Natura 3
Caesar	Civil War 1, Gallic War 6
Sallust	War with Catiline
Cicero	In Catilinam 1, Pro Caelio, Philippic 2, Select Letters (ed. Shackleton Bailey), Somnium Scipionis
Horace	Satires 1, Odes 1 and 3, Epistles 1, Ars Poetica
Virgil	Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid
Tibullus	Book 1
Sulpicia	all
Propertius	Books 1 and 4
Ovid	Amores 1, Fasti 1, Metamorphoses 1
Livy	Book 1
---	Res Gestae Divi Augusti
Seneca	Phaedra, Apocolocyntosis, 17 Letters (ed. Costa)
Lucan	Civil War 1 and 7
Persius	Satire 1
Petronius	Cena Trimalchionis
Statius	Silvae 4 (ed. Coleman)
Martial	Book 1
Pliny	Fifty Letters (ed. Sherwin-White)
Tacitus	Agricola, Annals 1-6
Juvenal	Satires 1-5
Suetonius	Domitian
Apuleius	Metamorphoses 1 and 11
Ammianus	18.4-19.8
Augustine	Confessions 1.6 (8)-20 (31) and 8.6(14)-12 (30)
Claudian	In Eutropium 1
Boethius	Consolatio Philosophiae 1

SECTION B: May be read in translation

Plautus	Pseudolus, Amphitryo
Lucretius	all
Sallust	War with Jugurtha
Cicero	Brutus, Penguin Classics On the Good Life tr. Grant
Horace
Ovid	Ars Amatoria 1, Heroides 7, Metamorphoses (all)
Livy	Books 21 and 22
Seneca	Thyestes, Medea and [Seneca] Octavia
Lucan	Civil War
Petronius	Satyrica
Statius	Thebaid
Quintilian	Institutio Oratoria 10.1
Tacitus	Dialogus, Annals (all), Histories 1-2
Juvenal	Satires 6, 8 and 10
Suetonius	Augustus and Tiberius
Apuleius	Metamorphoses (all)
---	H. Isbel, Last Poets of Imperial Rome (1971)