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Graduate Group Chair:
Ralph M. Rosen, Professor
Department of Classical Studies, 202 Logan Hall
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304
215-898-7425

Graduate Coordinator:
Ernestine Williams
215-573-0250
ernestin@sas.upenn.edu

Introduction
Admission, Fellowship, and Advanced Standing
Requirements for the Ph.D.
Examinations
Dissertation
Requirements for the M.A.
Reading Lists for the Ph.D. Preliminary Examination

INTRODUCTION
The Graduate Group in Classical Studies trains students in the languages, literatures, and history of the Greek and Roman Classical world. Students are encouraged to combine this work with the investigation of such related fields as Art and Archaeology, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Women's Studies.

FACILITIES
Penn offers superb resources for the study of classical antiquity. The University Museum houses one of the finest archaeological collections in the country and provides opportunities for students to participate in excavations. The University Library, whose holdings total over 3.4 million volumes, includes Van Pelt Library with its open stacks and Classics Seminar Room, the Henry C. Lea Library of Byzantine and Medieval History, the Rare Book Collection, the Fine Arts Library, and the Museum Library. The Department of Classical Studies has its own small book collection as well as access to state-of-the-art computer facilities. Penn also enjoys cooperative relations with other distinguished institutions in the Philadelphia area, and is an institutional member of the American Academy in Rome, the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

ADMISSION, FELLOWSHIP, AND ADVANCED STANDING
The Graduate Group in Classical Studies is designed primarily to prepare students for the Ph.D., although applicants are occasionally admitted for the M.A., and Ph.D. candidates will earn the M.A. in the course of their studies. Entering students are normally expected to have an undergraduate major in Classics or a related discipline and substantial training in both Greek and Latin, applicants are also required to submit an example of their academic writing with their applications. A research paper of about 15 pages in length (but of no more than 20) is sufficient to meet this requirement. The GRE General Test is required. Candidates for the Ph.D. are eligible for five-year Benjamin Franklin Fellowships (which include summer support). Students who have already taken courses at the graduate level may petition for transfer credit for up to eight courses. A preliminary decision will be made by the Graduate Group as soon as the student arrives, but the actual award of credit can be made only after satisfactory completion of the first year at Penn.

All writing samples should be mailed to:

Ernestine Williams
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate Admissions
Dept. ANCH & CLST
249 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE Ph.D.

Course Requirements
Candidates for the Ph.D. are required to take 20 courses, some of which may be independent study directed towards the examinations or the dissertation. Among these courses, each student must take one course in prose composition in either Greek or Latin, one course in ancient linguistics, one course in Greek history, and one course in Roman history. During the first two years, students are required to take four advanced survey classes (two in Greek, two in Latin), normally one per semester (= Greek 440 and 441, Latin 440 and 441). (See further below, under "Examinations")

Incomplete Course Work
Incompletes are occasionally granted at the discretion of the instructor of the course. When an incomplete has been granted, all outstanding work must be finished by the following January 31, if the course in question is a Fall semester course, or by the following June 15, in the course in question is a Spring semester course. Failure to meet these deadlines will result in the recording of an "F" for the course.

Teaching Requirement
All candidates for the degree of Ph.D. are required to teach for at least two semesters under the supervision of the Graduate Group. Normally students teach during the second and third years of their program. First-time teachers are required to participate in teaching orientations and workshops offered by the department and the graduate school.

Examinations:

Modern Language Examinations
All candidates for the Ph.D. must pass examinations in German and either French or Italian by the end of the second year. Each examination will involve translating one page (approximately 250 words) of scholarly prose in one and a half hours. Use of a dictionary is permitted. Students are urged to attempt these examinations as early in their careers as possible. The examinations will be given in October and March at dates set by the Graduate Chair.

The Qualifications Evaluation Examination
The Qualifications Evaluation Examination will be given at the end of the second year, normally in May. It will consist of two two-hour translation examinations, one in Greek and one in Latin, based largely, but not exclusively, on the Greek and Latin Reading Lists (below). In each examination, the student will be asked to translate 4 passages (two poetry and two prose); there will be an element of choice, and students will be expected to choose at least one passage that is not drawn from the reading list. There may also be brief questions, pertaining to the passages chosen, on basic matters of language, including dialect, grammar, and scansion.

The Preliminary Examination
The Preliminary Examination is taken during the third year, normally in two parts, as follows:

Part one is taken at the beginning of the third year, normally in September. This phase of the Preliminary Exam is intended to test students on the history of Greek and Latin literature and culture. The Reading List will serve as a general guide to the genres and chronological periods for which students will be responsible, although the exam will not be limited to what is on the Reading List. Examiners will assess not only a student's control of factual or historical information, but also their ability to discuss the material they have studied synthetically and creatively. This exam will consist of two parts, a three-hour written and a ninety-minute oral exam. The written exam will include some translation of passages from Greek and Latin, including texts included in the Reading List and other texts that the student may or may not be expected to have seen previously. A student who does not pass part one of the Preliminary exam at the beginning of the third year will be judged not to be making normal progress towards the degree, and may thus be dismissed from the program or may forfeit funding. A student who fails the third-year exam and who is allowed to remain in the program may request to take a new exam in the following January. A second failure will constitute grounds for dismissal from the program.

Part two of the Preliminary Exam will be taken at the end of the third year, normally in May. This part consists of two exams of two hours each on substantial special subjects (normally one from Greek culture, one from Roman culture, but these are determined in consultation with the Graduate Chair); such special subjects may include a historical period, a major author or genre, or any comparable area within the broad field of Classical Studies. Normally, one of the special subjects is in a field related to the prospective dissertation. Once the written examinations have been passed, they will be followed by an oral examination, lasting at least one hour but no more than two hours. At the time of this oral exam, students are expected to submit a dissertation propspectus, which will be discussed as part of the oral examination. After approval of the dissertation prospectus, the student will work with the Graduate Chair to configure a dissertation committee, consisting of a director and two readers.

Administration of Examinations
The Graduate Chair will ensure that at least three examiners participate in every Ph.D. preliminary oral examination, appointing supplemental examiners as necessary.

Dissertation Examination
A public, oral presentation of the completed dissertation is required by Penn's Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education.

Dissertation
The dissertation must be completed by the end of the fifth year. The completed dissertation is officially accepted when it has been approved by all three members of the dissertation committee. Students entering the program in 1995 or later must pass an oral examination conducted by the dissertation committee on a draft of the entire dissertation.

Students who have not completed the dissertation within five years of first registering for dissertation tuition are required to submit a revised dissertation proposal and to repeat that portion of the Preliminary Examination that involves defending the proposal before a committee of at least three examiners. The revised proposal must include an account of the current state of scholarship on the topic and an up-to-date bibliography.

The M.A. Degree
The M.A. in Classical Studies is normally awarded on completion of the Ph.D. Qualifications Evaluation Examination. In addition, the requirements for the M.A. alone may be met after one year of study. The requirements for the M.A. include satisfactory performance in a total of eight courses, including one in prose composition, one in ancient linguistics, and one in either Greek or Roman history; and a research requirement, to be met either through a research paper written for a course or through the writing of an M.A. thesis. Requirements for the M.A. in either Greek or Latin are the same as above, except that the candidate must take two courses at the 400-level or above in the minor language.

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GREEK AND LATIN READING LISTS
FOR THE PH.D. QUALIFICATIONS EXAMINATION

These lists are designed to help the candidate prepare for these exams, which will test competence in the Greek and Latin languages and familiarity with their various periods and styles. They are not intended to limit the student's reading to these authors and works, nor do they constitute a course of study adequate to the Ph.D. exam in Greek and Latin literature (although gaining a familiarity with the literary-historical import of the works on these lists forms a necessary component of the preparation for the later exams.)

READING LIST FOR THE PH.D. PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION IN GREEK
Aeschylus, Oresteia
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1-4.211
Aristophanes, Clouds, Frogs
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1, Politics 3, Poetics 1447a-1456a32
Attic Orators, Selections from Antiphon and Isocrates in Jebb's school edition Bacchylides 3, 5, 17
Callimachus, Aetia frr. 1, 2, 67, 75, 112 (Pfeiffer); Iambi 4 (fr. 194 Pf.), 13 (fr. 203 Pf.), Hymn 2 (Apollo); Epigrams 1, 27, 28, (Pf.)
Demosthenes, De corona
Epigrams, Selections in Hopkinson, Hellenistic Anthology
Euripides, Bacchae, Trojan Women
Gorgias, Helen
Herodas, Mimiambos 7
Herodotus, Bk. 1
Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days
Hippocrates, Airs, Waters, Places
Homer, Iliad 1-3, 6, 9, 16-18, 21-24; Odyssey 1, 5, 6, 9-13, 19, 22-24
Homeric Hymns, 2 (Demeter), 3 (Apollo)
Longus, Daphnis and Chloe
Lucian, True History
Lyric Poets, Selections in D. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry
Lysias 12
Menander, Dyscolus
Pindar, Olympian 1, Nemean 8, Pythian 1, 8
Plato, Apology, Republic 1, Phaedo, Symposium
Plutarch, Life of Demosthenes and the comparison with Cicero
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone
Theocritus, Idylls, 1, 2, 7, 11
Thucydides, Bks. 1.1-23, 2 (entire)
Xenophon, Hellenica 1

READING LIST FOR THE PH.D. PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION IN LATIN
Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1, 4.28-6.24
Archaic Latin:
Accius, Armorum iudicium, Brutus, Medea (frr. in Ribbeck)
Cato, De agricultura, preface; Oratio pro Rhodiensibus (frr. in Malcovati)
Livius Andronicus (frr. in Morel-Büchner)
Naevius (frr. in Morel-Büchner)
Ennius, Annales, Bks. 1, 7, 8, and 9 (frr. in Skutsch); Medea (frr. in Jocelyn)
Lucilius 1-55, 482-495, 506-507, 532-534, 541-547, 1252-1258 (frr. in Krenkel)
Pacuvius, Dulorestes, Niptra (frr. in Ribbeck)
Twelve Tables (frr. in Riccobono)
Augustine, Confessiones 8
Caesar, Bellum Gallicum 1
Cicero, Pro Caelio, Philippic 2, Somnium Scipionis, Tusculans 1, letters in Shackleton
Bailey's school edition
Catullus (entire)
Horace, Odes 1-3, Sermones 1
Juvenal, Satires 1, 3, 10
Livy, Preface and Bk. 1
Lucan, Bellum civile 1 Lucretius, Bk. 1 and all proems
Martial, Bk. 1; 3.58; 4.1, 14; 5.1; 6.60, 93; 8.33; 9.3, 59; 10.37; 11.6; 17; 12.18
Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.1-2.400, Ars amatoria 1, Amores 1
Petronius, Cena Trimalchionis chh. 83-90, 110-113
Plautus, Miles Gloriosus
Pliny the Younger, Epp. 1.1, 6, 20; 3.21; 4.13; 5.8; 6.16, 20; 7.9, 17, 20; 8.21, 24; 9.10; 10.31, 32
Propertius, Bk. 1
Rhetoric:
Rhetorica ad Herennium 1.1-4, 3.16-40, 4.11-18
Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.pref. and 1.2; Suasoria 3
Quintilian, Inst. Or. proemium and Bk. 10
Sallust, Catilina
Seneca the Younger, Thyestes, De ira, Epp. 5, 47, 76, 77, 90
Suetonius, Iulius
Tacitus, Annales 1, Dialogus
Terence, Adelphoe and all prologues
Tibullus, Bk. 1
Vergil, Bucolics, Aeneid