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Candidates must complete 30 credits of coursework at the graduate level. 除了, candidates must complete a departmental reading list of Latin and/or Greek authors, must demonstrate the ability to read a modern foreign language (usually French, 意大利, 或德语), and must complete translation exams in Greek and Latin as well as comprehensive examinations with both a written and oral component. The translation exam includes passages from the reading list, to be translated without the aid of a dictionary. The written component of the comprehensive exam consists of four essays on literature in its cultural and historical context. The oral exam builds on the written component in the form of  discussion with the faculty about topics in the history and interpretation of Latin and/or Greek literature.

Incoming students can expect to find major Greek and Latin authors and genres taught on a regular basis. In Greek these include 首页r, 抒情诗人, fifth-century dramatists (Aeschylus, 索福克勒斯, 欧里庇得斯, 和阿里斯托芬), the historians Herodotus and Thucydides, 柏拉图, and fourth-century orators. In Latin they include Plautus and Terence, the late republican poets Catullus and Lucretius, 西塞罗, Augustan poetry (Virgil, 贺拉斯, 挽歌, 和奥维德), the historians Livy and Tacitus, 还有小说.