🐯 Princeton Classics unofficial reading list 2026
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Freshman level
Beginner’s Ancient Greek CLG 101 (fa26)
- An Intro. to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach by Luschnig & Mitchell
Beginner’s Latin LAT 101 (fa26)
- Intro. to Latin by Susan C. Shelmerdine
Socrates CLG 105 (fa26)
- Plato’s Apology of Socrates: A Commentary by Miller & Platter
- ✔️ Apology by Plato
Intermediate Latin: Catullus & His Age LAT 105 (fa26)
- AVARICVM: A Latin Text of Caesar’s Gallic War VII 1-28 with Running Vocabulary and Commentary by Lanier et al.
- The Student’s Catullus by Daniel H. Garrison
Sophomore level
Classical Mythology CLA 212 (fa26)
- The Greek Tragedies: 17 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, & Euripides
- Metamorphoses by Ovid
- Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation by Trzaskoma et al.
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Poems of Hesiod by R.M. Frazer
- Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
- Apollodorus’ Library & Hyginus’ Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology by Smith & Trzaskoma
- The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes
Democracy in Ancient Greece CLA 220 (fa26)
- Democracy & Classical Greece by J.K. Davies
- History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds by Peter Meineck
- Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens by Stephen Everson
- Legal Speeches of Democratic Athens: Sources for Athenian History by Wolpert & Kapparis
Hellenism: The 1st 3000 Years CLA 223 (fa26)
- The Greeks: A Global History by Roderick Beaton
How to Read CLA 230 (fa26)
- A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
- Phaedrus by Plato
- Confessions by Augustine
- Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
- Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History & Future of Reading by Leah Price
Pompeii CLA 250 (fa26)
- The Complete Pompeii by Joanne Berry
- The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost & Found by Mary Beard
- The World of Pompeii by Dobbins & Foss
- Pompeii & Herculaneum: A Sourcebook by Cooley & Cooley
Junior level
Aristotle & His Successors CLA 303 (fa26)
- Complete Works of Aristotle, v.1
- Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
The Trojan War: A Linguistic Intro. CLA 307 (fa26)
- How Dead Languages Work by Coulter H. George
- ✔️ The Trojan War: A Very Short Intro. by Eric H. Cline
Tacitus & the Parthians LAT 320 (fa26)
- The Annals by Tacitus
Ancient History: Everyday Writing in the Roman World CLA 326 (fa26)
- Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East by Roger S. Bagnall
Senior level
Greek Literature: The Greek Chorus CLG 405 (fa26)
- Euripides: Bacchae by Allan & Swift
- Aristophanes: Frogs by Kenneth Dover
- New Selected Odes of Pindar by Dickey & Hamilton
- The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Gilbert Murray
- Greek Lyric Poetry: A Selection of Early Greek Lyric, Elegiac & Iambic Poetry by David A. Campbell
- Pindar: Pythian Eleven by P.J. Finglass
| Between Selves: Living Letters from Antiquity to the Present CLA 415 (fa26)
- Letter to the Father by Franz Kafka
- The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
- ✔️ The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (my highlights)
- Heroides by Ovid
- The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder
- The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
- Selected Letters by Seneca