Resources and Recommended Literature
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1. Recommended Literature
This compilation is based on the recommendations made by Peter Riemer, Michael Weißenberger, and Bernhard Zimmermann in their introduction to the study of Latin (Munich 2008, 2nd edition). It is intended to give you a minimalist overview of the part of Latin literature that one would classically expect to be covered in a Latin studies program and which should therefore be present as “background knowledge” in final exams, regardless of the specific topic. If you are familiar with these works, either through attending relevant courses or through independent reading, you have a good foundation on which you can then, of course, pursue your own interests. (Download as PDF in German)
- Plautus or Terence: one comedy
- Catullus: complete works or a larger selection
- Lucretius: selection comprising two books
- Caesar: complete works of Bellum Gallicum or Bellum civile
- Biography: selection from Nepos or Suetonius
- Cicero: approximately three speeches and six letters, one rhetorical work, one philosophical work
- Sallust: complete works of Catilina or Jugurtha
- Virgil: selection from the Eclogues, one book of Georgics, the entire Aeneid
- Horace: two books of Odes, one book of Satires, and Ars Poetica
- Love elegies (Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid): selection comprising two books
- Ovid: five books of Metamorphoses, one book each of Fasti and Exile Poems, selection from Heroides
- Livy: selection comprising five books
- Seneca: selection from the Epistulae Morales, one tragedy
- Tacitus: selection from all writings
- Pliny the Younger: selection from the letters
- Selection from a prose writer of the early imperial period: e.g., Petronius, Curtius Rufus, Gellius, Apuleius
- Selections from a poet of the early imperial period: e.g., Lucan, Persius, Juvenal, Martial, Statius
- Selections from an author of late antiquity: e.g., Claudian, Augustine, Ausonius, Historia Augusta
2. Notes for the internship report
Requirements for the internship report for Block Internship B with Mr. Peglau
3. Guidelines for academic papers
Here you can download guidelines for writing academic papers. The guidelines apply to students of Latin/Latin studies. In Greek studies seminars, please follow the instructions of the lecturers.
4. OlymPAL student forum
Here you can ask questions about individual courses or other study-related topics. Please create appropriate “topics” yourself (in the content area at the top right: “New topic”), e.g., “Reading group for Terence, Adelphoe wanted” or “How are you preparing for the XYZ exam?”.