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Appendix E

Philology Emphasis:
Short Identifications
(Comprehensive Exams in Greek and Latin Literature

All items can be found in the entries or indices of The Oxford Classical Dictionary,3rd ed.
(= OCD3); A. Lesky, History of Greek Literature; and G. B. Conte, Roman Literature: A History.

GREEK:

  • Aeschines
  • agon (in drama)
  • Alexandrian scholarship
  • Anthologia Palatina
  • Anyte
  • Appian
  • Aratus
  • Aristophanes of Byzantium
  • Arrian
  • Athenaeus
  • Atthis
  • Asianism & Atticism
  • choregia
  • Democritus
  • didaskalia
  • Diogenes the Cynic
  • Dionysus, Artists of
  • dithyramb
  • Epic Cycle
  • Epicurus
  • epinician
  • epirrhematic syzygy
  • Erinna
  • Eusebius
  • Eupolis
  • Garland of Philip
  • Hecataeus (of Miletus)
  • Hellanicus
  • Heraclitus
  • Hippocrates (of Cos)
  • Homeridae
  • Hypatia
  • Josephus
  • logographers
  • "Longinus"
  • Longus
  • Lucian
  • Lycophron
  • Mime
  • Museum
  • Neoplatonism
  • Nonnus
  • Nossis
  • nostoi
  • novel, Greek
  • Old Oligarch
  • oral composition
  • parabasis
  • phlyakes
  • Porphyry
  • Procopius
  • Pythagoras
  • Satyr-plays
  • Second Sophistic
  • Septuagint
  • Sophistic movement
  • Soranos
  • sphragis
  • stichomythia
  • Stoicism
  • Strabo
  • Suidas
  • Theano
  • Theophrastus
  • Thespis
  • Zenodotus

LATIN:

  • Alexandrianism
  • annales maximi
  • Apocolocyntosis
  • Atellana
  • Augustine
  • Aulus Gellius
  • cantica
  • captatio benevolentiae
  • carmen arvale
  • clausula
  • commentarii
  • contaminatio
  • Cornelius Gallus
  • Decimus Laberius
  • Ennius
  • Fabius Pictor
  • Galen
  • Historia Augusta
  • Hyginus (mythographer)
  • Jerome
  • 'Laudatio Turiae'
  • Livius Andronicus
  • Lucilius
  • Naevius
  • Neoterics
  • palliata
  • panegyric
  • Persius
  • Pervigilium Veneris
  • Pliny the Elder
  • Pomponius Mela
  • Porcius Cato, Marcus
  • Priapea
  • Res Gestae
  • Saturnian verse
  • Servius
  • togata
  • Varro
  • Velleius Paterculus
  • Vitruvius

 

GENERAL:

  • acrostic
  • adynaton
  • allegory
  • anagnorisis
  • archetype
  • catharsis
  • closure
  • concinnitas
  • declamation
  • ekphrasis
  • enjambment
  • epigram
  • epigraphy
  • epistolary literature
  • epithalamium
  • epitome
  • epodes
  • epyllion
  • ethopoeia
  • etymology
  • fable
  • folk-tale
  • gnome
  • hapax legomenon
  • hypotaxis
  • hymns
  • imagery
  • imitatio
  • inconcinnitas
  • intertextuality
  • literary theory & classical studies
    • New Criticism
    • Structuralism
    • Narratology
    • Post-Structuralism
    • Deconstruction
    • New Historicism
    • Marxist literary theory
    • Lacan
    • Feminism
  • locus amoenus
  • metaphor
  • metonymy
  • mythographers
  • orality
  • palimpsest
  • papyrology
  • paradoxographers
  • paraklausithyron
  • parataxis
  • peripeteia
  • paroemiographer
  • polysemy
  • praeteritio
  • priamel
  • propemptikon
  • prosopography
  • prosopopoeia
  • reception
  • recitatio
  • recusatio
  • riddles
  • ring composition
  • scholia
  • sententia
  • simile
  • textual criticism
  • topos

Next: Ancient History Comprehensive Examination

INDEX

Preliminary Remarks

Sections:

  1. Requirements for Graduate Admission
  2. Advisement
  3. Emphasis in Classical Archaeology (includes information on all M.A. examinations)
  4. Emphasis in Classical Philology (includes information on all M.A. examinations)
  5. Emphasis in Ancient History (includes information on M.A. examinations)
  6. Emphasis in Latin Pedagogy (includes information on M.A. examinations)
  7. Satisfactory Academic Progress
  8. The M.A. Thesis
  9. Ph.D. Students Earning the M.A. in Classics

Appendices:

  1. Worksheet: Classical Archaeology Emphasis
  2. Worksheet: Classical Philology Emphasis
  3. Reading List: Comprehensive Examination (Archaeology)
  4. Reading List: Qualifying Examinations (Philology)
  5. Short Literary Identifications (Philology)
  6. Ancient History Comprehensive Examination
  7. Ph.D. Students Wanting the M.A. (Archaeology)
  8. Ph.D. Students Wanting the M.A. (Philology)
  9. Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students in Residence
  10. Thesis Worksheet
  11. Worksheet: Ancient History Emphasis
  12. Worksheet: Latin Pedagogy Emphasis
  13. Style Sheet for Graduate Seminar Papers and Theses
  14. Guide for Course Handouts and PowerPoint Presentations
  15. Check List for Submitting a Final Paper

 

 

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