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2. Passages from the Greek Classics...
Demosthenes:  Olynthiac I, 1-14
Sophocles:  Oedipus at Colonus, 579-599
Homer:  Iliad I, 1-16
Pindar:  Olympian VI, 1-14 (Dorian Rhythm)
Pindar:  Olympian X, 1-14 (Aeolian and Paeonian Rhythms)

1  Poetry:  Introduction to Greek Lyrics (in German)
2  Homer:  Odyssey I, 1-10; Sophocles:  Oedipus Rex, 1-13, 1524-30, farewell of blinded Oedipus, 151-189, entry song of chorus; Aristophenes:  Acharner, 207-233
3  Prose: Xenophen:  Anabasis, Book I, Ch. 1, 1-6; Thucydides:  History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I, Ch 1-2; Ch. 21-22 (Methodology); Plato:  Socrates Farewell Speech, Ch. 1

1-2  Verse Homer:  Iliad VI 440-493; Sappho (Oxford Book of Greek Verse 141); Pseudo-Anachreon (O.B.G.V. 180); Aeschylus:  Agamemnon, 503-537, 551-582, 636-680; Sophocles:  Oedipus Coloneus 668-719; Euripides:  Troades 740-779; Bacchae 977-1023; Aristophenes:  Birds 227-262; Callimachus (O.B.G.V. 513)
1-2 (continued)
3-4  Prose Thucydides:  II, 65, 5-13; Demosthenes:  Philippic I, 40-42; de Corona, 199-205; Plato:  Apologia Socratis, 41c8-42; Phaedo, 117a4-end; Republic III, 401b1-d3; Republic V, 473c8-e2
3-4 (continued)

Vol I:  1-2  Cicero: De Re Publica III, xxii, 33; Caesar:  De Bello Gallico IV, 25; Livy:  Preface, 6-11; Tacitus:  Annals I, ch. 7; L.P. Wilkinson:  speech on presenting Mr. Henry Moore for an honorary degree; Plautus:  Curculio, 147-180; Terence:  Heauton Timorumenos; Lucretius:  I, 1-24, III, 830-842, III, 894-911; Catulus:  XIII, XLIII, LXXVI; 3-4  Virgil:  Eclogue V, 45-84; Aeneid II, 1-20, II, 21-56, III, 268-297, V, 630-658; Horace:  Odes I, 5; Satires I, 9; Archipoeta:  Confession 1-28, 37-48 --read by O. Skutsch, W.S. Allen, R.G.G. Coleman, C.O. Brink, L.P. Wilkinson, T.L. Zinn, F.R. Dale, C.W. Baty, L.A. Moritz, K.F. Quinn
Vol II:  Terence, Scenes from the Eunuchus and Adelphi 1  Act 1, scene 1; Act 2, scenes 2, 3; Act 3, scenes 1, 4, 5; Act 5, scenes 1, 5, 9.  Production performed by the members of the original cast of Westminster School production, summer 1966. 2  Act 1, scene 1; Act 5, scenes 4. 9. --read by T.L. Zinn, F.R. Dale, A. Starling,  T. Scott
Vol III:  Rhetoric 1:  Livy, II, 32; Cicero:  in Verrem II, 4.3-4; Pro Archia VII. 15 to X. 22 2:  Sallust:  Catiline 52; Tacitus:  Annals I, 42-43; Saint Augustine:  Confessions, Book IV, 16-18 --read by R.G.G. Coleman, C.W. Baty, L.A. Moritz, O. Skutsch

1-2  Roman Legends from Livy and Ovid:  Romulus and Remus; Brutus and the Tarquins; Hercules and Cacus Short Readings of Verse and Prose:  Catullus 31, 3, and 101; Horace, Odes I, IV; Caesar, Gallic War IV; Cicero, in Catilinam; Anonymous, O Roma nobilis; St. Bonaventure, from the life of St. Francis
1-2 (continued)
3  Six Passages from Virgil:  Eclogue IV; Georgics II, IV; Aeneid V,VI, XII

1  Virgil's Aeneid, introduction and first lines
2  Caesar's Gallic War, Caesar meets Ariovistus
3  Plautus
4  Terence

5  Catullus
6  Virgil's Aeneid
7  Horace

1-2  Speeches:  selections from In Verrem; Pro lege Manilia; In Catilinam; Pro Archia; Pro Milone; Orationes Philippicae
1-2 (continued)
3  Philosophical works and letters:  selections from  De Republica; Tusculanae Disputationes; De Senectute; De Amicitia; De Officiis; Epistulae ad Familiares

1:  Introduction; First Oration against Cataline
2:  On Old Age; Tusculan Disputations; On Moral Duties; Letter to Atticus

1-2  Introduction and readings from the Apology
1-2 (continued)
3  Readings from the Apology continued; Readings from the Phaedo

1  Lines 1-99, 100-109, 155-174, 192-267, 276-294, 304-309, 315-331, 332-388, 394-405, 441-472, 480-492, 497-505, 508-581
2  Lines 582-593, 626-644, 672-700, 724-780, 781-790, 891-903, 921-943, 988-998, 1016-1071, 1084-1114, 1115-1125, 1155-1249, 1251-1269, 1277-1300, 1339-1353

1 from Liber Primus; Liber Secundus; Liber Quartus
2 from Liber Sextus