for candidates taking Paper 1 (Non-Intensive Greek):
Lysias 1; Pseudo-Xenophon Athenaion politeia (or the 'Old Oligarch'); Homer Odyssey 19 and 20; Herodotus 9; Plato Crito; Euripides Medea

for candidates taking Paper 2 (Intensive Greek):
Lysias 1; Homer Odyssey 19.100 to end; Plato Crito; Euripides Medea

for candidates taking Paper 3 (Non-Intensive Latin):
Virgil Aeneid 8; Cicero Pro lege Manilia; Ovid Ars amatoria 1; Livy 21.1-4, 26-63; Lucretius 3.1-462, 741-1094

for candidates taking Paper 4 (Intensive Latin):
Virgil Aeneid 8.1–65, 370–731; Cicero Pro lege Manilia 1–3, 36–end; Ovid Ars amatoria 1; Livy 21.1-4, 26-63

lecture timetable
MT 1–4: Lysias, Pseudo-Xenophon and Virgil
MT 5–8: Cicero & Homer
LT 1–4: Plato & Ovid
LT 5–8: Livy
ET: Herodotus, Euripides (1–2), and Lucretius (3–4)

2011–2012 IB Literature options
Note: "Schedule A" texts are to be read in the original; section (3) by Non-Intensivists only; "Schedule B" texts are to be read ideally in the original but certainly at least in translation.

Greek

Topic 1. The Iliad (lectures MT 1-4 Van Noorden and Omitowoju)
Schedule A: (1) Iliad 1, 3, 6 (2) 21, 24 (3) 9, 18
Schedule B: Odyssey 11; Sophocles Ajax; Euripides Trojan Women; Plato Laches; Thucydides 2.1-65

Topic 2. Dramatic Women (lectures MT 5-8 Coo and Hunter)
Schedule A: (1) Euripides Hippolytus (2) Sophocles Antigone (3) Aristophanes Lysistrata
Schedule B: Aeschylus Agamemnon; Sophocles Trachiniae; Euripides Medea; Euripides Helen

Topic 3. Mythical Narratives (lectures LT 5-8 Gagné)
Schedule A: (1) Hesiod Theogony (2) Ps.-Aeschylus Prometheus Bound (3) Plato Gorgias 523a-527a; Symposium 189d-193e; Phaedo 107c-115a; Republic 614a-621d; Phaedrus 246a-249d + 274c-275e; Statesman 268a-274e; Timaeus 21e-26d; Laws 903b-905b
Schedule B: Hesiod Works and Days; Pindar Olympian 1, 2, 6; Pythian 1, 2, 4; Nemean 6; Isthmian 8; Bacchylides 3, 17, 18; Aristophanes Birds

Latin

Topic 1. Roman Humour. NOT AVAILABLE FOR EXAMINATION IN 2012.

Topic 2. Past and Present in Trajanic Rome (lectures MT 1-4 Whitton)
Schedule A: (1) Tacitus Histories 1 (2) Pliny Epistles 2 (3) Juvenal Satires 1–5
Schedule B: Tacitus Agricola; Pliny Panegyric and Epistles 1.5, 1.6, 8.14, 9.13, and 9.14; Martial Epigrams 10.1–10, 10.34, 10.72, and 11.1–7; Suetonius Domitian; Cassius Dio Roman History 68 (this last to be read in English only)

Topic 3. The Neronian Period: Spectacles of Power and the Inner Self (lectures MT 5-8 Butterfield)
Schedule A: (1) Lucan 8 (2) Seneca Thyestes (3) Petronius "Cena Trimalchionis" (= Satyrica 26.7–78)
Schedule B: Lucan 9; Persius 1, 5, and 6; Calpurnius Siculus 1, 4, and 7; Seneca Epistles (as in Costa's CUP "Green and Yellow" edition); Seneca Medea; Suetonius Nero; Tacitus Annals 15

Topic 4. Youth at Rome: Coming of Age in Poetry and Prose (lectures LT 1-4 Whitton and Butterfield)
Schedule A: (1) Catullus 61–68 (2) Statius Achilleid (3) Apuleius "Cupid & Psyche" (= Metamorphoses 4.28–6.24)
Schedule B: Virgil Aeneid 5.545–699 and 9.176–502; Horace Odes 1.5, 1.13, 2.5, 3.2, 4.4; Ovid Metamorphoses 4.55–166, 4.274–388, 9.666–797; Statius Thebaid 9.570–907; Augustine Confessions 2.