Primary texts

On literature: Excerpts from Homer and other pre-Platonic authors; Plato, Ion, Republic 2-3; Aristotle Poetics; Longinus, On the Sublime; Horace, Epistles 1.2,2.1, 2.3; Ovid, Tristia 2, 4.10; Quintilian, Institutio oratoria ('Education of an Orator') 10, Suetonius, Lives of the Poets.

On art: Plato Republic 10, Homer, Iliad 18; Virgil, Aeneid 1, 8; Propertius 2.12, 2.31; Ovid, Metamorphoses. Lessing Laocoon

• Many of these texts are in the OUP anthologies Classical Literary Criticism and Ancient Literary Criticism ed. D.A. Russell and M. Winterbottom Oxford OUP 1972).
• In making reference to these works provide the correct reference to a classical source (the book of the ancient author, followed by chapter or verse or the Stephanus page [e.g. Plato Rep. 395a], instead of or as well as the page number of an English translation

Prescription of texts for Latin syllabus

(roughly in the order in which they will be presented on the course)

Literature:

Horace, Epistles 1.2, Epistles 2.1 [Letter to Augustus], 2.3 [Ars Poetica 474 verses]

Ovid Tristia 2.353-70, Tristia 4.10 [Poet’s autobiography]

Suetonius Lives of the Poets (Terence Virgil, Horace, Persius, Lucan)

Art:

Propertius, Elegies 2.12, 2.31

Virgil, Aeneid 8.608-731 [Shield of Aeneas], Aeneid 1.446-97 [Temple in Carthage]

Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.243-97 [Pygmalion]

General reference works

The Oxford Classical Dictionary is an indispensable resource. There are entries on authors, literary genres and categories ('epic', 'tragedy') and on topics in visual art.

Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics ed Alex Preminger 1965, revised 1974. There is also the 1993 New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics  

Conte, G. B. Latin Literature A History (London 1994)

Dihle, A. A History of Greek Literature (London and New York 1994)

Introductory works

Beardsley, M. Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism (Indianapolis 1981)

Berger, J. Ways of Seeing (Cambridge 1995)

Eagleton, T. Literary Theory (Oxford 1982)

Russell, D.A. Criticism in Antiquity (London 1981)

Sheppard A. Aesthetics (Oxford 1987)

Sontag S. On Photography (London 1977)

Useful anthologies

Elsner J. (ed) Art and Text in Roman Culture (Cambridge 1996)

Jefferson, A. and Robey, D. (ed) Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction (London 1986)

Kennedy G ed. Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: vol 1 Classical criticism (Cambridge 1989)

Laird A. ed. Ancient Literary Criticism (Oxford 2006)

Preziosi, D. ed. The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Oxford 1998)

THEORIES OF LITERATURE

Barnes, J. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle (Cambridge 1995)
Beardsley, M. Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism (Indianapolis 1981) BH 81.B3
Belfiore, E. Tragic Pleasures: Aristotle on Plot and Emotion (Princeton 1992) PN 1040.A7
Brink, C.O. (1963-82) Horace on Poetry, 3 vols. (Cambridge)
Costa, C.D.N. (ed.) (1973) Horace (London)
Curtius, E. R. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (Princeton 1990)
Dorter, K. (1973) ' The Ion: Plato's Characterisation of Art', Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 32 (1), 65-78.
Edwards, C. The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome (Cambridge 1993) PA 6029.M6
Fiske, G.C. & Grant, M.A. (1924) ‘Cicero’s Orator and the Ars poetica’ Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 35, 1-75
Ford, A. (2002) The Origins of Criticism (Princeton and Oxford)
Fortenbaugh, W.W. Aristotle on Emotion: A Contribution to Philosophical Psychology (New York 1975) B491.E5
Fraenkel, E. (1957) Horace (Oxford), 308-9, 314-21
Gleason, M. Making Men: Sophists and the Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome (Princeton 1995) PA 3083.G5
Gransden, Murray & Winnifrith (eds), Aspects of Epic
Graziosi, B. Inventing Homer: the Early Reception of Epic (Cambridge 2002) PA4037.G7
Grube, G.M.A. The Greek and Roman Critics (London 1968) PA 3013.G7
Harriott, R. (1969) Poetry and Criticism before Plato (London)
Janaway, C. (1995) Images of Excellence: Plato's Critique of the Arts (Oxford)
Kayser, W.J. The Grotesque in Art and Literature (New York 1981) N8217.G8
Kennedy, G. (1969) Quintilian (New York)
Kennedy, G. A. (ed.) The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (Cambridge 1989), vol. 1. Classical Criticism PN 86.C2
Kennedy, G.A. Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times (Chapel Hill, NC 1980) PA 3265.K3
Kristeller, P. O. Renaissance Thought and the Arts (Princeton 1992)
Ludwig, W. (ed.) (1982) Eloquence et rhétorique chez Cicéron (Geneva)
MacLeod, C.W. (1979) 'The Poetry of Ethics: Horace Epistles 1', Journal of Roman Studies, 69, 16-27.
MacLeod, C.W. (2001) ‘Homer on Poetry and the Poetry of Homer’, in Oxford Readings in Homer’s ‘Iliad’, ed. D. L. Cairns (Oxford), 294-310
Murray, P. (ed.) (1995), Plato on Poetry (Cambridge) (Introduction and commentary)
Pfeiffer, R. History of Classical Scholarship. From the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford 1968) PA 51.P3
Reynolds, L.D. & Wilson, N.G. Scribes and Scholars (Oxford 1993) PA 51.R3
Russell, D. A. & Winterbottom, M. (eds) Ancient Literary Criticism. The Principal Texts in Translation (Oxford 1972) PN 173.R8
Russell, D.A. Criticism in Antiquity (London 1981) PA 3013.R8
Sheppard, A. (1993) Aesthetics (Oxford)
Smithson, I. (1983) 'The Moral View of Aristotle's Poetics', Journal of the History of Ideas 44, 3-17
Toohey, P. (1994) ‘Epic and Rhetoric’, in Worthington, I. (ed.) Persuasion. Greek Rhetoric in Action (London – New York)
Toohey, P. (1994) Reading Epic (London – New York), chapters 1, 2, 3, 7
Vickers, B. In Defence of Rhetoric (Oxford 1988) PN 175.V4
Walker, J. Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity (Princeton 2001) PA 3265.W2

On modern views of literature:

Eagleton, T. Literary Theory (Oxford 1982)
Preminger, O. (ed.) Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (London 1975, repr. 1995)
Jefferson, A. and Robey, D. (ed) Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction (London 1986)

Visual Arts

Iliad 18 and the Shield of Achilles in context

Art and Rhetoric in Vitruvius and Pliny the Elder

Ekphrasis and the Second Sophistic:

Pausanias:

Lucian:

Philostratus the Elder:

Pliny