Year One
Students entering with A-level Latin or Greek study either Latin Literary Texts or Greek Literary Texts and take the other ancient language at the appropriate level
Latin Literary Texts
This module builds upon A level Latin and allows you to develop your understanding of Latin by further reading of significant works by authors and in genres which for the most part you will not have previously studied As well as developing your ability to read Latin more fluently and to translate from Latin the module also teaches you advanced grammar and offers an ambitious introduction to literary criticism and philological analysis at degree level
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Greek Literary Texts
The purpose of this module is to build upon A Level Ancient Greek and allow you to both broaden and deepen your understanding of Greek by further reading of significant works in genres that for the most part you will have not previously studied As well as developing your ability to translate from Greek the module also includes discussion of literary and grammatical points
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Students who have not studied an ancient language before will take a-long course in accelerated Latin or Greek in one and start the other language in two
These accelerated modules will teach you the fundamental elements of Greek and Latin in a clear and accessible way By the end of the you will be able to read and translate passages of original ancient text with accuracy and confidence will have a firm knowledge of Greek Latin vocabulary and syntax and will be able to begin to appreciate pieces of Greek or Latin prose in their original unadapted form
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Optional Modules
You will choose from the modules below taking in total 4 modules per term
Greek Culture and Society
This module introduces students of all backgrounds to the vast panorama of Greek culture from Homeric times to the coming of Rome It explores some of the most distinctive features of Greek culture and its social institutions from the polis festivals and religion to mythology sport and the performance of poetry while encouraging students to consider the degrees of continuity and difference between ancient Greek culture and their own beliefs and practices The module is designed to provide a framework within which you can develop your own individual interests in the second and third
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Roman Culture and Society
This module explores what was distinctively ‘Roman’ about Roman culture and society both in Rome itself and throughout its empire from Britain to Bulgaria and from the Nile to the Euphrates The module introduces students of all backgrounds to topics from the late first century BC to the early third century AD investigating the impact on Roman society of the emergence of sole rulers and dynastic powers and the gradual opening up of society to provincials It considers a range of evidence from poetry to graffiti monuments to religious artefacts and is designed to provide a framework within which you can develop your own individual interests in the second and third
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Ancient Thought Philosophy Politics Science
This module introduces students to the breadth and variety of ancient thought – investigating the ways in which the ancient Greeks and Romans articulated their thinking and their beliefs about themselves and the worlds around them We survey the cultural and intellectual contours of the ancient Graeco-Roman world from the presocratics through to late antiquity and investigate not just the origins and development of philosophical thinking but also developments in scientific investigation
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Encounters with Greek Texts
This module taught in translation introduces students to many different kinds of ancient Greek texts across a wide variety of genres and forms including epic drama lyric historiography rhetoric The module will also allow students to explore critically the range of methodologies and approaches used in the interpretation of ancient texts both within and beyond original cultural and political contexts
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Encounters with Latin Texts
This module taught in translation introduces students to many different kinds of Latin texts written in a variety of genres and forms including historiographical epigraphic and rhetorical texts and literary texts in poetry and prose from the canonical to the marginal and ‘sub-literary’ As well as expanding awareness of the Latin texts classicists study across different sub-fields (for instance philology archaeology ancient history) the module will explore critically the range of methodologies and approaches used in the interpretation of ancient texts in their cultural and political contexts and allow students to test out these skills in their own responses to texts
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Encounters with Material Culture Objects and Archaeology
This module provides you with the tools you need to approach and interpret the material culture of the ancient world including buildings art-works inscriptions and everyday objects We look at objects and buildings from their creation to their use and rediscovery considering issues such as the materials used production and consumption; style form and iconography and contexts of discovery and use We explore the many questions we can ask of material culture and the insights it provides into the history and society of the ancient Mediterranean
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Year Two
Two optional core modules (one based on Greek language and literature; one on Latin language and literature) Students entering without an A-level in ancient language will acquire the second language via the intensive language modules Latin Greek Language 1 and 2
Year Three
Dissertation
Two optional core modules (one based on Greek texts and one on Latin texts)
Optional modules
Optional modules can vary from to Example optional modules may include
Ancient Greek Theatre (Greek texts option)
Greek Myth Narratives Sources Approaches (Greek texts option)
The Vulnerable Body in Roman Literature and Thought (Latin texts option)
Africa and the Making of Classical Literature (Latin texts option)
Roman Laughter (Latin texts option)
Metamorphosis in Latin poetry (Latin texts option)
Rhetorics from Classical Rhetoric to Modern Communication (Latin texts option)
Sexuality and Gender in Antiquity (Greek texts option)
The Transformation of Roman Society under Augustus (Latin texts option)
Politics and Poetics in Greek and Latin Literature (Greek Latin texts option)
The History of Medicine in the Ancient World (Greek texts option)
Songs Texts Theories Greek Lyric Poetry (Greek texts option)
Horace Authority and Authoritarianism (Latin texts option)
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