Year One
Two optional core modules from Classics chosen from the following

Greek Culture and Society Roman Culture and Society

You will study both these modules which explore the central features of Greek and Roman culture including aspects such as religion and festivals political institutions women and the family and death This grounding will allow you to delve further into specific topics in your Honours modules as well as encouraging you to consider the degrees of continuity and difference between ancient Greek and Roman culture and our own beliefs and practices

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Greek Culture and Society
Roman Culture and Society
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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Modes of Reading

What is a reader? How is our understanding and perception of a text formed? What does it mean to think critically when we read? This module allows you to explore these questions by putting a spotlight on the question of critical thinking in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries By studying a series of literary texts in relation to some of the most influential literary and cultural theorists of the last hundred you will take your own position on everything from Marxism queer and feminist theory to ecocriticism and postcolonial critique

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Plus two other optional modules from Classics including Greek or Latin language Introduction to Greek and Roman History and Encounters with Material Culture

And Either

Epic into Novel

Tracking the transition from the epics of the ancient world to their incarnation as texts of modernity this module introduces you to some of the most influential and formative works of world literature You will study central texts of the classical world such as Gilgamesh Homer’s Iliad Virgil’s Aeneid and Catullus; ancient epics from India and Africa; Milton’s Paradise Lost; as well as responses to ancient epic by Tennyson Margaret Atwood Seamus Heaney and Maria Dahvana Headley Reading across history and cultures between languages and genres you will develop the skills to analyse narrative character and style

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Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Taking you from the mythical court of King Arthur to the real world of ambition intrigue and danger in the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I this module introduces you to early literature written in a range of genres (romance epic fabliau) and poetic forms You will study texts like Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Thomas More’s Utopia Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene and Shakespeare’s sonnets to explore some of the period’s highest ideals—‘trawthe’ or integrity—as well as some of humanity’s darkest impulses greed deception revenge and desire

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Year Two
Optional modules from either the Classics or English department

You are required to take half your modules from each department including at least 30 CATS focussing on Greek or Latin language literature or thought

Year Three
Dissertation (supervised by either the Classics or English Department) and modules chosen from the Classics and English Departments
You are required to take at least 30 CATS from each Department in addition to the Dissertation which can be taken in either of the departments You must include at least 30 CATS of modules focussing on Greek or Latin language literature or thought

Optional modules
Optional modules can vary from to Example optional modules may include

English Literature and Feminisms 1790-1899
The Vulnerable Body in Roman Literature and Thought
The Question of the Animal
Songs Texts Theories Greek Lyric Poetry
Romantic and Victorian Poetry
Africa and the Making of Classical Literature
Space and Place in Ancient Greek Literature
Devolutionary British Fiction
Ancient Greek Theatre
The Vulnerable Body in Roman Literature and Thought
Explorations in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies