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Classics and the Ancient World: all modules

Classics and the Ancient World: all modules

Undergraduate modules available to students taking the Classics and Ancient World degree are listed below. Text and thematic modules are rotated and not available every year.

  • Classics modules in translation: first year
CodeTitleCredits
CLAS0001 Greek Myth: Its Use And Meaning 15
CLAS0004 Approaches to the Ancient World15
CLAS0005Interpreting Greek Literature15
CLAS0006Interpreting Latin Literature15
CLAS0009Introduction to the Study of Language15
CLAS0146Emotions in the Ancient World 15
LITC0004The Literature of Travel [not running 24-25]15
  • Classics modules in translation: second and final years
CodeTitleCredits
䳢0011Greek Tragedy15
CLAS0136Greek Comedy[not running 24-25: alternates with Greek Tragedy]15
CLAS0014Roman Epic15
CLAS0017Roman Authors: Roman Love Poetry[not running 24-25]15
CLAS0019Subverting the Canon [not running 24-25]15
CLAS0020Classics and Literary Theory15
CLAS0025The Dialogues of Plato[not running 24-25]15
CLAS0032Epic and Empire[not running 24-25](Final year students only)15
CLAS0036Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics15
CLAS0045Xenophon: Politics, Identity and Text[not running 24-25]15
CLAS0046Roman Satire and its reception[not running 24-25]15
CLAS0138Greek Authors: Homer15
CLAS0147Classical Poetry and its Reception in English Literature30
CLAS0160 Race: Antiquity and its Legacy15
CLAS0162Archaic Greece, 800-479: A Cultural History[not running 24-25]30
CLAS0170Augustan Culture15
CLAS0164Greeks and Jews: Antiquity and the Modern World[not running 24-25]15
CLAS0043Essay on an Approved Subject (Final year students only)15
CLAS0169Dramaturgy, Ancient and Modern15
CLAS0173Moral Education in Ancient Greek Philosophical Sources15
  • Philosophy modules in translation
CodeTitleCredits
First year
PHIL0001Introduction to Ancient Greek Philosophy15
Second & third year
CLAS0025Dialogues of Plato[not running 24-25]15
CLAS0036Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics15
PHIL0030Topics in Aristotle15
PHIL0044Aristotle's Moral Psychology[not running 24-25]15
PHIL0017Topics in Greek Philosophy: Plato15
See other Philosophy modules in the Philosophy department
  • Modules in Ancient Greek
CodeTitleCredits
GREK0002 Greek for Beginners A15
GREK0039 Greek for Beginners B15
GREK0005 Intermediate Greek A15
GREK0040 Intermediate Greek B15
GREK0008 Advanced Greek A and B30
GREK0009Advanced Greek A15
GREK0010Greek Translation15
GREK0012 Essay on an Approved Subject (Greek) (Final year students only)15
GREK0035Homer: Iliad [not running 24-25]15
GREK0036Homer: Odyssey[not running 24-25]15
GREK0037Ancient Greek prose[not running 24-25]15
GREK0051Aeschylus[not running 24-25]15
GREK0052Euripides15
GREK0054Ancient Greek Lyric Poetry[not running 24-25]15
GREK0056Herodotus15
GREK0059 Sophocles[not running 24-25]15
GREK0057 Longus, Daphnis and Chloe[not running 24-25]15
GREK0062Plato[not running 24-25]15
GREK0022Greek Papyrology15
GREK0065Introduction to the History of Greek[not running 24-25]15
GREK0001The Greek Dialects[not running 24-25]30
GREK0019Mycenaean Greek30
  • Modules in Latin
CodeTitleCredits
LATN0034Latin for Beginners A15
LATN0003 Latin for Beginners B15
LATN0004Intermediate Latin A15
LATN0035 Intermediate Latin B15
LATN0005 Advanced Latin A and B30
LATN0006 Advanced Latin A15
LATN0008 Latin Translation15
LATN0009 Latin Prose Composition15
LATN0001Roman Drama [not running 24-25]15
LATN0002Virgil[not running 24-25]15
LATN0010Late and Medieval Latin15
LATN0011Latin Palaeography15
LATN0012 Essay on an Approved Subject (Latin) (Final year students only)15
LATN0019Latin Poetry and its Translations[not running 24-25]15
LATN0021Cicero[not running 24-25]15
LATN0033The Roman Historians15
LATN0037Ovid[not running 24-25]15
LATN0043 Horace15
LATN0044Lucretius[not running 24-25]15
LATN0045 Seneca[not running 24-25]15
LATN0046Petronius[not running 24-25]15
LATN0051Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity[not running 24-25]15
LATN0032History of the Latin Language15
LATN0052Street Latin and The Romance Languages[not running 24-25]15
LATN0053Roman Rhetoric Theory and Practice[not running 24-25]15
  • Modules in Ancient Middle-Eastern Languages
CodeTitleCredits
AMEL0001Introductory HittiteA[not running 24-25: alternates with Hittite Texts]15
AMEL0007Introductory Hittite B: Simple Hittite Texts[not running 24-25: alternates with Hittite Texts]15
AMEL0005HittiteTexts30
AMEL0008Fragmentary Language of Forgotten Empires15
HEBR0083Introductory Akkadian30
HEBR0108Intermediate Akkadian30
HEBR0095Introductory Sumerian30
HEBR0120Introductory Sumerian A15
HEBR0049Ugaritic15
HEBR0048Ugaritic30
AMEL0003 Introductory Sanskrit30
HEBR0002Introduction to Biblical Hebrew30
HEBR0018Intermediate Biblical Hebrew 30
HEBR0110Jewish Literary Aramaic15
ARCL0044 Introduction to Ancient Egyptian15
ARCL0202Language and Script in the Archaeology of Egypt and Sudan15
ARCL0080Old and Middle Egyptian Texts[not running 24-25]15
  • Modules in Ancient and Mediaeval History
CodeTitleCredits
First year
HIST0009The Romans and Their Past[not running 24-25]15
HIST0010Sources for Greek History[not running 24-25]15
HIST0152The Roman empire from Augustus to Theodosius I[not running 24-25]30
HIST0154The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the end of the Attalid kingdom30
HIST0156The Roman Republic, C.350 BC - 44 BC30
HIST0164Bronze Age States in the Ancient Middle East30
Second & third year
HIST0013The City in the Roman World from c. 100 BC to AD 50030
HIST0015 Roman Democracy: Myth or Reality?30
HIST0019An Economic History of Ancient Greece[not running 24-25]30
HIST0021Understanding the Early Mesopotamian World30
HIST0023Asia, the Aegean, Europe: Dividing the World in Ancient Greece30
HIST0230Aristocracy in Ancient Greece[not running 24-25]15
HIST0031Rome AD 300-1000. Portraits of a City30
HIST0148The Mediterranean World c.800-c.500 BC[not running 24-25]30
HIST0156The Roman Republic, c.350 BC - 44 BC 30
HIST0221Slavery in the Classical World[not running 24-25]15
HIST0164Bronze Age States in the Ancient Middle East 30
HIST0228Ancient Greek Religion of the Archaic and Classical Period15
HIST0650Babylon from Hammurabi to Alexander[not running 24-25]30
HIST0660Ancient Middle Eastern Religion[not running 24-25]15
HIST0787The Greek World from the end of the Persian wars to the Battle of Chaeronea (479-338 BC)30
HIST0806Death and Dying in Ancient Mesopotamia30
HIST0829Roman Religion: Belief, Culture and Politics15
See other History modules in the History department
  • Modules in the History of Science
CodeTitleCredits
Second & third year
HPSC0067Science in the Ancient World15
HPSC0110 Medicine, History and Society15
See other History of Science modules in STS
  • Modules in ancient Art History and Archaeology
CodeTitleCredits
ARCL0001Introduction to Roman Archaeology15
ARCL0005Introduction to Greek Archaeology15
ARCL0007Introduction to Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology15
ARCL0009 Texts in Archaeology15
ARCL0015Roman Coinage[not running 24-25]15
ARCL0017Greek Art and Architecture15
ARCL0018Roman Art and Architecture15
ARCL0028The Prehistoric Mediterranean[not running 24-25]15
ARCL0033Archaeology of the Near East from prehistory to 2000 BC15
ARCL0064Topics in the archaeology of the Later Roman Empire[not running 24-25]15
ARCL0065The Archaeology of the Levant[not running 24-25]15
ARCL0066The Emergence of Bronze Age Aegean States[not running 24-25]15
ARCL0067Understanding Complex Societies: Egypt and Mesopotamia[not running 24-25]15
ARCL0068The Late Bronze Age Aegean in the Mediterranean15
ARCL0069Painting and Society in Archaic and Classical Greece[not running 24-25]15
ARCL0070The Archaeology of Etruscan Italy[not running 24-25]15
ARCL0075Economy and Trade in the Mediterranean Iron Age15
ARCL0202Language and Script in the Archaeology of Egypt and Sudan15
See other Archaeology modules in the Institute of Archaeology

  • Students may also take appropriate modules at with the permission of their programme director.
  • A 30-credit module is considered equivalent to 15 credits in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS); 15 credits is 7.5 ECTS.