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Modules 2023-24

Modules in Translation

Modules starting with code CLAS do not require a knowledge of the ancient languages. These modules are open to students from other departments, subject to available space, with the exception of: CLAS0004 Approaches to the Ancient World (compulsory for Ancient World students, open to Classics, Ancient History and Classical Archaeology and Classical Civilisation students subject to permission of the Ancient World Tutor); CLAS0005 and CLAS0006 Interpreting Literature modules (compulsory for Classics and Joint Degree students, open to Ancient World students subject to permission of the Departmental Tutor); and CLAS0020 Classics and Literary Theory (compulsory for Classics and Joint Degree students, open to Ancient World students subject to permission of the Departmental Tutor).

First-year students only

CLAS0001 Greek Myth: Its Use And Meaning

CLAS0004 Approaches to the Ancient World

CLAS0005 Interpreting Greek Literature

CLAS0006 Interpreting Latin Literature (N.B. this module will be taught by Dimitra Kokkini; please disregard the module tutor listed in the catalogue)

CLAS0009 Introduction to the Study of Language

CLAS0146 Emotions in the Ancient World 

Second- and final-year students

CLAS0017 Roman Authors: Roman Love Poetry (N.B. this module will be taught by Elizabeth McKnight; please disregard the module tutor listed in the catalogue, and will NOT split into smaller groups during the term)

CLAS0020 Classics and Literary Theory

CLAS0025 The Dialogues of Plato (N.B. this module will be taught by Branislav Kotoc; please disregard the module tutor listed in the catalogue)

CLAS0136 Greek Comedy (Greek Comedy and Greek Tragedy each run biennially in alternate years).
CLAS0138 Greek Authors: Homer

CLAS0160 Race: Antiquity and its Legacy

CLAS0162 Archaic Greece, 800-479: A Cultural History

Final-year students only

CLAS0043 Essay on an Approved Subject

Modules In Ancient Greek

GREK0002 Greek for Beginners A

GREK0039 Greek for Beginners B

GREK0005 Intermediate Greek A

GREK0040 Intermediate Greek B

GREK0008 Advanced Greek A and B (N.B. this module will be taught by Fiachra Mac Góráin in Term 1 (Euripides) and Elizabeth McKnight in Term 2 (Lysias).

GREK0009 Advanced Greek A

GREK0010 Greek Translation

GREK0012 Essay on an Approved Subject (Greek) - available to final-year students only

GREK0054 Ancient Greek Lyric Poetry

GREK0062 Plato

GREK0022 Greek Papyrology

Modules In Latin

LATN0034 Latin for Beginners A (N.B. this module will be taught by Dimitra Kokkini; please disregard the module tutor listed in the catalogue)

LATN0003 Latin for Beginners B (N.B. this module will be taught by Dimitra Kokkini; please disregard the module tutor listed in the catalogue)

LATN0004 Intermediate Latin A

LATN0035 Intermediate Latin B

LATN0005 Advanced Latin A and B (N.B. this module will be taught by Elizabeth McKnight in Term 1; please disregard the module tutor listed in the catalogue)

LATN0006 Advanced Latin A

LATN0008 Latin Translation (N.B. this module will be taught by Elizabeth McKnight in Term 2; please disregard the module tutor listed in the catalogue)
LATN0009 Latin Prose Composition
LATN0010 Late and Medieval Latin
LATN0011 Latin Palaeography

LATN0012 Essay on an Approved Subject (Latin) - available to final-year students only

LATN0002 Virgil† (N.B. this module will be taught by Elizabeth McKnight; please disregard the module tutor listed in the catalogue)

LATN0032 History of the Latin Language
LATN0053 Roman Rhetoric; Theory and Practice

Modules in Ancient Middle-Eastern Languages

AMEL0001 Introductory Hittite A (Introductory Hittite and Hittite Texts each run biennially in alternate years).

AMEL0007 Introductory Hittite B: Simple Hittite Texts (Introductory Hittite and Hittite Texts each run biennially in alternate years).
HEBR0083 Introductory Akkadian
HEBR0108 Intermediate Akkadian
AMEL0003 Introductory Sanskrit (Beginner's level Greek or Latin required to take this module) (Second and final-year students only).

†The range of theme- and author-based modules can vary from year to year, depending on staff availability, and in the interest of a rich curriculum.

Recommended modules outside of the Department of Greek and Latin can be found at the bottom of our Degree Structures page.