BA Classics
Entry requirements
A level: A*AA IB: 41-42 points, with 776 at Higher Level .
About this course
BA (Hons) in Classics, a Classics degree covering the history, culture, archaeology, art, philosophy and linguistics of classical antiquity. The first year introduces foundational subjects through Homer, Euripides, Plato, Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, ancient history, archaeology, art, philosophy, philology and linguistics. The second year builds upon this with Greek translation, Latin translation, Greek Literature, Latin Literature, Greek Philosophy, Greek and Roman History, Classical Art and Archaeology, and Classical and Historical Linguistics. In the final year, students choose from a wide range of specialised papers spanning literature, philosophy, history, art and archaeology, historical linguistics, and multidisciplinary topics, alongside options to study subjects from another degree course.
Modules
- Homer
- Euripides
- Plato
- Virgil
- Ovid
- Cicero
- ancient history
- archaeology
- art
- philosophy
- philology
- linguistics
- Greek translation
- Latin translation
- Greek Literature
- Latin Literature
- Greek Philosophy
- Greek and Roman History
- Classical Art and Archaeology
- Classical and Historical Linguistics
- literature, for example Greek poetry of the Roman Empire
- philosophy, for example Plato's Republic; Ancient Scepticism
- history, for example Popular Culture in the Greco-Roman World
- art and archaeology, for example Rome, City of Art
- historical linguistics, for example Greek in the Bronze Age
- a multidisciplinary paper, for example Greece, Rome and the Environment
- papers from another degree course
- cross-dressing in antiquity
- modern receptions of Sappho
- Milton as a Latin poet
- gods in Pindar
- Greek tragedy and politics
- Roman statues and canons of beauty
- Indo-European poetics
- the nature and role of pleasure in human life
- urbanism in Roman Egypt