MA Ancient History
Entry requirements
A level: ABB or BBB (Additional requirements: A-level English or another Humanities subject.) IB: 34 (6,5,5) (Additional requirements: English HL6 or Humanities HL6 with English SL6.) Scottish Higher: BBBB is the minimum requirement from S5 to be reviewed for an S6 offer Offers are not guaranteed to applicants who meet the minimum from S5 Typically offers will be made at AAAAB by end of S6. B at Advanced Higher is equivalent to A at Higher Additional requirements: Higher English and a Higher Humanities subject at AA. (AB or BA may be considered). Scottish Higher (widening access): MD20 : BBBB (also other target groups*) MD40 : AABB* Additional requirements: Higher English and a Higher Humanities subject. Successful completion of Top-Up or one of our Summer Schools.
About this course
MA in Ancient History, a history degree centred on the history and culture of Greece, Rome and the wider Mediterranean. Core topics include Research Methods. The first year covers the foundations through Classical Civilisation 1A: Myth and Politics in Classical Athens and Classical Civilisation 1B: Augustan Rome: From Republic to Empire. The second year progresses through Classical Civilisation 2A: Identities, Ideology and the Hellenistic World and Classical Civilisation 2B: Empire and Identity. Students undertake a core travel course across years three and four. Optional modules span subjects such as Ancient Medicine, Ancient Technology in Context and Ancient Warfare. The course concludes with a dissertation in ancient history.
Modules
- Classical Civilisation 1A: Myth and Politics in Classical Athens
- Classical Civilisation 1B: Augustan Rome: From Republic to Empire
- Classical Civilisation 2A: Identities, Ideology and the Hellenistic World
- Classical Civilisation 2B: Empire and Identity
- Core travel course (Years 3 and 4)
- Dissertation (Ancient History)
- Ancient Emotions
- Ancient Medicine
- Ancient Technology in Context
- Ancient Warfare
- Athenian Democracy: Model Or Mob-Rule?
- Basic ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for Honours
- Cleopatra: Life and Legend (Hons)
- From the Gracchi to Sulla: the sources and the history 133-70 BC
- Heroes and Heretics (Egypt)
- The Histories of Trans People (UG)
- Imperium Indivisum?: The Collapse of the West Roman Empire in the fifth century AD
- The Later Roman Empire, 270-400 AD
- Literature in Fragments (Greek)
- Material World in Greek Religion
- Myths, Fictions, and Histories of Alexander
- Religion in Ancient Greece
- ROMAN ART
- The Roman Stage: A History Of Roman Drama From The Republic To The Empire
- Rome In Transition, 49-27 BC
- The Art of Divergence in Ancient Egypt (Hons)
- The Invention of History: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon
- The Other Greeks: Sparta, Crete, Thessaly
- Women and Power? The extraordinary women of the ancient world
- Women, Witches & Witchcraft in Antiquity
- Writing Ancient Women (Honours)
- Hellenistic Poetry
- Interpreting Greek Tragedy
- Lyric poems and their performance in ancient Greece
- The Novel in Antiquity (Latin)
- Basic Greek For Honours 1
- Basic Greek For Honours 2
- Basic Latin For Honours 1
- Basic Latin For Honours 2
- Intermediate Greek for Honours 1
- Intermediate Greek for Honours 2
- Intermediate Latin for Honours 1
- Intermediate Latin for Honours 2
- Advanced Greek for Honours
- Advanced Latin for Honours