MA Greek
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 Greek, an economics and classics degree centred on the study of the classical Greek language, literature, history, and culture of the ancient Greeks. Core topics include Research Methods. Students have the opportunity to visit archaeological sites and museums in Greece as part of the programme. The first year introduces the language through Greek 1A: Basic Greek 1 and Greek 1B: Basic Greek 2. The second year builds proficiency with Greek 2A:Intermediate Greek 1 and Greek 2B: Intermediate Greek 2. Later stages include advanced linguistic study and a dissertation. Optional modules cover diverse aspects of ancient literature, history, and culture such as Ancient Emotions, Athenian Democracy: Model or Mob-rule?, Interpreting Greek Tragedy (Greek language version), and Myths, Fictions, and Histories of Alexander (Greek). Additional options span wider historical and cultural topics including Ancient Warfare, Cleopatra: Life and Legend (Hons), and Religion in Ancient Greece.
Modules
- Greek 1A: Basic Greek 1
- Greek 1B: Basic Greek 2
- Greek 2A:Intermediate Greek 1
- Greek 2B: Intermediate Greek 2
- Core travel course (years 3 and 4)
- Advanced Greek for Honours
- Dissertation (Greek)
- Ancient Emotions (Greek)
- Ancient Technology in Context (Linguistic Pathway)
- Athenian Democracy: Model or Mob-rule? (Greek)
- Hellenistic Poets in Greek
- Interpreting Greek Tragedy (Greek language version)
- Literature in Fragments (Greek)
- Lyric Poems and their performance in Ancient Greece (Greek)
- The Invention of History: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon in Greek
- Myths, Fictions, and Histories of Alexander (Greek)
- Reasons to be Cheerful: Greek Comedy with Aristophanes and Menander
- Ancient Medicine
- Ancient Warfare
- 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
- The Material World in Greek Religious Thought and Practice
- The Novel In Antiquity: Impotent Heroes And Damsels In Distress
- Religion in Ancient Greece
- Rhetoric At Rome
- 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 Other Greeks: Sparta, Crete, Thessaly
- Women and Power? The extraordinary women of the ancient world
- Women, Witches & Witchcraft in Antiquity
- Writing Ancient Women (Honours)
- Basic Latin For Honours 1
- Basic Latin For Honours 2
- Intermediate Latin for Honours 1
- Intermediate Latin for Honours 2
- Advanced Latin for Honours