BA Ancient History
Entry requirements
A level: ABB BTEC: DDM IB: 34 points overall with 16 at Higher Level.
About this course
BA in Ancient History, a history degree centred on the civilisations, societies and material cultures of the ancient world. Core topics include Research Methods. The course concludes with a major research project requiring a 12,000-word dissertation. The first year introduces foundational themes through modules such as The Greek World: An Introduction, The Roman World: An Introduction, Introduction to Classical Archaeology and Ancient Lives. The second year builds upon these concepts with studies covering Evidence and Enquiry in Classics, Invisible Greeks and Romans and Ancient Empires: Power and Control. Optional modules throughout the programme allow students to explore diverse areas including classical literature, languages such as Ancient Greek and Latin, and specialized historical periods.
Modules
- The Greek World: An Introduction - This module provides a historical survey of events in the Greek world from the eighth to the fourth centuries BC, followed by a more detailed study of the social and cultural life of fifth- and fourth-century BC Athens.
- The Roman World: An Introduction - The module is intended as a foundation for further study in all aspects of Roman civilisation. It starts with an introduction to the major periods in Roman history and the surviving ancient evidence which allows us to study them, then considers various aspects of Roman social and cultural life.
- Introduction to Classical Archaeology - The aim of this module is to provide and introduction to the theory and practice of the archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome.
- Ancient Lives - The module considers a range of biographies and life writings by different authors of classical antiquity, from more historical to more literary and fictionalising biographies.
- Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 1)
- Beginners Latin
- Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 1)
- Intermediate Latin (Level 1)
- Greek Poets
- Roman Poets
- World Histories
- Evidence and Enquiry in Classics - This module is designed to build on and enhance the skills which you have developed at level 1, and to prepare you to pursue independent research at level 3 with the help and guidance of an academic supervisor. It offers a survey of Classics today, of classes of evidence, and of the various areas of classical research.
- Invisible Greeks and Romans - This module focuses on subordinate groups in classical antiquity: women, children, enslaved people, foreigners and others outside the privileged body of citizens in Greece and Rome.
- Ancient Empires: Power and Control - This module provides an overview of the hegemonic and imperial regimes of the classical world, covering Greece, Rome and Persia, and focussing particularly on the hegemonic leagues of Sparta and Athens, the Achaemenid empire and the rise of Rome as an imperial power.
- Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections
- Virgil's Aeneid
- Homer's Iliad
- Time, Space and Place in the Greek and Roman Worlds
- The Rise of Rome: Myth and History
- Augustus and his Legacy
- Greek Religion
- Screening Antiquity
- Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present
- The City in the Roman World
- A Water History of the Ancient World
- The Image of Sparta
- Black Europe
- Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 2)
- Intermediate Latin (Level 2)
- Major Research Project - The major dissertation requires the student to design their own 12,000-word project on any topic, subject to approval from a potential supervisor and the module coordinator.
- Major Research Project
- Time, Space and Place in the Greek and Roman Worlds
- A Water History of the Ancient World
- The Rise of Rome: Myth and History
- The Image of Sparta
- Greek Art and Society
- The Worlds of Alexander the Great
- The City in the Roman World
- Screening Antiquity
- Material Cultures and Cultures of Consumption
- Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents
- Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 3)
- Intermediate Latin (Level 3)
- Advanced Latin