BA Classical Archaeology and Ancient History
Royal Holloway, University of London
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBB (Required subjects: We require English Language and Mathematics GCSE at grade 4 (C)) IB: 6,5,5 at Higher level or 32 points overall.
About this course
BA in History and Archaeology, covering the ancient Greek and Roman worlds through both historical and archaeological perspectives. Core topics include Research Methods and Historical Research. The course has a compulsory excavation component, and there is the option to spend a year abroad. In the final year, students complete a supervised Extended Essay (Dissertation) of 8,000 to 10,000 words.
Modules
- Greek History and the City State
- Key Themes in Roman History
- Introduction to Greek Archaeology
- Introduction to Roman Archaeology
- Beginner’s Greek
- Intermediate Greek
- Beginner's Latin
- Intermediate Latin
- Introduction to Greek Literature
- Roman Literature of the Empire
- Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
- Studying Classical Antiquity
- Advanced Greek
- Advanced Latin
- From Dig to Digital: Archaeological Theory, Method and Practice
- Greek History to 322 BC
- Spinning the Past: Greek Historiography from Herodotos to Diodoros
- Historiography of the Roman World
- The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
- Rome and its Empire from Augustus to Commodus
- Homer (in Greek)
- Plato (in Greek)
- Imperial Greek Literature
- Latin Epic (in Latin)
- Homer (In Translation)
- Greek Drama (In Translation)
- Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Art and Power in Augustan Rome
- Augustus: Propaganda and Power
- The Good Life in Ancient Philosophy
- Second Year Projects
- Life in the Big City
- Intensive Greek
- Aspects of Modern Greek Language and Culture
- Intensive Latin
- Athenian Law and Social History
- Empire and its Others - Virgil's Aeneid
- Tacitus and the Making of Empire
- The Later Roman Empire
- Byzantium and its Neighbours, 641-1081
- Extended Essay (Dissertation)
- Understanding Pompeii and Herculaneum
- City of Athens
- Augustus
- Alexander the Great
- Further Aspects of Modern Greek Language and Culture
- Food in the Ancient World
- Of Masks & Voices: Gender and Performance in Ancient Greece
- Roman Protests and Riots
- Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire
- Thinking Myth: classical myth and its reception
- Art, Architecture and Identity in the Hellenistic World
- Christians and Pagans from Constantine to Augustine (AD 306-430)
- Contemporary Approaches to Latin Literature
- Encounters with Latin Poetry (in Latin)
- History and Fiction