BA Classical Studies
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 Classics, examining the language, literature, history, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome. Core topics include research methods and historical research. Latin and Greek can be studied from beginner to advanced level, and an optional year abroad is available in Europe, North America or Asia. The degree includes a supervised extended essay of 8,000 to 10,000 words as the final-year dissertation.
Modules
- Studying Classical Antiquity
- Beginner’s Greek
- Intermediate Greek
- Beginner's Latin
- Intermediate Latin
- Introduction to Greek Literature
- Roman Literature of the Empire
- Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
- Greek History and the City State
- Key Themes in Roman History
- Introduction to Greek Archaeology
- Introduction to Roman Archaeology
- Advanced Greek
- Advanced Latin
- Aspects of Modern Greek Language and Culture
- Intensive Latin
- Homer (in Greek)
- Latin Epic (in Latin)
- Homer (In Translation)
- Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Art and Power in Augustan Rome
- Greek History to 322 BC
- Spinning the Past: Greek Historiography from Herodotos to Diodoros
- Augustus: Propaganda and Power
- Historiography of the Roman World
- The Good Life in Ancient Philosophy
- Second Year Projects
- Plato (in Greek)
- From Dig to Digital: Archaeological Theory, Method and Practice
- Roman Drama (in Latin)
- Athenian Law and Social History
- Tacitus and the Making of Empire
- Life in the Big City
- Empire and its Others - Virgil's Aeneid
- Greek Drama (In Translation)
- The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
- Rome and its Empire from Augustus to Commodus
- The Later Roman Empire
- Byzantium and its Neighbours, 641-1081
- Extended Essay (Dissertation)
- Further Aspects of Modern Greek Language and Culture
- Augustus
- Alexander the Great
- Understanding Pompeii and Herculaneum
- City of Athens
- Intensive Greek
- Encounters with Latin Poetry (in Latin)
- Food in the Ancient World
- Roman Protests and Riots
- Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire
- Thinking Myth: classical myth and its reception
- Of Masks & Voices: Gender and Performance in Ancient Greece
- Art, Architecture and Identity in the Hellenistic World
- Christians and Pagans from Constantine to Augustine (AD 306-430)
- History and Fiction
- Contemporary Approaches to Latin Literature