BA Classics
Royal Holloway, University of London
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBB (Required subjects: AS/A-level Latin or Greek grade B, or GCSE grade A/7 in Latin or Greek if not taken at A-level We require English Language and Mathematics GCSE at grade 4 (C)) IB: 6,5,5 at Higher level or 32 points overall. Including 5 in Higher or Standard Level Latin or Greek
About this course
BA in Classics. Core topics include Research Methods and Historical Research. At least half the course is devoted to studying Latin and Greek in the original languages, with modules spanning beginner to advanced level. Later-year options include reading Homer and Plato in the original Greek, and Latin Epic in Latin.
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
- Intensive Greek
- Intensive Latin
- Homer (in Greek)
- Plato (in Greek)
- Imperial Greek Literature
- Latin Epic (in Latin)
- Latin Letters (in Latin)
- Homer (In Translation)
- Greek Drama (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
- Athenian Law and Social History
- Byzantium and its Neighbours, 641-1081
- Encounters with Latin Poetry (in Latin)
- From Dig to Digital: Archaeological Theory, Method and Practice
- Life in the Big City
- Rome and its Empire from Augustus to Commodus
- Tacitus and the Making of Empire
- The Later Roman Empire
- The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
- Empire and its Others - Virgil's Aeneid
- Greek Oratory in Context: Politics, Identity, and the Art of Persuasion
- Roman Drama (in Latin)
- Further Aspects of Modern Greek Language and Culture
- Augustus
- Alexander the Great
- The Good Life in Ancient Philosophy II
- Understanding Pompeii and Herculaneum
- City of Athens
- Extended Essay (Dissertation)