BOОКS

1. Prescribed textbooks for 1969:

Catullus—Carmin as prescribed

Vergil—Georgics for

Cicero—Philippics I-II part II together with:

Terence—Phormio. (ed., Martin, Methuen.) 2. Books for extensive reading:

Cicero—De Se

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ectute. (ed. Shuckburgh, Macmillan.) Seneca—Select Letters. (ed., Summers, Macmillan.) Suetonius—Augustus. (ed., Adams, Macmillan.) Pliny—Letters. (ed., Mynors, O.U.P.)

Cicero—Select Letters of Cicero. (ed., Watson-Wemyss, Macmillan.) Boak, A. E. R.—History of Rome. (Macmillan, 1965.)

EXAMINATION

Three 3-hour papers (one in General Translation from Latin, one in Prescribed Authors, and one in Historical, Literary and Cultural Background).

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CLASSICAL STUDIES

Group 5

3-1. CLASSICAL GREECE Mr. P. J. Connor

A study of the history, literature, art and thought of Greece between 750 and 323 B.C. comprising:

(1) A survey of Greek history, with a special study of the Athenian democracy in the context of Greek political development;

(2) A study of Greek literature, to include the detailed read пg, in translation, of several major works;

(3) An introduction to the art of the period, with a special study of the buildings and sculpture of the Athenian Acropolis;

(4) An outline of Greek philosophy, with particular emphasis on Plato and Aristotle.

A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week. Students will be required to submit written work during the course.

SYLLABUS

Greek history from 750 to 323 B.C. with special study of Athenian democracy in the Greek political context. The literature of the period, including detailed study of prescribed texts in translation. The chief forms of Greek art, with particular consideration of the buildings and sculpture of the Athenian Acropolis. Greek phil- osophy, especially the thought of Plato and Aristotle.

BOOKS

Students will be expected to own the following:

(a) For preliminary reading:

Kitto, H. D.

F.-The

Greeks. (Pelican A220.) or Bowra, C.

M.—The

Greek Experience. (Mentor, 1960.)

(b) History:

Rostovtzeff,

1.—Greece.

(Galaxy—O.U.P., 1963.)

Warrington,

J.-Aristotle:

Politics and the Athenian Constitution.. (Everyman, Dent/Dutton.)

(c) Literature:

Thucydides—The Peloponnesian War, trans. Warner. (Penguin Classics L39.) Homer-The Odyssey, trans. Rieu. (Penguin Classics Li.)

Euripides_The Beechie and Other Plays, trans. Vellacott. (Penguin Classics L44.)

(d)

Art:

Richter, G. M.

A.-Handbook

of Greek Art. (Phaidon, 1960.) (e) Thought:

Guthrie, W. K. C.—The Greek Philosophers. (Harper Torchbook, 1960.) Lists of books for reference will be issued during the course.

EXAMINATION Two 3-hour papers.

3-2. CLASSICAL ROME

This subject will not be offered in 1969 but is expected to be offered in 1970 under the title Classical Civilization B.,

і0NOURS DEGREE

A. SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES (For possible combinations with this school see p. 250)

1. The course for the degree with honours in the school of Classical Studies comprises the following subjects:

Greek parts I, II, III and IV Latin parts I, II, III and IV

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in accordance with the details set out below or, in the case of Greek part I,

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the ordinary degree.

A candidate in this school must take these subjects and two additional subjects.

The choice of these subjects must be approved by the professor.

All candidates in the school of Classical Studies are required to consult the professor of Classical Studies at the beginning of their course.

Except with the permission of the faculty, no candidate for honours in school A or Combined Courses may sit for examination without completing the essay work and exercises, and attending tutorial classes in the subjects of the school.

2. In their First Year, candidates will take Greek part I ( pass or hens ), Latin part I ( hoes ), and one of the additional subjects. Admission to the higher years of the course is conditional upon satisfactory performance in this First Year, and students must be approved by the faculty of Arts as candidates for the degree with honours before entering the Second Year of the honour school.

A student who has not attempted honours in Latin part I but who, at the end of the First Year, wishes to enter the honour school, must make special application to the faculty ( through the sub-dean) for permission to do so. If such permission is granted, the faculty will prescribe what further work must be completed before the student is allowed to proceed to the final examination.

In their Second Year, candidates will take the honour courses in Greek part II and Latin part II, and the remaining additional subject, and in their Third Year, the honour courses in Greek part III and Latin part III, and in their Fourth Year the honour courses in Greek part IV and Latin part IV.

Candidates for honours in School A are required to study Comparative Philology in either the Third or Fourth Year according to the year in which the lectures in this subject are delivered. In the alternate years, when lectures are not offered in Com- parative Philology, lectures will be given in Imperial Rome and Classical Philosophy as part of Latin part III or part IV and Greek part III or part IV.

Candidates for honours will be required, unless exempted by the professor, to submit one essay at the beginning of first term in each of their Second and Third Years.

3. Candidates will be examined in the subjects of Greek part II and Latin part II at the annual examination at the end of the Second Year.

4. At the end of the Third Year candidates will be examined in Unseen Trans- latim

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from , Greek and Latin. They will also be examined in special studies prescribed for the Third Year unless exempted by the professor as a result of

satis-

factory work during the first two terms. They will also take part I of the finаl examination.

5. The finаl examination in the school of Classical Studies will be held in two parts, part I at the end of the Third Year, part II at the end of the Fourth Year.

Part I

1. Prescribed Greek texts.

2. Prescribed Latin texts.

3. Either Comparative Philology or Imperial Rome and Classical Philosophy (according to the year in which lectures are given).

Past II

1. Translation from extensive reading in Greek.

2. Translation from extensive reading in Latin.

3. Greek Unseen Translation.

4. Latin Unseen Translation.

5. Latin Literature.

6. Greek Literature.

7. Either Comparative Philology or Imperial Rome.‚ to the year in 8. Classical Philosophy. which lectures are given.

As part of part II of the Bnal examination each student must also complete and band in, on the first day of the third term, an essay of not more than 9,000 words on an approved subject.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS SYLLABUS

The syllabus for each part of Greek I to III (hens) and of Latin Ito III (bons) includes:

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CLASSICAL

STUDIES (i) Prescribed Authors;

(ii) Unprepared Translation;

(iii) Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies.

In addition Accidence, Syntax and Prose Composition is studied in regular classes in Parts I and II, and in Part III as directed by the professor.

Each examination on prescribed authors may include questions on section (iii) of the syllabus.

In addition to the sections of the syllabus listed above, honours students are

required to do the special studies listed below under the several subjects.