Classical Greece

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL STUDIES

Group 5 Classical Greece

FACULTY OF ARTS HANDBOOK

North and Hillard.—Greek Prose Composition. (Rivington.) Goodwin, W.

W.—School

Greek Grammar. (Macmillan.) For Latin subjects:

Lewis and Short—Latin Dictionary. (O.U.P.)

Smith, W.—Smaller Latin-English Dictionary. (Murray.) or Scullard, H.

H. From

the Gracchi to Nero. (Methuen.) Kennedy, B.

H.-Revised

Latin Primer. (Longmans.)

Mountford, J. F.-Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose Composition. (Longmans.) 1. GREEK PART

I

Mr. R. D. Scott Four Iectures per week.

BOOKS

Prescribed textbooks for 1967:

Thucydides—Athenian Disaster in

Sicily.

(ed., Marchant, Macmillan.) Euripides-1phigenia in Aulis. (ed., Kennedy, Macmillan.)

Xenophon—Fall of Athens. (ed., Horn, Macmillan.) (In association with prose composition.)

Bryant and Lake—An Elementary Greek Grammar. (0.U.P.) Greek Exercises. (O.U.P.)

Nash-Williams, A. 1.—An Introduction to Continuous Greek Prose. (Macmillan.) EXAMINATION

Two 3-hour papers (one in Prose Composition and Unprepared Translation, and one in Prescribed Authors).

2. GREEK PART II Mr. P. J. Connor Three lectures and one tutorial per week.

BOOKS

Prescribed textbooks for 1967:

Plato—Gorgias. (ed., Dodds, O.U.P.) Sophocles—Aпtigoпe. (ed., Jebb, C.U.P.)

Homer—Odyssey, V-VI, from Odyssey, I-XII. (ed., Stanford, Macmillan.) Lysias—Orationes. (ed., Shuckburgh, Macmillan.) (In association with prose

composition.) EXAMINATION

Three 3-hour papers (one in Prose Composition and Unprepared Translation, one in Prescribed Authors, and one in Historical, Literary and Cultural Background).

3. GREEK PART III Professor H. A. K. Hunt Four lectures and one tutorial per week.

Books

1. Prescribed textbooks for 1967:

Plato-Gorgias; Sophoeles—Antigone and Homer—Odyssey V-VI as pres- cribed for Part II together with:

Piпdar—Selections from the Oxford Book of Greek Verse and material supp- lied by the Department.

2. Books for Extensive Reading:

Lysias—

Orations.

(ed., Shuckburgh, Macmillan.) Xenophon

—

The Fall of Athens. (ed., Horn, Macmillan.) Herodоtus-Selections supplied by the Department.

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ØSSICAL STUDIES

EXAMINATION

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

4. LATIN PART I Mr. R. D. Scott

Four lectures or tutorial classes per week for the day class, and three lectures for the evening class.

BOOKS..

Prescribed textbooks for 1967:

Virgil—Aeneid IV. (ed., Austin, O.U.P.) Sallust--Catгtiпe. (ed., Summers, C.U.P.)

Caesar—Civil War III. (ed., Peskett, C.U.P.) (In association with prose composition.)

Virgil-The Aenełd. (Penguin.) EXAMINATION

Two 3-hour papers (one in Prose Composition and Unprepared Translation, and one in Prescribed Authors and Roman History).

5. LATIN PART II Mr. A. D. Pryor Four Iectures or tutorials per week.

BOOKS

Prescribed textbooks for 1967:

Propertius—Carmina. (ed., Barber, O.C.T. ) and material on elegy supplied by the Department.

Lucretius—Book V. (ed., Duff, C.U.P.) Quintilian—Book XII. ( ed., Austin, O.U.P.)

Livy—Book XXX. (ed., Butler and Scuihгd, Methuen.) (In association with prose composition.)

EXAMINATION

Three 3-hour papers (one in Prose Composition and Unprepared Translation, one In Prescribed Authors, and one in Historical, Literary and Cultural Background).

6. LATIN PART III Mr. J. R. C. Martyr' Four lectures and one tutorial per week.

BOOKS

1. Prescribed textbooks for 1967:

Рrореrtius—Cariпłпл; Lucretius—Book V; Quintiliaп-Book XII as

pres-

cribed for Part II together with:

Terence--.Рhormło. (ed., Martin, Methuen.) 2. Books for extensive reading:

Cicero_De Senectude. (ed., Shuckburgh, Macmillan.) Seneca-.Select Letters. (ed., Summers, Macmillan.) Suetoniva—Augustus. (ed.. Adams, Macmillan.) Pliny-_Leers. (ed., Mynors, 0.U.P.)

Cicero_-Select Letters of Cicero.

(ed..

Watson

-

Wemyss, Macmilan.) 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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FACULTY OF ARTS HANDBOOL Group 5

191. CLASSICAL GREECE

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 reading, 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 a 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 con- sideration of the buildings and sculpture of the Athenian Acropolis. Greek philosophy, 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.

1.—The

Greek Experience. (Mentor, 1960.) (b) Нistоry

Rostovtzeff, 1.—Greece. ( Galaxy—Q.U.P., 1963.)

von Fritz, K., and Kapp, E.-Aтistotlв's Constitution of Athens and Related Texts. (

lainer,

1961.)

(c) Literature:

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

Euripides—The

Bacсhae

and Other Plays, trans. Vellacott. (Penguin Classics (d) Ø= )

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.

181. CLASSICAL ROME This subject will be offered in 1968 but not in 1967.

HONOURS DEGREE

A. SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES ( For possible combinations with this school see p. 249)

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

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

CLASSICAL STUDIES

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 (bons), 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 finаl 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- lationfrom 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 Øa1 examination.

5. The final 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).

Part 11

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 and Classical Philosophy (according to the year in which lectures are given).

As part of part II of the final examination each student must also complete and hand 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 (bons) and of Latin I to III (bons) includes:

(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.

FACULTY oF ARTs НАхпвоок

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

ln addition to the sections of the syllabus listed above, honours students are required to do the special studies listed below under the several subjects.

Books REQUIRED

Students are required to own au the books for Latin or Greek set out in the instructions for these subjects for the ordinary degree and also

For Greek: Smyth, H. W.—Greek Grammar. ( Harvard U.P., 1959.) For Latin: Woodcock, E. C—А New Latin Syntax. (Methuen.)

1. GREEK PART I (Ions)

Mr. R. D. Scott Three lectures and two tutorial classes per week.

BOOKS

Prescribed textbooks for 1967:

Thucydides—Book VI. (ed., Dover, O.U.P.)

Plato—Apology, Euthyphro and Crito. (ed., Burnet, O.U.P.) Sophocles—Antigone. (ed., Jebb, C.U.P.)

EXAMINATION

Three 3-hour papers (one in Prose Coxnposition, one in Unprepared Translation